Liu Qiangdong, or Richard Liu, founder and chairman of JD.com, recently transferred his ownership of equity shares at two subsidiary companies after stepping down as CEO in April. One Chinese affairs analyst believes Liu made the move in response to the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) campaign to target the business elite. The Powerful Economic Players…
China’s JD.com Founder Wears an ‘Invisible Shackle’: Analyst
Province in China Locks Down High School Students and Staff Without Notifying Parents
Over 2,000 secondary school students and 300 teaching staff of a private high school in China’s southwestern Guizhou Province are locked down amid the communist regime’s zero-COVID policy. Guiyang Happy Valley International Experimental School was found to have “abnormal PCR test results” on Sept. 6, as reported by Netease, a popular digital news portal in…
‘Everything Is Bitter’: Chinese Phrase Circulates on Social Media Under Zero-COVID
“Everything is bitter, but Paris is sweeter” is the English translation of a Chinese phrase circulating on Chinese social media, reflecting the Chinese people’s hardship under the ruling communist regime’s lengthy Zero-COVID policy. Zero-COVID is a policy of lockdowns enacted on entire cities and regions even when there are only a few cases of COVID-19….
US Ambassador to China Stands in Line on the Streets of Shanghai for COVID-19 Tests
U.S. Ambassador to China Nicolas Burns’ recent posts on Twitter have drawn much attention worldwide, including those who bypassed the Great Firewall in mainland China to leave comments on his post. One of his most shared posts on Twitter was him standing in a queue in the streets of Shanghai on Sept. 1, waiting for…
US Ambassador to China Stands in Line on the Streets of Shanghai for COVID-19 Test
U.S. Ambassador to China Nicolas Burns’ recent posts on Twitter have drawn much attention worldwide, including those who bypassed the Great Firewall in mainland China to leave comments on his post. One of his most shared posts on Twitter was him standing in a queue in the streets of Shanghai on Sept. 1, waiting for…
Starving and Censored, Guiyang Resident in China’s Lockdowns Asks World for Attention and Help
Residents of China’s largest residential complex gathered on the day of the Mid-Autumn Festival to protest food shortages due to the communist regime’s stringent lockdown measures. Local authorities sent in hundreds of police to silence the gathering residents. China’s southwestern Guizhou province imposed stringent closure measures in its capital city amid the latest COVID-19 flare-up…
Small Chinese Border City Under COVID Lockdown for 8 Months, Most Residents Have Fled
The small Chinese city of Dongxing, which borders Vietnam, has been under COVID lockdown for more than half a year. According to the China census in November 2020, the city’s population was 216,000. It’s estimated that around only 20,000 people are there now due to the communist regime’s strict zero-COVID policy. Most residents have fled…
Confronting Communist China Is the ‘Challenge That Will Define the 21st Century’: Sen. Rubio
Confronting the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the bloc of totalitarian nations it leads will be the defining challenge of the 21st century. That was the case made by Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) during a Sep. 13 press conference, in which he implored the democracies of the world to heed the seriousness of the threat…
Toddler Dies Amid Strict COVID Lockdown in China’s Xinjiang, Netizens Blast Authorities
The tragic death of a 17-month-old boy in Yining city last month has caused outrage on Chinese social media. The boy’s father accused the local hospitals of negligence, and netizens criticized authorities for their strict COVID-19 lockdowns. Yining—a city in China’s western Xinjiang region—had been under complete lockdown since July 30, when authorities reported 10 asymptomatic…
Chinese Ambassador Says Taiwanese Who Pushed For Independence Will Be Punished
The Chinese Ambassador to Australia has explained that Taiwanese who seek independence would be punished if China took control of the area. Ambassador Xiao Qian said that the secessionists who sought to move Taiwan toward independence would be punished by the Chinese regime when the country was “reunified” with the mainland. “They are going to…
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