The Chinese communist regime on Boxing Day began a closed door sham trial of prominent Chinese rights lawyer Wang Quanzhang who had been 'disappeared', held incommunicado and allegedly tortured for 3 and a half years.

The regime did not allow relatives, friends, lawyers, representatives of foreign embassies, or the international media to enter the court.

Chinese state media staff tried to interfere and abuse international journalists as they gathered...

An independent peoples’ tribunal examining evidence that the Chinese state is forcibly removing the organs of innocent prisoners of conscience, thereby killing them for profit, began on Dec. 8 in London.

The Tribunal of seven independent members is chaired by Sir Geoffrey Nice, QC. who previously led the prosecution of Slobodan Milošević at the International Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.

Evidence from 30 witnesses and experts was heard over three days...

Destroying the World Order

Many people in the Free World have realized that the engagement policy with red China to induce transformation of its political system has not worked as expected. It is important to analyze the reasons further so that policy makers can design strategies that are more effective and will actually work.

The fundamental reason for this failure is that the Free World has overlooked or forgotten the nature of communism. China, despite its...

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...