One person has died in a gas explosion that injured 12 others at a six-story residential building in the Chinese port city of Tianjin, state media said Wednesday. A trapped person who had been pulled out on Tuesday at 5:40 p.m., more than 10 hours after the morning blast, had weak vital signs and died…

Tiananmen Square—China’s political center and symbol of the communist regime’s power—has been placed under strict lockdown as a COVID-19 outbreak hits Beijing. Chinese authorities have tightened control measures in the capital as per its official “Zero-COVID” policy with nine city districts being included in the lockdown orders. The Beijing Tiananmen District Management Committee announced via…

The Chinese communist regime has locked down another major city—Tianjin in northern China—under its strict “Zero-COVID” policy. Meanwhile, mandatory mass testing is being conducted in the city. Authorities warn those who violate the regulations that they will not only be punished but that it would even “affect their future generations.” Tianjin is one of China’s…

CUDDEBACKVILLE, N.Y.—Dancers and musicians who have fled communist China and found a base in the serenity of rural upstate New York are now finding themselves the target of overseas operations by Beijing as well as an American national with close ties to China. An investigation by The Epoch Times, which reviewed thousands of pages of…

The Chinese regime’s data from new outbreaks of COVID-19 affected areas in mainland China show that Chinese vaccines do not prevent infections with Omicron, Delta, and other variants of viruses; with over 90 percent of infected patients having been vaccinated, a much higher rate than that of the uninfected. According to data disclosed by the…

BEIJING—Volkswagen Group’s China unit said on Thursday it has shut a plant it jointly runs with FAW Group in the city of Tianjin, as well as a component factory, due to recent COVID-19 outbreaks there. “Due to the recent COVID-19 outbreaks both the FAW-VW vehicle plant and VW Automatic Transmission Tianjin component factory have been…

The northern Chinese port city of Tianjin has ordered a second round of mandatory testing for its 14 million residents, as the highly contagious Omicron coronavirus variant spreads to a third city weeks before Beijing prepares to stage the Winter Olympics. Tianjin, about 62 miles from Beijing, was the first Chinese city to officially combat…

Another central Chinese city reported Omicron cases on Jan. 10, the second city in days, adding fears for the Beijing Winter Olympics just weeks away. Tianjin, a city about half an hour away from Beijing by train, reported 40 new infections over the weekend after a child and a young woman were confirmed infected with…

A northern Chinese port city on Jan. 9 started mass testing and locked down areas where the highly contagious Omicron variant was reported, prompting residents to stock up on food and supplies. The megacity of Tianjin has advised residents not to leave town for unnecessary reasons and began testing its 14 million residents on Sunday,…

The scene begins with a bloodied man being lifted out of a box and placed on an operating table. Without checking his vital signs, a surgeon promptly slashes open the body and exposes the internal organs. “Grab it!” A voice commands. Then a kidney is yanked from the abdomen, placed in a fluid-filled bag, and…