# Uyghur News Network


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- [Morocco Bars Uyghur Activist From Religious Freedom Conference](https://uyghurnews.org/morocco-bars-uyghur-activist-from-religious-freedom-conference/): Morocco barred Uyghur activist and former World Uyghur Congress President Dolkun Isa from entering the country. He was due to attend the International Religious Freedom Summit North Africa in Casablanca (IRF). In an interview with Uyghur News Network (UNN), Isa said he arrived in Morocco on July 20. The conference was held on July 21-22. He said Moroccan immigration officials detained him for about 15 hours before deporting him to Germany. “They didn’t give any explanation,” Isa said. “They just handed me a notice saying I couldn’t enter Morocco.” According to the World Uyghur Congress (WUC), Moroccan authorities gave Isa a&#8230;
- [The Law That Reveals What China Denied: Forced Assimilation Enters the Legal Code](https://uyghurnews.org/the-law-that-reveals-what-china-denied-forced-assimilation-enters-the-legal-code/): China’s new ethnic unity law could provide legal grounds for more state violence in the Uyghur region, anthropologist Rune Steenberg has warned. “A change in law that can be implemented by the police and military can of course provide the legal basis for exercises of more violence in the future,” he told Uyghur News Network. Steenberg is an anthropologist and principal investigator at Palacký University Olomouc. He has carried out extensive fieldwork in the Uyghur region. In this UNN exclusive, he said the law gives legal force to assimilation policies that were already being enforced. “The law fixes within the legal&#8230;
- [Uyghur Forced Labor Stays Profitable Where Import Laws Are Weak, Researcher Says](https://uyghurnews.org/uyghur-forced-labor-stays-profitable-where-import-laws-are-weak-researcher-says/): WASHINGTON — Stopping goods made with Uyghur forced labor at the U.S. border does not end the problem. It just moves it. That is the warning from Elijah Pockell-Wilson, author of a new report on Australia and Japan, two major buyers of Chinese goods with no ban on products made with forced labour. The real question, Pockell-Wilson said, is not just what crosses a border. It&#8217;s whether China&#8217;s forced-labor system in East Turkistan still turns a profit. &#8220;Weaker enforcement in mid-sized economies like Australia and Japan won&#8217;t change behavior in East Turkistan,&#8221; he said. &#8220;These markets let high-risk goods linked to&#8230;
- [Senate Condemns Xi Jinping, Naming Uyghur Genocide in “East Turkistan”](https://uyghurnews.org/senate-condemns-xi-jinping-naming-uyghur-genocide-in-east-turkistan/): A resolution led by Sen. Rick Scott passed by voice vote, citing a genocide the United States first recognized in 2021. By Uyghur News Network WASHINGTON — June 18, 2026 The U.S. Senate has passed a resolution condemning Chinese leader Xi Jinping. It names the persecution of Uyghurs as genocide. And it calls their homeland by the name Uyghur advocates use: East Turkistan. The resolution, S.Res.444, passed by voice vote on June 16, a day after Xi’s birthday. Sen. Rick Scott, Republican of Florida, introduced it last October. It sat in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee for eight months, then went&#8230;
- [The Lesson the World Missed After Tiananmen](https://uyghurnews.org/the-lesson-the-world-missed-after-tiananmen/): Thirty-seven years after the massacre, activists, analysts and lawmakers argue that engagement without accountability helped empower the Chinese Communist Party WASHINGTON (UNN)— Thirty-seven years after Chinese troops opened fire on pro-democracy demonstrators in Beijing, speakers at a Tiananmen anniversary conference returned to a common argument: the world misread the massacre and is still living with the consequences. Many pointed to what followed — crackdowns in Tibet, Hong Kong, and East Turkistan and the mass detention campaign launched against Uyghurs and other Turkic peoples beginning in 2017. The protests began in April 1989 as mourning for Hu Yaobang, a reformist leader whose&#8230;
- [How China Uses AI Deepfakes to Harass and Silence Its Critics](https://uyghurnews.org/how-china-uses-ai-deepfakes-to-harass-and-silence-its-critics/): When AI-generated pornographic images targeting human rights advocate Laura Harth began circulating online this spring, she says the goal was not hard to read. “The CCP expects the victims of these smears and slander campaigns to be intimidated,” Harth told Uyghur News Network. “They expect us to feel too ashamed to talk about this type of abuse publicly, let alone show it. They were wrong.” Dissidents have lived with this for years. So have Uyghur, Hong Kong and Tibetan activists, and the researchers who track China&#8217;s reach abroad. The harassment is familiar — false accusations, fake accounts, threats, sexual smears. What&#8217;s&#8230;
- [Trump Is in Beijing. He Must Not Forget the Uyghur Prisoners](https://uyghurnews.org/trump-is-in-beijing-he-must-not-forget-the-uyghur-prisoners/): OPINION By: Mamatjan Juma When President Trump meets Xi Jinping in Beijing, the talks will cover trade, Taiwan, technology. Not my brother. His name is Ahmetjan Juma. Chinese authorities first arrested him in 2006 and tortured him in detention before releasing him. They came back in 2009. Then again in May 2017, sentencing him to 14 years for what they called a &#8220;foreign connection.&#8221; That connection was me. He was not the only one. Two other brothers were also arrested. One was tortured. To this day, I do not know with certainty that either of them is safe. For nearly two&#8230;
- [U.S. senators call on Xi to release detained Uyghur doctor Gulshan Abbas](https://uyghurnews.org/u-s-senators-call-on-xi-to-release-detained-uyghur-doctor-gulshan-abbas/): WASHINGTON, April 16, 2026 — A bipartisan group of U.S. senators is calling on Chinese President Xi Jinping to release detained Uyghur doctor Gulshan Abbas. The appeal comes ahead of an expected meeting with the U.S President Donald Trump, who is scheduled to visit Beijing next month. The resolution was led by Sens. Dick Durbin and Ted Cruz. It urges Trump to raise her case directly with Xi. “No one should fear political imprisonment for standing up for democracy and freedom,” Durbin said in a press release announcing the resolution. He called for the “immediate release” of Abbas and others. “As&#8230;
- [Uyghur Groups Mark 36th Anniversary of Baren Uprising with Global Commemorations](https://uyghurnews.org/uyghur-groups-mark-36th-anniversary-of-baren-uprising-with-global-commemorations/): WASHINGTON, April 5, 2026 — Uyghur groups and communities marked the 36th anniversary of the 1990 Barin Uprising on Saturday with events in the United States, Canada and Europe, highlighting its historical significance and calling for international action over alleged atrocities in China’s Uyghur region. Commemorations were held in Washington, D.C., and Edmonton, Alberta, organized in part by the East Turkistan Government in Exile (ETGE), while protests in Berlin and Munich were led by the World Uyghur Congress (WUC). The uprising began in April 1990 in Barin Township, in Akto County near Kashgar, in what is officially known as the Xinjiang&#8230;
- [U.S. Criticizes China Over Planned Demolition of Uyghur Mosque](https://uyghurnews.org/u-s-criticizes-china-over-planned-demolition-of-uyghur-mosque/): WASHINGTON — The United States criticized China after reports that Beijing plans to demolish the historic Beytulla Mosque in Ghulja in Xinjiang, where many Uyghurs refer to the wider region as East Turkestan. The mosque is one of the region’s oldest Islamic landmarks and stands in an area where Washington says Beijing is committing genocide against Uyghurs. The reaction comes ahead of a planned visit by the U.S. president to China in late March, when he is expected to meet Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party. In a statement shared with the Uyghur News Network, a spokesperson for&#8230;
- [Uyghurs Detained During Ramadan Home Inspections in Xinjiang; One Faces Charges](https://uyghurnews.org/uyghurs-detained-during-ramadan-home-inspections-in-xinjiang-one-faces-charges/): Police say 6 Uyghur residents were taken to the police during home checks aimed at detecting fasting.  WASHINGTON — Uyghur News Network (UNN): Chinese authorities in Xinjiang carried out Ramadan house-to-house checks that took several Uyghurs into custody, according to phone interviews conducted by Radio Free Asia (RFA). One man is now facing criminal charges for fasting.
- [Underage Children of Detained Uyghurs Enter Manual Labor, Police Says](https://uyghurnews.org/underage-children-of-detained-uyghurs-enter-manual-labor-police-says/): Children of imprisoned Uyghurs in China’s Xinjiang region are dropping out of school and taking manual labor jobs, a police officer told Radio Free Asia last week. Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region is a vast, resource-rich region in far-western China. Many Uyghurs call it East Turkistan. The officer, based in the regional capital Urumqi, said nearly 100 children of detained parents have left school and entered manual labor jobs in neighborhood committees under his supervision. “Yes, we monitor their children,” the officer said. “Some of them have dropped out of school, and some of them are learning different skills.” He said many&#8230;
- [RFA resumes broadcasts to China, but operations still “nascent”](https://uyghurnews.org/rfa-resumes-broadcasts-to-china-but-operations-still-nascent/): WASHINGTON — Radio Free Asia (RFA) said this week it has resumed broadcasting to audiences inside China, including in the Uyghur language, though the effort remains limited as the organization works to rebuild after last year’s shutdown of several language services. In a statement issued earlier this week, RFA President and CEO Bay Fang said the broadcaster was “back in business” and had restarted transmissions through private contracting with transmission providers. She pointed to renewed congressional funding under the FY2026 spending package signed by President Donald Trump as a key factor. However, an RFA spokesperson said the effort is still in&#8230;
- [Jailed Poet, Banned Song: How China Frames Uyghur Music as an Ideological Threat](https://uyghurnews.org/jailed-poet-banned-song-leaked-study-session-shows-how-china-frames-uyghur-music-as-an-ideological-threat/): Officials warned Uyghur residents they could face detention for listening to unapproved music, as scholars say the campaign reflects expanding efforts to control cultural expression. A poem written inside a prison cell has become one of the songs Chinese authorities now warn Uyghurs not to hear. In a leaked political study session from Yengisar County in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, which many Uyghurs refer to as East Turkestan, officials listed the track among more than “120-plus songs” deemed problematic — underscoring how cultural expression has increasingly been treated as a matter of state security. The recording was shared with Uyghur&#8230;
- [Japanese Lawmaker of Uyghur Heritage Secures Third Parliamentary Term](https://uyghurnews.org/japanese-lawmaker-of-uyghur-heritage-secures-third-parliamentary-term/): Japanese lawmaker Arfiya Eri, who is of Uyghur and Uzbek heritage, secured a third parliamentary term following a snap election called by Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, a vote widely seen as an early test of the government’s political footing.
- [Uyghurs Worldwide Mark Ghulja Massacre Anniversary](https://uyghurnews.org/uyghurs-worldwide-mark-ghulja-massacre-anniversary/): By Mamatjan Juma Demonstrations across four continents commemorated the 1997 Ghulja crackdown and called for greater global attention to Uyghur rights. WASHINGTON (UNN)— Uyghurs and their supporters worldwide marked the anniversary of the 1997 Ghulja Massacre this week through demonstrations and public statements across multiple continents. The observances honored victims of the crackdown and drew attention to human-rights conditions in China’s far-western Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. Many Uyghurs refer to the region as East Turkistan. The anniversary marks the February 5, 1997 Ghulja Massacre, when Chinese security forces suppressed a peaceful Uyghur demonstration, according to witnesses and human-rights groups. The events&#8230;
- [A Quiet Phone Call and the Architecture of Control](https://uyghurnews.org/a-quiet-phone-call-and-the-architecture-of-control/): How Power Reaches Uyghurs Beyond Borders By Asiye Uyghur | The Netherlan A recently published phone recording by Kashgar Times captures a conversation lasting more than twenty minutes between a Uyghur man living in Europe and a Uyghur official employed within the Chinese state system. The line remains steady throughout. No shouting. No overt intimidation. Not even an explicit threat. Yet the restraint is precisely what makes the call revealing. Nothing in the conversation appears accidental. It does not resemble spontaneous personal outreach, nor does it function as a debate. Instead, it reflects a communication pattern reported repeatedly by Uyghurs living&#8230;
- [HRW Warns Uyghur Repression Entrenching Amid Global Rights Strain](https://uyghurnews.org/hrw-warns-uyghur-repression-entrenching-amid-global-rights-strain/): By Mamatjan Juma WASHINGTON (UNN)— For many Uyghur families separated by imprisonment, surveillance, or exile, the question is no longer whether repression will ease but whether it has become permanent. That concern is echoed in the newly released World Report 2026 by Human Rights Watch. The report warns that the global human rights system is entering a period of profound strain and places China among the major powers reshaping, and in some cases weakening, long-standing international norms. Against that backdrop, the situation facing Uyghurs stands out. Rights groups describe it as one of the clearest examples of modern state repression becoming&#8230;
- [A Friendly Call, China’s Subtle Warnings to Uyghurs Abroad](https://uyghurnews.org/a-friendly-call-chinas-subtle-warnings-to-uyghurs-abroad/): When Mirkamil Turghun’s phone rang on Signal, the number appeared to be registered in Turkey. The voice on the line said he was calling from Urumqi — a detail that immediately clarified the situation for Mr. Turghun, a 42-year-old Uyghur musician living in Paris. 
- [After Months of Silence, RFA Publishes First Uyghur-Language Reports](https://uyghurnews.org/after-months-of-silence-rfa-publishes-first-uyghur-language-reports/): WASHINGTON (UNN) — Radio Free Asia has published three short Uyghur-language news items, marking its first Uyghur-language reporting since the service was shut down in May 2025. The posts, dated January 30, end an eight-month silence that followed the closure of one of the most important independent Uyghur-language news services in the world. Before it was closed, RFA’s Uyghur service broadcast up to 60 minutes of radio programming daily, much of it transmitted by shortwave radio into China’s Uyghur region, where independent journalism is banned and internet access is tightly controlled. The service was established in 1998 and for years served&#8230;
- [HRW Says China ‘Not a Credible Alternative’ as Starmer Heads for Beijing](https://uyghurnews.org/hrw-says-china-not-a-credible-alternative-as-starmer-heads-for-beijing/): China under President Xi Jinping is “not a credible alternative” for Britain’s long-term interests, Human Rights Watch said Tuesday, urging Prime Minister Keir Starmer to raise human rights concerns during his upcoming visit to China.
- [Rights Group Urges Finland’s Prime Minister to Raise Uyghur Forced Labor During China Visit](https://uyghurnews.org/rights-group-urges-finlands-prime-minister-to-raise-uyghur-forced-labor-during-china-visit/): HELSINKI (UNN) — Human Rights Watch urged Finnish Prime Minister Petteri Orpo to raise concerns about the treatment of Uyghurs during his upcoming visit to China, warning that closer trade ties should not come at the expense of serious human rights abuses. In a statement released ahead of Orpo’s January 25–28 trip, the organization described China as “one of the world’s most abusive governments, both at home and abroad.” Human Rights Watch said Chinese authorities rely on “arbitrary detention, pervasive surveillance, and forced labor of Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims.” The group said the scale of these practices “may amount to&#8230;
- [UN Experts Warn Chinese Forced Labour Targeting Uyghurs and Others May Amount to Crimes Against Humanity](https://uyghurnews.org/un-experts-warn-chinese-forced-labour-targeting-uyghurs-and-others-may-amount-to-crimes-against-humanity/): United Nations human rights experts say Chinese state-run labour transfer programs targeting Uyghurs and other groups may amount to crimes against humanity.
- [Canada’s China Reset Raises Questions About Its Commitment to Uyghur Rights](https://uyghurnews.org/canadas-china-reset-raises-questions-about-its-commitment-to-uyghur-rights/): Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney’s mid-January visit to China has drawn criticism from human rights advocates after he praised President Xi Jinping’s leadership and promoted a “new world order” while remaining silent on the Uyghur repression. When Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney arrived in Beijing in mid-January, he praised the leadership of Chinese President Xi Jinping and spoke of preparing Canada for what he described as a “new world order.” What he did not mention publicly was China’s mass detention, forced labor, and systematic repression of Uyghurs, abuses that Canada’s Parliament overwhelmingly recognized in 2021 as genocide. Nor did he address&#8230;
- [U.S. Rep. McGovern: ‘We Stand in Solidarity With the Uyghur People’](https://uyghurnews.org/u-s-rep-mcgovern-we-stand-in-solidarity-with-the-uyghur-people/): U.S. Rep. Jim McGovern made the remarks in an interview with the Uyghur News Network during an event hosted by the New Lines Institute in Washington on January 7, marking the launch of the Institute’s Transnational Repression Working Group. The event brought together U.S. lawmakers, policy experts, human rights advocates, and representatives of affected diaspora communities to highlight the growing use of intimidation, surveillance, and coercion by authoritarian governments against dissidents living abroad, including Uyghurs.
- [In China’s Far West, Stability Drives a New Five-Year Plan — and an Old System of Control](https://uyghurnews.org/in-chinas-far-west-stability-drives-a-new-five-year-plan/): As China prepares its next five-year economic plan, experts warn that in the Uyghur region it is set to entrench post-2017 systems of surveillance, labor control, and cultural management—deepening a model of rule built on long-term, high-intensity control. According to news published on the regional government’s official website on Dec. 22, authorities in the Uyghur region—officially called the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region by Beijing, but referred to by many Uyghurs as East Turkistan—have begun soliciting opinions on draft versions of a government work report and the outline of China’s 15th Five-Year Plan, which will guide policy from 2026 to 2030. At&#8230;
- [New Lines Launches Group on Transnational Repression; Uyghur Case a Focus](https://uyghurnews.org/new-lines-working-group-launch-highlights-repression-of-uyghurs-abroad/): WASHINGTON (UNN)— The New Lines Institute for Strategy and Policy on Tuesday launched a Transnational Repression Scholarly Working Group, as concerns grow over foreign governments targeting dissidents and diaspora communities beyond their borders. The group brings together U.S. lawmakers, legal experts and researchers to look at cases of transnational repression in the United States and Europe and to explore possible legal and policy responses. Much of the discussion focused on the Uyghur case. Speakers pointed to what they described as efforts by the Chinese government to intimidate Uyghurs living overseas. U.S. Rep. Jim McGovern, co-chair of the Tom Lantos Human Rights&#8230;
- [U.S. Military Action in Venezuela Shocks China](https://uyghurnews.org/u-s-military-action-in-venezuela-shocks-china/): The White House said the United States carried out a military operation in Venezuela, an assertion that quickly drew attention in Beijing, where China has deep political and economic ties to President Nicolás Maduro. Speaking at a news conference at his Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida, Donald Trump said U.S. armed forces had conducted an overnight military operation in Venezuela’s capital, using what he described as overwhelming air, land, and sea power to strike targets in Caracas. Mr. Trump said the operation rendered Venezuela’s military capabilities powerless and resulted in the capture of Mr. Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores. He said&#8230;
- [Beyond the Ongoing Genocide: A Scholar Reframes the Uyghur Crisis as Colonialism](https://uyghurnews.org/beyond-the-ongoing-genocide-a-scholar-reframes-the-uyghur-crisis-as-colonialism/): For much of the past decade, international reporting on China’s Uyghur region has followed a grim but familiar pattern: satellite images of internment facilities, testimony from former detainees, and diplomatic disputes over whether Beijing’s policies amount to genocide. What has received far less attention is a more fundamental question now being raised by scholars: whether the language used to describe the Uyghur people—and the political relationship at the heart of the crisis—has itself constrained how the world understands what is happening. In a recent study published by Cambridge University Press, Dilnur Reyhan, a senior researcher at the Oriental Institute of the&#8230;
- [Authors &amp; Contributors](https://uyghurnews.org/authors-contributors/): Authors Mamatjan Juma Mamatjan Juma is the Executive Director of Uyghur News Network (UNN) and a longtime newsroom leader with more than 18 years of experience in international journalism. He previously served as Deputy Director of Radio Free Asia’s Uyghur Service, where he managed editorial operations, standards, and cross-language workflows and helped guide major coverage of China’s mass detention system, forced labor networks, and the expanding surveillance state in the Uyghur region (East Turkestan). Under his editorial leadership, RFA’s Uyghur Service received major journalism honors, including the Burke Award (2019) and the MINS Award for excellence in international broadcasting. Its reporting&#8230;
- [China Begins Renaming Ancient Uyghur Street Names in Kashgar](https://uyghurnews.org/china-begins-renaming-ancient-uyghur-street-names-in-kashgar/): Washington DC (UNN) — Chinese authorities have begun changing ancient Uyghur street names in Kashgar, ordering the replacement of long-standing Uyghur names with Mandarin ones, according to newly released information. An HTML table shared by Gene Bunin, founder of Xinjiang Victims Database, in a Dec. 26 Facebook post shows Chinese authorities have ordered the renaming of 14 major roads and 30 streets in Kashgar, replacing their Uyghur names with Chinese ones. An official document released by the Kashgar Municipal People’s Governmentshows the notice was issued onOct. 13, 2024. The document states that the changes were made under a notice titled “On&#8230;
- [Genocide Watch issues “Genocide Emergency” alert on Xinjiang](https://uyghurnews.org/genocide-watch-issues-genocide-emergency-alert-on-xinjiang/): WASHINGTON (UNN) — Genocide Watch issued a “Genocide Emergency” alert on China’s Uyghur region, saying Chinese government policies toward Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims now span multiple stages of genocide, including discrimination, persecution, extermination and denial, citing mass detention, pervasive surveillance and forced assimilation. In its Dec. 20 report, the U.S.-based mass-atrocity prevention group said about “twelve million” people, “mostly Uyghur Muslims,” live in what China officially calls the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, known to Uyghurs as East Turkestan, and that Beijing is pursuing policies aimed at assimilation, including expanded surveillance and restrictions on religion and language. Genocide Watch said “800,000&#8230;
- [China’s Uyghur Repression and Forced Labor Persist, Congressional Panel Finds](https://uyghurnews.org/chinas-uyghur-repression-and-forced-labor-persist-congressional-panel-finds/): WASHINGTON (UNN)— China continues to impose forced labor on Uyghurs and other Turkic minorities and to expand surveillance and repression, according to a new report from a bipartisan congressional commission. The 2025 Annual Report of the Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC) says the Chinese Communist Party has repeatedly violated its commitments on human rights, labor and the rule of law, despite public pledges to follow international standards. “This year’s report lays bare how the Chinese Communist Party keeps breaking its word—to its own people and to the world,” said Sen. Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska, the commission’s chair. Forced Labor in Uyghur Region&#8230;
- [Congressional Report Flags DOE Research Ties to Chinese Military](https://uyghurnews.org/congressional-report-flags-doe-research-ties-to-chinese-military/): WASHINGTON (UNN)— A congressional investigation released Wednesday found that weaknesses in research security at the U.S. Department of Energy allowed taxpayer-funded scientific work to be shared with Chinese entities tied to Beijing’s military and nuclear weapons programs. The report, issued by the House Select Committee on China in coordination with the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, concluded that inadequate oversight and permissive collaboration policies enabled Chinese institutions linked to China’s defense research system to participate in federally supported U.S. research. Investigators identified roughly 4,350 research papers published between June 2023 and June 2025 that acknowledged DOE funding and involved collaboration&#8230;
- [Fifteen Nations Condemn China’s Rights Abuses in Joint UN Statement](https://uyghurnews.org/fifteen-nations-condemn-chinas-rights-abuses-in-joint-un-statement/): WASHINGTON (UNN) — A coalition of 15 countries issued a joint statement at the United Nations on Friday expressing “deep concerns” over ongoing human rights violations in China, with specific reference to abuses against Uyghurs and other ethnic and religious minorities. The statement was also posted by the U.S. Embassy in China on its official X account, an unusual public move inside a heavily censored information environment. The countries, including the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Japan, Ukraine, and several European states, cited credible evidence of arbitrary detention, forced labor, widespread surveillance, and restrictions on religious and cultural expression. According to&#8230;
- [Germany Blocks China's Huawei From 6G](https://uyghurnews.org/germany-blocks-chinas-huawei-from-6g/): BERLIN (UNN) — Germany has moved to bar Huawei Technologies Co. from its future 6G networks, taking its strongest stance yet against Chinese telecommunications equipment and accelerating a wider European effort to reduce reliance on foreign tech suppliers. Chancellor Friedrich Merz announced the decision Thursday, saying Germany will exclude all Chinese components from its 6G rollout and speed the removal of Huawei gear from existing 5G systems. The move expands earlier directives requiring telecom operators to strip Chinese-made parts from core networks by 2026 and from towers and antennas by 2029. “We won’t allow any components from China in the 6G&#8230;
- [Trump Establishes Anti-Communism Week, Citing Global Threats](https://uyghurnews.org/trump-establishes-anti-communism-week-citing-global-threats/): WASHINGTON (UNN) — President Donald J. Trump on Thursday proclaimed Nov. 2–8, 2025, as Anti-Communism Week in the United States. The president called communism “one of history’s most destructive ideologies” and urged Americans to reaffirm their commitment to liberty and human dignity. Although Trump did not name specific countries in the proclamation, the announcement came less than a week after his Oct. 30 meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping in South Korea. China remains one of the world’s most powerful and entrenched communist states, and the timing of the declaration is likely to draw international attention. In a proclamation issued from&#8230;

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