Nothing could more demonstrate the way the Australian government
grovels to Beijing than their recent attempt to reject former Taiwan
Vice President, Annette Lu's, visa application to enter the country to
make a speech, today actually, at the Queensland Taiwan Centre.

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) doesn’t like her so the Australian Government
wouldn’t let her in. Thankfully the visa has now been granted. But
the Beijing regime has now more influence...

Amnesty International has released it's Death Sentences and Executions Report 2015.  This report covers the judicial use of the death penalty for the period January to December 2015. Amnesty reports only on executions, death sentences and other aspects of the use of the death penalty, such as commutations and exonerations, where there is reasonable confirmation. In many countries governments do not publish information on their use of the death penalty, making confirmation of the...

The following is an article by Wang Debang, a Chinese dissident who chose to stay inside China (instead of secretly leaving) and has been under persecution and constant government surveillance since the 1989 Tiananmen Massacre. Wang is a frequent...

As awareness of the persecution against Falun Gong advances worldwide, the urgency of taking a stand on the matter cannot be overstated. Eventually, the persecution in China will come to an end, after which point the opportunity to champion the side of right will be no more.

In drawing a sobering parallel, let us remember that during World War II, “President Roosevelt, under pressure from the public, agreed to issue a statement condemning the German government for its genocidal...

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) announced that, beginning January 1, 2015, it would stop the practice of using executed prisoners as donors for organ transplants, and that donated organs would be the sole source for organ transplants. However, according to the World Organization to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong (WOIPFG). its latest telephone investigation conducted during the period of January to November 2015, sampling 165 hospitals designated to perform organ...

The United States and Western countries have criticized “China’s ongoing problematic human rights record,” in an unprecedented joint statement issued Thursday during a United Nations Human Rights Council session in Geneva.  

A U.S. State Department official told VOA this joint statement is “the first collective action taken regarding China at the Human Rights Council since its inception in 2007.”

The joint statement called recent cases of unexplained...

The Chinese Communist Party's (CCP’s) political structure fosters political rivalry

Some Western observers feel that Xi Jinping’s anti-corruption campaign is somehow confusing. It seems to them that, in addition to containing the widespread corruption in China, Xi also uses this campaign to purge officials who rival him politically.

That is likely to be the case. The structure of officialdom in China is quite different from that in the U.S. Xi is doing what he...

While most knew him for his music and performance art, Friends of Falun Gong

will remember David Bowie’s unfailing support of Falun Gong practitioners’

Life sometimes produce fascinating, extraordinary 'coincidences', not only by physical circumstance, but also psychologically.

Here are a few of the amazing ones:

* In 1975, a man riding a moped in Bermuda was accidentally struck and killed by a taxi that had one passenger. One year...

In Washington, D.C. recently, my friend Alan Curtis invited me to watch Chimerica, which was written by the British playwright Lucy Kirkwood. The play focuses on finding clues to the identity of Tank Man, the iconic and still unknown protester from Tiananmen Square, and explores the contemporary...