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Xu is protesting against what he describes as inhumane treatment in prison, including lack of contact with his family
Concerns are growing about the health of Xu Zhiyong, China’s most prominent imprisoned human rights lawyer, who is thought to have been on hunger strike for nearly a month.
Xu, a scholar and leading figure in China’s embattled civil rights movement, started his hunger strike on 4 October, Chinese Human Rights Defenders, an NGO. He is protesting against what he describes as inhumane treatment in prison, including lack of contact with his family and intensive surveillance by other prisoners, according to reports released through his relatives.

A 19-year-old Chinese student at the University of Michigan was arrested after he illegally voted in the U.S. General Election and now is facing felony charges, authorities said.

Dr Gillian Hughes, Dr Charlotte Burck, Dr Julia Nelki and Julia Granville the on the Uyghur Tribunal and David Lammy’s visit to China
We were deeply disturbed to read your report about David Lammy’s visit to China that highlighted how our Labour government – headed by a human rights lawyer – has decided to backtrack on plans for formal recognition of acts of genocide in order to facilitate trade deals with China ().
For six days in 2021 we attended the , during which numerous shocking testimonies were presented. We had been asked to provide psychological support to those giving evidence, in recognition of the emotional demands of participation. The courage of those who took part was breathtaking – many spoke of the risk to their lives and to their family members’ lives in participating. We heard accounts of forcible sterilisation, imprisonment and sadistic torture.

So to read [about] — and to comment on this American election — does satisfy some of those urges for them to engage. In 2000, we had Chinese government officials and scholars here in the U.S ...

Drop comes as carmaker faces battle with unions over plan to shut three factories in Germany
Volkswagen has reported a 60% drop in profits amid a slump in sales in China, with the carmaker emphasising the difficulties it faces as it prepares to close factories in Germany for the first time.
Germany’s biggest carmaker has told workers it is serving its main Volkswagen brand in its home market and cutting staff pay, raising the prospect of an extended battle with unions representing 120,000 German employees.

The BBC’s Laura Bicker sees the Shenzhou 19 spacecraft take off in a record year of space exploration.

Ford CEO Jim Farley gushed about his car — a Chinese-made electric vehicle that he had specially flown in from Shanghai.

Witnesses say police dispersed crowds of partygoers, while photos of arrests have circulated online.

With Senate control up for grabs in swing states, both parties are trying to stress China’s threat to US economy
In testimony to Congress last year, David McCormick, now the candidate for in , said that as CEO of Bridgewater Associates, the largest hedge fund in the world, he “held deep reservations” about “the moral and patriotic hazards of doing business in China”.
As reported, between 2017 and 2021, such qualms did not stop McCormick overseeing an in Bridgewater’s Chinese holdings from $1.6m to $1.77bn. Nor, according to Bloomberg, did Bridgewater flinch from in companies that supply the Chinese military. It has also been reported that McCormick oversaw investment in a and, as HuffPost , “profited from China trade policies he helped shape” as a deputy national security adviser for international economic affairs .

Various measures designed to encourage people to have more children have had limited success
The number of kindergartens in China fell by more than 5% last year, the second year in a row that preschool institutions were in decline, reflecting the country’s falling birthrate.
In 2023, there were 274,400 kindergartens across China, down from 289,200 in 2022, according to a Ministry of Education statistical bulletin published last week.

The Washington Post reports Chinese state-affiliated hackers intercepted audio and texts from unnamed adviser
Chinese state-affiliated hackers intercepted audio from the phone calls of US political figures, including an unnamed campaign adviser of Donald Trump, the Washington Post on Sunday.
Various media outlets reported on Friday that the Trump campaign was made aware last week that the Republican presidential candidate and his running mate, JD Vance, were among a number of people inside and outside of government whose phone numbers were targeted through the infiltration of Verizon phone systems.

The Georgian Dream party won 54 percent of the vote, the electoral commission said Sunday, a result that critics of the government fear could derail the country’s pro-Western course.