China Retaliates After US Legislation Supports Hong Kong Pro-Democracy Movement

VOA News A trade deal between the U.S. and China has stalled because of newly signed U.S. bipartisan legislation supporting pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong, according to the news website Axios. The news site quotes a source close to U.S. President Donald Trump’s negotiating team as saying the trade talks were “now stalled” because of […]

Hong Kong Police Deny That Train-Bound Arrestees Were Taken to Mainland China

Tseng Yat-yiu, Tam Siu-yin, and Gao Feng | Radio Free Asia Since the detention and torture of Hong Kong resident and former U.K consular employee Simon Cheng, fears are growing that some of the thousands of people arrested since the protest movement began may have been sent to mainland China. In a lengthy account of […]

Hong Kong Renditions Law Could Affect US Security, Business Interests: Report

Lau Siu-fung  | Radio Free Asia Proposed amendments to Hong Kong’s extradition laws could further erode the city’s promised autonomy, and pose a security risk for U.S. citizens and companies, a U.S. government report has warned. The planned changes to the city’s Fugitive Offenders Ordinance will allow the Hong Kong government to respond to case-by-case requests for […]

All Nine Defendants Plead Not Guilty on First Day of Umbrella Movement Trial

Holmes Chan  |  Hong Kong Free Press Nine activists and politicians involved in Hong Kong’s 2014 pro-democracy Umbrella Movement pleaded not guilty to their public nuisance charges on Monday. At the start of what is expected to be a 20-day trial, the prosecution argued that the “Occupy trio” – Reverend Chu Yiu-ming, and academics Benny Tai […]

New Report Details Global Impact of Grassroots Movement to Quit Chinese Communist Party

ANNIE WU  |  EPOCH TIMES It all began with a book. Since then, hundreds of millions have been inspired, fueling the largest grassroots movement in China since the Tiananmen Square pro-democracy protests in 1989. Back in November 2004, the Chinese-language Epoch Times published an unprecedented editorial series, “Nine Commentaries on the Chinese Communist Party,” that explained […]

Tiananmen Mothers Write to Chinese President Slamming ‘Crime Against Humanity’

The Tiananmen Mothers victims group penned the letter to mark Monday’s anniversary, calling the massacre a “crime against humanity” and calling on the government to make public all information relating to the bloodshed, which is currently described by the ruling Chinese Communist Party as a necessary end to a “counterrevolutionary rebellion.”