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Ever since China opened its door to the West in the 1980’s, the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has been working hard to establish its cells or branches in all companies, state-owned, private, and joint-ventures. Recently, as the Party awaits its 19th Congress and maintains “stability” in society, their desire to exert control in the […] -
I was told that my mom was harassed in China again recently. With the approach of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the party is so nervous that they had the leader of my mom’s former workplace give a warning to her, who has retired long ago and is only a […] -
The Chinese Communist Party and its paramount leader have legitimacy problems. One can expect that Xi Jinping will strengthen his legitimacy when the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party opens in Beijing on Oct. 18, but the legitimacy of the Party itself will be left as an unresolvable problem. The rule of the paramount […] -
Fan Changjiang, a journalist for the reputable Ta Kung Pao newspaper in republican China, was a loyal communist and proud of it. He once boasted that “in newspapers and books published legally under Nationalist rule, I was the first person to call [the Communists] the Red Army … and not bandits, and to announce that the […] -
WASHINGTON—Four Chinese women sat at a long oaken table in a hearing room on Capitol Hill on the afternoon of May 19 and asked the world to pay attention. Their husbands have been detained in China because of their work for human rights. Rep. Chris Smith said they had come together to “shine a light” […] -
I once hated my mother when I was a child. No matter how well I behaved, and how many awards I won in school, she seemed never to care about my accomplishments or to appreciate me. Sometimes I even wondered: Would she feel upset if I died? When it was finally the time for me […] -
A Facebook friend of mine who currently lives in Taiwan posted on her page that she went back to Beijing and purchased “Big Shrimp Crunchy Candy”, or da zia su (a type of crunchy sweet). She called it “flavors of home.” I took a look and found it to be quite similar to the kind […]
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Eighteen years ago on April 25, together with 10,000-plus Falun Gong practitioners, I stood quietly on Fuyou Street outside the Zhongnanhai Communist Party leadership compound in Beijing, where the Appeals Office of the State Council is located—the office the regime has established where people could complain of official misconduct. It was a warm and sunny […] -
On the presidential campaign trail, Donald Trump promised to get tough with China on currency and trade issues. President Trump, however, appears to have changed tack after a meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping. He tweeted on April 16: “Why would I call China a currency manipulator when they are working with us on the […] -
China has muscled, conned, bullied, grabbed, extorted, and feigned its way to the top of the global supply chain over the last twenty years. It took no prisoners—just market share, intellectual property, and liberties in the valuation of its currency. It used a massive trade surplus to buy foreign assets, coralled foreign companies into joint ventures […] -
WASHINGTON—Ms. Yu Zhenjie traveled from Flushing, New York, to Washington on April 4 to deliver a message to President Donald Trump. Yu did not meet Trump personally. She was one of several dozen practitioners of the Falun Gong spiritual practice who gathered on Pennsylvania Avenue outside the White House in a bid to gain the […] -
Dear President Trump: I send my most sincere greetings to you! I am a former official in both China’s government and the Communist Party, a survivor of the Party’s persecution of Falun Gong, and the first Falun Gong practitioner expelled from Chinese Communist Party (CCP) membership. I would like to tell you about my experiences […] -
On one night in 1966, gangs of communist Red Guards armed with crude implements beat and strangled to death hundreds villagers just outside of Beijing -
The Chinese government has claimed the country no longer harvests organs from prisoners. But recent revelations about two leading Chinese researchers indicate this may not be true. In 2005, China publicly stated what many already believed: that its transplant system was built on harvesting organs from criminals sentenced to death (“executed prisoners”). According to declarations […] -
The Chinese Communist Party has sought to attack Shen Yun Performing Arts, the premier classical Chinese dance and music company, since its inception. Run by overseas Chinese, the New York-based Shen Yun remains firmly independent of the Chinese regime and tours the world, performing in about 20 countries and 100 cities. Tactics used to try […] -
By accepting a phone call, Donald Trump has disrupted relations with China. And the United States and the Chinese people may be the better for it. The call, of course, was from Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen on Dec. 2, offering congratulations on Trump’s electoral victory. No U.S. president or president-elect is believed to have spoken […] -
United States president-elect Donald Trump’s unexpected telephone conversation with Taiwan president Tsai Ing-wen has been a hotly debated topic. Some speculate that the call is a turning point in U.S.-China relations. Others suggest that the call has undermined power relations in the Taiwan Straits. But what if the call is really a shrewd test by […] -
Xi Jinping, the new “core” leader of the Chinese Communist Party, is rolling out a new state supervision commission, with a pilot program now in place in Beijing, Shanxi Province, and Zhejiang Province. Xi’s camp has stressed that the supervision commission is a major political reform, and thus its significance is worth examining. Since taking […] -
It doesn’t take a genius or someone with supernormal ability to tell that our world is in much chaos today, not minor or trivial chaos, but very “bigly” one, to borrow the word/phrase of Donald Trump. (It is said that Trump actually meant “big league”, not “bigly”, which stirred up a surge on the internet […] -
Chinese manufacturing brings to the world a double edged sword: sheer pleasure in affordable shopping, and painful witness of closed factories. The world seems to have become used to those Made-in-China wares and gadgets that are quite inexpensive to purchase, albeit they do not last for too long. Well, one gets what one paid for, so […] -
American scholars would usually use “great power” to denote China and Russia, those countries that rank as second tier in the rank of all nations. Of course, the U.S. is the “super power”. The USSR was once considered a super power, but that’s not the case anymore, the Russian bear was downgraded from super power […] -
Evidence led us to conclude that a new state crime against humanity was occurring. -
While providing some editing assistance, we became convinced that the horrible was happening. The logic was implacable: there were just too many transplants to be the consequence of prisoner executions or families volunteering their brain-dead members. -
Twenty of the world’s heads of state are descending on Hangzhou, China, on Sept. 4–5 for the G-20. When they want to take a break from talking about the state of the world’s economy, they should ask their hosts for a tour of the First Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University, the largest organ transplantation center in […] -
It is customary for top leaders of the Chinese Communist Party to go on vacation at the resort town of Beidaihe in the province of Hebei, near Beijing. This retreat typically lasts for about three weeks between late July and early August. Because many major national policies and decisions have been finalized at Beidaihe in […] -
The Chinese Communist Party’s meeting at Beidaihe is underway. Every summer, high-level Party cadres hold a secretive summit in the resort town of Beidaihe in Hebei Province, northern China. Because major issues concerning the Party are usually deliberated over in this meeting, what goes on at Beidaihe is the subject of intense outside speculation. This […] -
For years, gaining attention for forced organ harvesting in China was difficult to achieve because the crime itself was too horrible to believe. This understandable horror may now be leading some observers to be too eager to believe this atrocity has now ended. Take, for example, Dr. Francis L. Delmonico, past president (serving 2012–2014) and […]
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