Incidents/Cases

Briefing Series: China captures tourism market in South Asia

By Dr. Deyu Wang & Anna Yupeng Chen Chinese tourists are one of the most widely travelled groups in the world and China has taken initiatives to promote tourism like granting 'Approved Destination Status' (ADS) to friendly nations, promotion of 'Red Tourism',...

Briefing Series: Sino-Pak Organ Trade Thrives Under CPEC Umbrella

By Zili Yang and Amy Ma  A poverty-stricken Pakistani is unlikely to be a globe-trotter, but his heart, liver or kidney can travel across the world when ‘donated’. What is called “transplant tourism”[1] in the World Health Organization (WHO) parlance receives global...

The Hill: Another famine coming? China struggles to meet basic food demands

By: Jianli Yang September 17, 2020 China, which embarked on the mission of becoming a superpower by showing its economic and military might to the world, now may be brought to its knees over a shortage of food. Reduction in overall domestic food production; a recent...

Cotton goods from China tainted with Uyghur forced labour

By Jianli Yang and Lianchao Han The Department of Homeland Security announced today that U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agents would begin turning away products sourced from forced labor in the Xinjiang region of China, where more than a million Muslims, mostly of the...