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High-Level Indian Army delegation visits China
Led by Commander of Northern Command of the India Army, Lt. General Ranbir Singh, a high-level military delegation from India is on a four-day visit to China as a part of the agreed Defence engagements agreed during the Annual Defence dialogues between the two sides, the visit began on Tuesday, 7th January 2020 in Beijing ..
Month: Current Affairs - January, 2020
Topics: China • Indian Army • Northern Command • Pakistan • Pakistan-occupied Kashmir • People’s Liberation Army • Xinjiang
Principle of informed consent: China’s genetic research on its ethnic minorities
Scientists have raised concern regarding the increasing focus of Chinese research articles on the genetics and personal information on its ethnic minorities like Uighurs and Tibetans. The report indicates that these studies make use of Tibetan subjects more frequently (40 times more likely) than Han subjects. Uighur subjects were 30 times more frequently used than ..
Topics: Asia • Continents • Ethnic groups in Asia • Tibetan people • Uyghurs • Xinjiang
USA’s House of Representatives passed the bill against Uighur camps in China
USA’s lower House of the Parliament, the House of Representatives, passed the Uighur Act of 2019. It is considered as a stronger version of the bill passed earlier in September in the upper house, Senate. The act urges the US president to take a stand against the ‘re-education camps’ established by Chinese state in western ..
Topics: Asia • Central Asia • Continents • Geography of Asia • Inner Asia • Re-education camp • Western China • Xinjiang
Ilham Tohti wins 2019 Sakharov human rights prize of European Union (EU)
Ilham Tohti, an academic jailed for separatism in China, has been awarded the European Parliament’s top human rights prize ‘Sakharov’ in recognition for drawing attention to ethnic tensions in Xinjiang. Tohti is from the Uighur minority & has been a fierce critic of China’s treatment of the Uighur people. He was sentenced to life imprisonment ..
Topics: Asia • Chinese people • Ilham • Ilham Tohti • Islam in China • Tohti Tunyaz • Uyghurs • Xinjiang
China passes law to make Islam compatible with socialism
The Peoples Republic of China has passed a new law to regulate Islam and make it more compatible with socialism by “Sinicizing Islam”. Why the new law? The new Chinese law aims to “Sinicise” Islam. The indifference of China towards Islam was garnering it loads of criticism: China has around 20 million Muslims and Islam ..
Month: Current Affairs - January, 2019
Category: International / World Current Affairs
Topics: China • indoctrination camps • Islam • Sinicizing Islam • Uyghur • Xinjiang
Xinjiang evinces interest to trade directly with India
China’s Muslim dominated, Xinjiang Uyghur province looks effervescent to open up direct border trade with India. Currently, trade is carried out through Pakistan as there are no border posts. India and Xinjiang traders meet annually at Rawalpindi to discuss the trade volume and items. Xinjiang in keen on developing direct trade links between New Delhi ..
Month: Current Affairs - June, 2012
Topics: Asia • Continents • Geography of Asia • Inner Asia • Islam in China • Kashgar • Migration to Xinjiang • Sites along the Silk Road • Uyghurs • Xinjiang