Roseanne Gerin

Tibetans in North America are running about 3 dozen largely self-funded language schools in an effort to keep alive the #Tibetan language and culture in the face of China’s attempts to squelch them. https://t.co/4Y5KGevL6j

When Louise Xin, a Chinese-Swedish fashion designer & rights activist, visited the European Parliament last June, she received an unusual request from the body: Would she host a fashion show there to draw attention to forced labor in the fashion industry? https://t.co/boUDysfs58

Goodbye Marx, Lenin & Mao: China has rewritten its political rulebook to delete references to all ideology but that of supreme party leader Xi Jinping, forcing its cabinet, the State Council, to defer to Communist Party leaders on major decisions. https://t.co/PcJgFnir5n

Vietnamese police have released four flight attendants detained for transporting cocaine and other illegal drugs in their luggage on a flight from Paris because of a lack of evidence. https://t.co/AAbhU5mkTf

Hong Kong's government will distribute more than half a million free tickets via the city’s own airlines in a bid to boost visitor numbers, as it seeks to kick-start economic growth following the lifting of #COVID19 restrictions by Beijing. https://t.co/hjXUM86H5u

China’s #population has decreased for the first time in over 60 years, signaling the start of long-term decline that will bring demographic challenges for the world’s second-largest economy as well as the world. https://t.co/yXqJSaKIoV

China's National Health Commission has announced that it will no longer publish daily #COVID19 infection figures, as the virus rips through the population with the abandonment of rolling lockdowns, mass tracking of citizens and compulsory testing. https://t.co/6LyyAEP8NC

Nearly 250 million people may now be infected with #COVID19 following the lifting of control measures in China, according to a leaked government document circulating on social media. https://t.co/EtDxE11ZaG

Latest read: "The Values Compass: What 101 Countries Teach Us about Purpose, Life, and Leadership" by Mandeep Rai—Nations have prevailing traits & values that people can learn from & incorporate into their lives. U.S.-entrepreneurship; China-pragmatism; Ukraine-freedom.#goodreads

The United Nations has called on China to repeal a draconian national security law imposed on #HongKong from July 1, 2020, citing a lack of protection for civil and political rights under a citywide crackdown on political opposition and public dissent. https://t.co/ma3z9JkdHt

Latest read: "The World According to China" by Elizabeth Economy — argues that the fundamental challenge posed by #China is the country's efforts to change the norms, values and institutions underpinning the current rules-based international order and UN system. #goodreads

The defense chiefs of the United States and China held their first in-person meeting at the start of a regional security forum in Singapore where tensions between the two world powers are taking center stage. https://t.co/Ax8n9X4X4T

China's Ministry of State Security has set up a public hotline to encourage people to report those who threaten "national security," a broadly defined concept that criminalizes overseas contacts and fundraising and criticism of the Chinese Communist Party. https://t.co/GUevHIy5Zw

A #Uyghur rights group has expressed dismay over the outcome of the U.N. human rights chief's trip to #Xinjiang, which it said amounted to “a propaganda opportunity for China to whitewash its crimes against humanity and genocide against the Uyghur people.” https://t.co/qnFwfdNXrs

Despite the war in Ukraine, the world mustn’t forget about the plight of #Rohingya and other #refugees or the burden of their host countries, Filippo Grandi, chief of the U.N.’s refugee agency said Wednesday as he ended a five-day trip to #Bangladesh. https://t.co/2xOn26wMhI

Hundreds of students have gathered at two Beijing universities to protest #COVID-19 restrictions on their movements, as the Chinese Communist Party continues to roll out its #zeroCOVID policy across the country following a weeks-long lockdown in Shanghai. https://t.co/2WJOyysQjB

The U.S. is highlighting its commitment to #SoutheastAsia by holding a leader-level summit with #ASEAN members this week, but analysts say Washington will not likely present a coherent economic strategy to reduce the region's overreliance on China. https://t.co/qMUT7u5Ix2