Category: Special Topics

White House Reacts to China’s Mass COVID Protests as Senators Calls for Stronger US Response

The United States on Nov. 28 took aim at Beijing’s strict COVID-19 curbs after mass protests broke out across the country over the weekend, saying the policy is not sustainable in the long term. But some Republicans have criticized the White House’s response as not sending a strong enough message to the Chinese Communist Party….


White House’s Muted Reaction to China’s Mass COVID Protests Prompts Calls for Stronger US Response

The Biden administration’s less than vocal response to mass protests in China over the communist regime’s harsh COVID policies has prompted criticism from Republican lawmakers. At a press briefing on Monday, John Kirby, National Security Council coordinator for strategic communications, stopped short of directly backing protesters’ calls for greater freedoms in China. When asked what President…


White House Says It Supports People’s Right to Protest in Response to Mass COVID Demonstrations in China

The Biden administration said it supported Chinese people’s rights to peacefully protest the communist regime’s COVID policies after widespread unrest rocked the country over the weekend. “People should be allowed … the right to assemble and to peacefully protest policies or laws or dictates … that they take issue with,” White House national security spokesperson…


China Tightens Security After Mass Protests Over CCP’s Draconian COVID Policies

The Chinese regime tightened security in some cities in the aftermath of major protests over the weekend that flared across the country, a rare show of defiance against Beijing’s draconian zero-COVID policy that has uprooted daily life for the past three years.  Police on Nov. 28 stopped and searched people at the sites of weekend…


Benedict Rogers: Hong Kong’s Press Freedom Entirely Destroyed by CCP

Benedict Richard Victor Rogers, a British human rights activist and co-founder and CEO of Hong Kong Watch group, said in an interview with the Epoch Times on Nov. 23, that Hong Kong’s press freedom has been devastated and utterly destroyed. Rogers expressed his concerns about the upcoming trial of Jimmy Lai, the founder of Next…


China Tightens Security After Rare Protests Against COVID-19 Curbs

SHANGHAI/BEIJING—Police on Monday stopped and searched people at the sites of weekend protests in Shanghai and Beijing, after crowds there and in other Chinese cities demonstrated against stringent COVID-19 measures disrupting lives three years into the pandemic. From the streets of several Chinese cities to dozens of university campuses, protesters made a show of civil…


China Exploits Legal Immigration Policies to Undermine US National Security: Sen. Cotton

In 2022 alone, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) approved more than 570 H-1B visas for foreign nationals to work in Chinese-owned TikTok’s California offices. This immigration policy can be manipulated by the regime to undermine American national security, according to Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) An H-1B is a temporary visa that allows companies to…


Downing Street: Arrest of BBC Reporter in China ‘Unacceptable’

The arrest of British journalist in China is “shocking and unacceptable,” Downing Street said on Monday after a BBC journalist was detained and allegedly beaten by the police when reporting on anti-zero-COVID protests in Shanghai. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s spokesman also urged Beijing to respect Chinese people’s right to protest. Foreign secretary James Cleverly and a…


Bail Granted to Former Hydro-Québec Employee Charged With Sending Trade Secrets to China

A former Hydro-Québec employee who is facing charges related to sending trade secrets to China has been granted bail. Yuesheng Wang, 35, is the first person to be charged with economic espionage under Canada’s Security of Information Act, an RCMP spokesperson told The Epoch Times on Nov. 15, when Wang made his first court appearance. As conditions of his release,…


Disabled Woman in China Faces Imprisonment for Her Beliefs

A lawyer has called for the public to pay attention to a disabled woman’s case before the final verdict of her second trial is delivered in December, saying she is the victim of the persecution of Falun Gong (also known as Falun Dafa) in China. Niu Xiaona, is a permanently disabled woman from Harbin, a…