Tag: political repression
Chinese Official Zhou Derui Gets 14 Years in Case Involving ‘Improper Discussion’ of Xi Jinping
On July 13, 2026, a court in the northern Chinese city of Datong sentenced Zhou Derui, formerly a member...
Taiwan Condemns CCP Response After Attack on Akio Yaita, Plans Tougher Anti-Repression Laws
Japanese-born senior media figure and Executive Director of the Indo-Pacific Strategic Think Tank Akio...
Xi Jinping Rewrites Communist Party History to Place Himself Alongside Mao
On July 1, 2026 Xi Jinping marked the Party's 105th anniversary with a roughly forty-minute address at...
Traveling to China Carries High Risks: Taiwan National Security Bureau Chief Exposes China’s Surveillance
China’s implementation of the “Law on Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress” on July 1 has drawn attention...
The Four People Who Told the Truth About Mao’s Cultural Revolution
Sixty years after Mao Zedong launched the Cultural Revolution, the Chinese Communist Party still discourages...
China Rolls Out New Rules Blocking Petitioners From Reaching Beijing
On June 26, China’s National Administration for Letters and Calls (国家信访局) — the central agency that handles...
Hong Kong Pro-Democracy Activist Lam Wing-Kee, Who Fled to Taiwan After Defying Beijing, Dies
Lam Wing-kee, founder of Hong Kong's Causeway Bay Books, recently passed away in Taiwan. The sequence...
After Lam Wing-kee’s Death, Reporters Without Borders Urges Sweden to Free Gui Minhai from China
Eleven years have passed since the Causeway Bay Books incident. Lam Wing-kee, the bookstore's founder...
The Cultural Revolution Wounds That Haunted Hu Yaobang to His Grave
Hu Yaobang led the Chinese Communist Party as general secretary in the 1980s and became the face of its...
Hong Kong Hunter Bookstore Sealed Off, Two People Arrested; Multiple Human Rights Organizations Condemn
Hong Kong's independent Hunter Bookstore was searched and sealed by police on Wednesday, June 24. The...
Chinese Activist Zhang Chao Arrested After Posting Tiananmen Photo on WeChat
The Chinese Communist Party has never acknowledged the June 4, 1989, massacre in Beijing's Tiananmen...
How Sun Yat-sen’s Widow Became One of Mao’s Most Vocal Enforcers in the 1957 Purge of Intellectuals
A story has been circulating on mainland Chinese internet forums for years: that Soong Ching-ling, the...