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The relationship status between the U.S. and China has been complicated for a while with tensions over Taiwan, Chinese surveillance balloons, and allegations of genocide over Chinese treatment of Uyghur Muslims. But the two superpowers say that it’s time to patch things up and to that end, as the U.S. treasury secretary travelled to Beijing...

Speaking during a parliamentary committee hearing about Canada-China relations on Monday, Conservative MP Garnett Genuis interrogated senior vice president of B.C. Investment Management Corporation Daniel Garant, asking if his members would find it acceptable to invest “in a company that’s complicit in the Uyghur genocide” and saying “frankly, I don’t know how you sleep at...

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he personally phoned a Conservative MP to reassure and offer him a security briefing. The call comes after the Globe and Mail reported that Michael Chong and his family were allegedly targeted by the Chinese government after he voted to condemn China’s treatment of its Uyghur minority in February 2021....

Chinese Canadians who dare to speak out against the Chinese Communist Party can face daily, distressing consequences. The victims often include oppressed minority and religious groups, such as Uyghurs or followers of the spiritual group Falun Gong. As Jeff Semple explains, the victims say their cries for help are finally being heard after reporting the...

Former U.S. president Donald Trump has pleaded not guilty to 34 felony counts of falsifying business records related to his alleged role in hush money payments during his 2016 presidential campaign. The historic day, the security concerns, and the duelling demonstrations outside the courthouse. A gruesome find has been made at a landfill just outside...

Beijing will take all necessary measures to defend its companies’ interests, China’s foreign ministry said on Wednesday, in response to the U.S. imposing trade restrictions on five Chinese companies over alleged Uyghur repression. Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning also said China maintains communication with all parties involved, including Ukraine, after an apparent invitation to visit...

China urged Canada on Thursday to stop using Xinjiang-related issues for “political manipulation,” with foreign ministry spokesperson Mao Ning claiming that the people in the region are “living and working in peace and happiness.” The comments came after Canada’s House of Commons unanimously backed the resettlement of 10,000 Uyghur Muslims fleeing persecution in China.

Allegations continue to grow of China’s oppression and mass incarceration of its Uighur Muslims, with the U.N. estimating at least a million are being held against their will in the country’s so-called “re-education camps.” As Redmond Shannon reports, one Jewish man stands in solidarity with the Uighur community, after seeing shades of a dark chapter...

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says there is a fundamental difference between Canada’s troubled relationship with Indigenous Peoples, and China’s systemic abuse and human rights violation against ethnic Muslim Uyghurs. He said Canada knows its relationship with Indigenous Peoples is broken but it had a Truth and Reconciliation Commission and is working to try and address...

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau urged the international community on Monday to take coordinated action and impose sanctions in China for its human rights abuses against Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang to ensure the global concerns are heard by and responded to by the Chinese government. Both the U.S. and the U.K. joined Canada last week in...

This week on ‘The West Block,’ Mercedes Stephenson speaks with Foreign Affairs Minister Marc Garneau on his government’s decision to sanction Chinese officials suspected to be involved in that country’s campaign of persecution against its Muslim minority Uyghur population. “We are deeply preoccupied by the very credible reports of gross human violations that are occurring...

After Canada and some of its allies issued sanctions against Chinese officials over human rights violations against Uyghur Muslims, Beijing is firing back with its own sanctions. Mike Le Couteur reports, it could be a sign that international pressure is working.

Executive Director of the Uyghur Rights Advocacy Project Mehmet Tohti describes how his entire family was arrested once he began to speak out against China’s treatment of the Uyghur population living in Xinjiang. Years later, three hours before he was set to publicly speak about the human rights abuses, he received a message telling him...

Peterborough Public Health has confirmed its first COVID-19 variant case; China is unhappy after the House of Commons voted to call China’s persecution of Uyghur Muslims ‘genocide’; Peterborough Police need your help in tracking down the driver of a vehicle they believe was in the area during a fatal hit and run last month.

Sameer Zuberi, Liberal MP of the Pierrefonds-Dollard riding in Montreal, talks about the push to boycott the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics amid reported human rights abuses of China’s Uighur population and other Muslim minorities.

Speaking to reporters on Tuesday, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was asked why his government had not yet labelled the actions of China’s government against the ethnic Uighur Muslim minority a genocide, saying the word is “extremely loaded” and certain standards must be met before it can formally be used.

Conservative MPs in the House of Commons on Thursday continued to push the federal government to formally label the actions of the Chinese communist government against the Uighur Muslim minority in China as “genocide” and adopt a stronger stance against the Chinese government.

Chinese Ambassador to Canada Cong Peiwu said on Wednesday that Members of Parliament who voted in the House of Commons to declare China’s treatment of Uyghurs ethnic minority a genocide “have never been to Xinjiang” or China and are trying to achieve “political gains.”

The Conservatives have tabled a motion calling on Canada to formally declare crimes against Uyghur Muslims in China a genocide. UBC Professor Timothy Cheek explains who the Uyghurs are, what’s been happening to them, and why.

When asked on Monday if he believed the treatment of the Uighur people in China “amounts to a genocide,” Foreign Affairs Minister François-Philippe Champagne said they are “gravely concerned” about the situation, adding that he has raised the issue “both privately and publicly” with the foreign minister of China.