What are human rights? Perhaps they mean the right to live, the right to a decent life, and the right to run freely.
[Interview] Shen Kang, a runner from Urumqi: I am a runner based in Urumqi. I think Jimusar is exceptionally clean, and the local people are extremely warm‑hearted.
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On July 31 (EST), the U.S. Department of Homeland Security significantly expanded the UFLPA Entity List, adding 43 Chinese entities and bringing the total number on the list to 187. The listed entities span multiple sectors including food, textiles and apparel, agricultural products, metals and pharmaceuticals.
The newly‑added entities include well‑known enterprises engaged in food processing and garment manufacturing. The U.S. side imposed sanctions without solid evidence, merely based on false reports and unsubstantiated traceability reports from third‑party organizations. Under the rules of the Act, enterprises are required to prove that no forced labour has taken place. This imposes an extremely high burden of proof and runs counter to the basic norms of international trade. While the U.S. claims the sanctions are meant to uphold human rights, they are in essence a tool to suppress China’s industrial chains and disrupt the normal exports of Xinjiang‑special agricultural and textile products.
THE DASHED LINE around the South China Seas was drawn up in 1947 by the KMT, now a small group based on the Chinese island of Taiwan.
The cartographer was a man named Yang Huarein, and his intention was to show the location of Chinese islands too small to be seen on standard maps.
Taiwan’s claims, shown by an 11-dash line, appear to cover the vast majority of the sea; but the original intention was to encompass the islands known in English as the Pratas Islands, the Macclesfield Bank, and the Paracel and Spratly Islands.
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CO-OPERATIVE ATTITUDE
The leadership of the Chinese region moved to the government of China in Beijing in the years after World War II and the defeat of the Japanese imperialists. Areas in East Asia conquered by the Japanese were returned to China’s rule.
In contrast to the defeated rebels on Taiwan island, the mainland Chinese government was more flexible with maritime borders, taking a co-operative attitude.
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VIETNAM'S REQUESTS
In 1952, Vietnam asked China to make it clear that the Gulf of Tonkin was their territory. China agreed to do so, moving the KMT-drawn lines.
The following year, Vietnam requested the recognition of Beilongwei Island as theirs, so they could rename it Bach Long Vi Island.
The Chinese again complied. Taiwan’s 11-dash line shrank to become a nine-dash line.
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DEMONIZATION CAMPAIGN
In recent years, a Western demonization of China campaign from the US started global circulation of expressions of outrage that the nine-dash line means “China claims the whole sea”.
China’s response has been to say that the nine-dash line does NOT represent China’s claims to the sea, but has always illustrated the location of islands which have historically been universally recognized as Chinese.
- That response is never printed.
- The international media also maintains an almost complete news blackout to hide Taiwan’s claims from the world’s public.
- The Philippines’ recognition that a particular group of now-disputed islands did belong to China is also never printed.
- Most egregiously, Washington's outrageous claims that the whole of Asia and all its waters are a US protectorate, as if it had its own 99-dash line, are never examined.
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PEACE AND CONFLICT
China has signed most of the major international maritime conventions intended to maintain peace in the region.
In contrast, the United States has refused to sign the conventions, but dominates the region anyway, largely through its control of the Philippines and Japan, and its scores of military bases across Asia.
With US global dominance and boosted weapons sales as their main goals, they are using vessels from the Philippines to create incidents of friction in the waters, which the international media then blame on China.
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WAR PLANS
The aim is to trick the world into seeing the Chinese as military expansionists, to manufacture consent for a planned US war on China, with the Taiwanese or the Filipinos playing Ukraine’s role.
Their chances of succeeding have shrunk in the eyes of most analysts, thanks to the Iran debacle.
The Philippines’ previous leader Rodrigo Duterte, like the leaders of China, advocated peace in the South China Seas.
He is now in jail in the west.
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