Weibo Influencer Banned for Offering Advice on How to Boost China’s Birth Rate
Chinese economist and influencer Ren Zeping was banned from Weibo on Jan. 12 after publishing a string of audacious posts stating authorities should print extra money to pump up the birthrate. In an article published...
Social Media Black-out Imposed in Xi’an as COVID-19 Cases Mount
Outbreaks of COVID-19 in China continue to escalate, and the situation in Xi'an, Shaanxi province is even more serious. The city is almost paralyzed since it shut down on the 23rd of last month. Negative...
UK Police Investigates Anonymous Bounty On Pro-Democracy Hong Kong Activists
The UK Metropolitan Police has opened an investigation regarding a social media post by pro-Chinese Communist Party (CCP) groups that targeted Chinese dissidents. The WeChat post offered a bounty as a reward for information on...
‘Arrogant’ Canada Goose Facing Backlash in China
Canada Goose, a Canadian manufacturer of winter clothing, is facing boycott calls in China. The company is being accused of practicing discriminatory return policies. The issue began after a customer from Shanghai revealed to local...
WeChat Mass-Deletes Accounts From Chinese LGBT Groups, Members Fear Harsher Crackdown
Ongoing discrimination and censorship on the LGBT community in China strike again as several groups linked to the community have been blocked and removed by the social media platform, WeChat. WeChat is one of the...
Biden Revokes Trump Ban on Chinese Apps TikTok, WeChat
On June 9, President Joe Biden passed an executive order reversing the Trump administration’s ban on Chinese apps such as TikTok and WeChat. A team of Republican lawmakers is now attempting to pass a bill...
BBC Correspondent Flees Communist China for Taiwan
BBC correspondent John Sudworth, who was living in communist China, fled amidst fears that his life was at risk. Beijing was unhappy with some of his articles that exposed the atrocities of the communist regime....
Freedom House: Communist China Targets Dissidents Worldwide
A Washington, D.C. think tank recently published a study on the extensive efforts China’s communist dictatorship utilizes to pressure and suppress dissidents and activists residing in countries across the world. Freedom House released a February...
China Blocks Signal, Illustrating the Communist Regime’s Use of WeChat Surveillance
As China blocks Signal, an open-source encrypted messaging program, from the mainland, eyes are once again on the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) use of WeChat as a tool of surveillance, data collection, and monitoring against...
Chinese Remember ‘Wuhan Whistleblower’ and Early Mishandling of COVID-19 Pandemic
Feb. 7 marked the first anniversary of the death of whistleblower Li Wenliang, the doctor silenced by Chinese officials for his attempts to warn friends and family about the SARS-CoV-2 outbreak in late 2019. Working...
China Attacks Canada for ‘Racist’ Wu-Tang Clan T-Shirt
The Chinese government has lashed out at Canada over a customized T-shirt bearing the Wu-Tang Clan symbol, a hip-hop group from New York. The name Wu-Tang was replaced with Wuhan over a stylized “W” that...
How WeChat Censors Users in America
A recent report published by The Washington Post reveals that the Chinese app WeChat has been censoring users living on American soil. WeChat basically tracks down Chinese people living in the U.S. who criticize the...
