http://www.uyghuramerican.org/ en-us http://www.uyghuramerican.org/ N/A zarapshan@gmail.com Wed, 20 Aug 2008 07:59:24 -0700 20 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2046/1/Perfection-trumps-honesty-in-China/index.html From the outset, Chinese authorities saw the Beijing Olympics as a chance to show the world a perfect, strong China. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 19 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2045/1/Olympic-Games-Not-all-of-China-is-cheering/index.html The Western press has been awash in coverage of all the negative aspects of China’s Games. There’s horrendous pollution in Beijing, which has forced entire teams to train off-shore in South Korea or Japan and wear masks for much of their stay zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 19 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2042/1/Chinas-Georgia-War-Lesson-Todays-Breakaway-Bites-Back-Later-/index.html Russia's military slap at Georgia may give China added justification to keep its own ethnic separatists in line. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 18 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2041/1/Dont-mention-the-Five-Forbidden-Topics-I-did-once-but-I-think-I-got-away-with-it/index.html Over the weekend the Beijing Olympic officials and the IOC called off their Saturday and Sunday press conferences. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 18 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2040/1/China-Confiscates-Bibles/index.html A group of American Christians who had more than 300 Bibles confiscated by Chinese officials when they arrived in China is refusing to leave the airport until they get the books back, their leader said Monday. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 18 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2038/1/China-yet-to-approve-protests/index.html China has received a total of 77 applications to stage protests during the Olympic Games period - but none has been approved. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 18 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2037/1/China-cracking-down-on-dissent-during-Olympics-activists/index.html China has cracked down on dissent for the Olympic Games and failed to honour public pledges to allow broader freedoms during the event, human rights groups and dissidents said. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 18 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2031/1/Dont-pay-attention-to-protesters-says-China-veteran/index.html China's "Mr Olympics" shrugged off protests staged by pro-free Tibet groups in Beijing and bomb attacks in China's restive northwest, saying the focus of the Games should be sports, not stunts. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 17 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2030/1/Ethnic-unity-in-China-with-the-Han-on-top/index.html Beijing's China Ethnic Culture Park features what it calls "precise re-creations" of life for all China's 56 ethnic groups, but one thing seems in short supply: actual ethnic minorities. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 17 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2028/1/Rings-Propaganda-Points-for-Chinese-Press-Disclosed/index.html A 21-point directive from the Chinese government's propaganda department instructs Chinese news outlets to keep quiet about any "emergencies" at the Olympics, to stay "positive" about security measures, and to ignore pro-independence groups from Xinjiang and Tibet, an Australian newspaper reported yesterday. The Sydney Morning Herald published what it said was the text of the instructions. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 17 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2027/1/Religious-repression-in-Beijing/index.html Chinese Christian detained after seeking to pray with Bush zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 17 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2026/1/DUPLICATEPress-Criticism-of-Olympic-Committee-Grows-By-Ivan-Velinov/index.html The International Olympic Committee (IOC) is under fire as foreign journalists request straight answers on issues ranging from press freedom and human rights violations to air quality issues at the end of the first week of the Games. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 17 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2025/1/Beijing-is-losing-in-the-battle-for-Chinas-soul/index.html The recent attacks on Chinese police in the northwestern, Muslim-dominated Xinjiang region seem to confirm Beijing’s claim that Islamist separatists are the biggest danger during the Olympic Games. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2024/1/Harsh-Chinese-Crackdown-Coming-in-Xinjiang--/index.html Chinese Communist Party and military authorities are set to launch an all-out, life-and-death struggle against underground, “splittist” elements in Xinjiang, whose three attacks against security personnel this month resulted in the death of 20 police and officers of the People’s Armed Police. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2023/1/No-medals-for-the-IOC-/index.html While the world follows the exploits of the China Olympics, journalists and athletes in Beijing have only limited access to what the world is saying about China. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2022/1/Beijing-Olympics-China-in-standoff-over-human-rights-/index.html The International Olympic Committee has pointedly refused to endorse China's human rights record amid complaints that journalists have been assaulted and protestors arrested. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2012/1/Columnist-stages-protest-against-China/index.html The Olympic Games began with a spectacular display inside the new stadium dubbed the bird's nest. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 14 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2011/1/IOC-To-China-Dont-Hinder-Journalists/index.html The International Olympic Committee criticized Chinese security officials who detained and manhandled a British journalist as he was covering a pro-Tibet protest on Wednesday. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 14 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2006/1/Uneasy-relations-China-and-the-foreign-press-/index.html Over at the media village, China is battering them with petty kindnesses. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 13 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1987/1/China-Makes-Policing-an-Olympic-Event/index.html With the eyes of the world on Beijing, China imposes obsessive security measures around the games zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 08 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1980/1/Beijing-Olympics-Protests-around-the-world-as-Games-open-in-style/index.html While China used the dramatic Olympic Games opening ceremony as a showcase for the country, opponents of the Beijing regime used the opportunity to stage protests around the world. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 08 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1978/1/Thousands-protests-as-China-celebrates-start-of-Olympic-Games/index.html THOUSANDS of protesters took part in anti-China demonstrations across Asia and Europe as the Beijing Olympics were launched with a dazzling opening ceremony. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 08 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1971/1/China-defends-rights-record-accuses-Bush-of-meddling/index.html China said it is committed to its citizens' "basic rights and freedoms" Thursday and criticized President Bush for meddling in what Beijing says are its internal affairs. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 07 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1964/1/Chinas-bad-government-damages-Games-expectations/index.html The focus changed from showing the world Chinese political strength to preventing additional loss of face zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 06 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1963/1/Security-remains-headache-for-China-despite-clampdown-for-Olympics/index.html With a protest by Tibetan rights activist Wednesday, an attack against police officers in Xinjiang this week and a South Korean TV station managing to film a rehearsal of the secretive opening ceremony recently, the issue of security is proving to be a major headache for China, despite an unprecedented clampdown in the capital. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 06 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1953/1/China-Calls-Xinjiang-Bombing-Terrorism/index.html The deadly ambush Monday in China's majority Muslim northwest may have raised fears about terrorist attacks when the Beijing Olympic Games open Friday. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 04 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1947/1/16-dead-in-attack-in-Chinas-Muslim-region-Xinhua/index.html Sixteen policemen in China's Muslim-majority northwest were killed on Monday after two armed men stormed their station, state media said, raising security fears four days before the Beijing Olympics. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 03 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1942/1/Why-security-is-tighter-in-Beijing/index.html From missile batteries around the stadium to neighborhood watches, from SWAT teams to bar closures, from random ID checks to a visa clampdown, Beijing’s panoply of security measures outstrips anything ever mounted for the Olympics. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 31 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1939/1/Congress-Urges-President-Bush-To-Raise-Human-Rights-Issue-With-China-/index.html U.S. lawmakers, organizations advocating for human rights and religious freedom, and China democracy activists have sharply criticized the Chinese government in advance of the Beijing Olympic Games opening in August 8. VOA's Dan Robinson reports on this, and a congressional resolution urging President Bush to raise human rights issues when he attends the Olympic games. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 31 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1935/1/Bush-vows-to-take-message-of-freedom-to-Beijing/index.html US President George W. Bush, in a move likely to anger China, met with five Chinese dissidents here and told them he would take a "message of freedom" to next month's Olympic Games in Beijing. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 29 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1934/1/Olympic-paranoia-clutches-China/index.html With a little more than a week to go before China plays host to its biggest ever international event, the Chinese government is leaving nothing to chance. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 29 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1933/1/-Leaked-Documents-Show-Chinese-Regimes-Paranoia/index.html As the Olympics approach, leaked internal documents and state media reports in China indicate that a military mobilisation is being directed at groups within China which are considered harmless by governments abroad. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 29 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1925/1/China-Group-Asserts-That-It-Bombed-Buses-/index.html July 26 -- A group calling itself the Turkestan Islamic Party has released a video asserting responsibility for deadly bus bombings last week in China's western Yunnan province and other recent incidents, and threatening attacks during the Olympic Games. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sat, 26 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1924/1/China-says-deadly-bus-blasts-Olympics-not-linked/index.html China said Tuesday that no evidence of an Olympic terror link had been found in a pair of bus explosions that killed two people in a southwestern city. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1922/1/China-creates-Fortress-Beijing/index.html THE Chinese Government is unleashing the equivalent of Mao Zedong's "people's warfare" against potential troublemakers who may spoil the Beijing Olympic Games as its great showcase. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1921/1/China-paper-censored-for-breach-/index.html A tabloid newspaper was withdrawn from newsstands in China after running a photograph from the 1989 crackdown on Tiananmen Square protesters. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1916/1/HANCOCKS-GAME-In-Beijing-its-safety-first-fun-second/index.html A short walk from the National Stadium, near a busy coach station, there is a wire fence around a plot of land and a plain white sign with words in Mandarin and English that read: “Military Administrative District, No Admittance.” zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 24 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1914/1/The-No-Fun-Olympics/index.html In a few short weeks the party Beijing has been preparing for the last eight years will finally kick off, and the government's disconnect with the people attending the party is growing ever deeper. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 24 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1910/1/China-on-war-footing-ahead-of-Olympic-Games/index.html Fearing terrorist threats, Beijing has deployed tens of thousands of security personnel, banned cars into the capital and is installing surface-to-air missiles near stadiums. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 22 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1909/1/-Bus-blasts-kill-2-in-southwestern-China/index.html Two public buses exploded during the Monday morning rush hour in the city of Kunming, killing at least two people and injuring 14 others in what the authorities described as deliberate attacks as China is tightening security nationwide and warning of possible terrorist threats in advance of next month's Olympic Games. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 21 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1905/1/Public-executions-in-Games-lead-up/index.html CHINA has reverted to public executions on the eve of the Olympics as part of a massive security operation mounted to protect the Beijing Games from what Communist Party authorities describe as an urgent threat of violence and anti-government protest. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 21 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1904/1/Beijing-busy-welcoming-the-world-as-it-turns-away-its-ethnic-minorities/index.html With their infant daughter in their arms, Nuer and Guli visited a dozen hotels in Beijing in late May, searching desperately for a place to stay. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 18 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1903/1/China-anti-terror-manual-to-enlist-Beijing-residents/index.html Having deployed surface-to-air missiles, readied a 100,000-strong anti-terrorism force and instituted a series of security checkpoints, Beijing is adding Chinese residents as another layer in its shield to protect Olympics venues against possible attack. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 18 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1901/1/China-scales-down-its-Olympic-ambitions/index.html In an age of global terrorism, it is obviously sensible to guard against attacks on a prime target such as the Olympic Games. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 18 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1899/1/The-Beijing-Olympics-Five-ring-circus.html The Chinese authorities are taking no chances: 100,000 troops, anti-aircraft missiles, checkpoints ringing the city. Beijing’s Olympics, they say, are the most threatened by terrorists in history. Evidence for this is thin. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 17 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1898/1/Amid-security-threat-questions-arise-about-quotNo-Funquot-Olympics/index.html Will the Beijing Olympics become known as the "No-Fun Games"? zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 17 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1889/1/Chinese-activists-to-Bush-and-Sarkozy-Dont-forget-us-at-the-Games-/index.html An open letter to Bush and Sarkozy, asking that their participation at the opening ceremony of the Games not serve only to honour the Chinese leaders. Concrete gestures against violations of rights requested. Meanwhile, killings and arrests of Uyghurs and Tibetans continue. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 11 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1876/1/The-real-score-on-freedom-of-expression-in-China/index.html China promised expanded press freedom and an improved climate for human rights and domestic freedom of expression in this Olympic year. But it has instead maintained a systematic campaign to jail or silence prominent dissident voices and is now brazenly trying to restrict domestic and international press coverage. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 08 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1874/1/One-month-to-go-Beijing-prepares-to-deliver-Olympics-/index.html With a month remaining until the opening ceremony of one of the most scrutinized Olympic Games in history, the time has come for Beijing to deliver on seven years of promises and billions of dollars spent. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 06 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1869/1/China-Pays-Compensation-for-Organ-Harvest-Without-Consent---Watchdog/index.html Families of two death row convicts received cash compensation for organs harvested from the convicts without prior consent of the families in northwestern China's Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, a human rights watchdog said Thursday. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 02 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1866/1/Chinese-Lawyers-Arrested-Before-Meeting-With-Congressmen/index.html A group of Chinese human rights lawyers were detained and later put under house arrest by government security officials to prevent them from attending a dinner Sunday hosted by two members of the U.S. Congress. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1864/1/-China-acts-to-preempt-unrest-as-Olympics-near/index.html China has ordered local officials to head off any protests that could tarnish the Olympics, the government said Monday, after a violent riot by 10,000 people threw the spotlight on deep social tensions. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 30 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1862/1/China-stepping-up-religious-abuses-say-activists/index.html China is intensifying its persecution of Christians, Muslims and Tibetan Buddhists as the Olympic Games in Beijing near, according to activists for religious freedom. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sat, 28 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1857/1/China-Says-It-Opposes-Politicizing-Olympics-/index.html After months of warning other countries not to politicize the summer Olympic Games in Beijing, China has come under criticism from the International Olympic Committee for doing just that. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1855/1/China-says-NGOs-stir-anti-Chinese-feelings-in-Darfur-/index.html China's envoy to the strike-torn Sudanese region of Darfur on Thursday accused western media and non-governmental groups of stirring up anti-Chinese feelings among opposition groups in the African country. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1851/1/-Shanghai-bans-troublemakers-leaving-city-during-Olympics/index.html China's financial hub of Shanghai has sent notices to dissidents, petitioners and other "controlled" people banning them leaving the city during the Olympics to ensure security, a rights group said on Tuesday. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 25 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1850/1/Missiles-Installed-At-Olympic-Venue/index.html Obsessed with the prospect of a terrorist attack during the Olympics, China has deployed a battery of surface to air missiles near the Bird's Nest, the official stadium for the Beijing Games. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 25 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1849/1/-Hotels-in-Beijing-hurting-despite-Olympic-fever/index.html The 17-day games were supposed to generate a buzz throughout the summer, leading to a tourism windfall with fully booked hotels, flush customers and a jubilant atmosphere. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 25 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1848/1/-For-Chinas-Olympic-guests-a-not-so-warm-welcome/index.html That slogan is everywhere nowadays in the Chinese capital. But as the Games draw near, the eight-tooth smile that Olympic hostesses have been taught is beginning to look a little strained. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 25 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1831/1/Group-says-China-demolishes-mosque-for-not-supporting-Olympics/index.html Chinese authorities in the restive far western region of Xinjiang have demolished a mosque for refusing to put up signs in support of this August's Beijing Olympics, an exiled group said on Monday. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 23 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1830/1/New-US-president-seen-unlikely-to-confront-China-/index.html Despite their rhetoric, White House aspirants Barack Obama and John McCain are unlikely to adopt a confrontational approach towards China even as it flexes its military and economic muscles, experts say. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 23 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1829/1/Taiwan-war-game-simulates-attack-from-China/index.html Taiwan began Monday its annual computer-simulated war game that anticipates an invasion by China, despite warming ties between the island and its mainland rival. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 23 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1827/1/China-arrests-fake-terrorists/index.html Three men who reportedly posed as terrorists to try to extort more than $300,000 (£150,000) have been arrested in the Chinese Olympic city of Qingdao. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 20 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1825/1/China-mobilizes-100000-strong-anti-terrorism-security-force-for-Beijing-Olympics/index.html China had mobilized a 100,000-strong anti-terrorism force to guard against threats to the Beijing Olympics, the official Xinhua News Agency reported Thursday. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 19 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1815/1/In-China-Fascination-With-Obamas-Skin-Color/index.html America may be discussing whether Barack Obama is tough enough to field a 3 a.m. phone call, but for the Chinese Communist Party's official newspaper, the real issue is his race. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 17 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1812/1/China-Still-Lags-Behind-US-in-Influence-Survey-Shows-/index.html  Despite China’s remarkable economic rise, and its efforts to spread its influence in Asia through what is known as “soft power,” the country still lags far behind the United States in that sphere, according to a survey to be released Tuesday. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 17 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1810/1/Typhoon-by-Charles-Cumming/index.html NOT SINCE The Honourable Schoolboy has there been a satisfactory spy novel about Britain's relations with China: the global power of the 19th century tussling with that of the 21st, all the time complicated by that still bolshie 20th-century giant, America. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 17 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1804/1/China-warns-Australia-over-Dalai-Lama-visit/index.html China warned Australia Thursday not to allow the exiled Dalai Lama to carry out separatist activities on its territory, despite the Tibetan spiritual leader's stated opposition to an independent Tibet. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 13 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1802/1/China-on-alert-for-unrest-a-month-after-quake/index.html Police cordoned off schools destroyed in China's devastating earthquake one month ago from Thursday, apparently on alert for protests by parents demanding investigations into whether shoddy construction played a role in their children's deaths. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 13 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1801/1/Chinas-ascendency-causing-global-concern-Pew-study-finds-/index.html With the approach of the Beijing Olympics, the world is eyeing China with concern about its policies and their impact beyond Chinese borders, the Pew Global Attitudes Project has found. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 13 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1800/1/US-Congressmen-Accuse-China-of-Hacking-Their-Computers-/index.html Two U.S. Congressmen on Wednesday accused China of hacking their office computers, possibly compromising information on Chinese dissidents, the Congressmen and news reports said. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 13 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1799/1/China-denies-hacking-into-US-computers/index.html China denied accusations by two U.S. lawmakers that it hacked into congressional computers, saying Thursday that as a developing country it wasn't capable of sophisticated cybercrime. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 13 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1796/1/China-casts-wider-net-in-crackdowns/index.html  For years, the Zhou brothers sold their pirated DVDs openly from a back room in a state-owned department store. Like other merchants of counterfeit goods, they knew the authorities would turn a blind eye. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 12 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1795/1/Chinas-List-of-Olympic-Donts-/index.html Now that the shock of the earthquake (which they could not control) in Sichuan Province has dissipated somewhat, China’s leaders are focusing again on something that they think they can control: people. Sports fans attending the 2008 Olympics in Beijing will have a long list of rules to carry in their pockets along with their tickets. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 12 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1794/1/Lawmakers-Say-China-Hackers-Stole-Files/index.html Two House members said Wednesday their Capitol Hill computers, containing information about political dissidents from around the world, have been hacked by sources apparently working out of China. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 12 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1793/1/Rice-Says-Democracies-in-Asia-Might-Counter-Chinas-Influence-/index.html Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said the potential for democratic countries in Asia to combine their clout might provide a counter to China's growing power. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 12 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1792/1/China-to-oppose-any-external-interference-on-Tibet-issue-/index.html Amidst reports that the US and the EU would press China to have "result-oriented talks" with the envoys of the Dalai Lama on the Tibet issue, Beijing today said it would oppose any interference on the matter as it was its "internal affair". zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 12 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1791/1/Report-China-funding-campaign-to-eliminate-house-churches/index.html A new report released on Sunday, exactly two months ahead of the Beijing Olympic Games, details the current Chinese Government’s crackdown on unregistered Christians, including the funding of a campaign to eradicate house churches throughout China. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 12 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1790/1/Report-on-Crackdown-on-Chinese-Christians-Launched-at-Two-Month-Olympic-Countdown-Mark/index.html With exactly two months to go until the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, a fresh report detailing the persecution of Christians in China is launched today. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 12 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1789/1/Chinas-torch-relay-shrouded-in-mystery-/index.html China's Olympic torch relay has become a mystery tour, with organisers refusing to disclose the dates of a planned journey though Tibet and other potentially sensitive legs. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 12 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1785/1/Germanys-Merkel-encourages-Chinese-premier-to-continue-Tibet-dialogue/index.html German Chancellor Angela Merkel welcomed China's reopening of talks with envoys of the Dalai Lama, the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader, and encouraged Premier Wen Jiabao on Tuesday to pursue the dialogue, her office said. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 11 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1780/1/China-Afghan-investment-reveals-larger-strategy/index.html China has won a $3.5 billion contract to develop Afghanistan’s Aynak copper field, the largest foreign direct investment project in the history of Afghanistan. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 06 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1778/1/Tiananmen-Square-Eyewitness-Shares-Impressions/index.html The images beamed into the west of a Chinese student facing down a tank still have the power to shock, 19 years after the Tiananmen Square massacre. For journalist Jonathan Mirsky, talking to The Epoch Times, the memories and images he recalls are far more disturbing. He was in the square that day. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 06 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1776/1/Olympics-Beijing-tightens-security-as-Games-approach-reports/index.html Beijing is implementing a range of new security measures, state media said Friday, as the Chinese capital cranks up efforts to prevent any disruptions affecting the August Olympics.March. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 06 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1773/1/Rep-McCotter-on-the-House-Floor-on-Wednesday-Still-Fighting-for-Freedom-discussing-Tiananmen/index.html In light of 19th anniversary of communist China's brutal crackdown on students demonstrating for democracy on Tiananmen Square, Chairman McCotter took to the House Floor last night to memorialize the students who fell. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 06 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1771/1/Pelosi-19-Years-Ago-Today-the-Tiananmen-Square-Massacre-Challenged-the-Conscience-of-the-World-/index.html Speaker Nancy Pelosi delivered remarks at a rally on Capitol Hill today to commemorate the 19th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre in Beijing on June 4, 1989. Below are the Speaker's remarks: zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 05 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1770/1/US-lawmakers-criticize-Chinas-human-rights/index.html The leader of the House of Representatives urged China on Wednesday to release all political prisoners as senior lawmakers gathered outside the US Capitol building to mark the 19th anniversary of China's crackdown on pro-democracy protesters at Tiananmen Square. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 05 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1769/1/Goddess-of-Democracy-at-Congress-on-Tiananmen-anniversary/index.html Against the backdrop of a Goddess of Democracy statue, US lawmakers, human rights groups and dissidents converged on Capitol Hill Wednesday to mark the 1989 Tiananmen Square bloody massacre, calling for the release of all political prisoners in China. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 05 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1768/1/Barack-Obamas-US-foreign-policy-on-Asia-/index.html US Senator Barack Obama has secured the Democratic nomination for the US presidency. But many say he's lack of foreign policy experience may be the clincher on polling day in November. We discuss his agenda on Asia. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 05 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1766/1/Rudds-Asia-plan-sinks-in-Beijing/index.html If Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, a Mandarin speaker, was banking on his understanding of China to forge a new relationship with Beijing, it has obviously not worked so far. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 05 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1765/1/Norway-trying-to-broker-peace-between-China-and-Tibet/index.html Norway reportedly has been conducting top-secret diplomacy to resolve the lengthy and bitter conflict between Chinese authorities and the exiled Tibetan government and its spiritual leader, The Dalai Lama. Two state secretaries in the Foreign Ministry are said to be heavily involved. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 05 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1761/1/East-Turkestan-Senator-Brown-Speaks-Out-Over-Detained-Uyghurs/index.html Further to a resolution put before the United States Senate, Senator Brown has called on the United States to push China to make major improvements in its human rights record. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 03 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1757/1/China-Free-Tiananmen-Prisoners-Before-Olympics/index.html On the 19th anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, the Chinese government should honor its commitment to improve human rights before the 2008 Beijing Olympics by releasing the estimated 130 Tiananmen prisoners improperly arrested or tried, Human Rights Watch said today. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 03 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1755/1/Remembering-Tiananmen-Square/index.html Every year on June 4, the Chinese democracy movement stops to pause, protest, and remember the Tiananmen Square massacre. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 30 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1753/1/Olympics-put-religious-freedom-in-spotlight/index.html When the International Olympic Committee in July 2001 awarded China the right to host the 2008 Summer Olympics, Chinese citizens were ecstatic. But what potentially could have been China's proudest moment has turned into something of a public relations minefield as world media probe China's human rights gains and abuses, writes Sarah Page for Compass Direct News. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 29 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1752/1/Woman-admits-helping-pass-secrets-to-China/index.html A Chinese woman pleaded guilty Wednesday to helping a spy provide the Chinese government with U.S. military secrets about arms sales to Taiwan. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 29 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1750/1/China-Russia-US-focus-of-human-rights-report/index.html Human rights and freedom of the press in China, the detention of terrorist suspects by the United States and Russia's treatment of political dissent are the focus of scrutiny in Amnesty International's annual report, released Wednesday, which looks at the state of human rights around the world zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 28 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1749/1/Amnesty-International-condemns-US-China-in-report/index.html The United States is shirking its duty to provide the world with moral leadership and China is letting its business interests trump human rights concerns in Myanmar and Sudan, a human rights group said Wednesday. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 28 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1744/1/US-Reopens-Talks-With-Chinese-On-Rights--Envoy-Urges-Progress-In-Light-of-Olympics/index.html Renewing the U.S.-China human rights dialogue after a six-year cutoff, a senior U.S. official urged the Chinese government Tuesday to improve its rights record as a way to sweeten the atmosphere for the upcoming Olympic Games in Beijing. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 27 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1739/1/US-says-human-rights-talks-with-China-constructive-/index.html The United States held "constructive" talks with China on a wide range of human rights issues, a US envoy said here Tuesday as he praised the communist government for its earthquake response. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 27 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1731/1/Human-Rights-Torch-Relay-Makes-Stop-in-Edmonton/index.html Edmonton was the latest city in Canada to host a rally to welcome the Global Human Rights Torch (HRTR) relay on Wednesday, May 21. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 22 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1728/1/To-deal-with-China/index.html New Delhi must be tough on Beijing's hectoring on Sikkim; otherwise it's a slippery slope zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 19 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1727/1/Quake-Quiets-the-Critics-of-Chinas-Human-Rights-Record/index.html In the aftermath of the deadly Sichuan earthquake, the clamor of criticism that had been dogging China over human-rights issues and its policies toward Tibet has suddenly been silenced. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 19 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1720/1/Sherwen-On-Risk-China-struggles-to-meet-the-Olympic-ideal/index.html The Beijing Olympics appeared the perfect opportunity for China to demonstrate to the world that it was a nation to be admired. However, the main effect of the publicity so far has been to add impetus to the outsiders’ view of China as authoritarian and repressive. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 16 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1719/1/China-marks-100-days-until-start-of-Beijing-Olympics/index.html Shimmering stadiums and billions of dollars spent to remake Beijing into a modern city have been overshadowed by pro-Tibet protests, chaos on the Olympic torch relay, and an anti-Western backlash by angry Chinese who sense their coming-out party is being spoiled. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 16 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1717/1/-Aftershock-rattles-China-quake-zone/index.html A powerful aftershock knocked out roads and communications in some of the most quake-ravaged parts of central China on Friday, as emergency crews rescued more than 30 people who had survived up to 100 improbable hours trapped in the ruins. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 16 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1716/1/Activist-slams-China-India-over-cyclone-aid/index.html The founder of the Free Burma Coalition accused Myanmar neighbors China and India on Thursday of failing to do their share of "heavy lifting" in aiding victims of the Myanmar cyclone. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 16 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1715/1/China-upgrading-n-missile-launch-site-nearest-to-India/index.html Less than a month after China’s new nuclear submarine base came to light, latest satellite images show that Beijing is upgrading and extending its nuclear missile deployment site that is nearest to India. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 16 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1711/1/Over-40000-dead-missing-or-buried-in-China-quake-/index.html  More than 40,000 people were dead, missing or buried under rubble in China's southwest, officials said Wednesday, as the full horror of its devastating earthquake began to emerge. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 14 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1709/1/Soldiers-press-search-for-quake-survivors/index.html Rescuers struggled to reach some of the hardest-hit areas of southwestern China on Tuesday after a massive earthquake that left a death toll well above 12,000. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 13 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1710/1/Human-Rights-Torch-Lit-in-Chicago/index.html The Human Rights Torch was lit at Chicago's Lincoln Park this past Saturday in the presence of politicians, rights activists and local community groups. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 12 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1708/1/German-Foreign-Ministry-Criticizes-Chinas-Human-Rights-Record/index.html A new German Foreign Ministry report is extremely critical of the human rights situation in China. The confidential report, which has been seen by SPIEGEL, contains a long list of abuses of human rights and democratic principles. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 12 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1706/1/The-ghosts-of-Jiang-Koizumi-haunt-Hus-visit-to-Tokyo/index.html President Hu Jintao, the quintessential Chinese Communist Party apparatchik who made it to the top by relentless kowtowing to superiors and keeping his head down in controversies, doesn’t know much about the world of the Japanese geisha. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 12 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1705/1/Dont-coddle-Beijing---it-must-account-for-its-role-Darfur/index.html Many consider it taboo to speak of the genocide in Darfur and the upcoming Beijing Olympics in the same breath. I disagree entirely. I believe the two should be firmly linked in the public's mind, and I said so in blunt terms during a recent CBC interview. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 12 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1704/1/Olympics-present-a-chance-to-welcome-China-back-into-fold/index.html International relations will be the poorer if Chinese retreat back into isolationism, writes JAMIE F METZL zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 12 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1700/1/-China-blocks-Turks-from-the-Olympic-Games/index.html China has raised the level of security due to the Beijing Olympics and gives hard times to many countries including Turkey about issuing visa. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 12 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1699/1/-China-blocks-Turks-from-the-Olympic-Games.html China has raised the level of security due to the Beijing Olympics and gives hard times to many countries including Turkey about issuing visa. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 12 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1698/1/United-by-force/index.html Many Chinese bloggers are a bit confused about what's happening in their country. Even as the Tibet issue rages on, the Uighurs revolt in Xinjiang and the ghost of Tiananmen comes back to haunt Beijing, zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 11 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1696/1/Olympic-Games-or-Mobilization-for-War-/index.html On May 5, Tian Yixiang, the director of the military bureau's security command center for the Beijing Olympic Games, told a reporter from the military channel of Xinhua News Net that the main threat to security of the Olympic Games are "domestic forces against China, including the East Turkistan Islamic Movement, zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 11 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1693/1/US-asks-Asia-to-impose-stiff-punishment-on-labor-traffickers/index.html The United States called on Asian governments Wednesday to slap stiff penalties on labor traffickers, some of whom it said were exploiting loopholes in bilateral agreements in the region. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 08 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1692/1/Chinas-Fear-of-Summer/index.html The Hash House Harriers is a social group of runners that meets in cities all over the world to go for a jog followed by a few beers. It calls itself "a drinking club with a running problem." zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 08 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1689/1/Dui-Hua-Appeals-for-quotOlympic-Pardonquot-For-Long-Serving-Prisoners/index.html The Dui Hua Foundation has appealed to the Chinese government to grant an "Olympic pardon" in conjunction with the upcoming Summer Olympics in Beijing. The pardon would apply to long-serving prisoners who no longer pose a threat to society and are nearing the end of their sentences. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 08 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1681/1/Olympics-Could-Slow-China-Reform-Effort/index.html Beijing Olympics, once touted as a catalyst for openness and change in China, could wind up setting back the struggle for democracy and freedom in the world's most populous country, according to the editor of a new book about the impact of the games on human rights there. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 02 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1680/1/US-terror-report-cites-Venezuela-Iran/index.html Venezuela's associations with terror states, Iran's meddling in Iraq and the resurgence of al Qaeda in Afghanistan top the concerns in a new State Department report on terrorism threats in countries around the world. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 02 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1679/1/US-ignores-religious-oppression-federal-panel-says/index.html China, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia are among 11 countries that practice religious oppression, a federal commission says. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 02 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1674/1/Shao-Jiang-China-remains-a-land-of-torture-and-repression/index.html As the Olympic torch heads up Everest on the next phase of its troubled journey next week, it is almost certain to attract more protests as it gets closer to Tibet. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 01 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1672/1/US-Jewish-leaders-call-for-boycott-of-Beijing-Olympics/index.html A wide-ranging group of U.S. Jewish leaders plans to release a statement Wednesday urging Jews worldwide to boycott the Summer Olympics in Beijing, citing China's troubling record on human rights and Tibet. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 01 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1670/1/Chinese-build-secret-nuclear-submarine-base/index.html China has secretly built a major underground nuclear submarine base that could threaten Asian countries and challenge American power in the region, it can be disclosed. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 01 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1669/1/China-not-India-to-be-focus-of-US-attention-in-rising-Asia/index.html China will be the focus of American attention in the 21st century with the rise of Asia as China, India, Japan and emerging powers compete for regional influence, the top US intelligence agency suggests. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 01 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1665/1/Chinese-pride-should-not-be-founded-on-oppression/index.html The dreaded Olympic Torch passed through South Korea yesterday. Considering the number of Chinese and Tibetans living in Korea, some kind of an eventful occurrence was to be expected. Both parties were granted permission from the authority to peacefully congregate. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 29 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1663/1/China-talks-aimed-at-saving-Olympics-not-Tibet-analysts/index.html As the Dalai Lama reflected Sunday on a surprise Chinese offer to resume talks, experts cautioned that Beijing may be looking more toward salvaging the Olympic Games than meaningful dialogue. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 28 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1657/1/Olympic-flames-then-and-now-/index.html I was in Red Square one day during the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow when some poor protester apparently tried to set himself on fire. We never learned who he was or what really happened because of the amazing reaction of the authorities, which was caught on film by a tourist. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 27 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1655/1/Torch-relay-a-success-despite-arrests/index.html The Australian leg of Beijing's troubled Olympic torch relay has been declared "an outstanding success", despite seven arrests and clashes between protesters and Chinese supporters. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1654/1/Chinese-Nationalism-May-Tarnish-Beijing-Olympics/index.html Chinese people, around the world, are increasingly showing their dissatisfaction with what they perceive to be Western China-bashing, in the run-up to the Beijing Olympics.  Stephanie Ho reports from the Chinese capital. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1653/1/Chinese-hackers-prepare-to-defend-the-motherland/index.html Fuelled by anti-Western nationalism, patriotic Chinese hackers have come to the defence of the motherland in response criticism of Beijing's handling of recent pro-independence riots by ethnic Tibetans. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1652/1/China-Dampens-Patriotic-Fervor-/index.html China has begun moving to dampen a wave of mass popular anger among young people, sparked by recent protests during its Olympic torch relay over the recent crackdown in Tibet, according to journalists and academics. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 22 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1650/1/Chinas--new-nationalists-revealed/index.html As the Summer Olympics approach, some disturbing aspects of contemporary China are coming into view. A worldwide audience has learned what human rights activists have long known about Beijing's complicity with dictatorships in Sudan and Burma. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 22 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1632/1/China-Outraged-by-US-Tibet-Resolution/index.html An indignant China said Friday the U.S. "seriously hurt the feelings of the Chinese people" when Congress passed a resolution calling on Beijing to stop cracking down on Tibetan dissent and talk to the Dalai Lama. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sat, 12 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1631/1/Chinas-Olympic-Shame/index.html Why didn't they see this coming? Despite more than seven years' worth of meticulous, down-to-the-last-detail planning that has gone into the Beijing Olympics, China's leaders have seemingly been caught off guard by the most predictable of challenges zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 11 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1626/1/IOC-China-clash-over-human-rights-/index.html The International Olympic Committee and China clashed yesterday over human rights and the protest-plagued Olympic torch relay. IOC president Jacques Rogge acknowledged that the Olympics have plunged into crisis, then pleaded with China to respect its promises on human rights. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 10 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1624/1/Human-rights-protests-against-China/index.html At Washington Park and Embarcadero, it has been demonstration central. There was a lot of anger expressed towards the Chinese Government, but there was also mixed emotions among protestors over the rerouting of the Olympic flame. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 09 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1614/1/More-China-tensions-come-to-light/index.html Protests around the Olympic torch have focused the world's attention on Tibet, but discontent is rippling through other parts of China, too. In Xinjiang province, Muslim Uighurs are also asking for religious freedom and economic opportunity. Scott Tong reports. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 08 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1610/1/China-vows-swift-and-severe-punishment-of-Tibetans-accused-of-rioting-last-month-/index.html Amid signs of added unrest in Muslim areas of China, an official newspaper said Friday that courts would "use the weapon of the law" to "shock criminality and root out the base of the separatists." zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 04 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1609/1/No-such-thing-as-anti-China-forces/index.html  Within China, many drumbeaters are stirring up anger against so-called "anti-China forces," referring to groups that are against the Chinese people, hold historical hostility toward the race, or have a conflict of interest with China or its people. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 04 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1605/1/The-High-Cost-of-Control/index.html What were the communist party cadres in Beijing feeling as they watched Lhasa burning in mid-March? Anger certainly. And worry about how the staging of the Olympic Games in August could be affected. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 04 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1604/1/Chinese-ambassador-pulls-out-of-torch-relay/index.html China's ambassador to Britain has pulled out of running in this weekend's Olympic torch relay ceremony in the first indication that growing international concern at the country's recent actions in Tibet is starting to become a major source of embarrassment for Beijing. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 04 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1598/1/Chinas-Wen-urges-unity-among-minorities/index.html Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao promised to boost support for poor ethnic minority areas but called for unity after a rash of Tibetan unrest and at least one protest in the far west dented propaganda claims of harmony. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 03 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1586/1/Free-China--Tibet-will-follow/index.html I don't care if Tibet is free or not. I care very much whether the people in Tibet are free. It's that distinction that seems to be missing in the discussion about the government crackdown on recent demonstrations. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 01 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1585/1/Michael-Richardson-Not-many-left-who-will-bait-the-dragon/index.html The recent anti-Chinese protests in Tibet and several surrounding provinces in China have been watched with concern by governments in nearby South and Southeast Asia, especially India. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 01 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1584/1/French-foreign-minister-says-Dalai-Lama-could-be-invited-to-Brussels-shortly-/index.html The European Union could invite the Dalai Lama to Brussels, France's foreign minister said Tuesday. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 01 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1580/1/China-Tibet-Olympics-boycott-Germanys-Merkel-wont-go/index.html There was a time, long, long ago, when athletes from around the ancient world would gather, without clothes and without making political pronouncements, to let it all hang out - their enthusiasm for the spirit of competition, that is - and get on with games in which victories would bring resounding honor to the kingdoms, regions and powerful city-states they represented. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 31 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1566/1/Engineer-sentenced-to-24-years-in-China-conspiracy-case/index.html A federal judge says Chi Mak, 67, of Downey betrayed the U.S. by conspiring to export sensitive military technology. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 25 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1563/1/EU-tells-China-to-stop-using-force-against-Tibetan-protesters-/index.html  The European Union, United States and other Western nations urged China on Tuesday to stop using force against Tibetan protesters, and said the demonstrations should be peaceful. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 25 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1559/1/IOC-president-Rogge-in-silent-diplomacy-with-China-on-Tibet-and-rights-/index.html IOC president Jacques Rogge said Monday he is engaged in "silent diplomacy" with China on Tibet and other human rights issues in advance of the Beijing Olympics. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 24 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1558/1/FBI-Opens-Probe-of-China-Based-Hackers/index.html The FBI has opened a preliminary investigation of a report that China-based hackers have penetrated the e-mail accounts of leaders and members of the Save Darfur Coalition, a national advocacy group pushing to end the six-year-old conflict in Sudan. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 24 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1556/1/McCain-says-Chinas-conduct-in-Tibet-unacceptable/index.html U.S. presidential hopeful John McCain said on Friday that China was behaving unacceptably in Tibet and he urged Beijing to look for a peaceful end to clashes between anti-government protestors and police. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 24 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1507/1/China-and-its-minorities/index.html Non-Han minorities may comprise only 9 percent of China's population, but as the violence in Tibet and simmering resentment in Xinjiang  indicate, the problem is one that Beijing is unable to resolve. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 17 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1491/1/Chinese-Police-Clash-With-Tibet-Protesters-/index.html Violent protests erupted Friday in a busy market area of Lhasa, the Tibetan capital, as Buddhist monks and other ethnic Tibetans clashed with Chinese security forces. The protesters burned shops, cars, military vehicles and at least one tourist bus, according to witnesses. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 14 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1490/1/China-rejects-US-attack-on-human-rights-/index.html China's foreign minister Wednesday rejected criticism of its human rights record, accusing the United States of "clinging to a Cold War mentality" and "practicing double standards." zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 13 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1486/1/Beijings-unofficial-Olympic-slogan/index.html The official slogan of this summer's Beijing Olympics may be "One World, One Dream," but Beijing's real mantra has been something more prosaic, and in the end, much more problematic: no politics. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 13 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1484/1/Chinas-Olympic-security-dilemma-/index.html China has spent millions of dollars over seven years on its security preparations for this summer's Olympic Games in Beijing. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 13 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1482/1/Chinas-Curious-Olympic-Terror-Threat-/index.html The dramatic news came in the midst of China's staid and boring annual legislature: a terrorist hijacking plot, perhaps meant to mar the coming Olympic Games, had been stopped. Security forces had thwarted a plot to "create an air disaster," Nur Bekri, chairman of the Xinjiang regional government, told reporters at the ongoing session of the National People's Congress (NPC). zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 12 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1481/1/Chinese-Embassy-Caught-Interfering-With-Spectacular-in-Prague/index.html The Chinese Embassy has been caught out sending letters to both the largest television station in the Czech Republic and politicians, asking them not to attend the Chinese Spectacular. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 12 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1480/1/China-dismisses-critics-bent-on-examining-countrys-rights-record/index.html China's foreign minister has dismissed critics who want to put the country's rights record under the microscope ahead of this summer's Olympic Games.  zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 12 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1474/1/Mongolian-Herdsmen-No-Longer-Free-to-Roam/index.html For as long as anyone can remember, Bator and his ancestors were horse-riding herdsmen, free to roam the vast grasslands of Inner Mongolia with their animals. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 10 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1473/1/Recent-incidents-add-to-Chinas-edginess-about-terror/index.html A Chinese passenger jet en route to Beijing from the heavily Muslim Xinjiang region was forced to make an emergency landing Friday after the flight crew prevented at least two passengers from trying to crash the airplane, state media reported Sunday. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 09 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1460/1/China-USCIRF-Calls-on-President-Bush-to-Request-Meeting-with-Prisoners-During-Beijing-Olympics-Attend-House-Church-Service/index.html The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom commends President George W. Bush for pledging Thursday that while attending the Summer Olympic Games in China, he will raise concerns about freedom of religion in China with President Hu Jintao. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 29 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1446/1/China-deeply-concerned-by-Kosovo-independence/index.html In a statement posted on the Foreign Ministry's website, China has expressed "deep concern" that Kosovo has declared its independence. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 18 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1445/1/Human-rights-protests-rattle-Olympics-/index.html With Steven Spielberg's announcement that he will not organise the opening ceremonies, the Olympic Games in Beijing may have already lost a battle. A growing chorus of athletes are starting to speak out. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 15 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1444/1/Now-Archbishop-Desmond-Tutu-urges-boycott-of-Beijing-Olympics-over-Chinas-failure-to-act-in-Darfur-/index.html Archbishop Desmond Tutu warned China could face an international boycott of the Beijing Olympics if they did not move to end the atrocities in Darfur. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 15 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1443/1/Spielberg-breached-Olympic-spirit-/index.html Organisers of the Beijing Olympics denounced any linking of sport and politics as a contravention of the “Olympic spirit” on Thursday following the resignation of Steven Spielberg, the US film director, as an artistic adviser on the games’ opening and closing ceremonies. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 15 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1442/1/China-Link-to-Darfur-unfair-/index.html Efforts to link China to the Darfur crisis are "irresponsible and unfair," a government spokesman said in comments published Thursday, following director Steven Spielberg's decision to drop out as a Beijing Olympics adviser on human rights grounds. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 15 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1441/1/The-power-of-protest-/index.html The Chinese foreign ministry argued that "it is understandable if some people do not understand the Chinese government policy on Darfur", and went on to urge America to stop its "Cold War thinking", accusing some of its detractors of harbouring "ulterior motives". zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 15 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1440/1/Beijing-Olympics-Wont-Change-China-/index.html The summer Olympic Games to be held in Beijing will probably be the most watched ever. That and the location -- China -- make it irresistible to those with a political cause to advocate, be that cause the host country's record on human rights, press freedom and political dissent, or its policies on Dafur. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 15 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1439/1/EU-President-Advises-Against-Protests-/index.html The European Union wants athletes to resist raising human rights and other sensitive political issues during the Beijing Olympics. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 15 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1438/1/Bush-says-still-plans-to-visit-Beijing-Olympics-/index.html US President George W. Bush said Thursday he had not changed his plans to attend the Beijing Olympics, despite a growing row over China's support for Sudan amid the Darfur crisis. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 15 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1437/1/In-Olympic-year-China-urged-to-use-its-influence-in-Darfur-/index.html China has been called upon to abandon its support for Sudan by a coalition of Nobel Prize-winners and international athletes, who demanded that this year's Olympic hosts cease to trade with a regime which is held responsible by the world for the carnage in Darfur. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 14 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1436/1/China-tells-US-to-drop-Cold-War-attitude-after-spy-arrests/index.html China on Thursday told the United States to drop its "Cold War" attitude and stop accusing Beijing of espionage, after US authorities arrested four people on charges of spying for the Chinese. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 14 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1430/1/China-Spielbergs-Olympic-Pull-Out-Highlights-Foreigners--Responsibilities/index.html The decision by the film director Steven Spielberg to step down as artistic consultant to the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games should prompt other influential outsiders to press China to reform, Human Rights Watch said today. Corporate sponsors, governments and National Olympic Committees should urge Beijing to improve human rights conditions in China, Human Rights Watch said. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 13 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1428/1/DOJ-Chinese-Espionage-Marks-Return-to-Cold-War-Threats/index.html There’s nothing like an espionage story to help heat up this freezing Tuesday morning. And today’s top news story has all the elements: sleeper agents, stolen aerospace secrets and Cold War intimations. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 12 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1427/1/DOJ-Chinese-Espionage-Marks-Return-to-Cold-War-Threats.html There’s nothing like an espionage story to help heat up this freezing Tuesday morning. And today’s top news story has all the elements: sleeper agents, stolen aerospace secrets and Cold War intimations. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 12 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1423/1/Pentagon-official-three-others-held-over-China-spy-charges/index.html A US defense official, an ex-Boeing engineer and two others were arrested Monday on charges of spying for China involving sensitive military and aerospace secrets, including the space shuttle. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 11 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1418/1/China-Free-Activists--Guarantee-Press-Freedoms/index.html While three activists languish in detention and press freedoms remain illusory, Olympic Watch calls on China to defy expectations and act. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 08 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1416/1/US-urges-China-to-do-more-after-reporter-freed/index.html The United States called on China on Wednesday to free dissidents and respect media freedom after the early release of a Hong Kong-based reporter who was serving a five-year sentence for spying for Taiwan. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 07 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1415/1/US-military-officials-wary-of-Chinas-expanding-fleet-of-submarines/index.html For a procession of senior U.S. military commanders who have visited China in recent years, the complaint has become almost routine. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 07 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1414/1/Whether-at-home-or-abroad-China-is-silent-on-matters-of-democracy/index.html For months, as the Beijing Olympics draw nearer, China has been refining its arguments in favor of disassociating the Games from politics. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 07 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1410/1/US-lawmaker-eyes-Chinas-military-buildup/index.html Ask Rep. John Murtha about the U.S. war in Iraq and the conversation eventually veers to China. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 05 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1409/1/China-inflation-causes-economic-woe-political-challenge/index.html China is supposed to be getting richer, but for Liu Gaohua, rising prices on everything from cabbages to houses mean life is only getting tougher. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 05 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1408/1/IOC-has-broken-promise-to-push-for-media-freedom-in-China-/index.html The International Olympic Committee has broken its promise to push China for greater media freedom ahead of the Beijing Games, a journalist rights group said in Hong Kong yesterday. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 05 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1407/1/US-lawmakers-set-stage-for-trade-sanctions-on-China/index.html US lawmakers are setting the stage for legislation slapping China with punitive sanctions over currency and other trade issues after another year of record trade deficit with the Asian giant. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 05 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1402/1/Chinas-media-curbs-loom-as-trade-issue/index.html China's restrictions on foreign media, long a concern of rights groups and press freedom advocates, have now become a trade issue. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 31 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1401/1/-China-shirking-Olympic-pledge-pressure-needed-HRW/index.html China is shirking its pledge to improve human rights for the Olympic Games and world pressure is needed to force Beijing to comply, Human Rights Watch said Thursday. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 31 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1398/1/FBI-chief-pleased-with-Beijing-Games-security/index.html The head of the FBI said on Wednesday he expects Beijing's 2008 Olympic Games to be "secure and safe" while offering China help against potential threats. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 30 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1397/1/Chinas-weapons-exceed-self-defence-needs-US-military/index.html The United States said Monday it was "troubling" that China's weapons systems capability exceeded the level Beijing defined as necessary for self-defence. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 29 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1396/1/Russian-arms-exports-to-China-in-collapse---report/index.html Russia's arms industry is suffering a near collapse in exports to China, as military top brass agonise over which technology the neighbouring country should be allowed, defence industry sources told Nezavisimaya Gazeta newspaper. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 29 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1395/1/Tibet-group-Prince-to-boycott-Games/index.html Britain's Prince Charles will not attend the opening ceremonies of the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing -- and a group that campaigns against China's human rights record said Monday that the future monarch's decision was in solidarity with its aims. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 29 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1394/1/Olympics-China-says-wont-submit-to-pressure/index.html China will never submit to taunting or political pressure from groups or governments wishing to use the Beijing Olympics to change Chinese policy, a leading state-run newspaper said on Tuesday. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 29 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1393/1/China-hits-out-at-attempts-to-politicise-Olympics-/index.html Any attempt to use the Beijing Olympics to discredit China or force it to change policy is doomed to failure, the leading communist party newspaper insisted in a commentary piece today. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 29 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1392/1/China-Now-Pays-Troops-Involved-in-Nuclear-Tests/index.html China has begun paying military personnel involved in nuclear tests, as part of its effort to improve benefits for veterans, the state news media reported over the weekend. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 28 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1390/1/China-allows-US-warship-to-dock-in-Hong-Kong/index.html China on Monday allowed a U.S. warship to make a port call in Hong Kong, two months after it turned away a U.S. aircraft carrier battle group and set off a diplomatic dispute between the two countries. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 28 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1389/1/FBI-director-in-China-for-talks-on-cooperation-/index.html Robert Mueller, director of the US Federal Bureau of Investigation, was scheduled to arrive in China Monday for talks with China's law enforcement officials, the US embassy said. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 28 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1388/1/China-Wants-US-to-Do-More-to-Prevent-Taiwan-Vote/index.html China demanded Thursday that the United States do more to prevent Taiwan from holding a referendum that China views as a step toward independence, but a senior U.S. official said Washington has already done all it can to get the vote called off. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 24 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1386/1/Human-rights-questions-remain-for-China/index.html With a year to go before the 2008 Olympics get under way, questions linger over China's efforts to improve its human rights record. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 23 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1383/1/Chinese-president-calls-for-stepped-up-propaganda-work-ahead-of-Olympics/index.html Chinese President Hu Jintao has told officials to breath new life into propaganda efforts, putting renewed emphasis on a key pillar of communist rule ahead of this summer's Beijing Olympic Games. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 23 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1376/1/Dutch-irk-China-with-debate-on-Olympics-and-rights/index.html The Netherlands irked Olympics host China on Thursday by going ahead with a discussion of the country's human rights record and the Games, despite a warning by the Chinese ambassador that the debate was offensive. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 17 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1375/1/Dutch-foreign-minister-says-China-must-improve-its-human-rights-record-/index.html Dutch Foreign Minister Maxime Verhagen said China's human rights record must improve and that the Beijing Olympics should be used as an opportunity to press for change. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 17 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1374/1/Brown-urged-to-press-China-on-human-rights/index.html Prime Minister Gordon Brown should use his visit to China starting on Friday to press Beijing on a range of human rights issues ahead of this year's Olympics, according to rights groups. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 17 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1372/1/US-concerned-over-China-military-build-up-Taiwan-admiral/index.html The top commander of the US Pacific Fleet raised concern Tuesday over China's military build-up and urged Beijing to clarify the intentions of its increasingly sophisticated armed forces. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 15 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1371/1/China-view-of-Africa-democracy-hits-sensitivities/index.html An official Chinese newspaper's assertion on Monday that Kenyan political turmoil showed Africa was unsuited to Western democracy touched a raw nerve on the continent trying to overcome the legacies of colonialism and "big-man" rule. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 15 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1370/1/China-defends-dissident-arrest-after-US-criticism/index.html China hit back on Tuesday at criticism from the United States about the arrest of a prominent Chinese dissident, saying he was a suspected criminal and would be dealt with by the law. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 15 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1369/1/Germanys-Merkel-Defends-China-Policy-Amid-Political-Rift/index.html German Chancellor Angela Merkel defended her China policy Tuesday amid a major rift brought on by her meeting last year with the Dalai Lama, considered a dangerous separatist by Beijing. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 15 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1367/1/Congress-Uses-Olympics-To-Focus-On-China-/index.html The world will be watching China closely as it gears up to host the Olympics this year. So will U.S. lawmakers, who hope to use the attention generated by the summer games to highlight their complaints about China's government. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 14 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1366/1/China-says-military-buildup-does-not-threaten-US-/index.html China defended its growing military prowess on Monday, saying it did not threaten the United States, and again urged Washington not to sell weapons to Taiwan. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 14 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1365/1/India-and-China-pledge-new-era-of-cooperation/index.html China and India pledged Monday to strengthen trade and military links and seek a solution to a border row, as India's prime minister sought to cement a rapid improvement in ties with a landmark visit. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 14 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1364/1/Malawi-drops-ties-with-Taiwan-for-China/index.html The African nation of Malawi has cut diplomatic ties with Taiwan in favor of relations with China, which has been using its rising political and economic clout to reduce the number of countries who recognize the island. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 14 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1362/1/China-may-seek-Indias-help-in-solving-Tibet-issue/index.html The Tibet issue is expected to figure in the discussions between officials accompanying Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and their Chinese counterparts during Singh's visit to Beijing beginning Sunday. The Chinese government might also try to find out if India would help it to resume dialogue with the Dalai Lama, sources said. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 11 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1360/1/Taiwan-China-Could-Steal-Its-Allies/index.html  China could undermine Taiwan's diplomatic standing in the run-up to key elections this weekend, the self-ruled island's foreign minister warned Thursday, amid signs that two of Taipei's allies were considering switching ties to Beijing zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 11 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0800 htt