Beginning at about 6:50 a.m. local time, the waves of missiles were fired in Inner Mongolia, Gansu, Qinghai, and Xinjiang, about 1,200 miles from Taiwan.

After the Treasury Department imposed human rights sanctions on Xinjiang and Hong Kong officials in 2020, Rubio was targeted by Beijing twice with retaliatory sanctions.

Since then, evidence suggests the regime has expanded its targets to other groups it suppresses, like the Uyghurs in Xinjiang. Texas Sen.

Mamut, the former editor-in-chief of the Uyghur-language magazine Xinjiang Civilization, is serving a 15-year sentence on charges of committing "political crimes."

More than a million Uyghurs are believed to be detained in camps throughout Xinjiang.

In 2020, the department also added two BGI subsidiaries—Xinjiang Silk Road BGI and Beijing Liuhe BGI—to its entity list.

The letter also mentioned China’s human rights violations in Xinjiang, Tibet, and Hong Kong, as well as its abuses against Chinese rights defenders.

Commerce Department placed Daqo New Energy on its entity list in June 2021 over forced labor allegations in China's far-western region of Xinjiang.

This methodology had been developed and used to study the “growth and decline” of detention facilities in Xinjiang.

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is known to persecute Uyghur Muslims in the Xinjiang area, where the vast majority of China's cotton is produced.

The NGO revealed increasing investments by Western governments, corporations, and investors in China despite the Chinese Communist Party's ongoing abuse of the Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims in Xinjiang Province.

If enacted, the bill will require public companies to disclose any links that their products may have to forced labor in Xinjiang. In April, Sen.

Investigation Meyerhoffer said staff will not be sent in person to the Xinjiang region to collect facts, given “human rights concerns in the region.”

The Chinese Communist Party's (CCP's) persecution of Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities in Xinjiang, where about 90 percent of the country's cotton comes from, is known to involve forced labor.

Adrian Zenz, the world’s leading expert exposing China’s genocide against the Muslim Uyghur population in Xinjiang, offers new evidence examining China’s mass internment and birth prevention measures.

religious and ethnic suppression of Tibetans and Uyghurs, as well as its increasing repression of democracy in Hong Kong, submissions to the commission urged the Canadian government to create immigration pathways for individuals from Hong Kong, Tibet, and Xinjiang

During the speech at the Harvard Kennedy School's China Conference, the ambassador, Xie Feng, found his opening remarks repeatedly derailed as protesters stood up to denounce the regime's repression in Xinjiang, Tibet, and Hong Kong.

In November 2024, the German automaker finally relented and sold its Xinjiang region operations to a state-owned Shanghai Motor Vehicle Inspection Certification.

Hurshidem Ablikim being awarded at the ‘Me and my Motherland—Voice of Xinjiang’ competition.

that Ford Motor Co. plans to use technology and software from four Chinese companies that also supply the regime's military, North Korea, and China's Ministry of Public Security and have direct ties to the ongoing genocide of Uyghur Muslims in China's Xinjiang

"Killed to Order" covers evidence of early experimentation on Uyghurs in Xinjiang, before the CCP had incarcerated likely millions of Falun Gong practitioners, and evidence that Uyghurs now detained en masse in labor camps may now be subjected to forced

Xinjiang is a major supplier of polysilicon, for example, which is a metal used in most solar panels.

Two suspects in the violent attacks in Kashgar, Xinjiang Province over the weekend were shot dead in a cornfield by police on Aug. 2, state media reported.

incentivizing the divestiture of certain securities with China links, supporting Taiwan’s international space, sanctioning TikTok, reducing China’s dominance of critical mineral supplies, and pressuring the CCP over the use of forced labor in China's Xinjiang

Her sister, Gulshan Abbas, a retired medical doctor, has been detained in the far-western region of Xinjiang since September 2018, six days after she spoke out about the CCP's mistreatment of Uyghurs at an event in Washington.

The United Nations’ 2022 Xinjiang report documented “serious human rights violations,” and rights organizations continue to criticize Beijing’s lack of accountability.

Construction workers install solar panels at Hami Solar Power Station in Hami, China's Xinjiang region, on Aug. 22, 2011.

A 5.2 magnitude earthquake struck China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region at 3:05 a.m. on July 25, according to the region's Seismological Bureau Station.

Those issues included rights violations and anti-democracy efforts in Hong Kong, Tibet, and Xinjiang. Before his visit to China, Mr.

Rushan Abbas is a Uyghur American activist and advocate for the Uyghur people in what pro-independence activists call East Turkistan, while the CCP refers to it as “Xinjiang,” meaning “new territories” in Chinese, as it was conquered and occupied by China