A few days after the Australian government blocked the attempt by two Chinese companies to take a controlling interest in NSW electricity provider Ausgrid, a conference was held in Canberra to discuss increased co-operation between China and Australia over terrorism.
A week ahead of Justin Trudeau’s first official visit to China as prime minister, several human rights advocates are pleading with him to address the issue of two Canadians still behind bars in China.
In November 2014, the photographer Yuyang Liu saw an article in a Chinese newspaper that caught his eye. “It was the usual propaganda piece,” Liu says. “Quite superficial.”
Global Times reports that 2,939 Uyghur-speaking teachers from Xinjiang will be sent to schools elsewhere in China in what authorities are describing as an “aid program” aimed at combating separatism.