China’s Ruling Party Has Branches on University Campuses Around The World

Gao Feng, Hsia Hsiao-hwa and Ma Lap-hak  |  Radio Free Asia The ruling Chinese Communist Party is expanding its operations far beyond China’s borders, setting up branches to control the thinking of students and state employees overseas, to defend its citizens against “bad ideas,” and to recruit new members, RFA has learned. Party branches, or […]

Chinese Around the World Commemorate 300 Million Withdrawals From the Chinese Communist Party

Chinese Around the World Commemorate 300 Million Withdrawals From the Chinese Communist Party

Annie Wu  | Epoch Times The global movement of Chinese people renouncing their ties to the Chinese Communist Party and its affiliated organizations, Tuidang, has reached an important milestone. The trend began soon after the Chinese edition of The Epoch Times published a nine-part series, “Nine Commentaries on the Chinese Communist Party,” in November and December […]

China: Still World’s Biggest Prison for Journalists

Reporters Without Borders Twenty-eight years after the ruthless crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrations in Tiananmen Square on 4 June 1989, China’s prisons currently hold more than 100 journalists, citizen journalists, and bloggers, including a Nobel peace laureate and three winners of the Reporters Without Borders (RSF)-TV5 Monde Press Freedom Prize. Although the famous video of the […]

China Society A Writer Reflects on China’s Biggest Academic Scandal

Tian You  |  Epoch Times A major scandal in the world of scientific research was revealed last month. One of the world’s largest academic publishers, Springer, announced the withdrawal of 107 papers published between 2012 to 2015 in the Tumor Biology journal because of peer review fraud. All of these papers are related to Chinese research institutions. […]

The Spirit of April 25 Will Change China and the World

Jennifer Zeng  |  Epoch Times On April 25 eighteen years ago, together with ten thousand-plus Falun Gong practitioners, I stood quietly on Fuyou Street outside the Zhongnanhai Communist Party leadership compound in Beijing, where the Appeals Office of the State Council is located—the office the regime has established where people could complain of official misconduct. […]

Movie Review: ‘The Crown’: Beauty Queen Slaps Chinese Regime in the Face

Mark Jackson  |  Epoch Times Before Oprah Winfrey became a mega-star, she was Miss Fire Prevention 1971 and Miss Black Tennessee 1972. You knew that, right? Of the top 10 pageant girls who’ve changed the world, the only memorable ones are Halle Berry, Diane Sawyer, Vanessa Williams, and Oprah. Being a beauty queen is a […]

Death Penalty: World’s Biggest Executioner China Must Come Clean About ‘Grotesque’ Level of Capital Punishment

Amnesty International China’s horrifying use of the death penalty remains one of the country’s deadly secrets, as the authorities continue to execute thousands of people each year, Amnesty International said in its 2016 global review of the death penalty published today. A new in-depth investigation by Amnesty International, also published today, shows that the Chinese authorities […]

China’s Rebel Village Still Under Close Surveillance, Cut Off From World

Wong Lok-to  |  Radio Free Asia More than a year after a police raid ended months of daily demonstrations, the rebel Chinese village of Wukan is under a security cordon six or seven levels deep, with residents under constant surveillance from security cameras, an activist told RFA on Thursday. The village in southern China’s Guangdong […]