Amid new tensions with China, the Obama administration on Thursday launched its 15th challenge against Beijing at the World Trade Organization, escalating a long-simmering debate over practices that U.S. officials say limit American farmers' ability to export rice, wheat and corn to the Asian powerhouse.

The administration says it is trying to hold China to its commitment to allow set quantities of grain and corn to enter the country subject to a lower tariff rate.  China agreed...

The Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act, which passed the U.S. Congress in a 92-7 vote on December 8 should be a warning to human rights abusers around the world and particularly in China.

The act allows the president to deny U.S. visas and freeze U.S.-based assets of human rights abusers and corrupt foreign officials. Many Chinese who are corrupt and/or responsible for crimes against humanity, such as the organ harvesting of prisoners of conscience, especially...

President-elect Donald Trump's short conversation with President Tsai Ing-wen of Taiwan has provoked the usual bluster and threats from the Chinese communist regime and the accusations from western 'democracies' and media that he is a loose cannon with no idea of diplomacy and that he threatens ties with China.

Breath of fresh air

Whether it was a calculated move by Trump or not, it sends a message to the communist regime that the status quo of the United States...

George Mason University senior April Yoo took home a $1,000 first prize for her winning entry in a human rights poster design competition. But on Nov. 2, shortly after she announced her good news on LinkedIn, she received a message from the social network saying that her profile was blocked in China.

The subject of the poster...

The Conservative Party Human Rights Commission (CPHRC) has released a report that calls on the British government to publically condemn the continuing practice of forced organ harvesting in China and to seek a United Nations Commission of Inquiry to assess whether this practice could amount to a crime against humanity under international law.

The CPHRC heard that the scale of organ harvesting in China is much higher than previously...

Article by Chineses human rights activists, Yang Jianli, Founder and President of Initiatives for China, and Teng Biao, Visiting Scholar at The Institute for Advanced Study and New York University

We have watched the three presidential debates in dismay and surprise: While the third and final debate dealt with several important issues, it repeated a glaring omission of the prior two debates. Why hasn’t anybody raised questions about U.S. human rights...

U.S. network security experts say Chinese hackers recently launched a network attack targeting people attending a U.S.-Taiwan Defense Industry Conference.

Officials say the attempted attack took place this month at the conference in Williamsburg, Virginia, attended by defense officials, defense industry representatives, defense security experts and think-tank scholars.

Steven Adair, founder of Washington-area network security company Volexity, said the hacking attempt was...

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A series of billboards appeared in Times Square as part of a Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation campaign. The Foundation is a Washington, D.C.- based organization dedicated to educating the public about communism’s legacy worldwide.

The billboards note that today, 1 in 5 people on earth live under communism; that it remains...

The U.S. Congressional Executive Commission on China (CECC), Annual Report 2016 and the British Conservative Party Human Rights Commission (CPHRC) have both been scathing of the Chinese Human rights record and the lack of progress and transparency since being granted entry to the World Trade Organisation in 2001.

The CECC says that “2016 will mark 15 years since China’s accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO). At that time, the Chinese...

So-called "Tribute Concerts for Chairman Mao" to be held in Sydney and Melbourne this weekend have been cancelled due to unprecedented protests from Chinese-Australians and ordinary Australians who were appalled that the life of the greatest mass-murderer in history would be 'celebrated' in a democratic country such as Australia.

The proposed tribute to Mao Zedong, marking the 40th anniversary of his death, touched a raw nerve among many Chinese-Australians, whose families...

(A re-enactement of live organ harvesting from living Falun Gong practitioner)

Three international investigators have released an in-depth update on the killing of prisoners of conscience for their organs in China at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. on June 22, 2016.

Their extensive research, based on media reports...

This short film was shot over a 12-hour period in Sydney’s CBD on July 20th 2015, it was gradually put together over the space of approximately one year.

The director, Alexander Nilsen, says that originally the footage was just going to be used for a basic YouTube video about Falun Gong, but after laying the cinematic music tracks, it started taking it’s own course.

The 5-minute piece sheds light on a very tough subject: The persecution of Falun Gong in...