The founder of the now-closed Next Media and its pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily, Jimmy Lai Chee-ying, was charged with colluding with foreign forces under the National Security Law (NSL). Hong Kong’s Department of Justice (DOJ) lost its appeal against the High Court’s decision on Nov. 9 to let a UK barrister represent Lai in his…
Media Tycoon Jimmy Lai Is Allowed to Hire British UK Barrister for National Security Case
More Books Removed From Public Libraries for Suspected Violation of Hong Kong National Security Law
On Oct. 5, Wen Wei Po, a local Hong Kong mouthpiece for the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), named seven books in public libraries and accused them of smearing the CCP by “inciting soft confrontation.” The named books and a total of 17 books in the same series have been removed from the shelves. The books…
Ruthless Zero-COVID Policies Allegedly Caused A Young Man’s Death in Xinjiang
A 32-year-old man died in a hospital in Xinjiang many hours after he was taken there by ambulance with severe abdominal pain. During the seven to eight hours in the hospital, he received no medical treatment despite his pleading for help and painful groaning. The doctors and nurses on duty ignored him, according to the…
Banners That the Chinese Communist Party Is Afraid Of: ‘Heavens Would Destroy the CCP’
Twenty-one years ago, on the historic day of Nov. 20, 2001, 36 Westerners from 12 countries made headlines for their arrests in Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China, after unfurling a banner that read, “Truth – Compassion – Tolerance.” These three words are the core moral principles of Falun Gong (also known as Falun Dafa), an ancient…
Beijing’s Overseas Police Station in Sydney ‘Not Active’: Australian Federal Police
November 11, 2022
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Australian Federal Police (AFP) has said that it doesn’t believe Chinese police are running an active “contact point” in Sydney. It was revealed last month that Chinese officials have been operating an overseas police station in Sydney since 2018. The “contact point” was established by the Public Security Bureau of the city of Wenzhou, China, the…
Bao Tong, Senior Chinese Official Supportive of Democracy and Spiritual Belief, Dies at 90
November 10, 2022
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Bao Tong, former political secretary of the deceased reformist party leader Zhao Ziyang, died in Beijing Wednesday, four days after his 90th birthday. “Obituary notice for my late father Bao Tong, who passed away peacefully at 7:08 a.m. on Nov. 9, 2022, at the age of 90,” Bao’s son Bao Pu wrote on Twitter. Bao’s…
CCP Plays an Important Role in Multiple Transnational Crimes: Report
China’s communist regime plays a significant role in several types of transnational crimes, according to a report from a Washington-based think tank. The report by Global Financial Integrity highlighted the issues of forced labor and intellectual property infringement. The regime itself engages in criminal activity, said the report (pdf) titled “China’s Role in Transnational Crime and Illicit Financial…
Media Tycoon Jimmy Lai’s Ups and Downs With the CCP
The colorful life of former Next Media founder Jimmy Lai Chee-ying resembles a plot from a novel. He founded Next Media and Apple Daily, supported democratic movements, and changed the Hong Kong media ecosystem. Some people might feel that Lai is a big bad wolf in the media industry; they might think that he would do…
Another 28 Reports in October From China of People Imprisoned for Their Spiritual Belief: Report
The Chinese communist regime has been persecuting a group of spiritual believers across China since 1999, and the massive suppression is still going on. As of Oct. 31, 28 Falun Gong practitioners in nine provinces in China were reported to have been sentenced to imprisonment from 1.5 to 10 years, adding up to 554 people…
US Sanctioned, CCP-Owned, Enterprises Contracted for HK Govt. Projects, Including Design of Sensitive Information Systems
November 8, 2022
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Aisino Corporation, a subsidiary of China Aerospace Science & Industry Corporation (CASIC), which was sanctioned by the U.S. Government in 2020, and Hong Kong Aisino Ltd. have been awarded 11 engineering contracts by five departments of the Hong Kong government since 2018, with a total contract value of HK$1.6 billion (about $204 million). The contracted projects involve…
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