Category: China

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Uighur Camp

China Steps Up Defense of Uighur Re-Education Camps

China’s massive effort to control and coopt the ethnic minority Uighurs is getting international attention and China is pushing back. In a diplomatic offensive, the Chinese government wants to explain to countries in the Middle East, what its Ministry of State Security is doing. The government has now invited China-based diplomats from Saudi Arabia, Morocco,...

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The Five Eyes Focus on China, Which Will Please the President

When CIA director Gina Haspel announced last month that the agency was giving new emphasis to “nation-state rivals,” she cited one example: China. When President Trump told the United Nations hat one nation-state was seeking to interfere in the 2018 elections, he cited China (although he provided no evidence to support the claim.) Now Reuters reports the Five Eyes...

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What Happened to Jamal Khashoggi?

NEWS Saudi Arabia What Happened to Jamal Khashoggi?–The disappearance of Saudi journalist fits with a pattern of crude intimidation and silencing of dissent, says former CIA analyst (Al-Monitor). How will Jamal Khashoggi case affect Turkey-Saudi ties?–Erdogan would turn against against Saudi Arabia if it were proven that Khashoggi was killed inside the consulate, officials say...