On the 34th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre, a U.S. congressional panel nominated Chinese democratic activists for the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize. Thirty-four years ago, on June 3, 1989, Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leaders ordered the military to remove the student-led demonstrators who had occupied Tiananmen Square for nearly two months demanding democracy in China….

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) won’t end its zero-COVID-19 policy approach anytime soon as the legitimacy of the Party’s leader now rests on results of the health battle, though it comes at the expense of human rights. This is what experts said during a Nov. 16 hearing on the Chinese regime’s zero-COVID policy held by the…

The “Global Financial Leaders Investment Summit” being held Wednesday (Nov. 2) claimed to have about 200 financial leaders on its list of participants. But just a few days before the event, two of them informed the organizer that they were not coming, one due to work arrangements and the other due to physical discomfort. There…

Samuel Phillip Bickette, an American lawyer who was accused of “assaulting a police officer” during the anti-extradition law amendment bill movement in Hong Kong in 2019 and sentenced to four and a half months in prison, testified at the hearing on Hong Kong of Congressional-Executive Committee on China (CECC) on July 12. He explained the…

China’s “horrific” rights abuses and trampling on global order require a “consistent and coordinated” response from Washington and its allies, congressmen called for in an annual report (pdf) released by the Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC) on March 31. Whether it is systematic repression of human rights domestically, globally economic coercion, or aggressive “wolf warrior”…

China’s “horrific” rights abuses and trampling on global order require a “consistent and coordinated” response from Washington and its allies, according to an annual report (pdf) released by the Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC) on March 31. Whether it is systematic repression of human rights domestically, globally economic coercion, or aggressive “wolf warrior” diplomacy, all…

A bipartisan group of lawmakers on Feb. 16 sent a letter to Amazon CEO Andy Jassy, asking the U.S. retail giant to support a Chinese whistleblower, who was jailed and tortured after he exposed poor working conditions at one of the company’s suppliers in China. Tang Mingfang, 43, was formerly an engineer at electronics manufacturer…

A bipartisan group of lawmakers on Feb. 16 sent a letter to Amazon CEO Andy Jassy, asking the U.S. e-commerce giant to support a Chinese whistleblower who was jailed and tortured after he exposed poor working conditions at one of the company’s suppliers in China. Tang Mingfang, 43, was formerly an engineer at electronics manufacturer…

The Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC), a bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers, is calling on the United Nations human rights office to release its assessment on the plight of the persecuted Uyghur ethnic group in China’s Xinjiang region before the start of the 2022 Winter Olympics. “Doing so would provide a global public service as…

The Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC), a bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers, is calling on the United Nations human rights office to release its assessment on the plight of the persecuted Uyghur ethnic group in China’s Xinjiang region before the start of the 2022 Winter Olympics. “Doing so would provide a global public service as…