Chinese Historians Break Ranks with Party Line in Condemning Russia’s Ukraine War
“As a country that was once also ravaged by war … we sympathize with the suffering of the Ukrainian people,” the letter, signed by history professors at five top Chinese universities, said. “The ruins of buildings, the sound of artillery fire, and the wounds of refugees in Ukraine have injured us deeply.”
China’s Communist Party Celebrates Centennial Marked by Serious Human Rights Abuses
One year ago, China imposed a wide-ranging law calling for the arrest and prosecution of those in Hong Kong accused of jeopardizing China’s national security via subversion, terrorism, or collusion with foreign forces. Rights group Amnesty International accused China this week of creating a “human rights emergency” in Hong Kong by limiting freedom of speech and arresting a wide range of protesters.
China-hostile Incumbent Wins Re-election in Taiwan, Vows to Pursue Talks
So, I’d like to appeal to leaders in Beijing to respect Taiwanese people’s opinion and consensus for peace and equal treatment,” she said. “Then we can set up a sustainable as well as a healthy communication mechanism that is able to meet expectations for people’s welfare.”
Wise Men Predicted the Demise of Communism, Years Ago
Li Jiran | Minghuy “More than a decade after the fall of the former Soviet Union and the Eastern European communist regimes, the international communist movement has been spurned worldwide. The demise of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is only a matter of time.” – from Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party Why is communism so […]
China’s Prison Term for Democracy Activist Fans Distrust in Taiwan
Ralph Jennings | Voice of America TAIPEI, TAIWAN — A Chinese court’s conviction of a Taiwanese activist, on charges that his social media posts incited subversion of state power, will spawn fresh suspicion in his homeland toward an already distrusted Beijing government, observers say. The five-year sentence handed Tuesday to Lee Ming-che for pushing for democracy […]
Reconsidering Deng Xiaoping the Reformer: What Did He Really Reform?
Li Xuewen | China Change This article was first published in the ChinaChange web site on February 21, 2017 In the world of Chinese Communist Party propaganda, the image of Deng Xiaoping has been molded into that of the master architect of China’s reform and opening up. He’s said to have helped China through two […]
What If China Never Went Communist? Hong Kong Author Envisions an Alternative History
<!–[CDATA[ Leo Timm | Epoch Times Chan Koon-chung, the renowned Hong Kong-born author residing in Beijing, has published his latest novel, an alternate history scenario exploring the history of a China in which the Communist Party never came to power. Titled “The Second Year of Jianfeng: A Uchronia of the New China,” the novel was […]