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MAYDAY from the airwaves: Belarus begins a death penalty purge of radio amateurs

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Trump declares himself president of Venezuela — and sends 'wake-up call' to world

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‘No future for us’: disaffected Iranians say it’s now or never to topple regime in Teheran

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UN experts urge Iran to stop execution of woman activist

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Putin sends abducted Ukrainian children to North Korea where girls are taught to ‘destroy Japanese militarists’ in communist camp

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Honduran leftist candidate slams U.S. election meddling

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China: Concerns grow that Beijing plans to increase forced “harvesting” of human organs from people in Xinjiang as local government announces six new transplant institutions

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Israeli guards stripped and filmed Thunberg naked, wrote ‘whore’ on her luggage

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Israeli guards stripped humanitarian activist Greta Thunberg naked and wrote ‘whore Greta’ on her luggage after abducting her, and around four hundred other volunteer crew members, in a criminal attack in international waters on the Global Sumud Flotilla carrying baby food and other vital items to Gaza:

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China wants foreign scientists, the public says no, thanks: Since Beijing announced a new visa to attract young science and technology graduates, a backlash has erupted online

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Black Mirror hackers publish second part of Russia's Rostec archive, revealing cooperation with China on electronic warfare systems

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Inside China’s gigantic iPhone factory: long hours, discrimination and pay delays

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As Chinese-owned businesses grow across Africa, so does local backlash

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Exiled East-Turkistan government condemns China's Xinjiang anniversary celebration as "Colonial Propaganda"

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China's new draft ‘ethnic unity’ law tightens ideological control, seeks to justify repression of minorities, erase language rights, extend control abroad, rights groups says

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A newly proposed law in China would provide a broad legal framework to justify existing repression and force assimilation of minority populations throughout the country and abroad, Human Rights Watch said today. Once passed, the law could be used to facilitate intensifying ideological controls, target ethnic and religious minorities including by erasing minority language rights, and foster control beyond China’s borders.

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The Malice Police: China’s latest internet special actions, a campaign against “negative emotions, lifts the lid on the country’s obsessive and capricious control culture - [Opinion]

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Witness to North Korea executions: ‘He was only 22 and shot for watching and distributing 70 songs and three South Korean TV series’

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Rights group decries lack of accountability for China treatment of Uyghurs three years after major UN report

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New report exposes how China’s propaganda campaigns in the Middle East and North Africa are attempting to whitewash Beijing's human rights abuses, influence regional media

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The Center for Uyghur Studies (CUS) has released a new report, “Exposing China’s Propaganda Campaigns in MENA”, which documents how the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is conducting coordinated propaganda and influence operations across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). The report reveals how Beijing’s state media, diplomatic networks, economic leverage, and cultural outreach are systematically used to reshape regional perceptions, silence criticism of its human rights abuses, particularly against Uyghur Muslims, and promote narratives favorable to the CCP.

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'Taiwanese must remain vigilant': Activist urges deep understanding of authoritarian China, says Beijing’s acts of genocide, torture and suppression of free speech are serious threats

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Japan warns of China's military moves as biggest strategic challenge, citing joint operations with Russia, increasing tensions around Taiwan

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Brics is sliding towards irrelevance – the Rio summit made that clear

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*This is an op-ed by Amalendu Misra, Professor of International Politics, Lancaster University.*

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China’s price spiral driven by overproduction across a growing number of sectors as Beijing is sounding the alarm

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Philippines summons China's ambassador after Beijing sanctions former senator who has been critical of China’s aggressive actions in the South China Sea

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A new face of Chinese aggression: bolder, more multifaceted and unconstrained by diplomatic norms

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Zimbabwe: Civil Society Organization Raps Chinese Miner Over Grave Rights Abuses

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Ukraine hopes leaving landmine treaty will level the battlefield as Ottawa convention ties Ukraine’s hands but not Russia’s

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Lithuania, Philippines to build defense alliance as Lithuanian defense chief praises Manila's campaign exposing China's aggression

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China seeks closer Europe ties to counter US in 'volatile' world, but deep frictions remain over Beijing's support for Russia in Ukraine war, unfair economic practices

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Czech Republic: Taiwan's vice president "not intimidated" by China after Chinese embassy staff was planning to ram her car during an official visit to Europe

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South Korea: Over 30% of imported children's rain gear from AliExpress, Temu deemed unsafe, investigation finds

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‘It is an elephant’: Ukraine’s unexploded mine problem

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Thousands of Britons Stranded in Israel Amid Escalating Iran Conflict

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China Labour Bulletin, a Hong Kong-based rights group, abruptly shuts down after years of advocating for workers

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crosspostato da: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/36769368

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What really happens in China's 're-education' camps: 'The suffering and violence' of those caught up in the crackdown on Muslims do not correspond with the narrative propagated by China's government

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crosspostato da: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/36740689

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The world sanctioned Xinjiang cotton, China turned it into chicken feed: Forced labour in Chinese cotton fields can now be linked to the supply chains of KFC and McDonald’s

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crosspostato da: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/36338295

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Trump vs. Harvard : No more foreign students ?

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Merz elaborates on Ukraine, Gaza policies

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Brazil eyes tariff hike to counter possible surge in Chinese imports

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‘Your apartments have been sold’: How Russia is stripping Ukrainians of their property in Crimea

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Propaganda, disinformation: Claims on social media that China is dropping food and and medical supplies to Gaza from the air are false

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Russian military commit over 150,000 crimes in Ukraine since full-scale war starts, Ukrainian police say

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"Since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, investigators from the National Police of Ukraine have initiated 154,153 criminal proceedings for crimes committed on Ukrainian territory by servicemen of the armed forces of the Russian Federation and their accomplices," a statement reads.

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Ukraine war: Over 80% of civilian hostages suffered violence while held in Russian captivity

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Cross posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/34812757

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'You start to go crazy': The Australian who survived five years in a Chinese prison

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Cross posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/34808510

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As China targets Taiwan's undersea cables, some locals fear 'grey zone' warfare

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Cross posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/34743645

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Russia faces 'sharp slowdown in the economy', official data shows

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Cross posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/34731504

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'Unspeakable’: Ukraine breaks the silence surrounding wartime sexual violence

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Cross posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/34730196

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Trump's Middle East visit deepens business, crypto ties

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Trump secures Boeing Qatar Airways Order

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Trump wants a nuclear deal with lran

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Trump defends gift of Jet from Qatar

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Tibet: Rights groups urge China to free the 11th Panchen Lama and his parents, whom Chinese authorities forcibly disappeared 30 years ago

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China’s government should free the 11th Panchen Lama Gendun Choki Nyima and his parents, whom Chinese authorities forcibly disappeared on May 17, 1995, and who have not been seen for 30 years, Human Rights Watch said today.

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Chinese-linked firm raises $300M from private investor to buy TRUMP memecoin [as U.S. lawmakers are debating a proposed ban on TikTok]

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Rights groups call on China to release journalist and human rights defender Zhang Zhan, urge UN to support Chinese journalists, rights activists

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Taiwan's former president urges joint efforts with Lithuania, EU on undersea cable damage and critical infrastructure

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Beijing Wants to Erase Tibet’s Name. Don’t Let Them.

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*[This is an op-ed by **Tenzin Dorjee*, senior researcher and strategist at the Tibet Action Institute and lecturer in the discipline of political science at Columbia University, and *James Leibold*, professor of politics and Asian studies at La Trobe University in Melbourne, specializing in Chinese ethnic policy, nationalism, and authoritarian governance.]

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Uyghur genocide committed by China brought up at the Ethical Trade Conference in Norway, experts call for more transparency in supply chains

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European Parliament demands return of Ukrainian children abducted by Russia, calling it a "genocide"

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The European Parliament overwhelmingly passed a resolution condemning Russia’s forcible deportation and Russification of Ukrainian children, calling it a "genocide" aimed at erasing Ukrainian identity and demanding the unconditional return of all abducted minors.

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German Foreign Minister doubts military solution for Gaza.

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/29544531

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China private wage data goes dark with jobs at risk from tariffs

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Cross posted from https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/34345715

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Uncovering Chinese Academic Espionage at Stanford University in the U.S.

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Cross posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/34330409

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"Message of history is clear:" Taiwan’s president compares his nation to Europe heading for conflict with Nazi Germany in the 1930s

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Taiwan’s president, Lai Ching-te, has compared his nation to the European countries heading for conflict with Nazi Germany in the 1930s, in a punchy speech commemorating the end of the second world war in Europe.

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Hong Kong: 87 Rights Groups Condemn Arrests of Activist’s Relatives, Urge Foreign Governments To Counter China’s Escalation of Cross-Border Abuses

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Hong Kong authorities’ unjust arrests of the father and brother of the prominent US-based activist Anna Kwok is an escalation of the Chinese government’s use of cross-border repression, 87 international and diaspora rights groups, including Human Rights Watch, said today in two joint statements.

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Hong Kong police arrest family of exiled pro-democracy activist, reports say

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crosspostato da: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/33809108

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As China's President Xi Jinping traveled the world, police swept peaceful protesters off the streets

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Body of Ukrainian journalist Viktoriia Roshchyna returned from captivity in Russia missing internal organs

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Children’s toys sold on major Chinese e-commerce platforms contain toxic substances at levels far exceeding safety standards, South Korea says

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China Cries Foul At Philippines, But Its Own Cruise Ship Provokes Taiwan

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At the U.N., China is deploying a growing army of puppet organizations to monitor and intimidate human rights activists

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China’s trade diversion could swamp other Emerging Markets as the flood of imports from China was already impacting economies before Trump 2.0

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Number of jailed writers increases worldwide for sixth consecutive year as authoritarian regimes increasingly seek to expunge “inconvenient” truth

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The number of writers jailed reached a new high in a wider range of countries, with at least 375 behind bars in 40 countries during 2024, compared to 339 in 2023, according to the international writers' association PEN. China, already the world’s top jailer of writers, registered another significant increase.

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Chinese military officers have been present behind Russian lines with Beijing’s approval

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Time for the rest of the West to club together: Cutting dependency on both Washington and Beijing will take time and be costly, but the West could regret it if they do not

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The rest of the West can no longer rely on the United States. *The European Union, Japan, Britain, Canada and others need to reduce their dependency on Washington while not becoming reliant on China*. That means weaning themselves off the dollar, boosting cooperation in trade and defence, and *reaching out to emerging economies* such as India.

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Over 160 Chinese nationals fight for Russia in Ukraine and "Beijing knows about this," Zelensky says

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Rights group calls on China to free imprisoned Taiwan publisher

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The Chinese authorities should urgently quash the conviction and free the Taiwan publisher Li Yanhe (李延賀), known by his pen name Fu Cha (富察), Human Rights Watch said today. Fu Cha, who has been detained in China since 2023, was secretly sentenced in February 2025 to three years in prison on charges of “inciting secession.” The government has provided little information about his trial or his condition in detention.

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Iran launches salvo of ballistic missiles at Israel

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