The Chinese communist regime is expanding its use of a system that is tantamount to “mass state-sanctioned kidnapping,” to terrorize and silence people including foreigners, according to a recent report (pdf) by human rights group Safeguard Defenders. The secretive system, a legalized form of black jails, has been running since 2013 and has targeted a…

President Joe Biden demanded Beijing stop its “intensifying repression” in Hong Kong after the forced closure of a major pro-democracy newspaper, Apple Daily. After suffering a massive police raid a week earlier and having their funds frozen by the Hong Kong government, the outlet—one of the few independent media in the city—printed its final edition…

The United States has banned imports of a key material to make solar panels from a Chinese company as part of a wider effort to protect U.S. supply chains from forced labor inflicted on ethnic Muslim minorities in China’s Xinjiang region, the White House announced on June 24. U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued…

Dong Jingwei, who has been rumored to be a high-ranking defector to the United States, attended a meeting in Beijing on June 23, according to the Chinese Ministry of Public Security (MPS). Th MPS announced on its website that Dong participated in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) security meeting in Beijing on Wednesday, as a…

Dong Jingwei, who has been rumored to be a high-ranking defector to the United States, attended a meeting in Beijing on June 23, according to the Chinese Ministry of Public Security (MPS). Th MPS announced on its website that Dong participated in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) security meeting in Beijing on Wednesday, as a…

The Biden administration imposed trade bans on five Chinese companies over forced labor allegations in Xinjiang, the White House said on June 24, citing the G7’s recent pledge to clean up the global supply chain. It ordered a ban on U.S. imports of a key solar panel material from Chinese-based Hoshine Silicon Industry Co and…

U.S. lawmakers and rights groups sounded alarms after Hong Kong’s pro-democracy tabloid Apple Daily ceased operations on Thursday. Apple Daily, one of the only remaining media outlets in Hong Kong that was publishing voices critical of the Chinese regime and views supportive of Hong Kong protesters, printed its last edition on June 24. Its website…

House Republicans have vowed to take a series of actions to hold the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) accountable for its coverup of the COVID-19 outbreak that spurred the global pandemic, and get to the bottom of how the disease started spreading among humans. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy on June 23 laid out an eight-pronged…

House Republicans have vowed to take a series of actions to hold the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) accountable for its coverup of the COVID-19 outbreak and to get to the bottom of how the disease started spreading among humans. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) on June 23 laid out an eight-pronged plan focused on…

House Republicans have vowed to take a series of actions to hold the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) accountable for its coverup of the COVID-19 outbreak and to get to the bottom of how the disease started spreading among humans. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) on June 23 laid out an eight-pronged plan focused on…