Category: China Human Rights

Taiwan Representative to US: Use of Force to Change Status Quo Not Acceptable

Taiwan’s de facto ambassador to the United States Hsiao Bi-khim has asserted her stance that the island will not tolerate the use of force to change its current situation. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Secretary of the Treasury Janet Yellen are both slated to visit China in the coming weeks, marking the highest level…


Stories of State-Sanctioned Abuse, Murder Highlight Importance of First Amendment

As Beijing staged a dazzling $100 million spectacle hosting the Winter Olympics last year, Ji Yunzhi lay dying up north in a Chinese hospital. She had a mere breath left after the rounds of torture inflicted on her, hoping to scare her into renouncing her faith. Iron ankle fetters and handcuffs chained her to the hospital…


Victims of Communist China’s Assault on Faith Speak in Support of Religious Freedom

As Beijing staged a dazzling $100 million spectacle hosting the Winter Olympics last year, Ji Yunzhi lay dying up north in a Chinese hospital. She had a mere breath left after the rounds of torture inflicted on her meant to scare her into renouncing her faith. Iron ankle fetters and handcuffs chained her to the hospital…


Stories of State-Sanctioned Murder, Abuse Highlighted at Religious Freedom Summit

As Beijing staged a dazzling $100 million spectacle hosting the Winter Olympics last year, Ji Yunzhi lay dying up north in a Chinese hospital. She had a mere breath left after the rounds of torture inflicted on her meant to scare her into renouncing her faith. Iron ankle fetters and handcuffs chained her to the hospital…


‘I Don’t Think China Can Tell Me Where to Go’: McCarthy Responds to CCP Warning About Potential Taiwan Visit

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) has fired back after the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) warned him not to visit Taiwan amid reports of a potential trip to the democratic island. When asked about the communist regime’s warnings that he should not visit Taiwan the way that former speaker Nancy Pelosi did, McCarthy gave a resolute…


MPs Vote Unanimously to Resettle 10,000 Displaced Uyghurs Fleeing ‘Genocide’ by Beijing

MPs have voted unanimously in favour of a motion that calls on the federal government to resettle 10,000 Uyghurs in Canada over the next two years, in an effort to support those fleeing an ongoing genocide by Beijing. Introduced by Liberal MP Sameer Zuberi, the private member’s motion was passed in Parliament on Feb. 1…


Sen. Lankford Calls on Blinken to ‘Shine a Light’ on CCP’s Atrocities in Upcoming Beijing Trip

One Republican senator is pressing the secretary of state to hold China’s communist regime accountable for its human rights violations during an upcoming trip to Beijing. Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.) issued a letter (pdf) to Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Jan. 31, asking Blinken to “make defending the oppressed a defining focus” of his…


Federal Court Rejects Uyghur Group’s Lawsuit Against Ottawa Over Inaction on Beijing’s Abuses

A Federal Court has struck down an application from a Uyghur rights group that sought to sue the federal government over its lack of action on Beijing’s human rights atrocities against the Uyghur minority population in China. The petition also sought to gain formal recognition that China’s internment of its Uyghur population is an act of…


International Religious Freedom Summit 2023 (Jan. 31 Afternoon Part 2)

The International Religious Freedom (IRF) Summit 2023 will be held from Jan. 31 to Feb. 1 in Washington, D.C. The summit is intended to create a powerful coalition of organizations that operate together for the cause of religious freedom around the world. The summit is also held to increase public awareness and political strength for…


2 Falun Gong Adherents Die From Persecution During Lunar New Year

The Chinese communist regime never ceased its persecution of Falun Gong adherents during its three years of COVID-19 lockdowns. At the beginning of 2023, two elderly Falun Gong adherents lost their lives after years of suffering from the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) brutal persecution campaign of Falun Gong. The deceased are Cui Xiuzhen from China’s…