Dozens of Hong Kong residents fleeing a crackdown on public dissent and peaceful protest under a draconian national security law imposed on the city by Beijing since July 1, 2020 have applied for political asylum in Canada, with 14 applications already successful, an Alberta-based voluntary group has said.

The New Hong Kong Cultural Club Canada (NHKCC) said Canada had become the first country in the world to grant asylum to people fleeing arrest for their part...

The COVID-19 pandemic served as a wake-up call to the world. As a result, the United States and the Western world have gained a better understanding of the true nature of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and therefore have started to go after it for its crimes: from imposing “one country, one system” on Hong Kong to persecuting Uyghurs in Xinjiang; from proliferating nuclear technology and providing financial support to Iran to violating consumer privacy on software and equipment, and...

(The brave PLA has crushed the unarmed students - photo courtesy of 64memo.com)

Hong Kong police have rejected permission for an annual vigil to honor the victims of the 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre.

The prohibition order was issued by the Hong Kong police force less than a week after the Chinese Communist authorities in Beijing moved to enact new security laws on the former British...

There is a monument in Nan-guan-chun Niuping, a county town in Dechang, Sichuan Province, built by the locals with donations in the late 19th century. Carved on the monument are many virtuous deeds of a local town magistrate Niu Shumei (1791-1875).

The monument was very cleverly saved by the locals during the madness of the Chinese “communist cultural revolution”.

To...

For a long time, Chinese people have believed in Gods and respected Buddhas. But in some areas, people slipped away from their faith.

A long time ago, in one village, an old man, a beggar appeared, going door to door to beg food. No one gave him food, and he found no  altars to worship in their houses.

When approaching the end of village, he saw a big house...

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...

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...

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 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...