Eva Fu is a New York-based writer for The Epoch Times focusing on U.S. politics, U.S.-China relations, religious freedom, and human rights. Contact Eva at [email protected]
DEERPARK, N.Y.—Two hours from Manhattan, deep in the rolling hills, a 400-acre performing arts campus turns the clock back a thousand years to China’s ancient Tang Dynasty. Artists rise for a new day of stretching, jumping, and perfecting their techniques. They run laps around the lake, finishing as golden rays hit the temple roofs. The […]
TAMPA, Fla.—A Florida engineer has pleaded guilty to acting as a Chinese agent to collect intelligence on dissidents and U.S. nonprofits and firms. Li Ping, a 59-year-old U.S. citizen born in China, on Aug. 23 admitted to conspiring to act as a Chinese agent since at least 2012. Under the direction of the Ministry of […]
Shen Yun Performing Arts says recent media reporting about it is “riddled with gross distortion” and aids Beijing’s global campaign to malign the arts company, which was founded by first generation immigrants and artists fleeing persecution in China. Headquartered in upstate New York, Shen Yun was founded in 2006 with a mission to revive traditional […]
WASHINGTON—A man who had part of his liver forcibly removed in communist China has stepped forward after escaping the country, drawing attention to Beijing’s mass killing-for-profit scheme known as forced organ harvesting. Cheng Peiming, a Falun Gong practitioner turning 59 this month, in an Aug. 9 press event recalled six prison guards pinning him down […]
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) introduced a bill on July 31 aimed at deterring the Chinese regime’s state-sanctioned killing of Falun Gong practitioners for their organs. The Falun Gong Protection Act would make it U.S. policy to avoid cooperation with China in the organ transplantation field and compel Beijing to end “any state-sponsored organ harvesting campaign.” […]
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y.—Two men have pleaded guilty to acting as illegal Chinese agents in helping Beijing to further its suppression of the faith group Falun Gong in the United States. The pair, John Chen and Lin Feng from California, worked for months in 2023 with a Chinese official in a scheme to bribe the IRS […]
U.S. authorities have charged a Florida telecommunications worker with spying on the persecuted Falun Gong community and other Chinese dissidents for years on behalf of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), a newly unsealed federal indictment shows. The man, Li Ping, is a U.S. citizen who emigrated from China. For more than 12 years—from about January […]
BUTLER, Pa.—An assailant fired several shots at former President Donald Trump during a rally on July 13, piercing the former president’s right ear, killing a man in the stands, and critically injuring two others. The former president was airlifted to a nearby hospital and was in good health. His jet departed Pennsylvania minutes before midnight, […]
WASHINGTON—U.S. officials and leaders of human rights organizations joined a rally in Washington on July 11 to call for an end to the Chinese communist regime’s 25-year-long persecution of Falun Gong. “The United States, in a bipartisan way, stands with Falun Gong,” Rep. Pat Ryan (D-N.Y.) told thousands gathered at the National Mall. “[The U.S.] […]
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) joined former President Donald Trump at a campaign rally in Doral, Florida, just days before the 45th president is expected to announce his vice presidential pick. Former President Trump referred to Mr. Rubio more than a dozen times throughout his speech, at times hinting that the senator could be his choice. […]
The State Department has called on the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to end the “depraved” practice of forced organ harvesting, describing it as “a blatant abuse of human rights.” “Researchers, activists, and organizations continue to compile information that could implicate PRC authorities in harvesting organs from nonvoluntary donors, including prisoners of conscience and members of […]
The State Department has placed the limelight on Beijing’s persistent efforts to censor Shen Yun Performing Arts, a New York-based arts group that tours the world to present traditional Chinese culture while drawing attention to ongoing human rights abuses in China. The department’s annual religious freedom report, released on June 26, documents the Chinese Communist […]
The House has passed a bill with the goal of forcing an end to the Chinese regime’s long-running campaign of persecution against the spiritual group Falun Gong. The bipartisan Falun Gong Protection Act (H.R. 4132), introduced by Rep. Scott Perry (R-Pa.) with 18 co-sponsors, passed by a voice vote on June 25. It is the […]
WASHINGTON—A bipartisan bill aimed at curbing the Chinese Communist Party’s decades-long persecution of faith group Falun Gong is heading to the House floor on June 25. The legislation, called the Falun Gong Protection Act (H.R. 4132), would require the United States to impose sanctions on foreign individuals who “are knowingly responsible for, are complicit in, […]
The blame is on the Chinese regime no matter how COVID-19 arose, said Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah). “Whether it was from a wet market, or the Wuhan lab, China’s to blame. Both those things were in China,” he said at a Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee hearing examining evidence on the origins of […]
NEW YORK—The United States is looking to strengthen alliances with China’s neighbors in response to an increasingly aggressive and repressive regime, according to Nicholas Burns, the U.S. ambassador to China. At a moderated discussion at Manhattan’s Asia Society, the U.S. diplomat flashed back to the Clinton era, when the United States advocated for bringing China […]
The Chinese regime hires agents to go after dissidents all over the world in a bid to get them back to China, a former spy and victims have revealed. The spy, who recently defected to Australia, gave the name Eric. For 15 years, he took orders from secret police in China to target dissidents in […]
NEW YORK—Thousands of people in blue and yellow jackets popped up in the heart of the Big Apple for a parade on May 10 just after a misty rain. It’s an annual tradition. Fairies holding lotus flowers, a float ferrying people in ancient Chinese attire, a Western-style marching band, and Chinese waist drummers. They marched […]
Serbian authorities arrested multiple Falun Gong practitioners ahead of a visit by Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leader Xi Jinping, only to release them after Xi left the country. The move by Serbian authorities occurred just days after Russian authorities raided five homes and arrested four Falun Gong practitioners ahead of a planned meeting between Russian […]
Russia’s jailing of a Falun Gong practitioner amid growing ties with the Chinese regime is stirring alarm in Washington, with the State Department and lawmakers condemning the move. A Moscow court on May 4 placed a Falun Gong practitioner in detention for nearly two months on the basis of her faith, the day after police […]
