The global economy in transition
Jun 09,2022 – JORDAN TIMES / Michael Spence NEW YORK — Recent conversations about the global economy and markets have been defined by a set of recurring questions. While there […]
Xinjiang Police Files: Inside China’s brutal crackdown on Uyghur Muslims
Breadcrumb Analysis In-depth Ali Abbas Ahmadi 09 June, 2022 In-depth: The Xinjiang Police Files are a cache of leaked documents from police servers in China. They give a first-hand account […]
UN Rights Envoy Received $200,000 From China While Acting for Beijing
May 19, 2022 Human Rights, Press Releases, The Uyghur People, Uncategorized, United Nations pinned GENEVA, May 18, 2022 — A watchdog organization today called on a UN human rights envoy to return $200,000 that she received from the […]
Fury at UN human rights chief over ‘whitewash’ of Uyghur repression
Uyghurs Open letter signed by academics in wake of Michelle Bachelet’s China visit demands release of UN report on human rights abuses Helen Davidson in Taipei and agencies @heldavidson Thu 9 […]
Did US biotechnology help to create COVID-19?
Jun 05,2022 – JORDAN TIMES By Jeffrey D. Sachs and Neil L. Harrison NEW YORK — When US President Joe Biden asked the United States Intelligence Community (IC) to determine […]
How Lucknow-educated Chinese cleric lit the first Jihad fire in Xinjiang
Chinese Muslim Han Weilang’s detour to Kolkata in the 1920s went on to provide the grounds for a global jihadist movement. PRAVEEN SWAMI 5 June, 2022 Text Size: A-A+ Two thousand, five hundred […]
US report on international religious freedom cites genocides in China and Myanmar
China is a ‘glaring example’ of repression, US diplomat says. By Roseanne Gerin and Alim Seytoff for RFA Uyghur2022.06.02 US Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom Rashad Hussain (R) […]
Another global recession?
May 25,2022 – JORDAN TIMES / Jim O’Neill LONDON — At the start of the year, I expressed concerns about the outlook for financial markets, owing to all the considerable uncertainties that I could identify, and to the many other potential risks that were not yet clear. This was after […]
Logistics and the decoupling of East and West
KHALED ABOU ZAHR May 27, 2022 Short Url https://arab.news/8tk6a Sun Tzu’s “The Art of War” is a favorite of business and investment executives, to the point of becoming a cliche. […]
US ‘appalled’ by BBC report showing China rights abuses of Uyghurs
BY ANADOLU AGENCY WASHINGTON, D.C. MAY 25, 2022 – DAILY SABAH A security guard watches from a tower around a “re-education” facility in Yarkent County in northwestern China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous […]
The faces from China’s Uyghur detention camps
By John Sudworth Thousands of photographs from the heart of China’s highly secretive system of mass incarceration in Xinjiang, as well as a shoot-to-kill policy for those who try to […]
Uyghurs in focus as UN human rights chief visits China
Michelle Bachelet will become the first United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to visit China since 2005 during a six-day official mission that starts on May 23.This content was published […]
Who makes the rules in the age of unpeace?
May 13,2022 – JORDAN TIMES / Mark Leonard Mark Leonard Say More… Project Syndicate (PS): In December, you predicted that the “defining fights of the twenty-first century will be about […]
The implosion of history
Apr 05,2022 – JORDAN TIMES ‘ Michael Marder VITORIA-GASTEIZ — Philosophers are supposed to comprehend events and phenomena from a rather detached standpoint, keeping in mind useful theoretical models and precedents. But the situation in Ukraine has made detachment difficult for me. Not only does more than half my family […]
Chinese officials restrict the number of Uyghurs who can observe Ramadan
China’s quota for those who can fast is ‘pathetic and tragic,’ says a Uyghur rights advocate. By Shohret Hoshur2022.04.01 A pair of shoes sits near an outdoor prayer area at […]
Biden’s gaffs could cause World War III
Mar 30,2022 – JORDAN TIMES / Michael Jansen Joe Biden is well known for gaffes. He admits that he is a “gaffe machine”. He has a 47-year history of making […]
Chinese FM lands in Kabul on unannounced visit after OIC moot
Chinese FM lands in Kabul on unannounced visit after OIC moot Tahir Khan Published March 24, 2022 Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi arrived in Kabul on Thursday morning in a trip that was not earlier announced, officials confirmed. Afghanistan’s acting Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi received Yi on […]
How China is using scholarships to shape Indonesian Muslim students’ views
Muhammad Zulfikar Rakhmat People protest at a Uyghur rally on February 5, 2019 in front of the US Mission to the United Nations, to encourage the State Department to fight […]
Trade can be conducted in ruble, yuan, gold: Erdoğan tells Putin
BY DAILY SABAH ISTANBUL MAR 08, 2022 – President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (L) attends a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Sochi, Russia, Sept. 29, 2021. (Sputnik Photo via Reuters) […]
Does the Human Rights Council ever criticise the West?
Some developing countries feel they are unfairly targeted at the United Nations Human Rights Council. As the Council meets from Monday for its latest session in Geneva, we look at […]