Category: Special Topics

‘Whether You Live or Die, No One Cares’: Chinese Left Helpless Amid COVID Crisis

Inside the mortuary of a top hospital in China’s fifth most populous city of Guangzhou, dead bodies have been piled on the floor after the refrigerated chambers hit capacity. Outside several morgues in the southwestern municipality Chongqing, cars have formed long lines waiting for bodies to be cremated. Up north in China’s capital, there were…


Japan Tightens Border Controls for Travelers From COVID-Hit China as Accurate Virus Data Obscured

Japan is the latest country to tighten border controls for people who have visited mainland China, as the communist regime removes cross-border traveling restrictions despite a COVID-19 outbreak sweeping across the country. Starting from midnight on Dec. 30, travelers from mainland China are required to present a negative COVID test result upon arrival, Japanese Prime…


Local Chinese Officials Indicate Millions of Daily Infections Ahead of COVID-19 Peak

Chinese provinces and cities are seeing millions of new COVID-19 infections each day, much higher than the official statistics, with the wave expected to peak in the weeks ahead. Health officials said there were roughly 1 million new COVID-19 infections every day in Zhejiang, a coastal province located south of Shanghai. Infections in the manufacturing…


PREMIERING 7:30PM ET: Enes Kanter Freedom: Why I Sacrificed My Future in the NBA to Stand Up to the Chinese Regime

“How can the biggest dictatorship in the world control a 100 percent American-made organization and put pressure on them to fire an American citizen?” I sit down with NBA player Enes Kanter Freedom. After playing 11 seasons, his career abruptly ended when he made headlines, speaking out about human rights abuses in China. “NBA is…


Taiwan to Extend Conscription to One Year, Citing Rising China Threat

TAIPEI—Taiwan will extend compulsory military service to one year from four months in 2024 due to the rising threat the democratically governed island faces from its giant neighbor China, President Tsai Ing-wen said on Tuesday. The move, which had been well-flagged, comes as the Chinese communist regime ramps up military, diplomatic, and economic pressure on…


Overloaded Chongqing Crematory Recruits Day Workers Amid Surge of Deaths in Recent Flare-Up

China’s southwestern megacity Chongqing is experiencing a surge of infections of COVID amid the recent flare-up. More than 5 million people in the city, accounting for over 15 percent of its total population, have been infected by the pandemic in the first 20 days of December, according to leaked notes of a virtual health meeting…


Amid Surge in COVID-19 Cases, China Lifts Quarantine Rules for International Travel

China announced it is scrapping its yearslong centralized quarantine rules for overseas passengers—a major step toward easing restrictions on border travel amid the country’s mass reopening. Starting on Jan. 8, 2023, international visitors will be free to cross the Chinese border on the mainland and Macao with a negative P.C.R. test result within 48 hours…


China to End Mandatory COVID Quarantine for International Travelers

China further announced to scrap its years-long centralized quarantine rules for overseas passengers—a major step towards easing curbs on its borders amid the country’s mass reopening. Starting on Jan. 8, 2023, international visitors will be free to cross the Chinese border on the mainland and Macao carrying a negative P.C.R. test result within 48 hours…


Renowned Chinese Communist Party Artists Die in Rapid Succession in December

The recent wave of Omicron infections in China has caused numerous deaths, many of whom were renowned artists, actors, opera singers, film directors, and writers and had ties to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Actor Who Played Mao Zedong Dies Actor Zhang Mu, 92, who played Mao Zedong in many CCP films, died in Beijing…


Senior Academicians from Chinese Academy of Sciences and Engineering Die Amid COVID Wave

Reports of the death of prominent members of the prestigious Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE) took a jump in December when the COVID wave swept through the country. CAS and CAE are the highest-ranked science and engineering organizations under the Chinese regime. Based on publicly available obituaries, nine academicians…