Month: June 2022

Two Chinese coast guard ships navigated Japan’s territorial waters near a chain of disputed Senkaku islands for more than 64 hours this week, the country’s authorities informed on Friday. As per the Japanese coast guards, Chinese ships invaded Japan’s territorial waters in the wee hours of Tuesday and remained there […]

Two years since the deadly clash broke out between Indian and Chinese troops at the Galwan Valley in Ladakh, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Thursday, paid tributes to soldiers martyred in 2020. Taking to Twitter, Singh remembered the heroes of Galwan who fought valiantly for the country’s honour and laid […]

Since 2014, the Chinese government has forcibly detained more than 1 million Uyghurs, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, and other Turkic Muslim minorities in concentration camps in Xinjiang. These camps—and the larger region, which is now a suffocating police state built around advanced surveillance technology—are home to unspeakable horrors, according to survivors. The […]

Uyghur-American lawyer Nury Turkel has been unanimously chosen by the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) to serve as the US commission’s chair from 2022 to 2023. According to a press release by USCIRF, he is the Chairman of the ‘Board for the Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP)’, […]

“Japan will work together with other nations and take actions with resolute determination so that we would not be sending out the wrong message to the international community; so that using force to unilaterally change the status quo shall never be repeated,” Kishida said in a London speech in May […]

But while I’m happy to hear you’re back from Europe, I feel like I shouldn’t have to remind you that nuclear wars are liable to be global. Things are definitely looking escalatory again in Europe. Care to fill us in? Emma Ashford: Not too bad. Just settling into a Washington […]

If you would like to receive South Asia Brief in your inbox every Thursday, please sign up here . The highlights this week: India strikes a careful balance at the annual BRICS summit , a deadly earthquake compounds Afghanistan’s suffering, and protests erupt in India over a new military jobs […]

Brussels is irate at Beijing’s refusal to condemn Russian aggression in Ukraine. In the early days of the war, EU officials hoped that China would try to broker a peace deal, but a frosty virtual summit between EU leaders and Chinese President Xi Jinping on April 1 dashed these expectations. […]

Import of Chinese commodities made by forced labour in Xinjiang region will now be prohibited, after the implementation of the United States-sponsored Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act on June 21. On the other hand, manufacturers and retailers are preparing for turmoil as the US Customs Service implemented the ban on […]

Although it has not dominated the headlines in the United States, there has been no shortage of developments around Taiwan in the weeks since then. China, for example, unilaterally declared that it will no longer treat the 100-mile-wide strait separating its mainland from Taiwan as international waters freely open to […]