Chinese Regime

The court trial for Wang Yincheng, former president of China’s state-owned People’s Insurance Company of China (PICC Group) accused of bribery, began on April 16. Since taking power in 2012, Chinese leader Xi Jinping launched a sweeping anti-corruption campaign, which has felled scores of officials and businesses in the finance sector involved in corruption—particularly those […]

The Chinese regime’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Navy said in a high profile announcement that it will hold a live-fire military drill on the China side of the Taiwan Strait on April 18. In response, Taiwan told its citizens that the drill is  just a routine exercise and they have nothing to fear. The April […]

The Chinese regime has ratcheted up its aggressive rhetoric toward Taiwan in recent weeks, culminating in an announcement on April 12 that the Chinese military will hold live-fire military drills in the Taiwan Straits on April 18. Taiwan has a separate political and economic system from mainland China and is, for the most part, a […]

Shen Baozhong, deputy president of the Heilongjiang Academy of Medical Sciences and president of the Fourth Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University (HMU), has been placed under investigation by Chinese communist authorities on suspicion of “seriously violating Party discipline,” state-run news agency Xinhua reported on April 7. The turn-of-phrase is an oft-used euphemism for corruption. […]

BEIJING—A former senior official once considered a contender for the top leader position admitted to taking bribes of more than 170 million yuan ($27 million), Chinese state media said on April 12. Sun Zhengcai, 54, was abruptly removed last July from his post as Communist Party chief of southwestern Chongqing, one of China’s most important cities, […]

Since the #MeToo movement gained momentum in China, more women have spoken out about the high prevalence of sexual assault on China’s university campuses. Li Youyou, a Chinese woman now living in Canada, revealed in an online post that her friend committed suicide 20 years ago after being sexually assaulted by her professor at Peking […]

A new report published by a U.S. think tank says that it is just “a matter of time” before the People’s Republic of China launches a limited yet decisive military invasion against the Senkaku Islands, the disputed islands in the East China Sea currently controlled by Japan. Published by the Project 2049 Institute, the report’s […]

North Korea has recently begun sending laborers to China, violating United Nations (UN) sanctions imposed against the regime. As sanctions for North Korea’s continued testing of nuclear weapons, the UN Security Council passed Resolution No. 2375 last September, which stipulated that UN members cannot issue new labor permits to North Korean workers. Several months later […]

A road in a poverty-stricken area of central China that cost nearly 1.6 billion yuan (approximately $250 million) in government poverty-relief funds has recently been revealed to be shoddily built. Despite drastic improvements in standards of living, large swathes of China remain impoverished. According to World Bank data, about 493 million, or 36 percent of […]

The United States has finally unveiled the full list of more than 1,000 Chinese products that will be slapped with import tariffs, followed by the Chinese regime’s announcement of tariffs on American soybeans, airplanes, and other imports less than 12 hours later. The U.S. tariffs were measures punishing China for its strategic intellectual property theft […]

Senior Chinese diplomat Yang Jiechi visited South Korea this past weekend, where he made moves to assert China’s inclusion in talks between the United States and North Korea. Yang backtracked on previous measures punishing South Korea for hosting the United States’ missile defense system, getting in South Korea’s good graces in order to gain its […]

Senior Chinese diplomat Yang Jiechi recently missed a major appointment to become a vice premier—signaling that the faction Yang belonged to, the faction loyal to former Chinese Communist Party leader Jiang Zemin—is further waning in power. The Jiang faction makes up the main opposition force to current leader Xi Jinping. But a recent Hong Kong […]

The Chinese Communist Party often uses front groups around the world to stage protests against diaspora Chinese who fail to adhere to the regime’s political line. Now, one of those front groups in Spain is being sued for defamatory hate speech. Last year, Shen Yun Performing Arts, a New York-based performing arts company that seeks […]

SHANGHAI—China’s Tiangong-1 space station re-entered the earth’s atmosphere and mostly burnt up over the middle of the South Pacific near Tahiti on Monday, the Chinese space authority said. The craft re-entered the atmosphere around 8:15 a.m. Beijing time and the “vast majority” of it had burnt up upon re-entry, the authority said in a brief […]

A group of Australia-based academics who study China have issued an open letter arguing that there is concrete evidence of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)’s “unacceptable interference” in Australia’s society and politics—dismissing the argument by some that the debate about Chinese regime infiltration is driven by racism. The Australian government has proposed laws that criminalize […]

Scholars and a former Chinese diplomat warned during a panel discussion that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has established an extensive network of influencers across many areas of Australian society, including in Australian Chinese communities, the business community, government, media, and education. During the discussion on a new book titled “The Hidden Agenda of China’s […]

The owners of the Waldorf Astoria hotel and a condo in the Trump World Tower in New York are in deep trouble. Former chairman of China’s Anbang Insurance Group Co., Wu Xiaohui, has been accused of swindling 65.2 billion yuan ($10.4 billion), during a high-profile trial on March 28. Anbang owns the Waldorf-Astoria. Meanwhile, one […]

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has for decades used a comprehensive strategy to steal from the U.S. economy, with tools including espionage, currency manipulation, cybertheft, and intellectual property theft. “Technology is probably the most important part of our economy,” said U.S. Trade Representative Robert E. Lighthizer before the Senate finance committee on March 22. “We […]

BEIJING/SEOUL—North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has pledged to denuclearize and meet U.S. officials, China said on Wednesday after an historic meeting with President Xi Jinping. After two days of speculation, China and North Korea both confirmed that Kim had visited Beijing and met Xi during what China’s Foreign Ministry called an unofficial visit to […]

BEIJING/SEOUL—China said on Wednesday it won a pledge from North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to denuclearize the Korean peninsula after President Xi Jinping invited Kim to visit Beijing, according to Yonhap. After two days of speculation, China announced on Wednesday that Kim had visited Beijing and met Xi during what the official Xinhua news […]