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.”

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.

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.