With the mission of bringing back traditional femininity and beauty with depth, global television network NTD announced that it is launching its first-ever beauty pageant. Geared toward young women of Chinese descent, the pageant will be judging candidates on five “inner virtues” that are valued in traditional Chinese culture: morality, righteousness, propriety, benevolence, and faithfulness. […]

HONG KONG—Zack Ho has a recurring nightmare in which a man throws him off a tall building. Other times, he is being chased by Hong Kong police. Most nights though, he has trouble falling asleep. Ho, 18, is in his last year of high school. Before mass protests erupted in mid-2019, before the Hong Kong […]

The executive director of Human Rights Watch (HRW) was denied entry into Hong Kong on Jan. 12 as he was preparing to hold a press conference there to launch the organization’s annual human rights report.

HONG KONG—When protests aren’t unfolding on the streets of Hong Kong, the city marches on: people walking to their destinations, hawkers selling their wares, vehicles shuttling passengers to and fro. But in nearly every neighborhood, there remains graffiti, posters, and stickers—left on sidewalks, walls, sky bridges, lamp posts, and storefronts—declaring rebellion, a yearning for freedom, […]

HONG KONG—Protesters convened inside shopping malls on Dec. 21 to commemorate an incident when thugs beat protesters and commuters inside a metro station, in addition to urging people to boycott pro-Beijing or pro-police shops this holiday season. Over 100 protesters held a peaceful sit-in at Yoho Mall in Yuen Long, to mark the five-month anniversary […]

The shouts of “five demands, not one less” reverted across Hong Kong on Dec. 15, as protesters pushed their six-month-old protests at a public square and multiple shopping malls.

HONG KONG—After months of intense clashes between protesters and police on the streets, Hongkongers are now directing their dissent indoors. Despite millions marching since June, the Hong Kong government has not responded to protesters’ demands, which include free elections and an independent investigation into police use of force. So they’re now settling in for the […]

HONG KONG—Netizens in Hong Kong planned for a strike action on the morning of Dec. 9 in 10 local districts, hoping to set up road blocks and disrupt public transportation on the six-month anniversary of the mass protests. Roughly one million people had turned up for a march on June 9, opposing a now-withdrawn extradition […]

HONG KONG—On a Sunday in November, Chau was out with her family to have a meal in her neighborhood, a residential area known as Tsuen Wan. While sitting outside the restaurant, she heard a loud bang. Chau saw that tear gas had enveloped the street. She began to cough and tear up. Her daughter, almost […]

HONG KONG—American flags showed up in the form of paper print-outs, animated images displayed on smartphones, and dozens of flagpoles waving in the air. Thousands of protesters young and old turned out for a rally at a public square in the heart of Hong Kong’s business district on Nov. 28 evening to show their appreciation […]

Google’s connections to China have come under scrutiny after U.S. President Donald Trump in late July said his administration would look into allegations that Google was working with the Chinese government on projects that could threaten U.S. national security.

After Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam announced on Sept. 4 that the government would formally withdraw an extradition bill that has ignited the city’s largest-ever protest movement, local protesters and pro-democracy activists alike said they would continue to advocate for all their demands to be heard.

As speakers stepped up to the podium and shared their journeys of self-improvement, many in the audience quietly wiped away tears.

At a press briefing at the Oval Office on Feb. 22, President Donald Trump and U.S. officials said the Chinese delegation who arrived in Washington for trade talks this week will be extending their trip because negotiations were going well. They will continue meeting with the American delegation over the weekend and depart the U.S. […]

After U.S.–China trade talks ended in Beijing on Jan. 9, the Chinese regime expressed optimism for a breakthrough—and indirectly, willingness to make concessions. In a brief statement on Jan. 10, China’s Ministry of Commerce said the two sides had reached an “important consensus,” and will continue to have close contact. “With regard to trade issues […]

A recently announced partnership between Chinese state-run media Xinhua and U.S-based news organization The Associated Press (AP) has members of Congress worried that Chinese propaganda could leach into U.S. media coverage and influence American readers. In a letter addressed to AP President and CEO Gary Pruitt and dated Dec. 19, a bipartisan group of 14 […]

Zhang Shoucheng was a renowned physicist at Stanford University with a number of academic prizes to his name. His scientific discoveries earned him a spot in the U.S. honorary society National Academic of Sciences, in 2015. A year earlier, Zhang and his team’s research in a material called a topological insulator—which led to the discovery […]

A recent wave of successful lawsuits for foreign companies could be part of China’s continued attempt to portray itself as a country that respects intellectual property (IP) rights. The propaganda is important to China because of the growing international furor over Beijing’s flagrant disregard for IP, whether through its mass manufacturing of knockoffs (China is […]

News Analysis The scheduled meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping at the upcoming Group of 20 (G-20) summit in Argentina might be the only chance for the two countries to resolve the current trade dispute. The tensions have escalated to the point of no return. Trump is intent on going […]

Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s recent two-day visit to the Philippines ended with dozens of trade deals and economic agreements signed, in a further indication that the Southeast Asian country’s president Rodrigo Duterte is pivoting closer to China’s sphere of influence in the region. Meanwhile, Duterte’s latest gestures toward China, even as the latter bulks up […]

Xie Yining, the founder and chairman of the U.S.-based Chinese-language newspaper China Press, was shot to death inside the publication’s office in Alhambra, California, according to a report by local newspaper San Gabriel Valley Tribune. After receiving a call on Nov. 16 from a man who said he had been shot, local police found Xie, […]

A VPN, or virtual private network, is a common service for internet users seeking a more secure connection. It typically hides one’s IP address and encrypts the data sent or received over the internet. The traffic is instead diverted to a remote server. In China, a VPN is vital for any netizen who wishes to […]

Around late October to early November is usually the time in China when high school seniors sign up for the gaokao, the nationwide college entrance exam that determines which university they will be placed in. But in the southwestern Chinese city of Chongqing, education authorities caused an uproar when it evoked a Cultural Revolution-era concept […]

The Chinese regime recently opened its first international import expo, to much fanfare. The event, however, has drawn criticism as being a propaganda stunt to quell international concerns about China’s trade practices and make the Chinese regime appear eager to narrow trade gaps. Behind the many celebrated trade deals signed so far at the six-day […]

A day after the U.S. Department of Justice announced a new initiative to more aggressively pursue cases of Chinese espionage, it announced that prosecutors filed new charges in a previously announced case of a Chinese national seeking to illegally export U.S. military technology to China. In a Nov. 2 press release, the Justice Department (DOJ) […]

At a news conference on Nov. 1 where U.S. attorney general Jeff Sessions announced that the Department of Justice (DOJ) will be undertaking a new initiative to more aggressively pursue cases of Chinese espionage, the focus was on economic theft related to intellectual property. After all, that was at the crux of the latest prosecuted […]

One of China’s mega-metropolises has a unique plan for saving on the electricity costs of maintaining street lamps at night: by launching “artificial moons” into space. State media recently reported that a research organization in the southwestern city of Chengdu City in Sichuan Province, called Tian Fu New Area Science Society, has developed a kind […]

A new wide-ranging report by a U.S. congressional commission on China has outlined the Chinese regime’s strategies in Latin America for gaining advantages that boost its political and economic interests. The report, released Oct. 17 by the U.S.–China Economic and Security Review Commission, described in blunt terms what China’s objectives are in the Latin America […]

In the latest instance of Chinese authorities clamping down on academic speech, a Chinese professor recently was disciplined for making remarks criticizing China’s education system. Zhao Siyun, 51, is vice-president at the literature institute of Zhejiang University of Media and Communications, a public university in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province. During a Sept. 30 welcoming ceremony for […]

New Zealand media recently revealed the extent of China’s infiltration within the country. In an Oct. 11 report, New Zealand online news website Newsroom uncovered that some government offices were using surveillance cameras developed by Hikvision, whose controlling shareholder belongs to a Chinese state-owned enterprise. Hikvision’s surveillance technology has been employed in the large-scale human […]

A Chinese spy working for China’s Ministry of State Security (MSS) has been charged with four counts of conspiring to commit economic espionage and steal trade secrets from leading U.S. aviation and aerospace companies. According to a U.S. Department of Justice announcement on Oct. 10, Xu Yanjun was a deputy division director within MSS, China’s […]

Saddled with heavy debt, the Chinese regime has begun doubling down on enforcing the collection of taxes across all sectors of society. Not only are most of China’s provincial and municipal governments in the red, but China’s debt-to-GDP ratio—which includes central and local government, corporate, and household debt—has grown to 2.55, according to the International […]

U.S. Vice President Mike Pence’s extensive speech about Beijing’s aggression and the United States’ counter-strategy has sparked heated discussion among Chinese living in mainland China and abroad. His remarks, given at the Hudson Institute in Washington on Oct. 4, signal a new era for the U.S.–China relationship. Pence offered a direct criticism of the Chinese […]

A forthcoming Pentagon study will focus on how China has sought to monopolize access to certain natural resources critical to the U.S. military in an effort to undermine U.S. defense. The study, ordered by President Donald Trump, is expected to be released in the coming weeks and seeks to identify areas where the U.S. military […]

China doesn’t plan to cease conducting commercial espionage that benefits the central government, even as the U.S. is rolling out new, proactive cyber strategies to counter threats from Beijing, a new report by an Australian think tank says. Furthermore, China’s hacking capabilities have gotten more sophisticated, with the intention of making the hacking harder to […]

The U.S. Department of Defense has outlined a new cyberspace strategy for countering threats from China and Russia, emphasizing a proactive and all-out approach to defense, according to a newly released document. The document addresses how the Pentagon plans to counter challenges in cyberspace: “persistent campaigns” that “pose a long-term strategic risk to the nation, […]

Chinese soybean production has dropped precipitously as unusually frosty weather hit key agricultural regions in early September, damaging more than 2.5 million acres of soybean fields and reducing the harvest by an estimated 300,000 tons in the northeastern province of Heilongjiang. The downturn comes as China maintains tariffs on soybeans imported from the United States […]

As the Sino–U.S. trade war continues to escalate, Chinese netizens have found a platform to express their thoughts on the latest developments in the dispute: the social-media account belonging to the U.S. Embassy in China. The U.S. Embassy’s account on Sina Weibo—a social media similar to Twitter—has long been considered a rare safe haven for […]

The U.S. Justice Department is said to have ordered two Chinese state-run media organizations that are operating in the United States to register as foreign agents. Xinhua News Agency and China Global Television Network—which is run by China’s state-run broadcaster, China Central Television—are required to register under a little-enforced foreign lobbying law, according to a […]

A Chinese national has pleaded guilty to conspiring to steal trade secrets from GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) to benefit a Chinese drug company he helped start that’s backed by Chinese-regime funding. Li Tao, 45, is the second person to plead guilty in a scheme that involves five co-defendants, including his friends Xue Yu and Mei Yan. According […]

China is rapidly expanding its military base in Djibouti, a small African country on the Red Sea, according to a recent analysis by a retired Indian Army officer published in The Print, an Indian news outlet. According to The Print report published on Sept. 10, satellite images reveal that the Chinese military base, which is located […]

Taiwanese tech companies are leaving mainland China in droves as the U.S.–China trade war threatens to disrupt supply chains, according to Taiwan media reports. As more components of important technology and electronic equipment appear on the White House’s latest list of $200 billion worth of Chinese imports slated for proposed tariffs, Taiwanese manufacturers are preparing […]

An Australian academic with a history of making defamatory comments about the Falun Gong spiritual group is under investigation by his university over allegations of academic misconduct. Campbell Fraser, a senior lecturer at the Griffith University’s department of international business and Asian studies, who has conducted research on organ transplant abuse in recent years, is […]

The Chinese Communist Party’s new proposals for imposing personal income taxes could put Taiwanese citizens working or living in mainland China at a disadvantage. In late August, the Standing Committee of the Party’s rubber-stamp legislature, the National People’s Congress, convened to discuss proposals for reforms to personal income tax laws. Taiwan has its own constitution, […]

A Chinese engineer has been ordered by a U.S. court in California to pay $66 million in damages to his former employer, Lumileds, for stealing technology from the maker of LEDs and other lighting products. Chen Gangyi was found guilty by a Santa Clara Superior Court jury in San Jose of stealing trade secrets and […]

Amid a wave of protests by Chinese citizens who recently have lost their investments in peer-to-peer (P2P) lending platforms, thousands more people say their money has disappeared in another area of China’s volatile finance sector: private-equity funds. On Aug. 8, the Asset Management Association of China, an industry organization under the state’s supervision, released a […]

Alumni of one of China’s top universities are so upset by a professor’s claims that they are calling for his firing. What did the offending professor do? Boast about China’s prowess. On Aug. 1, a letter signed by 27 Tsinghua University alumni began circulating on the internet, where they urged the university president to fire […]

During German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s visit to China this week, she met with the wife of a currently detained human rights lawyer, Yu Wensheng, according to a Twitter post by fellow lawyer Yao Jianqing. Yao posted the message on May 24 along with a photo of the two together, noting that they spoke about “human […]

Just before President Donald Trump canceled his upcoming summit with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un on May 24, news had emerged from South Korea that the North Korean regime recently designated a province near the border to China a special military zone, in order to hide nuclear weapons there. Citing a high-level source in […]

With an anti-corruption campaign raging on within the Chinese Communist Party, misbehaving Chinese officials have to get creative with ways to cheat, stow away their illegally amassed wealth, and hide their trail. So officials are now filing fake divorces with their spouses in order to covertly transfer assets outside of China and avoid detection from […]

A high school in Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province located on the eastern coast of China, has employed facial recognition technology to monitor students’ attentiveness in class. At Hangzhou Number 11 High School, three cameras at the front of the classroom scan students’ faces every 30 seconds, analyzing their facial expressions to detect their mood, according […]

Just days after Chinese media reported that an unprecedented number of corporations have defaulted on bonds they owed, the Chinese regime has announced that local governments can issue bonds to repay debts that will mature in 2018—highlighting the enormity of China’s debt problem. The policy was announced on May 15 by the Ministry of Finance, […]

A delegation of U.S. senior trade officials visited Beijing on May 3 and 4, hoping to ease trade tensions and negotiate a fairer trade relationship. Initial reports indicate that a deal hadn’t been reached, but there were some concessions, such as China reconsidering duties on U.S. sorghum, promising to increase U.S. imports to lower the […]

When news emerged that the founder and former chairman of China’s largest privately-held energy company, CEFC China Energy, was being investigated by Chinese authorities, many began to speculate about what crimes had led to his downfall. Newly released evidence from a court case in New York City has revealed some details. Last November, Hong Kong […]

China’s “social credit system,” reminiscent of a dystopian nightmare, has invaded yet another level of Chinese citizens’ lives: determining where their children can go to school. In 2014, the Chinese regime first rolled out plans to create a social credit system, which ranks each citizen based on their levels of trustworthiness and compliance with the […]

A Chinese arts professor who was awarded a prestigious international prize for design has been exposed to have plagiarized the winning material, according to a report by Hong Kong’s Oriental Daily News. In October 2017, associate professor at Xi’an Academy of Fine Arts, Fan Yu, won a “Red Dot: Best of the Best” and a […]

Eight hospital officials in the the eastern Chinese province of Anhui were recently investigated for corruption, highlighting once again the entrenched culture of corruption within the medical system there. Chinese media reported on April 26 that Bozhou People’s Hospital President Di Yuzeng, who used his position to aid businesses in selling drugs and equipment to […]

Two Chinese nationals were charged in U.S. federal court for conspiring to commit economic espionage related to marine technology to benefit the Chinese regime and its state-owned companies. Shan Shi, 53, and Gang Liu, 32, were the main orchestrators of a scheme to steal trade secrets from a multinational engineering firm that develops syntactic foam—a […]

After a deadly bus crash in North Korea on April 22 killed 32 Chinese tourists, Chinese state media has kept mum about details. The list of victims has yet to be published. Meanwhile, posts about the crash on social media have been deleted by internet censors. On the day of the crash, the Twitter account […]

In advertisements for Italian toy brand My Doll on its website, blonde-haired young girls are holding rosy-cheeked dolls with stringy hair and innocent smiles. The image belies the cruel reality of how the dolls were made. According to a newly published report by the World Organization to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong (WOIPFG), My […]

Scientists in China have confirmed that the site of North Korea’s nuclear testing has collapsed, supporting what experts have suspected back in September 2017 when North Korea conducted its largest underground nuclear test. The news raises the possibility of radioactive leakage and exposure in neighboring northeastern regions of China, where millions live near the border […]

The United States’ recent tariffs on Chinese imports has led to new scrutiny on China’s trade practices. One persistent problem has been China’s methods of evading import duties. On April 20, European Union and Italian authorities revealed that they were investigating possible wide-scale tax fraud by Chinese criminal gangs who import goods via Greece’s largest […]

Nineteen years ago, on April 25, more than 10,000 Falun Gong practitioners gathered in Beijing for one purpose: to ask authorities to uphold their constitutional right to freedom of belief. Little did they know that their peaceful appeal would become a peaceful protest that continues nearly two decades later, in all parts of the world. […]

While investigating illegal slot machines in southern Guangdong Province, the Chinese Communist Party’s anti-corruption agency discovered that 254 local police officers, six police station leaders, and other officials had colluded to protect local gambling rackets. They were bribed a total of 106 million yuan ($16.87 million) to turn a blind eye to gambling crimes. The […]

After the United States said it would ban American companies from supplying tech parts and software to the Chinese smartphone maker ZTE, a document circulating on the Chinese internet has elucidated just how troubling the situation would be for China’s second largest telecoms company. The U.S. Department of Commerce announced the decision on April 16 […]

For eight years, China and Japan had been in a standoff over territorial rights to the Senkaku Islands, a group of uninhabited islands in the East China Sea controlled by Japan. High-level bilateral talks were put on hold—until this week. On April 16, China’s foreign minister, Wang Yi, met with his counterpart, Japan’s minister of […]

In advertisements for Italian toy brand My Doll on its website, blonde-haired young girls are holding rosy-cheeked dolls with stringy hair and innocent smiles. The image belies the cruel reality of how the dolls were made. According to a newly published report by the World Organization to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong (WOIPFG), My […]

The Chinese regime has ratcheted up its aggressive rhetoric toward Taiwan in recent weeks, culminating in an announcement on April 12 that the Chinese military will hold live-fire military drills in the Taiwan Straits on April 18. Taiwan has a separate political and economic system from mainland China and is, for the most part, a […]

When news emerged last July that residents in Xinjiang, located in the northwestern frontiers of China, were required to install a surveillance app onto their mobile phones, it drew the attention of the Open Technology Fund (OTF), a U.S. government-funded program that researches and develops internet freedom technology. On April 9, the OTF published an […]

After weeks of escalating trade tensions between China and the United States over import tariffs, Chinese leader Xi Jinping has finally capitulated to U.S. pressure. In a speech before the Bo’ao Forum for Asia, held on the southern Chinese island of Hainan on April 10, Xi made it clear that he was willing to concede […]

Chinese netizens are hotly debating the U.S.-China trade tariffs, and many have come to an unexpected conclusion: the United States’ tariffs might end up being beneficial to the Chinese economy. On the popular Chinese internet forum KD Net, where users frequently discuss current affairs, an article has been making the rounds, titled, “Why do so […]

The United States has finally unveiled the full list of over 1,000 Chinese products that will get slapped with import tariffs, followed by the Chinese regime’s swift escalation, announcing tariffs on American soybeans, airplanes, and other imports less than 12 hours later. The U.S. tariffs were measures punishing China for its strategic intellectual property theft […]

Illegal sand mining in the Yangtze River has continued unfettered despite the fact that Chinese authorities have banned it many years ago. Two illegal sand dredges—each loaded with about 700 tons of sand—were captured by Chinese authorities in the Hannan district of Wuhan City, Hubei Province, off the coast of the Yangtze River, on March […]

Senior Chinese diplomat Yang Jiechi visited South Korea this past weekend, where he made moves to assert China’s inclusion in talks between the United States and North Korea. Yang backtracked on previous measures punishing South Korea for hosting the United States’ missile defense system, getting in South Korea’s good graces in order to gain its […]

The Chinese Communist Party often uses front groups around the world to stage protests against diaspora Chinese who fail to adhere to the regime’s political line. Now, one of those front groups in Spain is being sued for defamatory hate speech. In April 2017, Shen Yun Performing Arts, a New York-based performing arts company that […]

After announcing tariffs on Chinese imported goods last week, the Trump administration is now considering a crackdown on Chinese investments in U.S. tech firms that develop sensitive technologies. Bloomberg reported on March 28 that the administration was considering invoking the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, enacted in 1977, which allows the president to declare a […]

The global movement of Chinese people renouncing their ties to the Chinese Communist Party and its affiliated organizations has reached an important milestone. The trend began soon after the Chinese edition of The Epoch Times published a nine-part series, “Nine Commentaries on the Chinese Communist Party,” in November and December 2004. The series dissected the […]

After U.S. President Donald Trump announced $50 billion worth of tariffs on Chinese imported goods, the Chinese regime announced it would hit back with tariffs of its own. The day after Trump’s proposals, China’s Ministry of Commerce announced on March 23 that it would impose about $3 billion worth of tariffs on U.S. imported goods. […]

President Donald Trump has just signed a memorandum to impose tariffs on Chinese imported goods worth about $50 to $60 billion annually as a penalty for China’s theft of American intellectual property (IP). The decision was made following the United States Trade Representative’s (USTR) “Section 301” investigation into China’s trade practices involving the theft and […]

In a move condemned by a transplant ethics group, the Vatican has granted legitimacy to China’s organ transplant system by inviting the head of the Chinese communist regime’s official transplant registry to speak at a Vatican panel earlier this month. For the past two decades, patients in desperate need of an organ transplant have traveled […]

Danish lawmakers and intellectuals have condemned a blatant encroachment on artistic freedom, after a local radio station exposed the Chinese Embassy’s attempts to stop the Royal Danish Theater from hosting a world-renowned performing arts company. Radio24syv obtained email correspondence between two theater employees that appeared to confirm that the Chinese Embassy had requested that the theater prevent Shen Yun Performing […]

The news of China abolishing term limits for the state chairman position has led many to speculate that current chairman Xi Jinping may rule for life. Many media surmised that China would soon return to the era of a Mao Zedong-like dictatorship. Others, including The Epoch Times, analyzed Xi’s move as indicative of his need […]

This weekend, the Chinese Communist Party kick-started its two weeks-long series of political meetings known as the Lianghui. Most of it will be a ceremonial act of the Party’s rubber-stamp legislature approving decisions already made by the Party leadership. However, there are several appointments to top positions that have not been formally announced. One question […]

Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s anti-corruption campaign has been sweeping through the country’s security apparatus—ever since the once-powerful security czar Zhou Yongkang was put under investigation and stripped of his post in 2012. The latest security official to get taken down is Ni Xingyu, the former vice-president of the Jiangsu Province Police Academy. On March 2, […]

After the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) announced proposals to revise its constitution, the provision about eliminating term limits for its leader got everyone talking. But there is another critical change with repercussions for the Party in the years to come: the constitution will list a new state organ, called the Supervision Commission, to do the […]

China is desperate to repair its relationship with the United States. Within a month, Beijing has sent two high-level officials on diplomatic visits to the U.S. to talk trade and make amends. On Feb. 8, State Councillor and top diplomat Yang Jiechi visited the U.S. and met with President Donald Trump and State Secretary Rex […]

The Chinese regime has officially proposed to eliminate a two-term limit on the country’s position of chairman, established in the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) constitution, setting the stage for current chair Xi Jinping to rule for a third term, or perhaps until death. Observers had already predicted this possibility when Xi failed to appoint a […]

China’s state-sanctioned practice of forced organ harvesting from prisoners of conscience has earned the censure of Arizona’s state government. On Feb. 23, the state House of Representatives passed a resolution urging federal lawmakers to take action by launching an investigation into the phenomenon in China; passing legislation to prohibit U.S. citizens from receiving organ transplants […]

During a recent visit of U.S. officials to Taiwan, representatives from both countries reiterated commitment to the U.S.-Taiwan alliance, emphasizing the relationship’s importance to maintaining stability in the Indo-Pacific region. The visit comes amid increased tension between China and Taiwan. After the Kuomingtang fled mainland China to the island of Taiwan following the Chinese Communist […]

During a recent visit of U.S. officials to Taiwan, representatives from both countries reiterated commitment to the U.S.-Taiwan alliance, emphasizing the relationship’s importance to maintaining stability in the Indo-Pacific region. The visit comes amid increased tension between China and Taiwan. After the Kuomingtang fled mainland China to the island of Taiwan following the Chinese Communist […]

A recent murder story has captured Chinese media and netizens online. And unlike most murder cases, many people are siding with the killer. On Chinese New Year eve, 35 year-old Zhang Koukou sought revenge on the three people who were involved in his mother’s death. Zhang witnessed his mother getting beaten to death when he […]

A recent murder story has captured Chinese media and netizens online. And unlike most murder cases, many people are siding with the killer. On Chinese New Year eve, 35 year-old Zhang Koukou sought revenge on the three people who were involved in his mother’s death. Zhang witnessed his mother getting beaten to death when he […]

This flu season has been particularly severe, considered one of the worst in a decade in the United States, and sickening many in different parts of the globe, from Hong Kong to Australia. In China, deaths caused by the flu may be underreported, which has kept the public unaware and unprepared for the brutal virus, […]

The Chinese regime has completed construction of an intelligence and communications hub in the disputed Spratly Islands located in the South China Sea, according to the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), a U.S.-based think tank. The organization published a report on Feb. 16 analyzing aerial photographs published by the Philippine Daily Inquirer and […]

The Chinese regime’s annual Lunar New Year gala broadcast on state television has once again drawn ire for what viewers felt was its blatant propaganda. Every year, CCTV puts on a pageantry of song, dance, and comedy sketches praising the Chinese Communist Party. Lampooning the show’s overtly political messages and tasteless performances has also become […]

A Chinese woman has died under mysterious circumstances just 12 days after being detained by police for her spiritual beliefs. Yu Baofang of Anshan City, Liaoning Province is a practitioner of Falun Gong, also known as Falun Dafa, a self-improvement practice that involves living according to the principles of truthfulness, compassion, and tolerance. The practice […]

The United States, Japan, and the European Union are considering filing a joint case against China at the World Trade Organization (WTO) over Chinese regulations that force foreign firms doing business there to transfer their tech innovations to domestic companies, according to Japanese newspaper Yomiuri Shimbun. The three entities began discussing ways to curb China’s […]

In the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) latest sacking of a top official accused of serious corruption, the wording of the admonishments was so severe the Party called it “rare and unusual.” After the CCP ’s anti-corruption watchdog agency announced on Feb. 13 that the head of the Cyberspace Affairs Administration, Lu Wei, has been stripped […]

Chinese leader Xi Jinping continues to find ways to consolidate his power within the Party. His latest move is to clean up house in Shanghai, one of the hotbeds for his political enemies. The Chinese Communist Party recently concluded its appointments for officials in regional versions of its rubber-stamp legislature, the National People’s Congress, and […]

Rumors of China’s former security czar Luo Gan using his political clout to benefit his family have long been circulating on the Chinese internet. But with the publication of a recent exposé on the shady financial dealings of Luo’s nephew, Luo Shaoyu, Luo Gan’s famliy’s secrets are being unveiled. The fact that the Chinese authorities—hawk-eyed […]