An RCMP officer who oversaw Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou’s arrest denied a proposition by her defence lawyer that Canadian police tried to keep the arrest warrant a secret from her. Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) officers took Meng in for questioning regarding her company’s business dealing with Iran when she was transferring at Vancouver International […]

A Chinese scholar bragged last month about Beijing’s handling of the pandemic, gleefully comparing China’s low official death toll from the CCP virus to that in the United States, which now numbers more than 260,000. Li Yi, who is a sociologist and also a U.S. resident, also said the pandemic’s global economic devastation means China’s […]

Canadian government lawyers are concerned about “witness safety” for a retired RCMP officer living in Chinese territory who has refused to testify in Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou’s case. Defence lawyer Richard Peck revealed earlier this week that Ben Chang, a retired RCMP officer, had informed Meng’s lawyers and the Crown that he will not give […]

A British diplomat has been hailed as a “hero” after he jumped into a river in southwest China to save a drowning student. Stephen Ellison, 61, the UK’s new consul-general in Chongqing, was walking by a river at a scenic spot in the municipality when a female student fell into the river by accident. A […]

The Trump administration warned that more sanctions could be imposed on Hong Kong and Chinese officials, after Beijing passed a resolution that led to the ousting of four Hong Kong pro-democracy lawmakers. “[T]he Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has flagrantly violated…its promises to the people of Hong Kong..‘One Country, Two Systems’ is now merely a fig […]

WASHINGTON—The United States on Nov. 9 imposed sanctions on four more Chinese officials in Hong Kong’s governing and security establishment over their alleged roles in crushing dissent in the former British colony. The U.S. Treasury and State Department identified the four as Deng Zhonghua, deputy director of the Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office; Edwina […]

On the night of July 21, 2019, men in white attacked citizens indiscriminately at Yuen Long MTR Station in Hong Kong. After the incident, RTHK (Radio Television Hong Kong)’s radio show “Hong Kong Connection” interviewed witnesses and compiled surveillance footage of the day to prove that the police had arrived at the scene long before […]

After Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s visit to Shenzhen two weeks ago, in which he emphasized the city as an engine to drive up the economy of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Greater Bay Area, locals have raised concerns to The Epoch Times that factories continue to move out or close down in the industrial zone. Some analysts […]

Commentary China’s official mouthpiece Xinhua News Agency revealed on Oct. 11 that Chinese leader Xi Jinping would be visiting Shenzhen city to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Special Economic Zone. Shenzhen is an industrial hub in China’s southern Guangdong Province that links Hong Kong to the mainland. Crisis of Losing the People’s Trust The […]

After China lost its special trade status with Hong Kong, after the regime ended its international agreements on Hong Kong’s basic rights, it is looking to replace it’s economic system with Shenzhen city. RFA reports that Xi Jinping announced plans on October 14 to put Shenzhen at the heart of a new integrated economic zone […]

Beijing has cultivated relationships with overseas Chinese-language media via major global conferences headlined by Communist Party leaders in what experts say is part of its broader united front work. The revelations come after four Chinese nationals and journalists were denied re-entry into Australia following allegations they engaged in espionage or foreign interference. Since 2013, 92 Chinese-language media outlets […]

Chinese Premier Li Keqiang visited Chongqing city, which experienced severe flooding following heavy rains, from Aug. 20 to Aug. 21, but state-run media didn’t report on his trip until Aug. 23—an unusual delay for media outlets that typically provide constant coverage of top officials’ public activities. The media reports also focused on economic development—a departure […]

The CCP has been heavily promoting digital RMB and has recently announced major trials. This has aroused public attention. Experts believe that this is a new monetary measure implemented by the CCP to tighten control over the people and to prepare to return to a planned economy. On August 14, the Ministry of Commerce of […]

An Orwellian “reign of terror” has descended on Hong Kong, says pro-democracy activist and former legislator Leung Kwok-hung, also known as “Long Hair.” Hong Kong authorities have arrested pro-democracy activists like 23-year-old Agnes Chow and Apple Daily founder Jimmy Lai; disqualified pro-democracy candidates; and postponed elections for a year, citing coronavirus dangers. For many Hongkongers, […]

Commentary Following U.S. sanctions on 11 officials in China and Hong Kong, the internal fighting within the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) surrounding corruption allegations became public. At a time when struggles among factions of the CCP were heated at the Beidaihe meeting this month, The New York Times published an article that exposed the wealth […]

TAIPEI, Taiwan—Local authorities announced two criminal cases involving Taiwanese citizens who allegedly tried to provide the Chinese regime with Taiwan government’s sensitive information. The Taipei prosecutor’s office charged three former aides to local lawmakers for violating the island’s national security law on Aug. 13, according to Taiwan’s government-run Central News Agency (CNA). They were indicted […]

Commentary  The year 2020 has marked the beginning of a new phase in the “cold war” between the United States and the Chinese communist regime. Following U.S. sanctions against human rights violators in Xinjiang came the removal of Hong Kong’s special trade status, and formal denial of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP’s) hegemony in the […]

The United States is “deeply troubled” by the arrest of Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai, White House National Security Adviser Robert O’Brien said in a statement on Aug. 10. Hong Kong police arrested Lai, a strident critic of the Chinese communist regime, on Monday, along with two of his sons, Lai Gin-yan and Chow […]

Hong Kong police’s arrest of media tycoon Jimmy Lai under the city’s new national security law has drawn condemnation from officials and activists around the world, who say the move was an attack on press freedom and snuffed out the territory’s dwindling autonomy. Lai, a strident critic of the Chinese communist regime, was arrested on […]

The Trump administration on Aug. 7 sanctioned Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam and 10 other Hong Kong and Chinese officials for undermining the city’s autonomy and freedoms. Other than Lam, six other Hong Kong officials were sanctioned, including the current and preceding Hong Kong police chiefs, and the city’s security and justice secretaries. Four Chinese […]

China News Service (CNS) is among the nine Chinese Communist Party (CCP)-controlled media outlets recently designated by the U.S. State Department as foreign missions. In addition to spreading the CCP’s rhetoric, CNS plays an essential role in propping up a large number of Chinese-language pro-Beijing media outlets outside of China. “Party-owned media must. . . […]

Falun Gong practitioners from more than a dozen countries around the world—many of whom are survivors themselves—held vigils and rallies over the past weekend in a joint call to stop the Chinese regime’s decades-long suppression campaign targeting their faith. “It doesn’t matter that it’s thousands of kilometers across the sea,” Sen. Janet Rice of Australia […]

Hong Kong saw a new wave of COVID-19 cases this past week, disrupting a period when the city’s total had plateaued at 1,000 cases since mid-April. In response to the latest surge of new infections in the Chinese-ruled city, Chinese state-run media was quick to assign the blame on local protesters and the opposition camp—citizens […]

HONG KONG—A younger, more defiant generation of Hong Kong democrats has secured the most votes in unofficial primary elections in the Chinese-ruled city, setting the stage for a battle with pro-Beijing politicians for control of the city’s legislature. The success of young contenders in the primaries organised by the pro-democracy camp on the weekend to […]

News Analysis Hongkongers’ “fears have come true” with the passage of Beijing’s national security law, said journalist Michael Yon in a recent interview with The Epoch Times’ “Crossroads” program. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is “clearly moving to absorb Hong Kong completely and utterly without caveat, and way ahead of the schedule they had agreed […]

The Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) released a report on June 17, titled “Genomic Surveillance: Inside China’s DNA Dragnet.” The report claimed that China’s Ministry of Public Security (Chinese police) conducted a compulsory DNA data collection on a mass scale in late 2017. Observers believe that this action not only violates human rights and personal […]

Beijing on July 1 defended its controversial national security law for Hong Kong and slammed the United States for its potential sanctions against Chinese officials. Zhang Xiaoming, deputy director of the Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office—Beijing’s top agency for handling those territories’ policies—said at a press conference that countries that wanted to sanction Chinese […]

Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam shed some light on Beijing’s national security law while speaking at the United Nations Human Rights Council on June 30. Lam, in a speech delivered through video link, said that Beijing’s national security “will have no retrospective effect,” according to a press release from the Hong Kong government. She added […]