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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken says his country "remain deeply concerned about PRC human rights violations", after a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing. IMAGES
The United States voices horror at new files on incarceration of China's Uyghur minority. "We are appalled by the reports and the jarring images," State Department spokesman Ned Price tells reporters. SOUNDBITE
Few tourists can be seen at Beijing's Temple of Heaven for the annual Labour Day holiday as Covid restrictions are tightened. Restaurants across the Chinese capital are temporarily banning dining-in and residents need to clear Covid tests to visit public spaces. The five-day break is typically one of China's busiest travel periods, but the country's worst Covid resurgence since early in the pandemic is keeping people home. IMAGES
Kashgar, Jun 14 (EFE/EPA).- The population of ethnic minorities in the northwestern Chinese region of Xinjiang is nearly 15 million or more than 57 percent of the total inhabitants, the latest census data has shown.The survey has found that the population of the country's majority Han ethnic group in the region is 10.92 million or 42.24 percent of the total.Regional officials of the province said Monday that the population of the so-called ethnic minorities, including the Muslim minority Uighurs and the Han, had increased continuously in the last decade to stand at nearly 26 million, state-run Global Times daily reported. (Camera: ARCHIVE). ARCHIVE FOOTAGE SHOWS STUDENTS AT VOCATIONAL SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL OF JIASHI COUNTY IN KASHGAR; UYGHURS AND OTHER FAITHFUL PRAY IN ID KAH MOSQUE; AND LOCAL PEOPLE ON A STREET IN THE ANCIENT CITY OF KASHGAR IN WESTERN CHINA'S XINJIANG UYGHUR AUTONOMOUS REGION.
Xinjiang, May 4 (EFE/EPA).- In a vast cotton field in the Chinese western region of Xinjiang, four farmers look over a tractor sowing seeds that will later be watered by an automated irrigation system. The field is located near Changji city that is situated some 40 kilometers (25 miles) away from Urumchi, the capital of Xinjiang, where forced labor is reportedly used in the cotton harvest.Reports from controversial German researcher Adrian Zenz and the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) claim that at least 570,000 people are subjected to forced labor in the fields of Xinjiang, China’s top cotton producer. (Camera: JAVIER GARCÍA / WU HONG).B-ROLL OF THE COTTON FIELDS NEAR THE CITY OF CHANGJI, IN NORTH OF XINJIANG, AND THE MAIN FACTORY OF THE COMPANY HAUFU, IN THE AKSU REGION, SANCTIONED BY US OVER ALLEGING FORCED LABOR.SOUND BITES: HU QINGWEN, FARMER WHO MANAGES THE CHANGJI COTTON FIELD AND ASILIA TURCAN, AN UYGHUR EMPLOYEE OF HUAFU FACTORY.TRANSLATIONS: 1. HU QINGWEN, FARMER WHO MANAGES THE CHANGJI COTTON FIELD.- There are four cotton factories in this prefecture. I sell my cotton to those factories. I sell my cotton to whoever offers me the best price. They usually pay around 7 yaun ($1.08) per kilogram.2. ASILIA TURCAN, AN UYGHUR EMPLOYEE OF HUAFU FACTORY.- I like working here. The conditions are very good.- The information about forced labor is nonsense. It is fake news. There is no such thing as forced labor here.