China

Days after the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) announced that it would be mandating all publicly-listed companies in the country to set up Party organizations for their employees, provincial authorities in Zhejiang Province decided to extend the Party’s influence to startups in the area as well. The party committee of the Leo Group, a maker of […]

President Trump announced new tariffs on $50 billion worth of Chinese goods last Friday, doubling down on his promise to level the playing field and defend against improper intellectual property theft by China.

In its latest attempt to further entrench communist ideology in all facets of society, the Communist Party in China is now mandating that all of the country’s publicly-listed companies set up Party organizations for its employees. Party organizations are set up in the workplace to ensure staff and workplace decisions toe the Party line. Usually, they […]

June 16 marks the 10th anniversary of China’s tainted milk powder scandal, when milk powder laced with poisonous melamine sickened hundreds of thousands of infants and caused at least six deaths. Ten years later, Chinese authorities are still stamping out any mention of the incident to keep it from public memory. Jiang Yalin, whose 11-year-old […]

The Chinese regime’s increasing involvement in the Pacific Islands region is squeezing Taiwan’s already limited international space while also posing security challenges to the United States and its allies Australia and New Zealand, a Congressional report says. The Pacific Islands—a region in the vast Pacific Ocean that contains 14 countries, 7.7 million square miles of […]

A former engineer for British multinational Rolls-Royce was arrested on June 12 after for allegedly passing military trade secrets to China. Bryn Jones, a former chief combustion technologist employed by Rolls-Royce from 1968 to 1996, was arrested at his home in the United Kingdom, British newspaper The Sun first reported. He is suspected of giving away […]

There was an ugly woman in the state of Qi during the Warring States Period (475–221 B.C.) who was still single at the age of 40. One day, she came to the king’s palace and asked to marry the king. The strangest thing was, the king did marry her and even made her the queen. […]

In Chinese culture, the little sparrow has been looked upon with much affection, and the bird has been depicted in Chinese paintings as a symbol of hope and happiness for hundreds of years. One misguided dictator decided to decimate them, and as a result, millions of people died from the domino effect. The Great Sparrow campaign, also called the […]

Sixteen years ago on the afternoon of Nov. 20, 2001, 36 Westerners from 12 countries quietly appeared on Tiananmen Square—the symbolic heart of China—with a simple message that shocked all those at the Square that day. Their unprecedented protest soon made international headlines. After group photos, most of the 36 Westerners from Europe, Australia, and North America sat […]

The Oregon mother who found a chilling S.O.S. letter hidden inside a Halloween “graveyard” kit has finally found the man who wrote the note. The letter, hidden inside toys made in a Chinese labor camp, made headlines back in 2012. Now, this man’s fate has come to light. Julie Keith purchased the Halloween “graveyard” decorations […]

In Chinese culture, the little sparrow has been looked upon with much affection, and the bird has been depicted in Chinese paintings as a symbol of hope and happiness for hundreds of years. One misguided dictator decided to decimate them, and as a result, millions of people died from the domino effect. The Great Sparrow campaign, also called the […]

Sixteen years ago on the afternoon of Nov. 20, 2001, 36 Westerners from 12 countries quietly appeared on Tiananmen Square—the symbolic heart of China—with a simple message that shocked all those at the Square that day. Their unprecedented protest soon made international headlines. After group photos, most of the 36 Westerners from Europe, Australia, and North America sat […]

Lady Fan was a consort of King Zhuang of Chu. This virtuous lady displayed her wits and wisdom some 2,600 years ago. It was because of her that King Zhuang became one of the Five Hegemons during the Spring and Autumn period of Chinese history (770–476 B.C.). After he ascended the throne, King Zhuang was […]

A group of Taiwanese-Canadians gathered in front of Air Canada’s headquarters in Montreal on Thursday to protest the airline’s move to list Taiwan as part of China on its website. The airline is one of several other airlines around the world that followed a demand by the Chinese communist regime to remove any references on […]

WASHINGTON—The U.S. Supreme Court sided against China on June 14, throwing out a lower court ruling that had allowed two Chinese vitamin C makers to escape almost $148 million in damages for violating American antitrust law. In a case that brought trade conflicts between the world’s two largest economies before the top U.S. court, the justices ruled 9-0 that the lower court gave too much […]

WASHINGTON/BEIJING—U.S. President Donald Trump announced hefty tariffs on $50 billion of Chinese imports on June 15 as Beijing threatened to respond in kind, in a move that looks set to ignite another bout of trade disputes between the world’s two largest economies. Trump said in a statement that a 25 percent tariff would be imposed on a list […]

TAIPEI—Taiwan prosecutors indicted the spokesman for a pro-China political party and two other party members for allegedly seeking to recruit Taiwan military officers on behalf of China and violating the National Security Act, a court statement said. The Taipei District Prosecutors’ Office said in a statement on June 13 that New Party spokesman Wang Ping-chung […]

President Donald Trump’s blocking of a Chinese bid to purchase an American chipmaker last year stalled Beijing’s technology grab, but only briefly. Chinese companies have reportedly achieved certain breakthroughs in a semiconductor chip it originally sought from the United States, a component that has extensive military applications, such as in cruise missiles and advanced radars […]

In a June 12 press release, the U.S. Department of Commerce announced that it was initiating an investigation into whether steel propane cylinders from China, Taiwan, and Thailand are being dumped in the United States at much lower prices, stifling competition from American manufacturers. The cylinders are portable tanks of propane commonly used to heat […]

In the span of two weeks, two Chinese officials from a provincial prison management bureau have been placed under investigation for human rights violations.  Gao Qi, current deputy inspector with the prison management bureau in northern China’s Shanxi Province, was placed under investigation by the province’s discipline and supervision commissions, reported People’s Net, the online […]