Author: Joanne Serrieh

Chinese Nationals Gain Unauthorised Access To Us Military Installations
14Sep By Joanne SerriehNo Comments
China, World

Chinese Nationals Gain Unauthorised Access To Us Military Installations

Chinese nationals, occasionally assuming the guise of tourists, have managed to gain unauthorized access to U.S. military installations and other sensitive locations on as many as 100 occasions in recent years, according to reports from U.S. officials. These incidents are viewed as a potential threat to national security due to their espionage implications. To address this issue, the U.S. Department of Defense, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and other relevant agencies conducted a comprehensive review last year with the aim of curtailing such breaches. These individuals, often referred to as "gate-crashers," attempt, whether intentionally or inadvertently, to enter U.S. military bases and other facilities without proper authorization. Instances range from Chinese nationals foun...
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Human Rights Watch maintains that China is violating the human rights of the Uyghur people and other Turkic Muslim minorities.
31Aug By Joanne SerriehNo Comments
World

Human Rights Watch maintains that China is violating the human rights of the Uyghur people and other Turkic Muslim minorities.

Human Rights Watch (HRW) claims that China is still committing crimes against humanity in the area of Xinjiang in the country's northwest by violating the rights of Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslim minorities living there. "Over the past year, Chinese officials have maintained their abusive'strike hard' policies, crushing the rights of Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims," Maya Wang, assistant Asia director at HRW, stated in a news release on August 31. When faced with crimes against humanity, member states of the United Nations should not remain mute. The Uyghurs, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, and other indigenous peoples of Xinjiang have been subjected to extensive and systematic attacks by the Chinese government since 2017. As part of their mission, they've been locking people up in concentration...
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Amnesty International urges immediate action on human rights violations in China’s Xinjiang region.
30Aug By Joanne SerriehNo Comments
World

Amnesty International urges immediate action on human rights violations in China’s Xinjiang region.

On Thursday, Amnesty International blasted the international community for its "woefully inadequate" reaction to a UN report last year that detailed a litany of atrocities in China's Xinjiang region. On the first anniversary of the report, Amnesty International expressed disappointment that the international community, including certain sections of the United Nations, had "shied away from the kind of resolute steps needed to advance justice, truth, and reparation for victims." The rights organization singled out UN rights director Volker Turk for failing to "clearly emphasise the urgent need for accountability for (China's) alarming violations." His predecessor, Michelle Bachelet, under intense pressure from Beijing to conceal her report on the situation in Xinjiang, but she fina...
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Uyghur Disappearances: New Information from a United Nations Agency
30Aug By Joanne SerriehNo Comments
World

Uyghur Disappearances: New Information from a United Nations Agency

The scope of China's enforced disappearances in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region is being brought to light by a little-known United Nations agency, the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention. In 2017, Chinese authorities ramped up a massive campaign of repression intended to radically alter the region's long-established Turkic-speaking population and their way of life. An estimated 900000-1.8million Uyghurs, Kazakhs, and other primarily Muslim individuals were detained in high-security camps that were falsely dubbed "vocational education and training centers" as part of the crackdown. The United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights found that torture, harsh questioning, forced medicine, and rape were commonplace inside these facilities. The Chinese governme...
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Crimes against humanity continually committed against Uyghurs
30Aug By Joanne SerriehNo Comments
World

Crimes against humanity continually committed against Uyghurs

Human Rights Watch stated today that the continued implementation of China's counterterrorism tactics in the Xinjiang area of the country's far western province of Xinjiang is evidence of ongoing crimes against humanity. Uyghur and other Turkic Muslim rights breaches in Xinjiang "may constitute… crimes against humanity," according to a report released by the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights on August 31, 2022. United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk said earlier in 2023 that "concrete follow up" was needed on the report's findings. But he hasn't updated the UN Human Rights Council on the findings or his office's continued monitoring of the situation in Xinjiang. "Over the past year, Chinese officials have maintained their abusive'
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The discharge of water from Fukushima is a dangerous blend of politics and science.
29Aug By Joanne SerriehNo Comments
World

The discharge of water from Fukushima is a dangerous blend of politics and science.

Opponents of Tokyo Electric Power Company's (TEPCO) controversial technique of disposing of radioactive water from the Fukushima nuclear power plant into the Pacific Ocean have not given up as of the 24th of August. On August 28th, two scientists and one political activist gave a presentation at the Foreign Correspondents Club in Tokyo in which they harshly criticized the Japanese government's stance on the matter. In a nutshell, they were: The Pacific Islands Forum (an organization of 18 Pacific island states, including Australia and New Zealand) appointed an Expert Panel, which includes Arjun Makhijani, PhD, a nuclear engineer and author who serves as president of the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research (based in Maryland, USA), to support consultations with the Japane...
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Can forceful Chinese policy in the South China Sea bring the Philippines and Vietnam together?
20Aug By Joanne SerriehNo Comments
World

Can forceful Chinese policy in the South China Sea bring the Philippines and Vietnam together?

Analysts think that the Philippines and Vietnam may grow closer to one another as a result of the shared danger they confront as a result of Chinese aggression in the South China Sea.The two Southeast Asian countries have competing claims to the resource-rich waterway, and experts believe they need to establish common ground quickly if they are to improve their marine security cooperation. This month, tensions rose when Chinese coastguard ships halted Philippine warships and fired a water cannon at them as they tried to resupply soldiers stationed on the BRP Sierra Madre in the contested Spratly Islands. In an effort to underline Philippine sovereignty, Manila scuttled the World War II-era ship in the late 1990s. Maritime cooperation would be a "very big step" for relations betwe...
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The Chinese economy was the subject of Biden’s “ticking time bomb” comment.
12Aug By Joanne SerriehNo Comments
World

The Chinese economy was the subject of Biden’s “ticking time bomb” comment.

An official from the White House has said that Vice President Joe Biden's remark about China being a "ticking time bomb" related to the country's internal economic and social difficulties, which may affect Beijing's international interactions. China is "in trouble" and plagued by economic and social difficulties, Vice President Biden warned Thursday at a political fundraiser.terrible things happen when terrible people are stressed out, as Biden put it. "China is a ticking time bomb," he said. To keep its economy afloat, China's growth rate averaged 8 percent annually. As of late, close to 2 percent annually," Biden erroneously said, referring to the country's growth rate. The Chinese economy expanded by 4.5% in the first quarter and 6.3% in the second quarter, according to dat...
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Deputy PM calls Singapore’s political scandals a “setback.”
26Jul By Joanne SerriehNo Comments
World

Deputy PM calls Singapore’s political scandals a “setback.”

serve. We will not tolerate corruption, he said. When two senior ministers were accused of having illegal access to the real estate market in June, the watchdog was also engaged. The CPIB approved them after reviewing the matter. The long-reigning People's Action Party, which has been in power since 1959 and has 83 of the 93 seats in parliament, may lose popularity as a result of the events, according to political observers. Due to the resignation of two MPs, including the Speaker of the Parliament, for an adulterous relationship, two of their seats are now empty. Scams involving such wrongdoing have damaged the government's standing. To be clear, we have high expectations for propriety and decency, Mr. Wong said. However, we are also quite aware of the effects that our ...
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LAC’s actions weakened the political, social, and public foundation of our ties: NSA Ajit Doval informs Wang Yi, a Chinese ambassador
26Jul By Joanne SerriehNo Comments
World

LAC’s actions weakened the political, social, and public foundation of our ties: NSA Ajit Doval informs Wang Yi, a Chinese ambassador

Ajit Doval, China's top diplomat, made one of his sternest remarks in three years of the border standoff, telling Wang Yi that the situation along the Line of Actual Control since 2020 had "eroded strategic trust and the public and political basis of the relationship" between India and China. On the fringes of the BRICS NSAs conference in Johannesburg late on Monday, Doval met Wang Yi, Member of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Political Bureau and Director of the Office of the CPC Foreign Affairs Commission. Tuesday saw Wang take over as China's foreign minister in lieu of Qin Gang. According to the Ministry of External Affairs' official readout, "during the meeting, the NSA conveyed that the situation along the LAC in the Western Sector of the India-China boundary since 2020 had...
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