China criticised New Zealand Thursday over "groundless" allegations about the ill-treatment of Uyghurs, underlining Wellington's struggle to find a middle ground between its largest trading partner and its traditional Western allies.

China slams New Zealand over parliament motion on Uyghur Muslim abuse

China on Thursday said it "strongly condemns" a statement by the Group of Seven nations accusing Beijing of rights abuses in Xinjiang, Tibet and Hong Kong, as a schism with Western democracies widens.

Persecution of Uyghur Muslims: China hits back at G7 rights criticism

The New Zealand parliament declared "severe human rights abuses" were taking place in China, but stopped short of labelling the situation as a "genocide". China's treatment of the Uighur Muslims in Xinjiang province has been unanimously voted as a severe human rights abuse on Wednesday in New Zealand parliament.

New Zealand slams China's treatment of Uighurs, doesn't label it 'genocide'

Some 40% of solar farms in Britain, including those used in projects commissioned by government departments such as defence and coal, use panels from firms linked to forced labour camps in China's Xinjiang, a UK paper has reported.

'40% of UK solar farms use panels from firms linked to Xinjiang forced labour camps'

Britain's parliament called for the government to take action to end what lawmakers described as genocide in China's Xinjiang region. Lawmakers have also called the UK government to use international law to bring the genocide to an end.

UK parliament declares genocide in China's Xinjiang

Human Rights Watch has said in a new report that China is committing crimes against humanity in its treatment of the Uighur ethnic minority and other Turkic Muslims in the northwest region of Xinjiang, with Beijing responsible for “policies of mass detention, torture, and cultural persecution, among other offences”.

'Break their lineage, break their roots': Report details Chinese authorities’ torture, rape of Uighur Muslims

What China has unleashed in Xinjiang has all the makings of a 21st-century holocaust. China has unleashed a war on Uighur culture. At least 1 million people are in detention.

In new propaganda, China claims US is funding terrorism in Xinjiang

Chinese diplomats used old videos of disgraced US officials to accuse Washington of funding terrorists in Xinjiang. What is the truth behind this propaganda, and what role has the US played in tackling the Uighur crackdown? WION's Palki Sharma tells you.

Gravitas: China accuses US of funding terror in Xinjiang

The US House of Representatives introduced a bipartisan resolution on Wednesday, strongly condemning China’s ill-treatment of the Uighur community and other minorities, especially in the Xinjiang region.

US House urges Biden to refer Uighur 'genocide' to United Nations

Thirteen people who describe themselves as "victims of forced confessions broadcast on Chinese television" are urging European satellite operator Eutelsat to reconsider carrying Chinese channels CGTN and CCTV4.

Victims of 'forced confessions' request ban on Chinese TV channels

Fuelling the worsening relationship between the US and China, the US Senate’s new policy will have a “profound effect” on the Chinese entities. The Strategic Competition Act of 2021, a 283-page bill, will be introduced next week and aims to provide help for American companies to diversify their global supply chain.

US increases pressure on China through new strategic competition policy

Chinese officials on Friday aired a video of a thin Uighur man with a shaved head, wearing an oversized uniform and speaking directly to the camera. The video is one of over half a dozen such segments showing Uighurs, a mostly Muslim ethnic minority in the western region, pleading with relatives abroad to come home and stop speaking out against China and the ruling Communist Party.

China takes aim at overseas Uighurs, academics criticising Communist Party

Two Uighur former government officials in China's Xinjiang have been handed death sentences for carrying out "separatist activities", as Beijing comes under increasing fire for its actions towards minority groups in the region.

China sentences two Uighur ex-govt officials in Xinjiang to death for 'separatism'

The Chinese government has urged Japan to steer clear of "internal issues” including Hong Kong and Xinjiang as Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga prepares to meet US President Joe Biden later this month.

Stay out of Hong Kong, Xinjiang issues: China cautions Japan 

Faced with accusations that it was profiting from the forced labour of Uyghur people in the Chinese territory of Xinjiang, the H&M Group — the world’s second-largest clothing retailer — promised last year to stop buying cotton from the region.

Global brands find it hard to untangle themselves from Xinjiang cotton

A new state-produced musical set in Xinjiang inspired by Hollywood blockbuster "La La Land" has hit China's cinemas, portraying a rural idyll of ethnic cohesion devoid of repression, mass surveillance and even the Islam of its majority Uyghur population.

Xinjiang the musical sings to Beijing's tune of ethnic unity

ASICS, the Australian team's Japanese Olympic kit supplier has been accused of sourcing Chinese forced labour cotton, an allegation that it vehemently denies. It says that none of the cottons for the Aussies has come from Xinjiang.

Australia: ASICS denies reports of using cotton from Xinjiang in Olympic uniforms

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said in a CBC interview broadcast on Sunday that the UN held "serious talks" with China for unbridled access to the Xinjiang region to verify that Muslim Uighurs were being persecuted.

UN Chief Antonio Guterres demands Xinjiang region's access from China

Chinese officials have asked Sweden's H&M and other foreign companies facing a backlash in the country after raising concerns about forced labour in Xinjiang to look into the issue seriously and not politicise their economic behaviour.

China warns companies against politicising actions regarding Xinjiang

Chinese telecommunication giant Huawei Technologies Co has suspended downloads of sportswear brands Nike and Adidas from its app store amid the Xinjiang cotton controversy.

Huawei removes Nike and Adidas from its app store amid Xinjiang row

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Sunday that the UN was in negotiation with China for a visit "without restrictions" to Xinjiang in order to see how Uyghur Muslims were being treated.

UN negotiating with China for unrestricted Xinjiang visit: Secretary General

The United States has warned China that its tit-for-tat sanctions against two Americans in the growing dispute over Beijing's treatment of Uyghurs were "baseless" and would only shine a harsh spotlight on the "genocide" in Xinjiang.

Washington condemns China's 'baseless sanctions' against US officials over Xinjiang

The United States on Friday accused China of undertaking a “state-led” social media campaign against companies for deciding against using cotton from China’s Xinjiang region over concerns of forced labour.

US accuses China of 'state-led' social media campaign against companies that boycotted Xinjiang

Several brands have come under attack on Chinese social media over the past comments they have made about labour conditions in Xinjiang, part of a diplomatic row between China and the West.

Which foreign brands are feeding China's slave camps in Xinjiang

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