INTERNATIONAL NEWS

• Police in China’s Guangzhou Detain Eight After Demolition Standoff

  Authorities in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong have detained eight people following clashes with land protesters in the provincial capital Guangzhou, RFA has learned. Several hundred police officers were sent to Tanwei village in… Continue…

• China ‘Systematically’ Impedes US Access to Tibet: State Department Report

  China “systematically” impedes access to Tibet for U.S. diplomats and officials, journalists, and tourists, and when visits to the region are granted, they are “highly restricted,” the U.S. State Department said in a report that… Continue…

• Italian Journalist ‘Threatened’ by Chinese Official in Rome: Newspaper

  An Italian newspaper that is typically critical of Chinese President Xi Jinping's overseas infrastructure plan has said that a Chinese embassy official tried to intimidate one of its reporters. Giulia Pompili ran across Yang Han,… Continue…

• China’s Brutal ‘Boarding Schools’

  The Trump administration may not be the most unimpeachable source when it comes to human rights, but the head of the State Department’s bureau for human rights, Michael Kozak, was dead on when he said… Continue…