50 Lawmakers Demand Answers from AG Garland Over CCP-Linked Marijuana Farms

“In some cases, the grow operators were also engaged in human trafficking, forced labor, drug trafficking, and violent crime,” the lawmakers wrote. “These farms are most commonly in states with legal marijuana programs where illicit growers try to disguise their operations in communities where law-abiding Americans live and work.”

China’s Persecution of Uyghurs is Preview of Wider Surveillance Scheme, Lawmakers Say

For years, Chinese authorities have subjected Uyghurs and other Turkic minorities in Xinjiang to arbitrary arrests and restrictions on their religious practice and culture. The system is enforced by a pervasive digitized system that monitors the every move of residents through surveillance drones, facial recognition cameras, mobile phone scans, and an extensive police presence.

San Diego State University Has Shut Down Its Confucius Institute

GISELA SOMMER | EPOCH TIMES San Diego State University (SDSU) is the latest American university to close its Confucius Institute. The shutdown of the controversial Chinese government-funded language and culture institution at SDSU follows the closures at seven other U.S. universities this year. The Confucius Institute (CI) was formally closed at SDSU on June 30, 2019, […]

Chinese Spies Charged for Stealing US Airplane Engine Tech

FRANK FANG  |  EPOCH TIMES Within less than a month, the same Chinese provincial intelligence branch was implicated in three U.S. cases of stealing American technologies. The latest case involves espionage to acquire know-how for making turbofan engines used in commercial airliners. The alleged culprit is the Jiangsu Province Ministry of State Security (JSSD), a branch […]

Author of Smuggled Letter That Called Attention to China Labor Camp Abuses Dies

Annie Wu  |  Epoch Times The news took the world by surprise: a letter that had traveled 5,600 miles from China to a small town in Oregon. In November 2012, inside a Halloween decoration kit she purchased years ago at Kmart, Julie Keith found a handwritten letter enclosed inside. The letter came from a person detained […]

Freed Chinese Labor Camp Prisoner Meets Oregon Woman Who Found His S.O.S. Letter

Petr Svab  |  Epoch Times Sun Yi was anxious. The polluted haze of a December morning in Beijing blended with his uneasiness and apprehension as he approached the airport departure passport check. He knew the odds against him. At any moment the border official could tear his passport to pieces, together with his chance for freedom. The […]

Desperate Chinese Prison Note Left in UK Socks Appears Real, Records Show

<![CDATA[ Juliet Song  |  Epoch Times When Shahkiel Akbar brought home a pair of black cotton socks from Primark, a budget retailer in the United Kingdom, he didn’t expect to discover a cry for help written in Chinese. That’s just what he found, though. Dated June 22 this year, the letter, written with black pen on […]

Torture Camp Rebranded in China

Her family was distraught, extremely scared, and could not guess what torment she had been put through.
The Masanjia Women’s Labor Camp was supposed to be closed down, but now it simply has two names