Washington, May 31 (IANS) Arcadia’s former Mayor pleaded guilty to being an illegal agent of China in the US, local media reported. As per the court filings, Eileen Wang (56) was charged in April and agreed to plead guilty to accusations that she was asked by the Chinese government to promote propaganda in the US from 2020-2022.Wang was elected to the City Council in 2022 and assumed the position of Mayor, a post that rotates among the Council members, Los Angeles Times reported.In April, she re…
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Washington, May 22 (IANS) Two American banks helped Chinese battery giant raise billions of dollars months after the US government designated it a “Chinese military company”, according to a new congressional investigation that accused major Wall Street banks of putting profits ahead of national security concerns.The report by the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party said the two American banks (JP Morgan Chase and Bank of America) underwrote Contemporary Amperex Technology C…
Washington, May 22 (IANS) A top House Republican on China has urged the Treasury Department to block American investments in Chinese biotechnology companies, warning that US capital and expertise are helping Beijing dominate the global pharmaceutical sector.Powerful Republican Congressman John Moolenaar, who is chairman of the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, called on Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to designate biotechnology as a “prohibited technology” under the Com…
New Delhi, May 16 (IANS) China’s system of state‑imposed labour transfers in Xinjiang has reached record levels, remains deeply entwined with the country’s crystalline silicon solar industry and arguably circumvented US trade restrictions, a new report has said.The report from US based media house Times Leader argued that 3 million labour transfers of Uyghurs and other ethnic groups occurred in 2025, the highest figure on record and an increase despite the passage of United States federal …
Washington, May 15 (IANS) US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, once sanctioned and barred by Beijing over his criticism of China, appeared prominently at President Donald Trump’s summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping this week after Chinese officials quietly adopted a different Chinese spelling of his name, according to a report by The Washington Post.Rubio, a long-time China hawk and vocal critic of Beijing’s policies in Hong Kong and Xinjiang, travelled with Trump as part of the American …
Washington, May 13 (IANS) The East Turkistan Government-in-Exile (ETGE) and the East Turkistan National Movement (ETNM) have called on the United States President Donald Trump to directly raise China’s “ongoing genocide” and “colonial occupation” of East Turkistan and Tibet during his meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing.President Trump began his state visit to China on Wednesday for a high-stakes two-day summit, marking the first visit by a sitting US President to the …
Washington, May 12 (IANS) Senior bipartisan US lawmakers have urged President Donald Trump to personally raise the cases of political prisoners and unjustly detained Americans with Chinese President Xi Jinping during their upcoming talks, warning that Beijing’s actions threaten American interests and families.In a letter released on Monday, the bipartisan Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC) said the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) was increasingly using “hostage diplomacy, coerc…
London, April 23 (IANS) Sayragul Sauytbay, Vice President of East Turkestan’s government-in-exile, has accused British Prime Minister Keir Starmer of “disrespecting human rights” over the approval of a Chinese mega-Embassy in London, a report has highlighted. Speaking to UK’s ‘The Independent’, Sauytbay, an ethnic Kazakh, claimed to have witnessed serious abuses while being forced to work in one of China’s Xinjiang internment camps in 2017. She criticised Starmer for prioritising economic …
New Delhi, April 14 (IANS) Multinational pharmaceutical giants — with R&D investments and human trials running in China’s Xinjiang region and at Chinese military hospitals — are escaping US regulation that prohibits drug development or clinical testing, according to an article in The Wire, a New York-headquartered global digital magazine.Data put together by The Wire China and WireScreen from ClinicalTrials.gov, a medical trial database maintained by the US National Library of Medicine, …
Washington, April 14 (IANS) The East Turkistan Government-in-Exile (ETGE) strongly condemned the conviction of 19 Kazakh citizens, saying that they were punished for demanding the release of an ethnic Kazakh “illegally detained” in East Turkistan, also known as the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China. The exiled authorities described the region as the ancestral homeland of the Uyghurs and home to millions of Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, and other Turkic peoples. The statement came after a court in Ka…