Category: Special Topics

CCP Sets Up Social Work Department to Further Tighten Its Control

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) recently formed a Central Social Work Department to further tighten the regime’s control of the Chinese people. Observers pointed out that the move is to target petitioners and potential social unrest against its one-party rule. According to Chinese state media, Wu Hansheng, the former deputy party secretary for a state…


China Perfecting Techno-Totalitarianism for Export Around the World: Rep. Gallagher

WASHINGTON—The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is perfecting a techno-totalitarian regime for export to the rest of the world, Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.) has warned. The regime’s worsening repression of faith was in the spotlight at a roundtable hearing that the lawmaker hosted on July 12. One key takeaway, the chairman and other panelists of the House…


China Passing Laws, Building Infrastructure for Wartime, Expert Says

China’s communist regime is taking actions to insulate its economy and building infrastructure required to conduct a war of conquest against Taiwan. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP), which rules China as a single-party state, is taking actions similar to those Russia made before invading Ukraine, according to J. Kyle Bass, chief investment officer for Hayman…


Former Peking University Professor Exposes Xi Jinping’s Little-Known State of Mind–Part II: Dictator’s War Ambitions

Australia-based Yuan Hongbing, a former law professor at Peking University, has a unique perspective on the CCP and its leader Xi Jinping. In a recent exclusive interview on The Epoch Times’ Pinnacle View program, Mr. Yuan said he believes that a war in the Taiwan Strait is inevitable because of Mr. Xi’s idealist goal of…


Beijing Donated Communist Propaganda Books to City Library in Quebec

BROSSARD—Beijing made an unsolicited donation of Chinese language books to a municipal library in Quebec, which included a piece praising the accomplishments of the Communist Party. The Chinese consulate in Montreal donated 300 books to a city on the south shore of Montreal in 2017, and attempted another donation in 2019, as first reported by…


House Lawmakers Introduce Bipartisan Bill to Compel Retroactive FARA Registration

A bipartisan group of House lawmakers on July 11 unveiled a bill that would compel individuals who have worked for foreign governments, particularly the Chinese communist regime, to retroactively register under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA). Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.), who chairs the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), along with…


WeChat Warned It Could Be Banned After Refusing to Appear at Government Inquiry

WeChat is facing a potential ban in Australia after the company refused to appear before a federal government inquiry into foreign interference. The chair of the Select Committee on Foreign Interference through Social Media, Sen. James Paterson, said in a press conference on July 11 that the refusal showed how little regard WeChat and its parent company…


WeChat Warned It Could Be Banned After Refusing to Appear at Australian Govt Inquiry

WeChat is facing a potential ban in Australia after the company refused to appear before a federal government inquiry into foreign interference. The chair of the Select Committee on Foreign Interference through Social Media, Sen. James Paterson, said at a press conference on July 11 that the refusal showed how little regard WeChat and its parent company…


‘Speak Up in the Face of Rights Violations,’ Says Chinese Writer and Historian, Zhang Yihe

Beijing stepped up the surveillance of well-known Chinese historian and writer Zhang Yihe recently, as it has on veteran journalist Gao Yu. Speaking to The Epoch Times, Zhang Yihe said she specifically wished to remind people to speak up when their rights are violated. Eighty-year-old Zhang Yihe described leaving her home recently to get bottled water. “At…


Russia, China Should Lead ‘Global Governance Reform,’ Xi Says

Chinese leader Xi Jinping told a visiting Russian delegation that Beijing and Moscow should “lead the correct direction of global governance reform.” Mr. Xi made the remarks on July 10 while meeting Valentina Matviyenko, the chairperson of the Kremlin’s upper house or Federation Council, according to Russian and Chinese state-run media. “Both sides need to…