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Turkey has chosen the Chinese vaccine – rather than western alternatives – as its main weapon against Covid. Yet the Turks are also hosting tens of thousands of exiled Uighurs – and both issues were discussed when China’s foreign minister visited Turkey today. China denies using vaccine deliveries as political leverage, but many Uighurs are…

Yang Xiaoguang is chargé d’affaires at the Chinese Embassy in London.

The Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab has announced sanctions against four senior Chinese officials accused of being behind abuses of  Uighur Muslims in Xinjiang,  calling it one of the “worst human rights crises of our time”.

As congratulations to Joe Biden flooded in from around the world, there were exceptions – Russia, China and Turkey are yet to recognise the election result. From rejoining the Iran nuclear deal to dealing with nuclear-armed North Korea, the president-elect has his work cut out.

We spoke to Aziz Isa Elkun, a London-based Uyghur academic and activist.

Is China still persecuting its Uyghur Muslim minority?

They close our consulate – we’ll shut theirs: tensions between China and the United States escalate still further

We spoke to Ben Phillips, one of the UK’s biggest social media stars.

Some leading Tory MPs are calling for the highly popular social media app TikTok to be banned because of its ties to China.

We spoke to Victor Gao, a Chinese international relations expert,

Power, transport, water – China has been buying its way into key parts of the UK economy for years.

Canada and Australia have already suspended their extradition agreements with Hong Kong – and both countries have been on the receiving end of China’s diplomatic wrath.

The UK has suspended its extradition treaty with Hong Kong “immediately and indefinitely” – amid the growing tension over the controversial national security law imposed by China.

The US State Department announced new sanctions today on some employees of Chinese tech companies, including Huawei, for their involvement in human rights abuses in the Xinjiang region; home to the country’s persecuted Uyghur community.

We spoke to the pro-democracy activist and former Hong Kong lawmaker, Nathan Law.