Indian-Americans protest Chinese aggression, human right violations

A group of Indian-Americans from in and around the national capital held a protest against China’s aggression towards India and human right violations of Uyghur minority groups

A group of Indian-Americans from in and around the national capital held a protest here against China’s aggression towards India and the human right violations of Uyghur minority groups in the country’s restive Muslim-majority Xinjiang region.

Maintaining social distancing and wearing masks, the peaceful protestors on Sunday gathered at the historic national mall facing the US Capitol and displayed anti-China posters, banners and raised slogans against the Communist Party of China and its leaders. “This summer while the world was fighting coronavirus, China was trying to encroach upon other’s land. It’s not only in Ladakh in India but also against it’s other neighbours as well. It’s time that the world unites against this Chinese aggression,” said Adapa Prasad from Overseas Friends of BJP USA.

Indian and Chinese troops have been locked in a bitter standoff in several areas along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in eastern Ladakh since May 5. The situation deteriorated after the June 15 Galwan Valley clashes in which 20 Indian Army personnel were killed and an unconfirmed number of Chinese soldiers died…Read More

Inside China’s push to turn Muslim minorities into an army of workers

The Communist Party needs to remold Xinjiang’s minorities into steadfast industrial laborers

The request from Chinese authorities was obtuse and pressing. Locals from Muslim minorities ought to be pushed into occupations, willing or not. Standards would be set and families punished on the off chance that they wouldn’t come. “Make individuals who are difficult to utilize repudiate their childish thoughts,” the work department of Qapqal, a district in the western area of Xinjiang, said in the order a year ago.

Such requests are a piece of a forceful battle to remold Xinjiang’s Muslim minorities — for the most part Uighurs and Kazakhs — into a multitude of laborers for processing plants and other huge bosses. Under tension from the specialists, poor ranchers, little brokers and inert locals of working age go to preparing and teaching courses for a considerable length of time or months, and are then alloted to line garments, make shoes, clear boulevards or fill different employments.

These work programs speak to an extending front in a significant exertion by China’s pioneer, Xi Jinping, to settle in charge of this district, where these minorities make up about a large portion of the populace. They are critical to the administration’s methodology of social re-building close by the influence camps, which have held one million or more Uighurs and Kazakhs….

Beijing Subway introduces facial recognition system for security checks

Beijing’s adoption of the technology comes amid a global outcry over its treatment of Uighurs in Xinjiang

A Beijing subway station is promoting a system that recognizes the faces of passengers and matches them to a database, as China’s adoption of surveillance technology gathers pace despite misgivings about privacy.

Passengers will be able to use a facial recognition gateway during rush hour if they sign up to the service by registering with a QR code, according to security officials at Fuchengmen Station in the west of China’s capital. Bags larger than an A4 piece of paper still need to be checked, they said. A representative from Beijing Ruubypay Science and Technology Co., which is promoting the system, added that it’s unclear when it will be rolled out citywide.

State media reported in late October that the Beijing Subway would use facial recognition to help ease congestion on the crowded network, and that a credit system based on passenger behavior would determine the level of security checks they faced. That echoes a broader plan by China to implement a social credit system to grade citizens and award or deduct points accordingly.

Mind the Snap

Mass surveillance technology has stoked plenty of apprehension. Even the tightly controlled Chinese media has raised concerns: China Central Television said laws are urgently needed to regulate and restrict its use. A court in the eastern city of Hangzhou last month agreed to hear a case filed by a law professor, who is suing the local safari park over a mandatory rule requiring visitors to enter through a facial recognition lane…Read More