According to media reports, the EU’s foreign ministers plan to call for faster progress on the European “connectivity initiative” next week. Its intent is to counter China’s “New Silk Road”. A so-called conclusion of the Council of EU Foreign Ministers next Monday will call for a “geostrategic approach to connectivity.” A target for “globally visible […]
Japanese fashion company Uniqlo has denied accusations by the French courts of benefiting from the exploitation of Uighurs in China. The company told AFP news agency, Uniqlo will “fully cooperate with investigators to reaffirm that there is no forced labor in our supply chains,”. Uniqlo referred to third-party inspections of its supply chains to prevent […]
Next week, the European Parliament will counsel on closer coordination between the EU and NATO in response to China’s growing rise in power. The “growing influence, as well as the increasing offensive stance”, must be countered with “a coordinated transatlantic strategy“, according to a draft debated by parliamentarians at Monday’s plenary session in Strasbourg. It […]
A sea of red flags instead of demonstrations in Hong Kong: A year ago there were civil protests – this year a Beijing patriot is waving the flag of the People’s Republic. On July 1, the Special Administrative Region also commemorates the handover of the former British Crown Colony to China.
Up to 90 percent of the jade mined in Myanmar is smuggled to China, according to a report by the non-governmental organization Global Witness. The organization accuses China of being massively involved in financing the military regime in Myanmar. Global Witness, in its report released on Tuesday, called on China to acknowledge its role in […]
The editors-in-chief of four major Nordic daily newspapers have sent an open letter to China’s President Xi Jinping protesting the closure of the Hong Kong newspaper Apple Daily. The editors from Finland, Norway, Denmark, and Sweden also called on Beijing to uphold press freedom. In the open letter, the journalists wrote: “It has been too […]
It now has been about three months since the EU imposed sanctions on four officials and an organization for human rights violations in Xinjiang. The European non-EU states Norway and Iceland joined the EU sanctions, but the Swiss government remained silent. The media criticized Switzerland for dragging its feet on China sanctions and is taking […]
Senegal is setting up a national data center with Chinese support that will also store government data in the future. According to a Reuters report, all data previously stored on foreign servers will be transferred to the new national servers, said Senegal’s President Macky Sall. The West African state wants to strengthen its digital sovereignty […]
It becomes clear on the first few pages who has the greatest threat potential: “China is willing to use economic punishment to change EU policy,” according to a report by the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) published on Wednesday. Russia, Turkey, and the US, too, are using economic pressure – the stronger China gets, […]
According to a study, China is the biggest exporter of goods made with child labor that end up in the EU. In 2019 alone, around €35 billion worth of electrical goods made with child labor were imported into the European Union, said a study commissioned by the Greens/EFA group in the European Parliament. Electrical goods […]