International Relations

News Mobile: The Red Alert: China’s sister-city alliances are more politically-motivated than it appears, here’s the reality

By Jianli Yang - July 26, 2020 China has been promoting sister-city alliance between selected Chinese cities and cities all around the world, ostensibly to promote people-to-people connectivity. But apprehensions have been expressed that Chinese motivation exceeds the...
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Press Release: 180+ Orgs Demand Apparel Brands End Complicity in Uyghur Forced Labour

Today, 72 Uyghur rights groups are joined by over 100 civil society organisations and labour unions from around the world in calling on apparel brands and retailers to stop using forced labour in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region ("Uyghur Region"), known to local...
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The Western Journal: Experts: Safe To Assume We’re About To See Tensions with China Rise – And Soon

Yang Jianli & Han Lianchao U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has urged the world to unite against the Chinese Communist Party and push back against the challenge posed by the CCP to the world today. He also contends that the U.S. has not taken the Chinese threat...
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The Wash Times: Delinking China’s human rights violations from U.S. policy considerations has consequences

By Yang Jianli and Aaron Rhodes - - Tuesday, July 14, 2020 It's been exactly a month since the European Union hardened its position against Chinese disinformation, directly accusing the Chinese state of being a key culprit in a "huge wave" of false narratives online...
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