A professor at Guizhou University has been fired for voicing criticism of the Chinese Communist Party.

NEW YORK—”Why was there an order to start killing?” Fang Zheng asked bluntly. His simple query, among a titanic amount of other interrelated questions, has been unanswered for nearly 3 decades. But Zheng—a victim turned activist—whose legs were run over by a tank during the Tiananmen Square Massacre, is still fighting for the truth. The bloodbath, carried […]

Australian Conservatives Senator Cory Bernardi put forward two motions to federal Parliament tightly linked to strained Australian-China relations, on Aug 15. The first motion, which was rejected, called for a review of the Department for Education and Training’s engagement with Chinese Communist Party-administered Confucius Institutes. The successful second motion, while avoiding direct reference to China, […]

A Chinese woman was tortured at the hands of Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials, and two months later, she died, according to a new report. Jiang Pai fell into a coma after she was detained by CCP officials and was tortured for refusing to renounce Falun Gong, a spiritual discipline that has been persecuted by […]

Former head of China analysis for Australia’s Defence Intelligence Organization, Dr Paul Monk, spoke at the Royal Perth Yacht Club on the topic of the Chinese Communist Party’s influence in Australian politics on Aug. 12. Monk, who has lectured over the years at several leading Australian universities on Chinese politics and strategic intelligence analysis, made […]

HONG KONG—Global index provider MSCI was wrong in its landmark decision to include mainland China-listed “A” shares in its emerging markets index in June, according to nearly half of the international investors surveyed for a new report into Chinese corporate governance. MSCI’s decision to add domestic Chinese stocks for the first time to its benchmark […]

A series of incidents has experts speculating that deep divisions could exist at the upper echelons of the Chinese Communist Party, amid an ongoing trade war with the United States. On July 15, the Party’s mouthpiece newspaper People’s Daily failed to mention Chinese leader Xi Jinping on its front page—the second such omission within a week, […]