From Mao Zedong to Jiang Zemin: The Chinese Communist Party Fools People with Lies

After rising to the top position of the CCP from the bloodshed of the Tiananmen Square Massacre in 1989, Jiang had no credibility in the eyes of both senior officials and ordinary citizens. To earn their loyalty, he allowed officials to amass wealth by taking bribes and/or using their power as leverage in business dealings. He also led them in indulging in a promiscuous lifestyle.

The Chinese Communist Party Continues Its Numbers Games Even After the End of Zero-COVID Policy

The pandemic is unfortunate, but it gave the Chinese people and the rest of the world an opportunity to see the CCP’s true colors. From the Great Leap Forward to the Great Famine, from the Cultural Revolution to the Tiananmen Square Massacre and the persecution of Falun Gong, the regime has never stopped harming its people with brutality and lies as it erases traditional values. 

Atrocity in the Name of the Law

Teng Biao  |  China Change This article was first published on ChinaChange website on December 7, 2017 This is the Foreword to The People’s Republic of the Disappeared: Stories From Inside China’s System for Enforced Disappearances, a newly published book about China’s “Residential Surveillance at a designated location.” Those holding unchecked power often seek to […]

China in Nationwide Security Crackdown During New Silk Road Forum

Qiao Long, Gao Shan and Wong Si-lam  |  Radio Free Asia China has ordered businesses to close and carried out mass detentions of petitioners and rights activists in a nationwide security operation during its “New Silk Road” forum in Beijing. As nearly 30 heads of state gathered in Beijing for President Xi Jinping’s “Belt and […]

No Official Memorial For Chairman Mao, 40 Years After Death

Xin Lin and Qiao Long  |  Radio Free Asia Forty years after his death at the age of 82, late supreme leader Mao Zedong still presents a political dilemma to the ruling Chinese Communist Party. While revering Mao as the leader who founded the People’s Republic on Oct. 1, 1949, the party has been forced […]