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A recent report published by a Chinese professor has revealed that China had the greatest proportion of people engaged in extramarital affairs. Pan Suiming, a professor at Renmin University, conducted a nationwide survey for nearly two decades. Since 2000, Pan took random samples from around the country every five years. He found that the number […]

Interpol, the international police organization, is currently headed by China’s vice-minister for public security, Meng Hongwei. Since he was elected leader of Interpol in 2016, the Chinese Communist regime has used Interpol’s red notices to step up suppression of Chinese dissidents who have escaped overseas and harass their family inside China. An Interpol red notice […]

A high school in Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province located on the eastern coast of China, has employed facial recognition technology to monitor students’ attentiveness in class. At Hangzhou Number 11 High School, three cameras at the front of the classroom scan students’ faces every 30 seconds, analyzing their facial expressions to detect their mood, according […]

In recent weeks, veterans across China have protested to demand proper welfare benefits and other government assistance. Veterans of the Vietnam War in Leizhou City, Guangdong Province, held a demonstration on May 9 around 10 a.m. A source told The Epoch Times that more than 100 veterans dressed in military uniforms and paraded with banners. […]

Just days after Chinese media reported that an unprecedented number of corporations have defaulted on bonds they owed, the Chinese regime has announced that local governments can issue bonds to repay debts that will mature in 2018—highlighting the enormity of China’s debt problem. The policy was announced on May 15 by the Ministry of Finance, […]

A major Chinese telecoms company is suspected of scamming customers in Changsha City, a metropolis located in central China’s Hunan Province. Meanwhile, local media and authorities have turned a blind eye to their misfortunes. According to 212 victims, since 2012, a manager surnamed Hu working at the Changsha branch of China Telecom has been promoting […]

May 12 marked the 10-year anniversary of a 7.9-magnitude earthquake that struck Wenchuan County, Sichuan Province in southwestern China, killing 69,227 and injuring 374,643, according to the Chinese regime’s Ministry of Civil Affairs. More than 17,000 remain missing. An estimated 7,000 school buildings in the earthquake zone collapsed. At Beichuan Middle School alone, more than […]

UNITED NATIONS–The United States indirectly criticised China on May 14 for shielding Burma, also known as Myanmar, from strong U.N. Security Council action over a military crackdown against mainly Rohingya Muslims that the U.S. and other countries have denounced as ethnic cleansing. U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley did not mention China by name, but China proposed […]

SHANGHAI—The co-pilot of a Sichuan Airlines flight that was forced to make an emergency landing on Monday was “sucked halfway” out of the plane after a cockpit windshield blew out, media reported, citing the aircraft’s captain. Liu Chuanjian, hailed a hero on social media after having to land the Airbus A319 manually, told the Chengdu […]

With less than a month before the historic summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Singapore on June 12, negotiations are underway to decide how the North Korean regime will dismantle its nuclear arsenal. Meanwhile, the Chinese regime—North Korea’s communist ally—has been eager to exert itself into U.S.-North […]

Chinese ride-hailing app Didi Chuxing has been granted a permit to test self-driving vehicles in California, according to an update on the California Department of Motor Vehicles website. The news was first reported by The Financial Times and CNBC. The company is seeking to catch up with international rivals as it faces stiff competition in […]

TORONTO—Over a thousand people gathered in downtown Toronto on Saturday to celebrate Falun Dafa Day, the 26th anniversary of the introduction of Falun Dafa to the public. Falun Dafa, also known as Falun Gong, is a spiritual discipline that combines gentle meditation exercises with moral teachings based on the principles of truthfulness, compassion, and tolerance. […]

Chinese state media enthusiastically announced the formation of an “internet federation” on May 9, which claims to be China’s first non-governmental organization made up of Chinese internet companies. But is it really independent from the Chinese regime? The president of the 300-member organization is Ren Xianliang, former deputy director of the regime’s internet censorship agency, […]

SHANGHAI—A Sichuan Airlines flight made an emergency landing in the southwest Chinese city of Chengdu on May 14 after a windshield on the right side of the jet’s cockpit broke off, China’s aviation authority said. No passengers were injured in the incident but the pilot sitting in the right seat, who is usually the first […]

WASHINGTON/BEIJING—U.S. President Donald Trump has pledged to help ZTE “get back into business, fast” after a recent U.S. ban crippled the Chinese telecoms company, offering a job-saving concession to Beijing ahead of high-stakes trade talks this week. Trump made the unexpected announcement via Twitter on May 13. It was a stunning reversal, given Washington’s tough stance in […]

The latest corruption scandal involving a Chinese Communist Party official has caused a stir on Chinese social media—because of the light sentence he received for the enormous amount of money he had pocketed. Zhao Wanchou, 57, former chief of the Coal Industry Bureau in Jincheng, a city in northern China’s Shanxi Province, was given a […]

NEW YORK—The Macau-based billionaire and real estate developer Ng Lap Seng was sentenced to four years in prison on May 11 after being found guilty last July of bribing two United Nations ambassadors to help him build a multibillion dollar conference center. Ng, 69, was sentenced in Manhattan federal court by U.S. District Judge Vernon Broderick, who also ordered him to […]

WASHINGTON—The U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) said on May 11 it had made a final finding in a dumping investigation that imports of tool chests from China and Vietnam were harming U.S. producers. The decision paves the way for the U.S. Commerce Department to slap duties of up to 327 percent on the goods for a five-year initial period. […]

Taiwan’s military has publicized an interception of People’s Republic of China (PRC) military aircraft that encroached on the contested East China Sea and Ryukyu Islands area near Taiwan. It marks the first time that Taiwan has released video footage of such interceptions, which have grown more frequent as Beijing continues to escalate its military maneuvers […]

The Chinese Communist Party has devised a new high-tech method of testing Party members’ loyalty: using virtual reality. In the town of Qingyang in Zouping County, Shandong Province, the local authorities have established the country’s first VR center for ensuring that Party members maintain the “Party spirit.” According to a May 6 report by the […]

WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Marco Rubio announced legislation on May 10 that would bar the sale of “sensitive” technology to China and hike some duties and taxes, in the latest move by U.S. lawmakers to clamp down on what they regard as Beijing’s efforts to steal U.S. intellectual property. Rubio, a Republican member of the Foreign Relations […]

WASHINGTON—Defense Secretary Jim Mattis urged top lawmakers shepherding a must-pass defense bill through Congress to include measures that would tighten oversight of foreign investment in the United States in hopes of hampering Chinese efforts to gain access to sensitive U.S. technology. In a letter dated May 11, which was seen by Reuters and has not […]

The Czech Republic, which has considerably increased its political and economic cooperation with China since 2014, has been shaken by uncertainty surrounding the Chinese energy giant CEFC China Energy. The large Chinese conglomerate had promised to invest tens of billions in the country. After a press release emerged that the CEO of CEFC, Ye Jianming, […]

As more and more Australians continue to stand up to and speak against the infiltration and influence of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) overseas, a grassroots movement against the Chinese regime continues to gain momentum in China. Since The Epoch Times published The Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party, more than 300 million oppressed Chinese […]

Chinese economists have analyzed China’s trade data and the forecast does not look optimistic. Last week, the Chinese regime announced that it had recorded a current account deficit of $28.2 billion for the first three months of 2018—the first quarterly deficit recorded since 2001. But the Chinese regime was still confident, as it continued to […]

HONG KONG—ZTE’s main business operations have ceased due to a ban imposed by the U.S. government, but China’s second biggest telecom equipment maker is trying to have the ban modified or reversed, it said on May 9. ZTE was hit by a ban last month from Washington, forbidding U.S. firms from supplying it with tech parts […]

The former chairman of China’s Anbang Insurance Group has been found guilty of fraud and embezzlement and sentenced to 18 years in prison, three months after the state seized control of the insurance conglomerate famed for buying New York’s Waldorf Astoria hotel. Wu Xiaohui will also surrender 10.5 billion yuan ($1.65 billion), and his bank accounts, properties, […]