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‘White Hair Movement’: Chaos in Wuhan, China, as Thousands of Elderly Clash with Police

Thousands of people in the central Chinese metropolis of Wuhan, the place where the ongoing Coronavirus pandemic began, took the streets of the city on Wednesday to protest a dramatic reduction in health care benefits the Communist Party has proposed in light of its titanic expenditures throughout the past three years.

China Warns: Dumpster Diving for Rejected Valentine’s Day Gifts Could Spread Disease

The Chinese state-run publication Global Times described in a report on Wednesday digging into other people’s trash for luxury items a new St. Valentine’s Day “trend” in China, warning potential scavengers that garbage is unhygienic and the practice may spread disease.

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Islamic ‘Scholars’ Coalition Endorses Muslim Genocide in China

A delegation of dozens of alleged Islamic “scholars” representing 14 Muslim countries as part of the World Muslim Communities Council arrived in occupied East Turkistan on Sunday, and remain there at press time, for a Chinese regime-organized tour to endorse the Communist Party’s genocide of Muslims there.

Uyghur organizations and human rights activists condemned the visit on Tuesday as an attempt to whitewash egregious human rights crimes.

The Chinese Communist Party has been engaging in genocidal acts in East Turkistan, which it refers to using the Mandarin language name “Xinjiang,” since at least 2017. East Turkistan is home to the vast majority of the world’s ethnic Uyghur Muslims and substantial Kazakh, Kyrgyz, and other Turkic, Muslim-majority groups.