China

Thousands of people tuned in on Saturday, March 4, to watch NTD’s Facebook Live screening of “Hard to Believe,” an award-winning documentary that exposes the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) sordid practice of killing prisoners of conscience for their organs. From how the CCP got one doctor in China to kill a person for their organs […]

This weekend, the Chinese Communist Party kick-started its two weeks-long series of political meetings known as the Lianghui. Most of it will be a ceremonial act of the Party’s rubber-stamp legislature approving decisions already made by the Party leadership. However, there are several appointments to top positions that have not been formally announced. One question […]

SYDNEY/WELLINGTON–Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said on Friday he supports Chinese foreign investment in impoverished Pacific Island nations so long as it is productive, amid concerns Beijing is buying increased influence in the region. “We welcome this investment from any source, any nation, any development bank, on the basis that it is going to provide […]

President Donald Trump will announce new tariffs on steel and aluminum imports next week, according to Fox News and BBC. The president was set to make the announcement today during a meeting with CEOs from U.S. aluminum and steel companies, but the date was pushed back due to resistance from tariff opponents, which include the U.S. […]

The Chinese regime has officially proposed to eliminate a two-term limit on the country’s position of chairman, established in the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) constitution, setting the stage for current chair Xi Jinping to rule for a third term, or perhaps until death. Observers had already predicted this possibility when Xi failed to appoint a […]

China’s notorious reputation as the leading producer of counterfeit goods has officially been recognized. Aktion Plagiarius, a German organization that raises awareness about intellectual property theft, recently awarded Chinese companies top prizes in its annual “Plagiarius” awards that name and shame imitators. Counterfeit goods cost Germany’s economy about 30 billion euros (about $36.7 billion) annually, […]

Wei Minzhou, the Communist Party Secretary of Xi’an, a city in western China, knew he was in trouble when he was invited for a “chat” with his superiors. He immediately consulted a seer who told him to plant bamboo in front of his house. The Chinese phrase for “bamboo” and “to stop” are homonyms—Wei’s plea […]

Years after local officials failed to properly provide relief to villagers in the aftermath of a devastating earthquake, those villagers have become fed up and recently clashed with police. In August 2014, a 6.1-magnitude earthquake rocked the area of Ludian County, Yunnan, in the southwestern reaches of China. Official sources said 617 people died, with […]

BEIJING—Chinese officials are engaging in a “takeover” of one of the world’s largest Tibetan Buddhist monasteries, with a plan to put Chinese Communist Party officials in charge of its administration, the NGO Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Jan. 24. Larung Gar, a sprawling Buddhist center of learning and prayer in the mountains of southwestern […]

One of China’s biggest private firms has now come under the Chinese authorities’ control. On Jan. 20, Chinese investigative journalist Luo Changping announced on his Weibo account—a platform similar to Twitter—that an inside source told him personnel from the China Insurance Regulatory Commission have placed Anbang Insurance Group, a financial services conglomerate, under its control. […]

After a yearly political meeting has concluded this week, the Chinese Communist Party announced the members of its 2,000-plus political advisory body, called the People’s Political Consultative Conference on Jan. 25. Missing from the list are some notable names connected to former Party leader Jiang Zemin—signaling that his influence in the Party is further weakening. […]

The latest official to be taken down by the Chinese regime’s anti-corruption campaign sheds light on the widespread graft within China’s energy sector. On Jan. 23, the Chinese Communist Party’s corruption-fighting agency, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI), announced that Wang Xiaolin, the deputy chief of the National Energy Administration (NEA), was being investigated […]

It is simple to cook, and easy to digest, and it can be made savory or sweet. The recipe lends itself to endless creative variations containing grains, beans, vegetables, meats, or fruits. Congee is an everyday food for millions across Asia, either as a breakfast porridge or late-night dinner. It is also reliable nourishment for […]

A pyramid scheme in China has been revealed to have ensnared millions of investors, who have jointly lost 30 billion yuan (about $4.7 billion) in investment capital. Back in December 2017, Zhang Xiaolei, founder of online platform Qianbao.com, turned himself in to the police, admitting that he had been running a Ponzi scheme since the […]

China has repeatedly been rocked by scandals involving domestic baby formula brands tainted with unsafe materials. The most serious occurred in 2008 when scores of infants fell sick or died from baby formula tainted with melamine, a toxic compound. Nearly a decade later, there are still food safety concerns at many major brands. For several […]

WASHINGTON–The United States mistakenly supported China’s membership of the World Trade Organization in 2001 during Bill Clinton’s presidency on terms that have failed to force Beijing to open its economy, the Trump administration said on Friday as it prepares to clamp down on Chinese trade. “It seems clear that the United States erred in supporting […]

WASHINGTON–The U.S. military has put countering China and Russia at the center of a new national defense strategy unveiled on Friday, the latest sign of shifting priorities after more than a decade and a half of focusing on the fight against Islamist terrorists. In presenting the new strategy, which will set priorities for the Pentagon […]

NEW YORK–A former software engineer for IBM in China was sentenced to five years in prison after he pleaded guilty to stealing proprietary source code from the company, prosecutors announced on Friday. Jiaqiang Xu, 32, was sentenced on Thursday by U.S. District Judge Kenneth Karas in White Plains, New York, according to a statement from […]

A Chinese man was arrested after he allegedly abandoned a newborn baby girl in a dumpster—two hours after she was born. Police from Xuanwei, a city in Yunnan province, released screenshots of CCTV footage on Jan. 17, showing a man wearing a red shirt walking toward a dumpster with a white bag in hand. Another […]

In a video uploaded to Chinese social media, a woman appears to be dragging her son behind her on a scooter, which she says is punishment for bad behavior. In footage captured of the cruel treatment, the mother sits on the scooter while her son, whose hands are bound in front of him, is dragged […]