Category: Special Topics

Blacklisted Chinese Hikvision Aids PRC Police to Track Protesters, Falun Gong

Chinese video surveillance giant Hikvision has activated alarms to aid the Chinese regime in tracking protesters and Falun Gong adherents, according to the latest report from Pennsylvania-based video surveillance information company IPVM. Protest activities subjected to alarm include “gathering crowds to disrupt order in public places,” “unlawful assembly, procession, demonstration,” and threats to “petition,” among…


‘80 Percent of Patients Have Differing Degrees of Pneumonia’: Chinese Doctor

While the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) top health body announced a downgrading of China’s COVID-19 management measures and renamed the Chinese term for COVID, Chinese doctors posted online that the virus has severely impacted the lungs of most of their COVID patients. A respiratory and critical care medicine physician from The First Affiliated Hospital of…


‘Mind Dominance’: The CCP’s Disinformation War on US Social Media

News Analysis Clusters of new social media profiles emerge and interact with long-dormant accounts, seemingly exchanging viewpoints from across the American political spectrum. Some sport American flags for profile pictures; others have images of beautiful women. Almost all are anonymous, though some impersonate real people. In tweets and posts and messages they spread their views….


Scholars at Sun Yat-sen University Die Amid Spike in COVID Infections

A number of Chinese experts and scholars—most of them members of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)—have died in the recent COVID-19 outbreak, including faculty members at Sun Yat-sen University, a major national university in southern China’s Guangdong Province. On Dec. 27, Sun Yat-sen University sent an obituary saying that He Zikun, a professor at the…


North Carolina Lawmakers Urge Governor to Follow Other States in Banning TikTok

Two North Carolina representatives are pressing Gov. Roy Cooper’s office to follow other states in issuing an executive order banning TikTok from government devices. State Reps. Jason Saine and Jon Hardister, both Republicans, sent a letter to the Democrat governor (pdf) insisting that Cooper remove the Chinese video app “swiftly and decisively,” deeming it to…


Overseas Chinese Buyers Rush to Buy Drugs Amid COVID Surge and Medical Shortages

A dramatic surge in COVID cases has plunged cities and towns across China into an extreme shortage of medicines. As millions of Chinese scramble to get their hands on fever reducers, antibiotics, and cough remedies, buyers abroad are rushing to purchase drugs to send back to China. The sweeping purchases are causing alarm in other…


China’s Response to Surging COVID-19 Crisis Echoes Wuhan: Chinese Dissident

Online posts show that China’s major cities have been hit hard by the recent pandemic outbreak, following the sudden end of China’s strict COVID-19 containment measures. Hospitals are overwhelmed with patients. Corpses are piled up in mortuaries. Long queues of hearses are waiting outside crematories. “After three years of stringent zero-COVID policies, the CCP has…


China May See a Peak of 25,000 People a Day Die From COVID in January: Report

As many as 25,000 Chinese people may die from COVID-19 at the expected peak of an infection wave next month, according to a British-based health analytics firm, offering a bleak prediction of what the regime’s abrupt U-turn in pandemic policy may mean in the absence of reliable COVID-19 figures. That is predicted to occur on…


Rest of the World Will Pay the Price for China’s Abrupt Removal of International Travel Restrictions: Author

After widespread protests against the lockdowns in November, the Chinese regime abruptly walked back its stringent Zero-COVID policy in early December. Without prior notice or the disclosure of steps for a gradual withdrawal of the policy, the change was made. Since then, COVID has ravaged China’s vast population, which was unprepared for the sudden change…


Taiwan’s Exports Down for Three Consecutive Months Amid Weakening Chinese Economy

Impacted by China’s weakening economy and falling demand from end-users, Taiwan’s Department of Statistics said that the country’s export orders plunged by 23.4 percent in November compared to the same month last year. The drop marked the third consecutive monthly year-on-year decline and the sharpest fall since March 2009. Experts said it is almost a foregone…