China

When a Chinese doctor posted an online article warning people against the side effects of a brand of Chinese medicinal liquor, police were instructed to arrest him. News recently emerged that the doctor has become mentally unstable after being detained by authorities in Inner Mongolia for three months. Tan Qindong, 39, a doctor from Guangzhou […]

WASHINGTON—U.S. trade tensions with China is “on hold” after the world’s largest economies agreed to drop their tariff threats while they work on a wider trade agreement, U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said on May 20. Mnuchin and U.S. President Donald Trump’s top economic adviser, Larry Kudlow, said the agreement reached by Chinese and American negotiators this […]

China is notorious for its poor copyright protection, with one international company after another turning to Chinese courts to sue for copyright infringement. The popular U.S. brand of Ritz crackers is at the center of the lastest trademark infringement case in China. On May 15, Dongguan Intermediate People’s Court in southern China’s Guangdong Province held […]

China is slowly amassing control over the global supply of lithium, an important mineral in the production supply chain of new technologies.

As the Chinese regime expands and upgrades the technology of its campaigns against internal dissent, allegations have emerged saying that Western know-how indirectly aided the communist state’s repression. On May 9, U.S. Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Representative Chris Smith (R-NJ), who also chair the Congressional-Executive Commission on China, sent a letter to the U.S. […]

A recent document being widely circulated on the Chinese internet reveals the enormous scale of corruption among Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials. An abused wife with personal grievances has blown the whistle on her father-in-law, a retired Party official, and his amassed wealth. Under the Chinese regime’s “jubao” system, a citizen or public employee can […]

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 […]

YAJI MOUNTAIN, China—On Yaji Mountain in southern China, they are checking in the sows a thousand head per floor in high-rise “hog hotels”. Privately owned agricultural company Guangxi Yangxiang Co. Ltd. is running two seven-floor sow breeding operations and is putting up four more, including one with as many as 13 floors that will be […]

A bid to take over Portugal’s biggest utility firm Energias de Portugal (EDP) by a Chinese state-owned company could have reverberations across Europe and North America.

BEIJING—China dropped its anti-dumping probe into imports of U.S. sorghum and cancelled anti-dumping duties on May 18, beating a hasty retreat from a dispute that wreaked chaos across the global grain market and raised concerns about rising costs and financial damage at home. The move was seen as a goodwill concession as Chinese Vice Premier Liu He […]

WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump sought to mollify North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on May 17 after Pyongyang threatened to scrap an unprecedented summit, saying Kim’s security would be guaranteed in any deal and his country would not suffer the fate of Muammar Gaddafi’s Libya, unless that could not be reached. In remarks given in the White […]

WASHINGTON—Members of Congress are pushing for a tougher response to the Chinese regime’s growing aggression. Witnesses in a Congressional hearing recommended deploying tactical nuclear weapons to Asia, showing strong support for Taiwan, and exposing human rights abuses in China as immediate steps that could curb Beijing’s drive toward global hegemony. China’s economic rise has enabled […]

FALLSBURG, NY—On State Route 17 in Bloomingburg, New York, a billboard tucked away near the treeline of the highway has drawn the ire of local residents. The billboard shows four people in graduation hats and gowns holding what look like diplomas and the words “Thompson Education Center” and “Exit 112” in Chinese and English. At […]

Within a judicial system that lacks rule of law, a simple hearing turned violent when Chinese police prevented a Hong Kong journalist from reporting on the scene. Chui Chun-ming, a cameraman for Now TV, a paid-TV service provider in Hong Kong, was in Beijing to cover a disciplinary hearing for Xie Yangyi, one of the […]

An official associated with China’s organ donation system has been sentenced for corruption. Xie Xianci, deputy director of the organ donation management center in southeastern China’s Jiangxi Province was sentenced by the People’s Court in Qingyunpu District, located in the Jiangxi capital of Nanchang City. Xie was sentenced to two-years imprisonment, with reprieve for two […]

The host organization for inviting the U.S.-based Shen Yun Performing Arts to perform in Hong Kong has been unable to rent a performance venue for 10 years. Recent revelations indicate that the Liaison Office in Hong Kong, an organ of the Chinese regime, has been the force behind efforts to prevent government- and privately-owned theaters […]

A senior military officer in China has been downgraded eight grades, according to a May 16 report by Hong Kong newspaper South China Morning Post (SCMP), citing sources close to the Chinese military. General Cai Yingting, a former deputy chief of general staff before he retired in 2017, was demoted from the Grade 10 position […]

TOKYO—Japanese buyers have bought between 150,000 and 180,000 tons of U.S. sorghum carried by three vessels previously bound for China, amid a trade spat between Beijing and Washington, five industry sources with knowledge of the deals told Reuters. The cargoes were among roughly two dozen bought by China but left stranded after Beijing announced last month that it would […]

These may sound like words coming from a mob boss: whack our targets, and if unable to locate them, find their friends and relatives. But these are precisely the words uttered by a municipal Chinese Communist Party official while talking about how petitioners—ordinary citizens who appeal the Beijing authorities about their grievances—should be dealt with. This […]

As the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) regime continues to commit a wide range of human rights abuses and to crackdown on political dissidents in China, U.S. Congressmen,  Chinese dissidents, and Western human rights activists expressed support for the Chinese people repudiating their membership in the CCP or its affiliated organizations, which more than 300 million […]