This is a summary of Benedict Rogers’ Nov.1 talk at Citizen Power Forum run by Citizen Power Initiatives for China.

It is my great privilege to be speaking today at the first of the Citizen Power Forum events. Initiatives like this are vital in a day when the Chinese Communist Party are using sharp power to attempt to silence pro-democracy and human rights voices.

I have worked on and spoken widely on a range of issues relating to China, from the...

Professor Zhou Xiaozheng, a Chinese social scientist stated the following situation when lecturing in Japan:

The number of wealthy people in Beijing surpassed that of New York in 2015. According to the 2018 census, the wealth of the 18 richest representatives of the Chinese People's...

When  the  Congressional-Executive  Commission  on  China  (CECC)  was  established  in  2000,  the  prevailing  wisdom  underpinning U.S.-China relations maintained that increased trade and economic  interconnectivity,  as  well  as  diplomacy  and  robust  cultural exchange,  would  lead  to  greater  openness  and  political  liberalization within China.

In  the  years  that  followed,  the  Chinese  economy  grew  dramatically, while the...

(Sun Yi, whose story is told in the documentary "Letter From Masanjia." (Flying Cloud Productions)

The award-winning documentary film “Letter from Masanjia” tells the true story of the extraordinary courage and hope of a man named Sun Yi, despite the unimaginable horrors he endured as a prisoner of conscience in a...

The Chinese government has a five-year plan to make Christianity 'more compatible with socialism' in which there will be a "rewrite" of the Bible, a prominent religious freedom activist has told Congress.

The Rev. Bob Fu, a former Chinese house church leader who immigrated to the United States in 1997 and founded the persecution watchdog organization China Aid, provided great detail during a House hearing recently about a plan enacted by leading state-sanctioned denominations in...

A former Google employee, Jack Poulson, who had been a senior researcher at the company until resigning in August, wrote that he was fearful of Google's ambitions in China, in a letter to US lawmakers.


His letter alleges Google's work on a Chinese product - codenamed Dragonfly - would aid Beijing's efforts to censor and monitor its citizens online.

A report by news site The Intercept last week alleged Google had demanded employees delete an internal memo...

(Cover of Gao's first book, screenshot)

A Chinese human rights lawyer persecuted by authorities for his support of oppressed communities, including Christians and Falun Gong practitioners, has been awarded the Shahbaz Bhatti Freedom Award for 2018.

The whereabouts of the lawyer, Gao Zhisheng, have not been publicly known since August, 2017, so the award was...

(Plastinated corpse of woman and 8th month foetus)

The 'Real Bodies' exhibition at the Entertainment Quarter is to close on Sunday 16th September.

This is one month earlier than the organisers, Imagine Exhibitions, had planned.

There has been a public outcry and protests since the display opened on April 14th, demanding the NSW and Australian...

The Confucius Institute (CI) is the Chinese government’s multi-billion dollar Chinese language and culture program, with locations at over 1,600 foreign universities and schools around the world.

Ostensibly, it offers convenient Chinese language and culture programs, but many worry that these institutes pose risks to academic freedom, human rights codes, and even national security.

“In the Name of Confucius” is the first documentary to expose the many...

It is now clear, from numerous reliable sources, that shocking human rights atrocities are being perpetrated in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region of China (XUAR).

The Communist Party authorities have established a large number of political re-education centers in Xinjiang, detaining people without any judicial process, stripping them of their personal liberty, imprisoning them, and detaining them for indeterminate ‘sentences.’

Estimates of the...