Bilateral relations between Canada and China are currently at rock bottom. A Nanos opinion survey across Canada last month indicated that nine in ten Canadians held a “negative” or “somewhat negative” impression of the Government of China.

This is no doubt in part due to the ‘hostage diplomacy’ of Xi Jingping, with the arbitrary arrests of Canadians Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor, who remain months later in harsh prison conditions, and the suspension of Canadian...

Tibet Watch (1) has obtained background details of a video (2) released by official Chinese media on 22 September of Galden Jampaling Monastery  in Chamdo, central Tibet (3).

The video shows an orchestrated event consisting of thousands of Tibetan monks praying to, and voicing their loyalty to, the People’s Republic of China and the ruling Chinese Communist Party.

Part of the choreography shows clearly that this event is to mark the upcoming 70th anniversary of the...

A new report from citizenpowerforchina.org has revealed the slave labor of Uyghur prisoners in China's concentration camps.

China has created a "cotton gulag" in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR).  Xinjiang produces 84 percent of China's cotton output, and is a primary supplier and exporter of cotton/textile/apparel...

A Chinese communist regime-funded language and culture program in NSW (Australia) public schools will be replaced with one run by the NSW Department of Education, after a review of the program by the department.

The Confucius Classroom program, run in 13 NSW schools is paid for by Chinese government agency Hanban, and employed teaching assistants that were vetted by the Chinese government for "good political quality" and a love of "the motherland".

Confucious Institutes have...

This is a summary of a recent speech by the Hon. David Kilgour, J.D. for the International Coalition to end Transplant Abuse in China.

Twenty years ago, the party-state in Beijing launched a brutal campaign to eradicate Falun Gong.

People everywhere should condemn the ongoing torture, killing, organ pillaging, and demand the release of all Falun Gong and other prisoners of conscience.

Since seizing political power in 1949, the party-state has...

On July 7, Yuan Xiaoliang, the wife of Chinese-Australian writer Yang Hengjun, was taken by agents of the Chinese Communist Party(CCP) and questioned for two hours. Two days earlier, she had tried to leave China and return to Australia, but was refused leave.

Earlier this year, Yang Hengjun was 'disappeared' by the CCP after his return to China.

Yuan Xiaoliang is currently in hiding to avoid being pursued by the CCP.

The fourth Tenzin Delek Rinpoche Medal of Courage will be awarded in an evening ceremony this Friday 12 July in London.

The award was created by International Tibet Network in 2016 to recognise those who have shown a deep commitment to enhancing the freedom and rights of the Tibetan people at great personal risk, due to the persecution by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

It is awarded after a vote by members of International Tibet Network’s Steering...

A commentary by Bao Tong

This notion of socialism with Chinese characteristics (ChiSoc for short) is an important one.

Any Chinese citizen who doesn't comply with the rules of ChiSoc can end up without a household registration in life, and without a burial site in death.

Foreigners who haven't been initiated into its mysteries will keep blindly running into walls if they want to have dealings with Chinese people.

ChiSoc used to be...

The United States Department of State released its 2018 Annual Report on International Religious Freedom on the afternoon of June 21, 2019. As in previous years, the report lists China as a “Country of Particular Concern” (CPC) under the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998 for having engaged in or tolerated particularly severe violations of religious freedom.

Secretary of State Mike R. Pompeo said at the press release, “I’m proud to be here today to speak...

After nearly 10 months of campaigning, Tibetans and Tibet campaigners are

buoyed by the news that Google has publicly confirmed, at its

shareholders’ meeting, that there are “no plans to offer a search engine in

China.”

This confirmation came after Sundar Pichai, Google’s CEO, stated at

the weekend that a ‘censorship free internet’ would be an important

condition for them to operate in China.

Tibetans...