The Chinese government is forcing Tibetan’s living in poverty to memorise and recite the names of Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leaders and the Chinese national anthem in return for financial aid from the state, Tibet Watch has reported.

The test that citizens must pass for the aid requires knowledge of Xi Jinping, Mao Zedong and other influential CCP leaders. It also asks those being examined to recite a set of Chinese values called ‘the four emphasis and the four loves’

Influential figures in Washington are calling for the establishment of a bilateral free-trade agreement with Taiwan, even as U.S. and Chinese officials move toward a resolution of their long-running trade dispute.

"We have a lot of issues with Beijing, and a lot of opportunities with Taiwan," said Edwin J. Feulner in an interview with VOA. Feulner is the founder and former president of the Heritage Foundation, an influential think tank in Washington known for its...

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...

The Chinese communist regime on Boxing Day began a closed door sham trial of prominent Chinese rights lawyer Wang Quanzhang who had been 'disappeared', held incommunicado and allegedly tortured for 3 and a half years.

The regime did not allow relatives, friends, lawyers, representatives of foreign embassies, or the international media to enter the court.

Chinese state media staff tried to interfere and abuse international journalists as they gathered...

An independent peoples’ tribunal examining evidence that the Chinese state is forcibly removing the organs of innocent prisoners of conscience, thereby killing them for profit, began on Dec. 8 in London.

The Tribunal of seven independent members is chaired by Sir Geoffrey Nice, QC. who previously led the prosecution of Slobodan Milošević at the International Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.

Evidence from 30 witnesses and experts was heard over three days...

Destroying the World Order

Many people in the Free World have realized that the engagement policy with red China to induce transformation of its political system has not worked as expected. It is important to analyze the reasons further so that policy makers can design strategies that are more effective and will actually work.

The fundamental reason for this failure is that the Free World has overlooked or forgotten the nature of communism. China, despite its...

This is a summary of Benedict Rogers’ Nov.1 talk at Citizen Power Forum run by Citizen Power Initiatives for China.

It is my great privilege to be speaking today at the first of the Citizen Power Forum events. Initiatives like this are vital in a day when the Chinese Communist Party are using sharp power to attempt to silence pro-democracy and human rights voices.

I have worked on and spoken widely on a range of issues relating to China, from the...