Chinese Officials Sanctioned by US for Xinjiang Abuses Have History of Human Rights Crimes
Persecuting Uyghur Muslims in China’s far-western region of Xinjiang is but one of a slew of human rights abuses by the four Chinese officials who were recently sanctioned by the U.S. administration. The sanctions, imposed under the Global Magnitsky Act on July 9, barred four Chinese officials, as well as their immediate family, from entering the United States. The sanctions will also block U.S. properties that are under the individuals’ names and prohibit U.S. transactions with them, the U.S. treasury department said. In Xinjiang, home to roughly 11 million Uyghurs, at least 1 million Uyghurs and other ethnic Muslim minorities have been detained within internment camps and subject to torture and political indoctrination in an effort to coerce them into giving up their faith. But such persecution is not confined…
The flood in southern China continues to expand, and with the Three Gorges Dam fully releasing its water. Water levels on the Yangtze River, from the mouth of the Dongting Lake at Yingli in Hubei to its outlet at Shanghai, are above the warning level. Floods have led to frequent mudslides and other disasters. At midnight on July 8, landslides occurred in Huanggang, Hubei province, and Tongren, Guizhou province, causing heavy losses.
At midnight on July 8, Huanggang of Hubei province was hit by over 200 mm of heavy torrential rainfall, with Dahe Township receiving the heaviest rainfall of 353 millimeters. It caused waist-deep flooding and houses were washed away.
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Chinese Regime ‘Lashing Out’ at the World: China Analyst Gordon Chang
“What we’re seeing right now is a China which is lashing out at everybody,” said China analyst Gordon Chang. In addition to its encroachments on Hong Kong and the first fatal border clash with India in 45 years, “you’ve got the boat bumping and other incidents in the South China Sea, East China Sea; the increased tempo of dangerous intercepts of the U.S. Navy in the global commons; the repeated threats to invade Taiwan; all of these hostile words, these disinformation campaigns directed against the United States and others,” Chang said. The Chinese communist regime has become increasingly belligerent globally, and it “believes it can do what it wants,” Chang said, in an interview with The Epoch Times for the “American Thought Leaders” program. “We have to teach China for…