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 […]