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Tesla Opens New Showroom in Disputed Xinjiang Region

Tesla recently opened an electric car showroom in China’s Xinjiang territory, a move criticized by a manufacturing group and a U.S. lawmaker, making Tesla the latest American company to face scrutiny over its ties to a region where the Chinese government has allegedly detained scores of Uyghurs and other minority groups. On its official Weibo ...

Max Lu

Tesla's opening ceremony in Xinjiang.

Former NBA Player Royce White Speaks Up for the Uyghurs

China has been accused of committing crimes against humanity and possibly genocide against the Uyghurs and other mostly-Muslim ethnic groups in the north-western region of Xinjiang. Human rights groups believe China has detained more than one million Uyghurs against their will over the past few years in a large network of what the state calls ...

Max Lu

Former NBA player Royce White.

The Truth Behind the Missing Uyghur Imams in China

By Philip Thomas With the ongoing situation in China where the religious minority group of Uyghur Muslims is being subject to a continuous stream of atrocities, several activist groups have been expressing concerns over their plight and living situation, especially of Imams. Close to 2 million people belonging to various Muslim minority groups, including Uyghurs, ...

Michael Segarty

A Uyghur praying.

The UK Attaches Genocide Amendments to China Trade Bill

On February 2, the House of Lords voted 359 to 188 in favor of its China Trade Bill, which included genocide amendments. The first amendment by Lord Collins of Highbury will require government ministers to determine whether a signatory to a new trade agreement has committed crimes against humanity before the agreement’s ratification. The second ...

Helen London

UK Parlament.

Canadian Government Calls Uyghur Persecution ‘Genocide’

Canada’s Parliamentary Subcommittee on International Human Rights recently issued a press release in which it condemned the Chinese government’s brutal Uyghur persecution in Xinjiang, calling it genocide. The subcommittee found that more than 2 million Uyghur and other Turkic ethnic people have been detained, including children as young as 13 years of age. Uyghur persecution ...

Nspirement Staff

The Canadian flag.

‘Mr. Jones’ Exposes Soviet Russia’s Ukrainian Famine

Mr. Jones is a 2019 movie directed by Agnieszka Holland based on the life of Welsh journalist Gareth Jones, who exposed Soviet Russia’s manmade famine in 1933 that ended up killing millions of Ukrainians. Starring James Norton in the title role, the movie is a stark reminder of the dangers of communism and authoritarian rule. ...

Nspirement Staff

'Mr. Jones' movie poster.

New York Times Journalist Walter Duranty Covered Up Genocide

A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist for The New York Times, Walter Duranty, covered up one of the worst genocides in modern history. The atrocity I’m referring to is the Ukrainian famine of 1932-33 that was orchestrated by Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin. It killed an estimated 7 to 10 million people. Walter Duranty is now viewed as ...

James Burke