A Chinese student in the United States has been arrested for insulting a person who was spreading fliers in support of democracy in China, the US Justice Department said on Wednesday. “A Berklee College of Music student, who is citizen of the People’s Republic of China (PRC), has been arrested and charged with stalking in connection with threatening and […]
CCP under Xi Jinping targets women by muscling them away from power
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) under President Xi Jinping has abandoned symbolic traditional gestures toward equality and is muscling women away from power. Johanna Costigan, a junior fellow at the Center for China Analysis at the Asia Society Policy Institute in New York, writing in Nikkei Asia said that the […]
CCP will utilize Beijing Olympics to whitewash genocide, say rights activists
A few days ahead of the Beijing Olympics, several Uyghur activists and human rights experts at a webinar argued that the Winter Games will implicitly approve of the rights violation of the Muslim minority community in China. Since the early 2000s the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has conveniently labelled Uyghurs as “terrorists” […]
‘Chinese scholar paid heavy price for criticising CCP’
A UK-based scholar said former Tsinghua University law scholar Xu Zhangrun has paid a heavy price for his criticism of China’s political and judicial system under the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and general secretary Xi Jinping. Zhnagrun, a vocal critic of CCP was detained by Chinese authorities in July for allegedly soliciting prostitutes while visiting the southwest city of […]
Chinese poet commits suicide after ‘unbearable’ CCP surveillance
A Chinese poet and current affairs commentator has committed suicide in Guangdong province following “unbearable” surveillance under the tenure of President Xi Jinping. Li Huizhi, 62, was a vocal critic of Xi Jinping’s policies. He breathed his last in a hospital in Guangdong’s Huizhou city, Radio Free Asia reported. His friend Li Xuewen […]