Tag: CCP

US and China Announce Major Investment Plans in Heated AI Race

On July 13, U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said at the Global Emerging Technology Summit hosted by the National Security Council for Artificial Intelligence (NSCAI) that the Department of Defense will invest nearly $1.5 billion to accelerate the development of AI over the next five years. U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo, who attended the…


Xi Jinping Criticized Intra-Party Democracy Ahead of Move for Lifelong Leadership

China’s top leader Xi Jinping previously scorned democratic thinking and called for tightened self-governance before making himself a life-long ruler, according to a new book published in June. The book contains internal speeches not previously made public. Xi’s comments were in response to rumors of a shift to a democratic model inside the Chinese Communist…


The State Department Should Recognize China’s Genocide Against Falun Gong

Commentary Secretary of State Blinken should promptly act to include Falun Gong in the department’s genocide determination citing China. New evidence, deemed “credible” by a dozen official U.N. human rights experts from various parts of the world, supports the finding that Beijing is extrajudicially putting to death large numbers of Falun Gong prisoners—as well as some…


China, America, and Racism

Commentary At the United Nations General Assembly in March of this year, Chinese Ambassador Dai Bing emphasized to the General Assembly that: “If the U.S. truly cared about human rights, they should address the deep-seated problems of racial discrimination, social injustice, and police brutality, on their own soil.” This was only one of many recent…


Remembering the Fallen: 22 Years of Persecution and Punishment

Commentary The abuses in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Region (XUR) have been well documented. With forced labor and horrific stories of sexual abuse, the Uyghur story is an important one, and it needs to be told. Another important story that needs to be told involves the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners. Twenty-two years ago today, the…


Photos: 100 Million People Practiced These Exercises by 1999, but Where Are They Now?

If you’ve ever been to China, you’ve probably seen that people enjoy practicing different forms of qigong (energy) exercises outside, mostly in parks. However, back in the early 1990s, there was one slow-moving meditative exercise system that was becoming increasingly popular before almost all of its practitioners disappeared overnight. Tens of thousands of people, from…


Live Recap: 2021 Rally to End Persecution of Falun Gong

Falun Gong, or Falun Dafa, is an ancient spiritual practice. It comprises moral teachings, meditation, and four gentle exercises. Since its inception in 1992, Falun Gong has an estimated 100 million practitioners worldwide. Unfortunately, on July 20, 1999, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) began a violent campaign to persecute Falun Gong practitioners in China. Millions…


Falun Gong Practitioners Gather for Candlelight Vigil

LOS ANGELES, Calif.—About 300 Falun Gong practitioners held a candlelight vigil July 18 next to the Chinese Consulate in Los Angeles, commemorating lives lost during a 22-year brutal persecution. Practitioners at the vigil called for the immediate release of 27 friends and family members currently incarcerated in China for practicing Falun Gong, while some shared experiences of the suppression of…


The Chinese Regime and the Black Lives Matter Movement Have Similar Agendas

Commentary Last week, Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation, the corporation behind the Black Lives Matter movement, issued a rather interesting statement. The corporation’s members stood in solidarity with the people of Cuba. The “U.S. federal government’s inhumane treatments of Cubans” was unacceptable. Not finished there, BLM appealed to the Biden administration to lift the embargo,…


China Preparing to Expropriate Foreign-Held Tech Shares

Commentary “What do investors need to understand, for those investors that are thinking maybe I want to dip my toe in investing in Chinese companies?” asked Maria Bartiromo on July 14, during her Fox Business show, “Mornings with Maria.” The answer is that Beijing is on the road to expropriating the shares held by foreigners in China’s…