U.S. sanctions Chinese officials over human rights abuses in Xinjiang — New U.S. visa rules threaten to deport 369,000 Chinese students — Australia halts HK extradition agreement and extends visas

Coronavirus

WHO advance team heads to China to set up probe into coronavirus origin — Reuters

A two-member advance team of World Health Organization (WHO) experts has left for China to organise an investigation into the origins of the novel coronavirus behind a pandemic that has killed more than 550,000 people globally, the U.N. agency said on Friday.

Xinjiang

U.S. sanctions Chinese officials over Uighur human rights abuses — Axios

The Treasury Department announced Thursday that the U.S. has sanctioned four Chinese Communist Party officials and the Xinjiang Public Security Bureau for human rights abuses against Uighur Muslims and other ethnic minorities in Xinjiang.

New videos expose China’s forced migration of Uyghurs during the pandemic — Coda

Dozens of Chinese TikTok videos show Uyghurs being transported to work in involuntary labor schemes during the Covid-19 outbreak

Hong Kong

Australia Halts Hong Kong Extradition Agreement and Extends Visas — The New York Times

Australia will suspend its …