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The National People’s Congress approved China’s first-ever civil code on Thursday, the final day of the “two sessions” political meetings in Beijing.

The document — a collection of laws related to civil affairs, including property, marriage, family, personal rights, and inheritance — is slated to go into effect in January of next year. The code is aimed at better protecting individuals’ personal information and property, making it easier to sue for divorce or sexual harassment, and delineating a clearer boundary between markets and the government.

Woodchopper wrote: ↑

Tue Dec 01, 2020 8:16 pm

discovolante wrote: ↑

Tue Dec 01, 2020 7:51 pm

I don't think Akala was particularly saying that Europeans are going to get f.cked over by the rise of China etc. Quite the opposite in fact, he was more or less saying that our perceived loss of dominance has caused a bit of an existential crisis in a lot of people who have been so used to being 'on top' that they've decided that what is happening in Europe (whatever that may be) is some kind of invasion or genocide, when obviously we aren't even remotely close to that. But he was arguing that there is a shift in the balance of power at play nonetheless. (That's a fairly simplistic summary...)

I haven’t read the book but I seem to agree with him.

I’m just adding that the people who are finding out whether the new boss is the same as the old boss are in places like Indonesia or Mozambique.

Herainestold wrote: ↑

Wed Dec 02, 2020 2:24 am

Woodchopper wrote: ↑

Tue Dec 01, 2020 8:16 pm

discovolante wrote: ↑

Tue Dec 01, 2020 7:51 pm

I don't think Akala was particularly saying that Europeans are going to get f.cked over by the rise of China etc. Quite the opposite in fact, he was more or less saying that our perceived loss of dominance has caused a bit of an existential crisis in a lot of people who have been so used to being 'on top' that they've decided that what is happening in Europe (whatever that may be) is some kind of invasion or genocide, when obviously we aren't even remotely close to that. But he was arguing that there is a shift in the balance of power at play nonetheless. (That's a fairly simplistic summary...)

I haven’t read the book but I seem to agree with him.

I’m just adding that the people who are finding out whether the new boss is the same as the old boss are in places like Indonesia or Mozambique.

Most of the world will be better off. Including us, even if it doesnt seem that way right now.

Herainestold wrote: ↑

Wed Dec 02, 2020 6:09 pm

In terms of structural racism, which country's founding principles were based on black slavery, white supremacy and racism? Obviously it is the US and not China.

Herainestold wrote: ↑

Wed Dec 02, 2020 6:09 pm

In terms of structural racism, which country's founding principles were based on black slavery, white supremacy and racism? Obviously it is the US and not China.

China experts and activists claim that the repression of minorities in Xinjiang has escalated in recent years, with thousands of Uighur Muslims in ‘reeducation camps’ being murdered and their organs harvested for wealthy Chinese and foreign patients. The Chinese deny all such allegations

The sanctions, including travel bans and asset freezes, target senior officials in Xinjiang who have been accused of serious human rights violations against Uighur Muslims.

Those targeted have been named as Chen Mingguo, the director of the Xinjiang Public Security Bureau; Wang Mingshan, a member of Xinjiang's Communist Party standing committee; Wang Junzheng, party secretary of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps; and the former deputy Communist Party head in Xinjiang, Zhu Hailun. The Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps Public Security Bureau was also sanctioned as an entity.

Mr Raab called the abuse of Uighur Muslims in Xinjiang "one of the worst human rights crises of our time".

"I think it's clear that by acting with our partners - 30 of us in total - we are sending the clearest message to the Chinese government, that the international community will not turn a blind eye to such serious and systematic violations of basic human rights and that we will act in concert to hold those responsible to account," he told fellow parliamentarians.

At the handing-over ceremony for the site in the East End of London where the Chinese embassy is to be relocated, the ambassador boldly proclaimed that it would “write a new chapter for a China-UK golden era”.

Three years later, before the redevelopment has begun, those hopes appear in tatters after councillors in Tower Hamlets voted to consider naming roads and buildings in the surrounding area of the site Tiananmen Square, Uyghur Court, Hong Kong Road and Tibet Hill, to assert “support for the freedom and diversity of our borough”.

In a move that is likely to infuriate the Chinese government, the councillors said they welcomed the relocation of the embassy from the West End but “we must continue to make clear where our own standards and principles apply”.

The motion was passed after months of campaigning by opposition councillors for the local authority to issue a statement about human rights abuses by China, in light of Beijing’s purchase of the Royal Mint site in the borough for its embassy. The repression of Uighur Muslims is particularly sensitive for Tower Hamlets, which has the highest proportion of Muslim residents (38%) of any borough, according to the latest census.

Bird on a Fire wrote: ↑

Wed Oct 06, 2021 1:37 pm

Horrible allegations from a defecting detective who fled from China to Europe to blow the whistle on the ongoing genocide in Xinjiang - abducting whole communities, torture, mass rape and internment.

Only partly corroborated for now, but ghastly. https://edition.cnn.com/2021/10/04/chin ... index.html

Cardinal Fang wrote: ↑

Tue May 24, 2022 10:40 am

BBC News are reporting on a massive data dump from hacked police files relating to the Uyghur detention camps

Far from being voluntary education courses, they're detained in places with shoot-to-kill policies for potential escapers often for no reason, whilst children are forced in to state schools that try and squeeze out any hint of their culture of practices.

This BTW counts as genocide - the systematic attempt to eliminate an entire culture

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/extra/85qiht ... tion-camps

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