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Human Rights

UN rights review shows limits of China’s influence

January 31, 2024January 30, 2024 by William Yang
The image shows a sea of blue during anti-China protests against Uyghur repression.

Global South nations at the United Nations were split about Beijing’s crackdown on civil society

Categories Analysis Tags China, Global South, Human Rights, News, United Nations, Voice of America Leave a comment

China intensifies its crackdown on human rights

April 21, 2023April 11, 2023 by Verna Yu

Two leading human rights lawyers have been jailed for more than a decade for criticizing the government

Categories Political Repression Tags Communist Party of China, Human Rights, News, President Xi Jinping, Prison Sentence, Voice of America Leave a comment

Caught up in the Olympic Games of geopolitics

February 19, 2022February 14, 2022 by China Factor Staff

American-Chinese stars ski and skate into a blizzard of criticism amid US-China tension

Categories Winter of Discontent Tags Beijing Winter Olympics, China, Eileen Gu, Human Rights, Nathan Chen, News, United States, Xinjiang Detention Camps Leave a comment

Beijing Olympics make a mockery of human rights

January 27, 2022January 26, 2022 by MacIntosh Ross Shakiba Oftadeh-Moghadam

Is there any substance to the International Olympic Committee’s refugee efforts or is this all for show?

Categories Cultural Genocide Tags Beijing 2022 Games, Human Rights, News, Refugees, The Conversation, United Nations Leave a comment

China’s blame Games leaves the West skating on thin ice

December 29, 2021December 28, 2021 by Jennifer Y J Hsu

Beijing’s moves to silence major sponsors show there is no unified voice to combat human rights fears

Categories Analysis Tags ChinaFactor, Human Rights, News, The Conversation, Western Democracies, Winter Olympics 2022 Leave a comment

Calls mount to boycott China’s ‘Genocide Games’

November 23, 2021November 10, 2021 by Richard Baka

Beijing 2022 is on track to be one of the most politically-charged global sporting events in history

Categories Analysis Tags 2022 Winter Olympics, Activists, Boycott, China, Covid-19, Human Rights, Muslims, News, The Conversation, The Long Read Leave a comment

President Biden, Comrade Xi and China’s ‘human rights’ sham

September 14, 2021September 13, 2021 by Juweihu

Telephone chat between the superpowers fails to paper over Beijing’s appalling rights record

Categories China-US Tension Tags Beijing, China, Communist Party of China, Hong Kong Crisis, Human Rights, Joe Biden, News, President Xi Jinping, United States Leave a comment

Climbing abroad the money-go-round comes at a price in China

September 9, 2021September 8, 2021 by Juweihu

The story of artist and activist Ai Weiwei illustrates the grip Beijing has on foreign multinationals

Categories Big Business Tags Ai Weiwei, Big Business, China, Communist Party of China, Credit Suisse, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, News, President Xi Jinping Leave a comment

China spins a web of deceit with alternative news

August 25, 2021August 24, 2021 by Juweihu

Beijing’s disinformation campaign covers South China Sea tension, the Covid-19 crisis and human rights abuses 

Categories Beijing Backlash Tags Beijing, China’s Communist Party, Covid-19 Crisis, Democracies, Human Rights, News, South China Sea, Uighur Muslims, United States, Washington Leave a comment

Battle lines drawn between US democracy and China’s autocracy

April 30, 2021April 29, 2021 by Juweihu

President Biden outlines the ideological challenges Washington faces in the economic conflict with Beijing

Categories China-US Tension Tags China, Human Rights, News, President Joe Biden, President Xi Jinping, Technology Theft, United States Leave a comment
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