The 'Real Bodies' exhibition continues in Sydney, Australia despite public outcry and protests that demand the NSW and Australian governments close it down because of the failure of the organisers to show consent and proper governance of the corpses.

There has been a daily peaceful protest outside the Sydney Entertainment Precinct where the...

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Protesters of Confucius Institutes rally in front of the Toronto District School Board. (Photo: In the Name of Confucius documentary)

The Confucius Institutes (CIs), ostensibly benign Chinese language and cultural agencies, are funded and overseen by the Beijing party-state through an office commonly known as Hanban...

The 'Real Bodies' Exhibition in Sydney, Australia is a display of 'plastinated' bodies and organs from supposedly donated or unclaimed bodies in China.

However, these exhibitions that have been held around the world for many years, source their bodies from China, especially Dailian, in Heilongjiang province...

In response to “China used to harvest organs from prisoners. Under pressure, that practice is finally ending” by Simon Denyer of the Washington Post late last year, Ethan Gutman, author of The Slaughter, shows that the 'Post' article was little more than propaganda for the Chinese communist regime:


In China: News is not news. News serves a...

Australian MP Michael Danby’s Speech at the Citizen Power Award Ceremony, the 12th InterEthnic/InterFaith Leadership Conference, Japanese Diet, Tokyo, Japan.


Firstly I would like to thank the Japanese Diet for hosting us here, and I would like to particularly like to thank Dr Yang and Initiatives for China, for organising this wonderful gathering of supporters of democracy in China, for all...

A recent article in the New York Times chronicles the use of 'soft power' by the Chinese regime to intimidate free speech by Chinese-Australians and to influence Australian government policy making.

This type of coercion in western democracies is coordinated by the United Front Department of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

United Front work is the political advantage and strategy of the Chinese Communist Party to solidify its ruling status. relations with individuals and...

A new advocacy organization focused on Hong Kong was launched this month at a reception hosted in Speaker’s House, House of Commons in the UK Parliament.

The new organisation, Hong Kong Watch, is a London-based human rights organisation which speakers described as a human rights ‘watchman’ and a ‘whistleblower’ which will speak up if freedom and rule of law are undermined in Hong Kong.

The event was introduced by the...

Communism as articulated by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in the 19th century was not instituted in any country until after the Russian Revolution in 1917 and subsequent civil war during which an estimated 8-10 million Russians perished.

A museum of totalitarianism recently opened in Lvivin western Ukraine, containing displays from both the Soviet and Nazi occupation periods of the...

“When the black cloth was taken off my head, I found myself in a big room with all sorts of torture devices laid out in front of me. They told me to have a look at these devices and I told myself that I was doomed to being beaten that day” - former prisoner and torture survivor Golog Jigme.

Imagine...

The US 2016 Report on International Religious Freedom was released at a press conference in Washington on August 15, 2017. China is among the ten “Countries of Particular Concern” for its severe religious persecution. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson specifically mentioned the persecution of Falun Gong, noting that in 2016, “dozens of Falun Gong members have died in detention”.

In Tillerson's remarks he said that freedom of religion is “a core American value...

On July 20, 2017, members of the public gathered on the West Lawn of the Capitol building to commemorate the 18th anniversary of the persecution of Falun Gong. Falun Gong is an ancient meditation exercise centered on the principles of truthfulness, compassion, and tolerance. In 1999, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)

(satellite image released by CSIS Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS))

China has built new military facilities on islands in the South China Sea, a U.S. think tank reported Thursday, a move that could raise tensions with...