While forced organ harvesting of prisoners of conscience in China has drawn worldwide condemnation, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has been investing heavily in controversial research on using genetically modified pigs as a source of human organ transplantation, touting it as a “world first” achievement. And the cloning of pigs has long since entered “industrial scale.” According to Chinese media, […]

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has again delayed the release of the 2020 census results. An expert suspects that the CCP needs time to massage the figures.

Pompeo Announces an International Alliance to Defend Religious Freedom

Twitter Suspends Accounts Critical of Chinese Regime Days Before Tiananmen Anniversary

Two tweets by President Donald Trump about raising tariffs on Chinese goods caused Chinese stock markets to tumble and media to speculate that the trade negotiations with China wouldn’t go forward. And while Chinese official media have been silent on Trump’s decision to raise tariffs, Chinese netizens are celebrating and calling Trump the “Great Savior” […]

WASHINGTON—A silent and peaceful appeal of more than 10,000 people at a “sensitive place” in China before a “sensitive date” 20 years ago seized the world’s attention, more so than even some of the loudest or most violent protests in history. Twenty years later, a similarly silent and peaceful rally was held in Washington to […]

WASHINGTON—China’s elite love President Donald Trump and hope he can put useful pressure on China to move reforms forward, a top American researcher said recently. William Overholt, a senior research fellow at Harvard University’s Asia Center, said, “The Chinese elite love Trump. … The United States elite hates Trump and the masses love him.” He […]

President Donald Trump said Jan. 19 there has been progress toward a trade deal with China, but denied that he was considering lifting tariffs on Chinese imports. “Things are going very well with China and with trade,” he told reporters at the White House, adding that he had seen some “false reports” indicating that U.S. […]

News Analysis Chinese Premier Li Keqiang recently said that “times of austerity” are ahead for China. His warning follows a similar one by the Minister of Finance of China, and analysts said this talk of belt-tightening is a sign that China’s economy is getting worse. According to the official website of the State Council of […]

A new round of chilling phone calls reveals that live organ harvesting of Falun Gong practitioners continues in China at a variety of leading transplant centers in different regions of the country. The conversations, with doctors from 12 transplant hospitals in China, also show that this “business” has become “normal” at these facilities: None of the […]

WASHINGTON—Communist China poses the most severe threat to the U.S. economy and national security; the future of the whole world is at stake; and the United States needs a whole-of-society approach to fight back, U.S. senators were told at a Dec. 12 Judiciary Committee hearing. In his opening remarks at the hearing, “China’s Non-Traditional Espionage […]

WASHINGTON—When the United Kingdom handed over Hong Kong to the People’s Republic of China, a treaty guaranteed the city would retain its way of life through the adoption of the policy of “one country, two systems.” An expert who monitors Hong Kong’s freedoms came to Washington to warn U.S. legislators that this policy, which was […]

WASHINGTON—Religious freedom should be an important facet of any new or retooled trade agreement between the United States and China, an expert said during a briefing on human rights and religious freedom in China. In the briefing on Oct. 11, hosted by the International Religious Freedom Caucus and the International Religious Freedom Roundtable (IRFR), representatives […]

WASHINGTON—The Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC) issues a report every year on human rights and rule of law in the People’s Republic of China, although the feeling at the release of this year’s report felt different. There was sadness that an already desperate human-rights situation continues to deteriorate, but also a sense that things might […]

Recently, the general public has begun to recognize how the Chinese regime works to try to influence opinion in the United States and around the world. But even the well-informed may be surprised to learn that one of the Chinese Communist Party’s main targets is Shen Yun, a world-class Chinese dance and music performing arts […]

In a rarity for Beijing diplomacy, no effort was made to disguise the frosty and tense atmosphere encountered by U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who had come for a one-day visit. The likely cause was the landmark speech given by Vice President Mike Pence a few days ago, which has been likened by many […]

WASHINGTON—Vice President Mike Pence delivered a strong message: The Chinese Communist Party is employing an unprecedented approach to meddle in the United States’ democracy and to influence public opinion, but President Donald Trump won’t back down because his leadership is working. In a speech on U.S. policy toward China at the Hudson Institute on Oct. […]

WASHINGTON—The United States needs more tools to counter China’s aggressive efforts to acquire American intellectual property through legal and illegal means, experts told a congressional hearing “For more than 40 years, the U.S. has encouraged China to develop its own economy, and to take its place alongside with the U. S. as a central and […]

A highly respected Houston scientist recruited by the Chinese regime as part of its international talent search has been arrested for allegedly possessing child pornography. The arrest of Xie Keping, a professor in gastroenterology research at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, has caused a sensation among the Chinese diaspora in America, and […]

New legislation and new approaches by law enforcement are addressing the longstanding problem of how the Chinese regime uses the American educational system to steal secrets that damage America’s national and economic security. On Sept. 13, Rep. Francis Rooney (R-Fla.) introduced the Stop Higher Education Espionage and Theft (SHEET) Act of 2018 to stop foreign […]

With the Chinese Communist Party’s most important mouthpiece, People’s Daily, claiming that China won’t back down when faced with “external challenges,” the United States needs to find a new means to win the trade war, and may want to focus on human rights, a China expert says. The People’s Daily published an editorial of more […]

WASHINGTON—For decades, U.S.–Sino policy was rooted in the belief that support for China’s rise and its integration into the post-war international world order would liberalize the communist nation. Now U.S. lawmakers are seeing a need to assess options for countering China’s ”less-than-peaceful rise.” China now wants to shape the world with its authoritarian model, so […]

Can making a film in a peaceful country at a peaceful time feel like going to war? For Doris Liu, director of the documentary “In the Name of Confucius,” the answer is “yes.” The 52-minute award-winning documentary was screened at the 38th Annual Conference of the North America Taiwanese Professors’ Association in Washington on Aug. […]

People in the United States and other Western countries may have called Donald J. Trump a lot of different names, but in China, many people are addressing him as “Chuan Da Ye.” “Chuan” is the Chinese pronunciation for Trump. “Da” means big or great, and “Ye” means grandfather, grandpa, or more broadly, an elderly male. […]

WASHINGTON—The Senate passed on Aug. 1 the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which had already been approved by the House by a vote of 359–54 on July 26. Experts say one purpose of the mammoth $716 billion defense authorization bill is “to rein in China’s investments in the United States.” The bill includes reforms to […]

The strategy first used by President Donald Trump against North Korea is now being employed in the trade war against China and will bring far worse consequences for the Chinese economy than many expect, said an expert. “Although he might not have said it, what President Trump is adopting during the trade war with China […]

In an exclusive interview, Congressman Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.) said the movement for quitting the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), known as the “Tuidang” movement, will help achieve “a more peaceful world.” Because of it, “my children will be safer,” he said. On June 8, Rohrabacher introduced into Congress H.Res.932, a resolution “Expressing solidarity with the Tuidang […]

WASHINGTON—Nineteen years are more than enough for a generation to grow up. Yet the same generation of people are still coming back to Washington, around the same day each year, to call for an end of the now 19-year-long persecution in China of the spiritual practice of Falun Gong. Some bring along their children born […]