Remove China’s Trade Privileges to Stop Funding Communist Abuses: NJ Rep. Chris Smith

“The Uyghurs are being subjected to genocide, religious freedom is being decimated all over China, [the CCP] is horribly oppressing the people of China,” he said, adding that Beijing now threatens democratic Taiwan, having recently destroyed the freedoms enjoyed by residents of Hong Kong after millions rose up demanding political reforms in the 2019 protests. 

Uyghur Rights Groups Support Request to Debate China’s Xinjiang Record

Just before Michelle Bachelet’s term ended as U.N. high commissioner for human rights, she released a much-anticipated report on China’s human rights violations in Xinjiang, including the arbitrary detention of Muslim groups including Uyghurs in so-called vocational education training centers, forced sterilization, coerced labor, family separation, and religious repression.

Congress Holds Hearing to Mark 30th Anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre

JOAN CHANG | EPOCH TIMES WASHINGTON—While the Chinese regime has been trying to erase the history of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protest and massacre, U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said at a Congressional hearing, the peaceful protestors’ names “are remembered and their sacrifices are recognized. Their sacrifice is not just for them personally but sacrifices for democracy […]

US House Bill Proposes Measures to Counter China’s Political Influence in America

FRANK FANG | EPOCH TIMES U.S. Rep. Chris Smith (R-N.J.) has introduced legislation to tackle China’s harmful political influence in the United States.  “Beijing’s influence operations are sophisticated and threatening. They include efforts to coerce and corrupt U.S. interests, institutions and individuals while fostering attitudes and outcomes favorable to the Chinese Communist Party,” Smith said […]

China’s Rights Activists Face Torture, Detention, ‘Disappearance’: Report

Tam Siu-yin and Shi Shan | Radio Free Asia China’s human rights activists continue to speak out on behalf of victims of the ruling Chinese Communist Party’s abuses of power, despite the threat of arbitrary detention, torture, and forced ‘disappearance,’ an overseas rights group said on Thursday. “2018 was another year of harsh reprisals against […]