It seems that no matter what China does, it is not enough to stop trading with it:
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Video footage appearing to show Sun whipping two Rwandan men as they were tied to a tree circulated online last August. Rwandan authorities subsequently investigated the video’s content and confirmed that the incident took place in Rwanda’s Western Province at a Chinese-managed mine.
The Rwanda Investigation Bureau (RIB) arrested Sun and two other employees of the mine accused of participating in the torture, an engineer named Alexis Renzaho and a security guard Leonidas Nsanzimana, sometime last year before prosecuting them for their crimes. Rwanda’s Gihango Primary Court remanded the three men in September 2021. The group then appealed to the Karongi Intermediate Court, according to the New Times.
“Shujun was given bail but court ordered the seizure of his passport in addition to a bail fee of Rwf10 million [sic],” the newspaper recalled on Wednesday, adding, “The co-accused were denied bail and remained in custody.”
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The genocidal government of China, which spent much of the past decade forcibly programming the Uyghur Muslims of Xinjiang province to abandon their religion and worship communism instead, on Wednesday gave Sweden a lecture on respecting the religious beliefs of Muslims after a Swedish politician burned a copy of the Quran.**
On Fuji TV, Abe emphasized that abandoning strategic ambiguity would not mean ending America’s or Japan’s “One China” policy, but it would make it clear to Chinese leaders that both countries would defend Taiwan if China attempted to take the island by force. The current strategy of strategic ambiguity, Abe said, leaves open the possibility that the U.S. and Japan would not intervene if China attacks Taiwan. He also noted that Yonaguni, Japan’s westernmost island, is only 110 kilometers from Taiwan. Any Chinese attack on Taiwan, he said, would involve Chinese operations in Japan’s airspace above Japanese territorial waters and its exclusive economic zone.
Japan is not the only one that will emerge as a voice of alarm and possibly a middle power:
A delegation of foreign policy aides to South Korea's president-elect met Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Tuesday, officials said, as both of the U.S. allies aim to mend long-strained ties.
Yoon Suk-yeol, who takes over as South Korea's president on May 10, has stated his intention to improve relations with Japan that have been plagued by disputes stemming from Japan's 1910-45 colonisation of the Korean peninsula, at a time that both face threats from North Korea.
Japan is also keen to develop relations and during the meeting Kishida said strategic cooperation between Japan, South Korea and the United States was now more necessary than ever, Japan said.
"There is no time to waste to improve ties between Japan and South Korea," the Japanese foreign ministry quoted Kishida as saying.
The head of the South Korean delegation, Chung Jin-suk, told reporters that they agreed with Kishida to work towards forward-looking relations and for their mutual interests.
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Closer ties between the European Union and South Korea under President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol are imperative for managing China's rising power and the increasing rivalry between Beijing and Washington, former ambassadors and officials said.
I doubt that Yoon will come out on the side of Beijing.
He has already come out against North Korea, China's vassal state.
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