My Precious Time Working at a Bookstore

I smiled and asked, “Do you mean that you want to quit the CCP organizations?” She replied, “That’s exactly what I mean!” I asked, “Using your real name?” She said yes, then skipped away like a young girl.

Xi Jinping Tightens Grip on China’s Police Force Ahead of 20th Party Congress

The Xi leadership has replaced all 31 provincial public security heads since the 19th Party Congress in 2017. Vacancies (Inner Mongolia and Hebei), officials at (Shandong and Ningxia) or approaching retirement age (Jiangxi, Yunnan, Hainan, Jilin), and rotation norms (Sichuan and Tibet) mean that the Xi leadership could appoint another 10 new provincial public security chiefs before the 20th Party Congress. 

Xie Jiao and Unauthorized Religion in China: Two Reports Note Growing Persecution

Some conclusions of the Dui Hua report concur with comments we made often in Bitter Winter, including identifying The Church of Almighty God (CAG) and Falun Gong as the most persecuted movements. Like us, Dui Hua also notes that the repression of Falun Gong, which somewhat decreased before COVID-19, with the specialized anti-xie-jiao police focusing more on the CAG, was revamped due to the new popularity of Falun Gong during the pandemic.

150 Human Rights Groups Rally to Oppose Chinese Communist Party’s Ruling

“They’re allowed to get away with oppression, concentration camps, all kinds of horrific things that you already know about, whether it’s the Falun Gong, whether it’s our friends in Mongolia, whether it’s taking over Tibet,” Rep. Scott Perry (R-Pa.) in a speech in front of the U.S. Capitol.

Interview: The West . . . is Dealing With a Murderous Regime

Liao Yiwu: On June 4, 1989, they used an old-fashioned method to suppress the protests, sending in more than 200,000 regular troops, tanks, and armored cars to attack civilians. Hong Kong had the 1984 Sino-British Joint Declaration … and is a cosmopolitan city. But a key factor is terrain. It’s harder to send in large columns of tanks, and it would take far longer to carry out such a massacre in Hong Kong.