Tag: authoritarianism
Why Xi Jinping’s ‘East Rising, West Declining’ Doctrine Is Failing
Xi Jinping's "East rising, West declining" doctrine, the claim that Chinese power has overtaken the West...
What Really Happened at the April 25 Falun Gong Appeal at Zhongnanhai
The April 25 appeal was a peaceful gathering of roughly 10,000 Falun Gong practitioners outside Zhongnanhai...
Freedom House Report Highlights Beijing-Linked Transnational Repression, Citing Shen Yun Bomb Threat
The U.S. human rights organization Freedom House released its report “Collaboration and Resistance: Tracking...
Deng Xiaoping’s Hidden Face: The Calculated Silence Behind China’s ‘Reform Era’ Architect
Deng Xiaoping, who served as the Chinese Communist Party's de facto top leader from the late 1970s through...
Lai Ching-te Warns ‘Peace Through Unification’ Framework Will Bring Endless Trouble for Taiwan
Recently, Kuomintang Chairwoman Cheng Li-wen led a delegation to China on what she claimed was a “peace...
Impoverishing Large Populations Is a Survival Strategy of the Chinese Communist Party
In May 2020, during the final phase leading up to the Chinese Communist Party’s anticipated announcement...
How the CCP’s Plan to Prevent a Second Cultural Revolution Produced Xi Jinping
In the 1980s, the CCP's senior leadership in the Zhongnanhai compound attempted a political experiment...
CCP Anti-Fraud App Becomes Tool for Mass Surveillance
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is tightening its control over citizens’ internet use. Recently, a...
From Mao to Xi: Li Rui’s Diaries Expose Brutality, Cover-Ups, and the Cycle of Dictatorship
A U.S. federal court in Northern California ruled on Tuesday, March 31 that the original diaries and...
Zhao Yuhong: From Bank Whistleblower to Exile in Canada
In Vancouver, Zhao Yuhong, now in her sixties, lives a quiet life with her daughter, Gan Luping. The...
Xi Jinping’s Succession Trap
A phrase reportedly circulating inside Zhongnanhai, the walled compound in central Beijing where China's...
Why Xi Jinping’s Military Purge Is Destroying China’s Own Armed Forces
In March 2026, the National People's Congress, Beijing's rubber-stamp legislature, opened its annual...