Category: US-China relations

IN-DEPTH: International Community Allowed Chinese Regime to Expand Human Rights Abuses, USCIRF Chair Says

The Western strategy of decoupling trade negotiations from human rights abuses allowed the Chinese communist regime to ratchet up its repressive policies against religions and people of faith, said a U.S. religious freedom official, calling this policy a “strategic blunder.” Nury Turkel, chairman of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), said the commission’s…


ANALYSIS: China’s Heightened Use of ‘Exit Bans’ Creates Hostile Environment for Foreign Firms

A growing number of Chinese laws that enable “exit bans” has heightened fears of a more hostile environment for foreign companies operating in China. Experts say that Beijing’s tactics go against its professed desire to bolster business confidence and foreign investment in the country and may trigger an accelerated exodus of foreign companies. The Chinese…


Beijing Snares Top UK Physicist to Assist With Hypersonic Weapons Research

Beijing has reportedly lured one of the United Kingdom’s (UK) top physicists and leading experts in the fields of multiscale gas, liquids, and solid systems—critically important for hypersonic research. Zhang Yonghao, who worked in the UK for more than 20 years in leading universities, also held the Weir Professor of Thermodynamics and Fluid Mechanics chair…


Communist China One of World’s ‘Worst Abusers of Human Rights and Religious Freedom’: State Department Report

China’s ruling regime continues to be “one of the worst abusers of human rights and religious freedom in the world,” a senior State Department official said as the department releases its annual report on international religious freedom. “They continue to engage in genocide and crimes against humanity against Uyghurs. They’re also continuing their repression of…


Fired ByteDance Exec Claims in Lawsuit That China Has Open Access to US User Data

A former executive at ByteDance has alleged in a lawsuit filed against the tech company that Chinese regime officials had unfettered access to the company’s data when he worked there, including data stored in the United States. Yintao Yu, 36, was the head of engineering for ByteDance’s U.S. operations from August 2017 to November 2018. He…


Fiji Leader Apologizes for 1987 Military Coup Ahead of India-Pacific Summit

Fiji’s prime minister on Sunday apologized for his actions during the nation’s 1987 military coup, which led to a mass exodus of Indian Fijians from the nation, ahead of the India-Pacific Islands summit next week. Fijian Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka made his apology at a church service held at the Vodafone Arena in Suva, which…


Chinese Owner of Temu Moves HQ to Ireland as Consumers Increasingly Wary of China

Chinese e-commerce giant PDD Holdings, which owns Temu, has moved its official headquarters from China to Ireland in recent days. As aggression from communist China continues to inflame tensions with the West and liberal democratic nations, more and more Chinese companies are trying to downplay their China-ties amid increasing aversion to the Chinese Communist Party…


Power of Faith: Healing Through Truthfulness, Compassion, and Tolerance

For about four decades of her life, Jami Smith struggled to recall a moment when she felt genuinely happy. She had a troubled childhood filled with abuse and harassment from the people she held dear. Since nine years old, she began experiencing chronic menstrual pains. Problems kept piling up as she grew older. At 40,…


House GOP Demands Information From Homeland Security Chief on Chinese Tech Used at US Ports

House Republicans are pressuring Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas over threats the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) poses to U.S. port infrastructure. The lawmakers have demanded Mayorkas provide information on what his department and the Biden administration are doing to prevent the CCP from using the technology it develops and produces, which is…


Federal Agents Raid Two US Facilities of China’s Jinko Solar

This week, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security conducted raids at a factory and a sales office run by China’s Jinko Solar Holding Co. Ltd., one of the largest solar panel manufacturers in the world, according to a statement from the DHS to The Epoch Times on Wednesday. Local media reported that Federal Bureau of Investigation agents…