A remarkable thing happened on the streets of Beijing 16 years ago this week. It was the beginning of a monumental chain of events whose significance is still playing out across China today.

Largest peaceful protest in modern Chinese history

On April 25, 1999, Falun Gong stood up to be heard. Disturbed by the hardening tone of state-run media, and triggered by the wrongful arrest of dozens of practitioners in nearby Tianjin, thousands went to the capital to seek justice for...

According to official media the Chinese Communist Party’s former security chief, Zhou Yongkang, has been indicted on charges of bribery, abuse of power, and and the intentional disclosure of state secrets.

Although Zhou has been under investigation since 2012 and he has been expelled from the communist party, it has taken a long time to gather evidence against him and his family.

Zhou Yongkang was a member of the powerful Politiburo Standing Committee, the highest...

In 1923 in Taixing, Jiang Bei, north of Shanghai, there was a man, Shi Qinzhong, who always conducted evil deeds. Many villagers were scared of him and always tried to avoid him. That year, Mr Shi suddenly became very ill, and was confined to bed.

During that time, a monk passed through the village...

Confidential diplomatic cables from the Canadian embassy in Beijing have been published nearly 26 years after the deadly massacre of protesters on June 4 1989.

The Telegraph reports that top Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leaders approached Swiss diplomats about sending "very significant amounts of money" to bank accounts in Switzerland at the time of the 1989 Tiananmen protests.

"The country is now being controlled...

A leading Chinese internet company has been forced to make changes to its Crisis 2015 video game after intense social media criticism in Tibet of its use of real Tibetan Buddhist temples as settings for graphic violence and scantily dressed women. The game is deeply offensive to Tibetans, who suffer from religious persecution and believe their culture is held in contempt by China’s government and many Chinese people.

Players in the “first person shooter” game, made by...

Many who have been holding their breath over the intense showdown in Hong Kong probably missed a moment of entertainment in Beijing.

The event in Beijing gave clues to discern the forces that are trying to direct the outcome of the Umbrella Movement.

Taking a stand in sitting

On the evening of September 29, 2014, a concert celebrating the 65^th anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) rule of mainland China was held in the Great Hall of the...

A senior Hong Kong official is warning protesters they face arrest if they do not clear the streets, where they have been camped out for weeks demanding democratic reforms.

Chief secretary Carrie Lam on Tuesday urged protesters to "quickly and peacefully" leave the roads, which she said are being "unlawfully occupied." She did not say if or when police would act to clear the sites.

Lam, the government's second-in-command, said she sees "no room for dialogue for the time...

On September 29th, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) mouthpiece, People's Daily ran an editorial entitled: “No one cares more about Hong Kong’s future destiny than the entire Chinese people”.

The editorial basically said that Britain had resisted democracy for Hong Kong and that it was only after the handover to China that Hong Kong could hope for elections through universal suffrage, and posed the question, "who has the real democracy, and who has the...

In recent years, Chinese people have seen quite a few top communist officials arrested because their “er-nai” or mistress exposed their crimes. Chinese bloggers agree that er-nai are a very strong force in China for combating corrupt officials.  Here is one case of a communist official reported by his mistress.

The former deputy director of the Chinese Development and Reform Commission of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the Director of the National Energy Board, Liu Tienan...

Since Chinese human rights lawyer, Gao Zhisheng was released from prison on August 7th, 2014, he has been under house arrest at his father-in-law’s home, and has been closely monitored by the Public Security Bureau. Every day there are two groups of police inside his family house, watching them!

Gao’s wife,

The former Politburo Standing Committee member and former secretary of the Central Political and Law Commission, Zhou Yongkang,  was formally investigated last December, and his son, Zhou Bin, 41, was arrested. The arrest of Zhou Bing is regarded as a key step towards initiating judicial proceedings against Zhou Yongkong.

Sources who...

The daughter of CY Leung, the incumbent Chief Executive of Hong Kong, posted a message on her face book page, but the message was quickly deleted.

Luckily, a screenshot was saved by Chinese bloggers (below).