Chinese Regime Issues Conflicting Policies on Lunar New Year Travel as Virus Outbreaks Worsen
NICOLE HAO | EPOCH TIMES As CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus outbreaks across China continue to worsen, Chinese central authorities recently issued conflicting policies on traveling during the Lunar New Year holiday, causing confusion. And after months of authorities blaming local outbreaks on contaminated imported foods, the central government’s State Council suddenly did an about-face and said food is unlikely […]
List of Nearly Two Million Chinese Communist Party Members Leaked, Including 75 from 610 Office
Former CCP leader Jiang Zemin established the extralegal organization called the 610 Office, named after its establishment date of June 10, 1999. On July 20, Jiang launched a nationwide campaign against Falun Gong, a meditation practice based on the principles of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance with about 100 million practitioners.
‘A Madman’s Diary’ in the Age of the Pandemic: The Case of Zhang Zhan
Zhang Zhan was arrested in May, brought back to Shanghai, indicted in September on charges of “picking quarrels and provoking trouble,” China’s all-in-one charge for suppressing dissent. She is being tried on Monday, December 28, in Shanghai.
Chinese Communist Party Members Hold Positions at British Consulates, Major UK, US Firms: Leaked Database
The Mail found that major aerospace companies Airbus, Rolls-Royce, and Boeing employed hundreds of CCP members. Additionally, Pfizer and British drugmaker AstraZeneca employed a total of 123 Party members. British automaker Jaguar Land Rover also employed CCP members.
Detained Wuhan Citizen Journalist Loses Defense Attorney: Mother
Zhang Zhan, 37, faces prosecution on charges of “picking quarrels and stirring up trouble,” a charge often used to target peaceful critics of the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP), but has resisted pressure from police to “confess.”
Detained Coronavirus Journalist Losing Weight on Hunger Strike: Lawyer
A citizen journalist detained in Shanghai after she reported on the emerging coronavirus epidemic in the central Chinese city of Wuhan has lost weight after refusing food in a police-run detention center, her lawyer said on Monday.
China Orders Closure of Chengdu U.S. Consulate in Retaliation Over Houston
Gao Feng and Tseng Yat-yiu | Radio Free Asia China on Friday ordered the closure of the U.S. consulate in the southwestern city of Chengdu, in a tit-for-tat retaliation for the closure of its Houston consulate by Washington. The move came after the ruling Chinese Communist Party said it would retaliate after the consulate in […]
Head of the 610 Office in Jianghan Who Persecuted Falun Gong Practitioners Dies of Coronavirus
Minghui correspondent in Hubei Province, China Xu Wendou, director of the “610 Office” in Jianghan Oil Field in Hubei Province, recently died of coronavirus. Since July 1999, Xu had actively participated in the persecution of Falun Gong. A large number of Falun Gong practitioners in the local area were imprisoned or suffered other injustice as […]
Shanghai Police Hold Lawyer-Turned-Blogger Who Reported From Wuhan
Qiao Long and Wong Lok-to | Radio Free Asia Police from Shanghai have detained a lawyer-turned-citizen journalist who reported on the emerging coronavirus epidemic in the central Chinese city of Wuhan. Zhang Zhan, who lives in Shanghai but who traveled to Wuhan in early February, was taken away from Wuhan’s Caiguang Hotel near Hankou railway […]
Africans in China Targeted by Xenophobia Amid Fear of Second-wave COVID-19 Outbreak
Oiwan Lam | Global Voices ‘We’ve paid our rent, we have the legal status’ As the COVID-19 pandemic epicenter shifts from China to the rest of the world, anti-foreigner sentiment has spread like wildfire on Chinese social media. In the past few weeks, China has seen a surge in the number of imported COVID-19 infected […]