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As some borders start to ease, people who previously wished to travel are now reconsidering going to the U.S. – particularly mainland Chinese people.
Scott Moskowitz, a geopolitical risk analyst for the Asia-Pacific region at Morning Consult, a decision intelligence company, argues that state-controlled media in China has played up examples of anti-Asian violence in the U.S. to dissuade citizens from going there.
Morning Consult’s study published earlier this month also details that out of 1,000 survey respondents, 22% and 23% of mainland Chinese respondents are “not interested at all” or “not that interested” in visiting the U.S., respectively, with 57% of those respondents citing violent crime as a primary reason - 52% cite terrorism, 36% cite petty crime, and 44% said that they were concerned about anti-Chinese bias from U.S. locals. Now more than ever, Chinese travelers are more likely to look at destinations in Europe.
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On Friday, the president of the World Uyghur Congress, Dolkun Isa, called on Japan to do more than make “empty promises” to stop the human rights abuses occurring in China.
Isa told reporters that Japan’s efforts were “not enough to stop the ongoing genocide,” and that its parliament had “some obligation to more actively engage in the Uyghur genocide.” In efforts to build support for a motion at the U.N. Human Rights Council, Isa and his organization, along with other Western allies, have been working to build coalition support around the globe. The motion requires a majority vote to pass in the Geneva council, which in its current state, remains deeply divided.
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