China Cancels 23 Loans to Africa Amid ‘Debt Trap’ Debate

“It is not uncommon for China to do something like this [forgive interest-free loans] … now obviously it is connected to the overall debt-trap diplomacy narrative in the sense that clearly there’s a felt need on the part of China to push back,” Verhoeven told VOA.

Canberra: Australian-Chinese Writer Has Been Moved to Beijing Detention Center

VOA News Australia says it has learned that a dual Chinese-Australian dissident and writer who has been detained in his native country since January has been moved to a detention center in Beijing.   The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade said Thursday it learned from Yang Hengjun’s family about his transfer and was seeking […]

A Place for the Liu Xiaobo Bust

Yaxue Cao | China Change This article was first published on China Change website on April 16, 2019 In August 1988, two months after receiving his Ph.D. in literature from the Beijing Normal University, Liu Xiaobo (刘晓波) left the Chinese capital for a series of academic visits across Europe and the United States. The first […]

Support Grows for Suspended Tsinghua Law Professor in China

Joyce Huang | Voice of America Support is growing at home and abroad for a liberal law professor at China’s Tsinghua University who was recently suspended for criticizing Chinese President Xi Jinping. But how big an impact the backlash will have on the university’s Communist Party-appointed leadership or in China’s academic circles remains to be […]

Moral Courage Needed in Reconsidering China Policy

 Peter Zhang  |  Epoch Times Benjamin Franklin once said, “Never ruin an apology with an excuse.” In the wake of the obvious fact that the U.S.-led Western effort to democratize China through so-called constructive diplomatic and commercial engagement has failed over the decades, advocates of this policy may now feel compelled to have something to […]

Black Swan or Red Dragon

Frank Tian Xie  |  Epoch Times A couple of weeks ago, a Canadian reporter from Vancouver asked me a question about the black swans that seem to be emerging all over the place at an alarming rate, for example, as she said, the Brexit, the bombing in France, a Trump in the White House, Fed […]