The Chinese regime’s intensifying efforts to thwart global scrutiny of its human rights abuses pose an “existential threat” to the international system, Human Rights Watch (HRW), said in an annual report documenting human rights conditions around the world.

China’s...

The Executive Director of Human Rights Watch (HRW) was denied entry to Hong Kong on Sunday 12th January, where he was to launch the 2020 world report with a focus on China's "intensifying assault" on human rights, at the Foreign Correspondent Club on January 15th.

"Sadly this episode is just the latest evidence that the Chinese Government is doing everything it can to undermine the enforcement of international human rights standards," Mr Kenneth Roth...

A new leak of highly classified Chinese government documents has uncovered the operations manual for running the mass detention camps in Xinjiang and exposed the mechanics of the region’s Orwellian system of mass surveillance and “predictive policing.”

The China Cables, obtained by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), include a classified list of guidelines, personally approved by the region’s top security chief, that...

Last fall, 646 international scholars from 40 nations signed a statement condemning the internment of Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslim minorities in the Xinjiang region of China, stressing that mass internment of citizens on the basis of ethno-cultural and religious identity is unprecedented in the twenty-first century and should not be accepted by the international community.

The victims are subjected to highly invasive forms of surveillance and psychological stress as...

A patriotic app promoted by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) as a tool for ideological education contains a security backdoor enabling remote access to Android smartphones, security researchers have found.

"Study the Great Nation," or Xuexi Qiangguo in Chinese, has been aggressively promoted by the ruling party, government departments and state-owned enterprises in China, with more than 100 million users to date, according to government figures.

The...

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...