Category: CCP

CCP’s High-Tech Repression in Xinjiang Calls for Tougher Sanctions: Advocates

The Chinese regime’s aggressive rollout of new technologies to step up its repression of Uyghurs in western China calls for new responses on the part of allied nations outraged at the human rights abuses, said panelists at a recent virtual event hosted by The Brookings Institution think tank. Laura Rosenberger, senior director for China and…


China Over Coffee: A Conversation With Tiffany Meier on China–Russia Ties and Chinese Law Warfare

Welcome to a special episode of China Insider! I had the chance to speak with Tiffany Meier, host of China in Focus on NTD. We discussed two important issues in recent days in China. First, we dove into how Russia and China’s recent summit just before the Olympic Games is bringing two powers together against…


Chinese Communist Party Sends Mixed Signals on Russia Sanctions

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is sending mixed signals about its commitment to uphold international sanctions against Russia, following the latter’s invasion of Ukraine. The CCP regime has enacted some sanctions and lifted others. Two of China’s largest state-owned banks restricted financing for purchases of Russian commodities on Feb. 25, following an announcement of a…


CCP ‘Wants to Dominate the World’: Rep. Perry Says America’s Adversary Is the CCP, Not the People of China

U.S. lawmakers concerned about human rights in China, and their supporters, need to be exceedingly clear that their quarrel is with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and not with the people of China, said Rep. Scott Perry (R-Pa.). The many human rights abuses in China, involving myriad issues such as forced labor camps, concentration camps,…


China in 2022 One of the Least Free Countries in the World: Report

China today ranks as one of the countries in the world with the very lowest levels of political freedom and freedom of expression, according to advocacy group Freedom House’s annual “Freedom in the World” report released on Feb. 24. On a list of 210 countries and territories ranked according to freedom of speech, the right…


House Republicans: Why Did US Not Review China Acquisition of Canadian Critical Minerals Firm?

A trio of House Republicans is challenging five top Biden administration cabinet secretaries to explain why a company controlled by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) was able to buy Canada’s Neo Lithium Corp. with no review by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government. “The Canadian mining company Neo Lithium Corp has recently been acquired by Chinese…


Closure of DOJ Program Targeting CCP Espionage a Show of ‘Weakness’: Sen. Cotton

Critics have lambasted the Department of Justice (DOJ) for its recent decision to close the “China Initiative,” a Trump-era effort to thwart economic espionage from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). “The CCP has stolen trillions of dollars of American intellectual property, destroyed millions of American jobs, and turned students and researchers studying in the United…


DOJ’s Halt to Program Targeting CCP Espionage a Show of ‘Weakness’: Sen. Cotton

The Department of Justice’s (DOJ) recent decision to scrap the “China Initiative,” a Trump-era effort to thwart economic espionage by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), is “another instance of weakness” by the Biden administration, a U.S. senator says. “The CCP has stolen trillions of dollars of American intellectual property, destroyed millions of American jobs, and turned students…


US Political Elites Aid CCP By Skewing Public Discussions of China: Author

Political elites in the United States who shape public perceptions of China have deep and entrenched connections to the business community in the country, said experts at an event hosted by think tank Atlantic Council on Feb. 23. Those ties often lead them to abandon transparency and openness in discussions of China, they said. The…


‘I’m Not Ashamed to Face Heaven’: Chinese Army Veteran Persecuted for His Faith

A decorated Chinese Army veteran who later served 21 years in the police force was well-known for cracking difficult cases involving murder, robbery, and drug trafficking. However, his will to uphold his spiritual faith was viewed as an act of disloyalty to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), leading to the end of his successful career….