China’s Military Footprint Grows Alongside Economic Interests in Africa
Salem Solomon | Voice of America In the 2017 movie Wolf Warrior 2, the protagonist is a heroic Chinese soldier fighting mercenaries, pirates and an Ebola-like disease in a nameless African country. The film depicts a China that’s strong but benevolent — ready to fight but doing so in the name of justice and peace. […]
Could China Be Spending More on Stamping out Dissent Than Funding Its Military?
Annie Wu | Epoch Times The Chinese Communist Party is playing a numbers game. On March 5, China’s Ministry of Finance unveiled the country’s 2018 budget. China’s military spending would get an 8.1 percent boost to 1.107 trillion yuan (about $175 billion), while “public safety expenditures” will grow 5.5 percent to over 191.91 billion yuan ($30 […]
Chinese Minister Reveals Number of High-Ranking Military Officials Purged by Xi Jinping
NTD TV With much focus on the 19th National Congress and who Chinese leader Xi Jinping will appoint to the party’s top leadership positions, a Chinese official has quietly provided clues to the scale of Xi’s anti-corruption probe into the Chinese military in the five years since he took power. Speaking at a news conference […]
Chinese Military Veterans Gather in Beijing to Protest ‘Broken Promises’
The veteran was among large crowds of veterans who had been gathering near central government complaints departments since Dec. 28, sources told RFA. Photos of the scene shown to RFA showed long rows of elderly men in military uniform outside government buildings, with rows of police vehicles and buses nearby.
Hundreds More Removed From Larung Gar as Friends Faint in Grief
Kunsang Tenzin | Radio Free Asia Authorities in southwestern China’s Sichuan province last week expelled a further 500 monks and nuns from the Larung Gar Buddhist Academy, leaving many of those left behind fainting and in tears over the forced separation from their friends. The group removed on Dec. 24 came originally from the Golog […]
Dissidents Worry #Twitter is Dead After Company Hires Former Chinese Military Officer
Oiwan Lam | Global voices This article was published first in Global Voices website on 18 April 2016 Chinese dissidents were not thrilled when Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey announced on April 15 that the company has hired Kathy Chen as the new managing director for greater China. Chen previously worked for organizations affiliated with the People’s […]
Herders Protest Regime Officials’ Illegal Occupation of Grazing Land
SMHRIC, Southern Mongolian Human Rights Information Center On February 23, 2016, Mongolian herders from western Southern (Inner) Mongolia’s Urad Middle Banner (“wu la te zhong qi” in Chinese) gathered in front of the local government building in Haliut Township (“hai liu tu zhen” in Chinese). Holding a long banner reading “Confiscate cadre-occupied land, defend herders’ […]
Former Chinese Hospital Intern Recounts a Live Organ Harvest
<!–[CDATA[Yi Ling | Epoch Times TORONTO—Mr. Wang (an alias) has lived in Canada for years, but only recently came forward with a harrowing episode he experienced around two decades ago in China: forced participation, as a young intern, in the extraction of organs from a still-living person. Chinese authorities, in particular the medical−military system, have for […]
Military presence intensified in Amdo, Tibet
Free Tibet China sends work teams to Tibetan monasteries to “protect” them from protests [caption id="attachment_2780" align="alignleft" width="300"] 10 March in London (Free Tibet)[/caption] Chinese authorities have tightened security in areas of Golog and Rebkong ahead of March 10th, the anniversary of the Tibetan Uprising of 1959 and the intense protests in 2008. Images show […]
Chinese Regime Pads Military’s Pockets Through Murder
<!–[CDATA[Joshua Philipp | Epoch Times The Chinese regime is looking for ways to rein in its military officers, who have for decades been tapping extracurricular sources for extra income. Chinese Communist Party leader Xi Jinping recently announced that military officials will need to live off their salaries, noting there shouldn’t be any “grey income.” The […]