The school year for children living in Tibetan areas of China has started under harsh new restrictions, with children in one Qinghai county ordered by authorities out of their homes and into Chinese boarding schools, and the language of classroomRead More →
Installed on the pretext of “ensuring safety” and “preventing the coronavirus spread,” these high-tech locks subject people to heightened surveillance. by Tang Wanming The so-called smart locks, devices that unlock or close doors with phones and IDs, or facial recognition, areRead More →
On September 9, the Party honored the centenary of the birth of Yang Baibing, the general who in 1989 ordered to shoot unarmed protesters in Tiananmen Square by Massimo Introvigne On June 3-4, 1989, the troops opened fire on theRead More →
Plans by China to build a national park in Tibetan-populated areas of Qinghai province are forcing thousands of nomads from their ancestral land, with final removal of the herders scheduled by the end of this year, Tibetan sources say. TheRead More →
Two Australian journalists have been recalled from China amid the threat of arrest and a travel ban, their respective news organizations reported on Tuesday. Bill Birtles of the Australian Broadcasting Corp (ABC) and Michael Smith of the Australian Financial Review flew fromRead More →
Chinese authorities have stopped renewing press credentials for foreign journalists working for U.S. news organizations in China, the latest move in a continuing cycle of tit-for-tat retaliations between Beijing and Washington over economic and diplomatic disputes. Journalists who have recentlyRead More →
At least 289 people were arrested in Hong Kong Sunday during protests against the postponement of legislative elections. The elections, originally scheduled to be held Sunday, are one of the few times Hong Kong residents get to cast ballots. China’sRead More →
A 33-year-old ethnic Mongolian woman has died by suicide in what her family members said was an act of protest over the ruling Chinese Communist Party’s plans to phase out Mongolian-medium education and language teaching in schools. Surnaa, who workedRead More →
General secretary Xi Jinping on Friday warned that the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) will never allow anyone, at home or overseas, to try to change China’s “direction of progress.” In a speech outlining five “Never Allows,” Xi said: “TheRead More →
Minister of Public Security Zhao Kezhi goes to Mongolia and orders a merciless repression of the protests. It has already started. by Massimo Introvigne Inner Mongolians “should maintain the fundamental political attribute of public security, whose last name is CCP,Read More →
In 2011, Liu Lipeng landed a job straight out of college as a “content reviewer” at the popular microblogging platform Sina Weibo, where he learned how to issue warnings, delete posts, and shut down the accounts of users who ranRead More →
Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam on Tuesday said the once semi-autonomous city no longer has any separation of powers — a mechanism found in liberal democracies to ensure that lawmakers and judicial systems remain free of executive control. Echoing rulingRead More →
Czech Foreign Minister Tomáš Petříček Monday pushed back on his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi’s assault over the Czech Senate delegation’s visit to Taipei — signs, observers say, that suggest the tide is turning against China in Europe. Relations between Prague and Beijing may take another plunge.Read More →
In defiance of China, a delegation, led by Czech Senate President Miloš Vystrčil, Sunday arrived in Taiwan on a six-day visit — the highest-level exchange between the two countries to cement economic and cultural ties. Observers, whom VOA spoke to, notedRead More →
A Tibet advocacy group has launched a campaign this week to raise awareness of China’s human rights abuses in Tibet, with billboards set up in New York and London in places where millions of people are expected to see them,Read More →
Behind the “success” of the CCP’s rural revitalization campaign hide stories of misery and pain by its “beneficiaries.” by Sun Kairui The East Asian rainy season, called meiyu or plum rains in China, start in late spring or early summer each yearRead More →
A previously little-known agreement between Switzerland and China allowing Chinese officials access to Chinese nationals applying for asylum in the European country has come up for renewal, prompting concerns that the law may be used to expel Tibetans and otherRead More →
Authorities in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong have detained more than 10 people believed to be Hong Kong activists fleeing to the democratic island of Taiwan amid a national security crackdown in their home city. “At about 9.00 a.m.Read More →
Police in Hong Kong on Wednesday arrested two pro-democracy lawmakers who have been strongly critical of police violence during last year’s protest movement, as the city’s Democratic Party condemned the move as a form of political intimidation. Ted Hui andRead More →
Chinese dissidents overseas have called on the head of a China-backed cultural institute at the University of Western Australia (UniWA) to allow them to speak about their experiences of the 1989 Tiananmen massacre that ended weeks of student-led protests aroundRead More →
A Tibetan community leader and his nephew were arrested this weekend in Qinghai’s Tridu county after defying Chinese authorities by advising local Tibetans not to sign away their rights to grazing land, Tibetan sources said. Bu Dokyab, 63, and hisRead More →
