U.S. Olympic figure skater Alysa Liu and her father Arthur Liu—a former political refugee—were among those targeted in a spying operation that the Justice Department alleges was ordered by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), the elder Liu said late Wednesday. Arthur Liu told The Associated Press he had been contacted by the FBI last October, […]
Parents in China understand the need to keep a close eye on their children: to prevent them from wandering off, as there is an ever-present risk of child abduction. Over there, the idea of children being stolen, sold, and enslaved is not an abstract notion or an isolated circumstance—it’s a day-to-day reality. In 1995, a […]
It has now officially been two weeks since the Freedom Convoy protest in Canada reached the capital city of Ottawa. And amid all of the challenges that they are facing—from the media, from the police, from the courts, from politicians, from Big Tech, and so on—it appears that their protest is actually working. As of […]
Now we take a look at a video going viral online. People in the video are saying: “To repay our leader, we are ready to risk everything.” “Follow the party general secretary and go to the future together” This is not in North Korea, it’s in China, at Tiananmen Square, in the center of Beijing. […]
The Winter Olympics is less than a week away and one of the events in the games will be curling. You may have watched it on TV—but do you know the rules? Some Olympic fans in D.C. got a chance to take a stab at it—and it turns out to be pretty hard.
One Beijing resident says her family is being torn apart for the second time in the span of just 15 years. She practices the spiritual meditation system called Falun Gong. Despite living as an upstanding citizen—she’s now facing an 8-year prison sentence. She was assigned the punishment just weeks before the Winter Olympics kicks off […]
To get into Beijing’s Winter Olympics, Team USA is required to give up their athletes’ health data to a Chinese app. But a research group says the app has security flaws that could put their data at risk and that the risk wouldn’t be limited to their health data either.
The international Olympic committee, or IOC, is taking heat. Politicians and athletes are denouncing the organization for what they say is the committee’s complicity towards Beijing’s human rights violations. Germany’s triple Olympic medallist Erik Lesser said the IOC should face any criticism over Beijing being given the right to host the Winter Olympics.
If you’re a sports fan in the United States—you may find the Winter Olympics on TV this year—missing something. With the event in Beijing almost here, the official Olympics broadcaster in the U.S—NBC announced Wednesday that it will not be sending any announcing teams to China—citing “COVID concerns.”
The Biden administration will make high-quality masks and more tests free for Americans, amid surging cases and record hospitalizations. The Supreme Court on Thursday blocked President Joe Biden’s vaccine rule for large businesses—but the court is allowing the mandate for health care workers. Americans are paying at least 7 percent more for most common items […]
WASHINGTON—A bipartisan group of U.S. senators on Thursday proposed an amendment to an annual defense policy bill that would impose a diplomatic boycott of China’s Winter Olympics—less than 100 days away—amid accusations of rights abuses by Beijing. The amendment, led by Republican Senator Mitt Romney, mirrors language included in sweeping China-related legislation the Senate passed […]
Beijing has scrambled to tighten travel restrictions and expand vaccination campaigns in an effort to crush rising COVID-19 infections; as the 100-day countdown to the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics begins, an official says the outbreak poses the biggest challenge. Beijing is at a critical stage of controlling COVID-19, Pang Xinghuo, vice head of the Beijing […]
British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab has said it is “unlikely” he will attend the Winter Olympics in Beijing next year. The government has faced calls from a chorus of MPs to stage a diplomatic boycott of the Games due to take place next February because of Chinese government action in Xinjiang, Tibet, and Hong Kong. […]
Groups alleging human-rights abuses against minorities in China are calling for a full-blown boycott of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, a move likely to ratchet up pressure on the International Olympic Committee, athletes, sponsors and sports federations. A coalition representing Uyghurs, Tibetans, residents of Hong Kong and others issued a statement Monday calling for […]
Airbnb Inc. is being asked to drop its sponsorship connections to next year’s Beijing’s Winter Olympics by a coalition of 150 human-rights campaigners. The coalition is headed by groups that oppose rights violations in China including the detention of Muslim Uyghurs in the Xinjiang region. Airbnb is one of the International Olympic Committee’s leading 15 sponsors. […]
