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...

(The Statue of Liberty on Tiananmen Square prior to massacre. Photo courtesy 64memo.com)

June 4th 2019 is the 30th anniversary of the bloody Tiananmen Square Massacre where an estimated 10,000 unarmed students and democracy activists were slaughtered by the People's Liberation Army (PLA) on the orders of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

Since that time...

One warm morning in April 1999, a scene unfolded that not only took China by surprise, but also captured headlines around the world--a group of people quietly gathered around Beijing's Office of Appeals, which happens to be located on the west side of Zhongnanhai, China's political headquarters.

Those that gathered were from different geographic regions and walks of life. Some were entire families, some came individually or with friends. They arrived on foot and by bicycle, taxi...

While we may not all have jet packs or live in a Blade Runner’s world, China’s Communist regime has already taken us closer and closer to “1984,” George Orwell’s dystopian nightmare.

Constant and pervasive surveillance is now the new normal in China. Just consider the following developments:

Unmanned drones patrol over cities.

Satellites track cars and trucks on the roads.

Cameras on lamp posts with artificial intelligence (AI) read...

President Trump took a tough stance against Beijing last year, demanding fair trade and an end to forced technology transfer and technology theft.

In 2018, several rounds of the tariff-based U.S.-Sino trade war pushed China’s economy and stock market into the cold winter.

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and its controlled media have been blaming Trump and his administration for trying to destroy China’s economy. Those “patriotic” Chinese who the CCP keeps...

Chinese authorities have prohibited Tibetan children from attending language classes in monasteries in Nangchen county near the border of the Tibet Autonomous Region, a local government notice obtained by research group, Tibet Watch shows.

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP), which has ruled Tibet since 1950, has warned monks and parents that holding classes in the monasteries is a “danger” that must be “dealt with.”

The government order titled: “Urgent notice...

Religious repression in Tibet has further intensified with new regulations.

The Chinese government has ordered citizens of Tibet to worship in front of pictures of Xi Jinping and the Communist Party leadership in shrines inside their homes, instead of religious figures like the Dalai Lama, according to information provided by Free Tibet’s research partner Tibet Watch.

Tibetans who are dependent on government subsidies or are on the poverty alleviation programme have...