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Despite the country’s burgeoning military budget, China has not fought a war since 1979. But that hasn’t stopped Chinese weapons from seeing extensive use in conflict zones across multiple continents—and in the hands of the world’s most notorious terrorists and dictatorships. A recent report compiling three years of research has indicated that as the United […] -
Lu Yuanfeng fell into a coma and died just three weeks after he’d been released from a prison in China’s northeast. Lu had managed to survive three years in Benxi Prison, Liaoning province, but what he was forced to endure had already taken its toll. When the 63-year-old’s family picked him up from the prison […]
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Evading United Nations sanctions was easy thanks to China, said a North Korean defector who once worked in Office 39, a shady money-making department dedicated to the North Korean leadership. An anonymous defector told the ABC how part of his job was to sell North Korean gold overseas. To do that, he said it was […]
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The increasing suppression and surveillance faced by the Uyghur minority in China may include a deadly element: systematic, forced organ harvesting. Speaking before the UK Parliament on Dec. 13, Dolkun Isa, president of the World Uyghur Congress, raised concerns that the Chinese regime may be targeting Uyghurs for organ harvesting and trafficking. “We are also […]
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The Taiwanese government took a big step forward in protecting human rights when it recently denied entry to at least three human rights violators from China who were planning to visit Taiwan. On Dec. 10, the Taiwanese newspaper the Liberty Times reported on its website that a joint task force consisting of different Taiwanese government […]
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As part of an ambitious plan to become the world leader in advanced technology, China is wooing talent from abroad—both ethnic Chinese and foreigners—to help the country gain an edge. The Chinese regime introduced the Thousand Talents Plan in December 2008 to aggressively recruit promising workers in the science and technology fields. Multiple parts of […]
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It is well-known that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) rules with an iron fist, with party organizations at all levels of society. Recently, the push to establish party organs has extended to foreign companies and foreign-funded universities inside China. It’s not as apparent how the Party exerts control over its citizens abroad. A recent […]
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The Communist Youth League, a key Party fixture that has long been considered a stepping stone for budding Communist officials, has recently seen its political footing get weakened further. The organization is for young people aged 14 to 28 to learn about Party ideology. On Nov. 20, Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leader Xi Jinping announced […]
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The Summer Palace in Beijing is a major tourist attraction. Once an imperial garden during the Qing dynasty, the compound boasts lakes, gardens, and palaces surrounded by picturesque hills. It was designated as a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1998. But soon, tourists visiting the grounds will find an office dedicated to spreading Chinese Communist […]
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“There was bleeding. He was still alive,” Chinese doctor Enver Tohti recalled to a panel of experts on China’s lucrative practice of organ harvesting from prisoners of conscience. Ireland’s Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence on July 6 listened to evidence presented by organ harvesting experts, including David Matas and Ethan Gutmann, who have both been nominated […]
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China has the world’s second-largest economy and one of the biggest stock exchanges. Modern skyscrapers dot the skyline in Beijing, Tianjin, and Shanghai. All makes of cars can be found on the streets, and Chinese citizens carry the latest smartphones. So is the People’s Republic of China actually a modern capitalist state, and communist only […]
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When China had to reform its state-owned enterprises, it went with corruption and coverup, according to scholar Cheng Xiaonong.
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"The US [will] pay a cost it cannot stand if it intervenes in the South China Sea," according to the mouth piece of the Chinese Communist Party. China is performing military drills in the South China Sea as a UN-backed tribunal in the Hague is set to rule on a territorial dispute between China and the Philippines. -
Gao refuses to leave mainland China even though he has suffered deadly torture.
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Prince died of an overdose of fentanyl. That's just one of hundreds of deadly synthetic drugs flooding into the United States from China.
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The Chinese capital enjoyed some twenty days of peace and order in the spring and summer of 1989—without the Party’s control.
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Fifty years ago on May 16 the Cultural Revolution began. Don’t expect this event to be given much attention in China itself, though.
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Six Chinese quit the Party at the rally.
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Faced with a political crisis that would determine the future of China, two young intellectuals each made a choice. As the student democratic movement of 1989 was poised to be smashed in Tiananmen Square, one chose to stand with the Party; the other, with the students. Wang Huning seems to have been a chameleon as […]
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The bidding war to acquire Starwood Hotels intensified after Chinese insurer Anbang raised its offer on Monday, March 28. The new offer is likely to threaten Marriott’s merger plan with Starwood. Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. (NYSE: HOT) announced on Monday that it received a revised nonbinding offer from the consortium led by Anbang Insurance Group. […]
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The obscene acts could be seen and heard throughout the restaurant.
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NEW YORK—Every year a wide variety of community groups come together to celebrate the Chinese New Year in Flushing’s Chinatown. A colorful procession of floats and performers—drummers, lion dancers, celestial maidens—move through the streets. But for the last few years, a group focused only on inciting hatred has also made its presence known—and according to […]
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China may be moving towards a nuclear policy of "launch-on-warning and hair-trigger alert" ...
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An article on the sentencing of former Public Security Vice Minister Li Dongsheng ties persecution of Falun Gong to the faction of former Party leader Jiang Zemin.
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Public security bureau in Beijing introduced new citizen group to stifle online freedom of speech.
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A Chinese husband and wife whose experience of separation and persecution has extended over nearly a decade were hauled into a courtroom again recently.
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For the last 16 years, Falun Gong practitioners have been working tirelessly to educate the public on the atrocities perpetrated by the Chinese regime.
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