Tag: Chinese Regime

Parade in San Francisco Celebrates Over 400 Million Quitting CCP

SAN FRANCISCO—Hundreds of Falun Gong practitioners from around the San Francisco Bay Area held a parade in San Francisco on Aug. 20 to celebrate millions of people quitting the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). “I’m very happy. Now there’s 400 million people quitting the CCP,” Hong Zhang, a Falun Gong practitioner, told NTD, sister media outlet…


China’s Real Estate Industry Signals Big Regression of the Country’s Market Economy

From January to July this year, among the top 10 real estate companies acquiring land in key cities in China, 80 percent are state-owned enterprises, according to the country’s official data. A similar trend was observed in other industries in China. Analysts believe that this is not only an indication that “the state advances, the…


Xi, Putin to Attend November G-20 Summit in Bali: Indonesian President’s Adviser

Chinese and Russian leaders Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin will attend November’s Group of Twenty (G-20) summit on the resort island of Bali, a longtime adviser to the Indonesian president said on Friday. Andi Widjajanto, former cabinet secretary and unofficial adviser to President Joko Widodo, who is known as Jokowi, told Reuters the two leaders…


Chinese Officials Profit From a ‘Gray Channel’ of Loan Sharking

News Analysis A large number of Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials reportedly get low-interest loans and then lend the money at high interest rates, forming a “grey channel” and accumulate wealth. According to the website of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection on August 5, in Jiangxi Province, seven officials reaped extraordinary benefits from high-interest…


Search for Gao Zhisheng, ‘China’s Conscience,’ Five Years On

Gao Zhisheng, “China’s conscience,” was forcibly disappeared while under house arrest in 2017. It’s been five years and his wife, Geng He, continues her search for the brave Chinese human rights lawyer. Geng recently shared her thoughts about the search for Gao with the Chinese language edition of The Epoch Times. She said she appreciated…


Wife of Disappeared Chinese Rights Lawyer Vows to Continue Searching For Him, 5 Years On

Gao Zhisheng, “China’s conscience,” was forcibly disappeared while under house arrest in 2017. It’s been five years and his wife, Geng He, continues her search for the brave Chinese human rights lawyer. Geng recently shared her thoughts about the search for Gao with the Chinese language edition of The Epoch Times. She said she appreciated…


‘What My Family Has Been Through Is Just the Tip of the Iceberg’: A Young Woman’s Journey Through Fear

Hongyu Zhang will never forget the day in 2014 when she escaped China leaving her father behind, alone. Just 6 months prior, she lost her mother who died of torture in police custody.  Zhang, now a permanent resident of the United States, said that her biggest fear is losing connection with her father in China….


Chinese Canadian Tycoon Xiao Jianhua Sentenced to 13 Years in Prison

A Shanghai court on Aug. 19 sentenced Chinese Canadian billionaire Xiao Jianhua, who hasn’t been seen in public since 2017 and is known to have financial ties with some Chinese Communist Party (CCP) elites, to 13 years in jail and a fine of 55.03 billion yuan ($8.1 billion). Xiao and his Tomorrow Holdings conglomerate were convicted of…


US Embassy Condemns CCP Coercion to Change Cross-Strait Status Quo

Recently, the U.S. Embassy and Consulates in China (Embassy) tweeted a series of comments stressing the need to follow the conventions in the Indo-Pacific region. The Taiwan Strait separates Taiwan from China and the median line (the midway point between Taiwan and the mainland) has been respected for many years despite China not officially recognizing…


China’s Electricity Crisis Worsens as More Factories Suspend Operations During a Lingering Heatwave

China’s power crisis has worsened as more factories shutter while an extreme heatwave spreads across southwestern China, according to a report from Nikkei Asia on Aug. 17. The municipal authorities in Chongqing ordered all factories, including foreign-owned factories, to suspend operations through Aug. 24, in order to conserve power as the heatwave causes a surge…