by Lily Ogburn | May 16, 2024 | Featured, Immigration, Topics
WASHINGTON – When Irade Kashgary was a little girl, she fled East Turkestan with her parents out of fear they would disappear at the hands of the Chinese Communist Party like others in their town. Since leaving in 1999, they’ve never returned to their homeland. East...
by Lily Ogburn | Mar 13, 2024 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON – For years, US venture capital firms have invested in Chinese technology companies linked to China’s military and persecution of the Uyghur people. Now, the recent glare of the spotlight from Congress and declining public opinion of China has prompted...
by Lily Ogburn | Feb 28, 2024 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON – The Uyghur Policy Act is one of Congress’s newest efforts aimed at fighting China’s oppression of the Uyghur people. The bill has passed in the House of Representatives, and activists are urging the Senate to act quickly on the legislation. What is the...
by Lily Ogburn | Feb 24, 2024 | Campaign 2024, Featured, Politics
Columbia, S.C. – Many college students are choosing not to vote in Saturday’s Republican presidential primary election in South Carolina, saying they feel unrepresented by the candidates and apathetic towards politics. In 2020, only 16.4% of S.C. voters participated...
by Lily Ogburn | Feb 8, 2024 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – Lawmakers in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee urged Dafna Hochman Rand, presidential nominee for Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, to crack down on accountability for human rights violations in both adversarial and...
by Lily Ogburn | Jan 30, 2024 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON – Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and former Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta warned lawmakers on Tuesday that China is increasingly collaborating with nations hostile to the United States and urged lawmakers to provide more support to help Taiwan...
by Lily Ogburn | Jan 24, 2024 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – Activists and lawmakers are calling on the United Nations to push for concrete changes in China’s treatment of Tibetans, Hong Kongers and the Muslim-minority Uyghurs after the global body released its universal periodic review, or UPR, of China on...
by Lily Ogburn | Jan 18, 2024 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON – Members of Congress discussed the need for new legislation and additional financing and support for nuclear energy abroad on Wednesday in response to China and Russia’s exportation of nuclear reactors to foreign countries. According to a memorandum...
by Lily Ogburn | Jan 11, 2024 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON – Lawmakers tried to identify better ways of enforcing laws to combat the imports of goods made with slave labor and called on U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials to suggest how to improve tracking of goods that violate the Uyghur Forced Labor...
