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The accusation came days after Beijing claimed that the United States had sent airships over China multiple times, ramping up tensions between the two superpowers.

As more unidentified objects were shot down by the U.S. Air Force in recent days, experts warned that there were an “endless” array of potential targets.

Erkin Tuniyaz’s visit is no longer going ahead, but Britain should never have engaged with this whitewashing of the treatment of Uyghurs and other minorities

The oppression of the Uyghurs and other Turkic and Islamic minority people in China’s Xinjiang region has come into stark focus over the past five years.
First, minorities were interned in “re-education facilities” for indeterminate periods. Then came evidence of Chinese “minders” being with Uyghur families and report on their behaviour, of checkpoints on pedestrian streets, face-scanning cameras, the enforced installation of state on personal phones, and the closing or and other religious sites. Throughout all this, a man named Erkin Tuniyaz has been a leading official in Xinjiang’s regional government, and an enthusiastic defender of this . Since 2021, he has been of the entire region.
Dr James McMurray is a research associate in anthropology and a member of the Asia Centre at the University of Sussex

The Office of Naval Intelligence head also called for the intel community to release more information to back up claims of Beijing's bad intentions.

Chinese spy balloon may have drifted into American mainland airspace by mistake, officials reveal - Suspected surveillance craft likely took advantage of strong winds that inadvertantly changed its ...

A Chinese surveillance balloon that was shot down by an American fighter jet may have drifted into the mainland’s airspace at least partially by mistake, officials have revealed. The US had tracked ...

Third of provinces yet to publish data as country looks to revive economy after zero-Covid policy ends
Chinese provinces spent more than £42.8bn on tackling Covid-19 in 2022, according to data released by local governments, with the figure expected to rise as the huge cost of the pandemic hits the world’s second-largest economy.
Although national statistics are not yet available, at least 20 of China’s 31 provinces have published figures on how much money they spent on measures to control the pandemic.

As the Elon Musk-owned social media service encounters interruptions and bugs, Chinese dissidents and activists said they feared they were being muzzled.

U.S. officials told Fox News Digital that it was initially "not clear" that the Chinese spy balloon "was coming to" America ... the spy balloon for nearly a week before it penetrated American airspace ...

He then became the first Asian American, first South Asian and first Sikh in Congress, in 1956. There are now five South Asians in Congress, often referred to as "the Samosa Caucus." "Since 2016, ...

The president has yet to extensively address the Chinese spy balloon or the three unidentified objects taken down over North American airspace.

New details are coming to light about the investigation into a suspected Chinese spy balloon shot down off the coast ... long U.S. authorities were tracking the object before it entered American ...