Chinese Consulate Worker Recounts Escape to Freedom
“When you’re out of the consulate, you’re not allowed to have any contact with the outside world, and if you [got] caught doing so, the consequences were severe. A recent example was reported in all Chinese diplomatic missions around the world. One of the embassy’s office staff spoke a few words with a local Chinese-speaking person outside of the embassy and was noticed by the embassy’s military attaché. That person he spoke to was from Taiwan, and the office staff was immediately fired and repatriated back to China.”
Fed up With COVID Lockdowns, Migrant Workers in Guangzhou Break Through Barriers
In a clip sent to RFA’s Cantonese Service, people apparently confined to apartment buildings in Guangzhou sing the anthem of the 2014 Hong Kong pro-democracy movement, “Boundless Oceans, Vast Skies,” by Hong Kong rock band Beyond, to the night sky.
A Chat with Mike Pompeo on the Chinese Communist Party – Episode Three
The Chinese Communist Party is also bullying Australians, Canadians, Czechs, Indians,
Japanese people, Taiwanese people, and any person who posts a picture of Winnie the Pooh on WeChat.
Identity of the Man Who Pulled Off Protest on Beijing Overpass Amid Unprecedented Security Before the Chinese Communist Party Congress
He wrote, “We want Xi Jinping the tyrant to know that, there are men in China on the path to pursue freedom” — a reference to Xi’s laments that the Soviet Union didn’t have a man who was man enough to save it from collapse.
Why Companies Decide to Leave or Stay in China
In the last few years in China, Liao said, he was invited to “have tea” with the police four times after his account on China’s WeChat social media platform was censored. To “have tea” is an indirect way for the Chinese police to question, interrogate, and sometimes threaten people they consider a danger to national security or social stability.
China Steps up Social Media Censorship, ‘Upgrades’ Great Firewall Ahead of Congress
Former 1989 Tiananmen protest leader Wang Dan, said via Twitter that WeChat appeared to be preventing blocked users from outside China from chatting privately with users back home, a move which he termed “a new firewall.”
WeChat Warns Users Their Likes, Comments, and Histories are Being Sent to China
Launched by Tencent in 2011, WeChat now has more than 1.1 billion users, second only to WhatsApp and Facebook, but the company keeps users behind China’s complex system of blocks, filters, and human censorship known as the Great Firewall, even when they are physically in another country.
WHO Chief Says China’s Zero-COVID Policy is Not Sustainable
The incident came after the Chinese Communist Party leader Xi Jinping issued warnings against anyone who criticized, questioned, or distorted the regime’s zero-COVID policy. “We have won the battle to defend Wuhan, and can certainly win the battle to defend Shanghai,” Xi told top Party leaders during a May 5 meeting.
‘Zero Covid’, Yet Another Story from the Chinese Communist Party Backfires!
Under the strict lockdown, children who tested positive for COVID-19 are quarantined in hospitals without their parents, a policy that has prompted intense backlash. Videos circulating widely on social media apparently show children—including infants—housed in hospital wards with little adult supervision.
Chinese Police Order Residents to Hand Over Passports ‘Until After the Pandemic’
Xia sees the current exodus as the peak of a wave of migration that began around five years ago, and cited recent news events like the woman found chained by the neck in the eastern province of Jiangsu as catalysts, along with the pandemic.