Category: China Society

Three Chinese Tech Giants’ Shares Drop Over 30 Percent After Beijing’s Recent Crackdown

Despite the surge in online shopping driven by the pandemic lockdown, China’s major online retailers’ shares—that had soared to record highs in February—fell sharply amid the Chinese regime’s stricter control measures.


Tesla Cooperating With Chinese Authorities After Accident Killed Police Officer

BEIJING—Tesla Inc said on Tuesday it would work with authorities to investigate a car accident in China that local police said caused the death of a police officer and injured another. A video circulated on China’s Twitter-like Weibo and in local state media showed a Tesla Model X next to two police officers lying on…


Chinese Education Stocks Plunge as CCP Announces It Will Take Part in Operation of Private Schools

Chinese education providers saw a slump in stock prices as Beijing announced that private schools should adhere to the leadership of the Communist Party under a new law. Experts consider that the regime plans to further erode the operational independence of the education system. The amended Private Education Promotion Law highlights the leadership of the…


Communist Ideology Delivered in China’s Christian Churches

Pastors in China’s Christian churches are preaching the Chinese Communist Party’s ideology after Bible apps and major Christian social media accounts were taken down, aiming to communize religious organizations on CCP-controlled land. On May 8, the two state-sanctioned Protestant organizations in Beijing, the Beijing Municipal Three-Self Patriotic Movement Committee and the China Christian Council, held…


COVID-19 Surges in Northeast and South China, International Events Postponed

In the recent days, China’s state media have been reporting that COVID-19 is surging in different parts of the country, leading to international events being postponed, districts going into lockdown, and residents in outbreak areas being tested overnight. Local authorities in Yingkou City of China’s northeastern Liaoning province on May 15 reported 13 local cases of COVID-19 transmission all…


Chinese Mother of Tortured Son Fears for Her Own Safety

The mother of an imprisoned and tortured 21-year-old man in China sought help through social media when police knocked on her door. Coco (pseudonym) said in a recent interview with the Chinese Epoch Times that she feared losing her own life, so she didn’t open the door. “This is Tengyu’s mother. Hurry! They’re knocking on…


Chinese Mother of Man Imprisoned, Tortured Over Posts About Chinese Leader’s Daughter Fears for Her Own Safety

The mother of an imprisoned 21-year-old man in China sought help through social media when police knocked on her door. Coco (pseudonym) said in a recent interview with the Chinese Epoch Times that she feared losing her own life, so she didn’t open the door. “This is Tengyu’s mother. Hurry! They’re knocking on the door…


Back-to-Back Tornadoes Kill 12 in China; Over 300 Injured

BEIJING—Back-to-back tornadoes killed 12 people in central and eastern China and left more than 300 others injured, authorities said Saturday. Eight people died in the inland city of Wuhan on Friday night and four others in the town of Shengze, about 400 kilometers (250 miles) east in Jiangsu province, local governments said. The first tornado…


Death of Student in China Triggers Questions, Protests

TAIPEI, Taiwan—It was a call no parent wants to receive. On Mother’s Day, around 9 p.m., a woman in Chengdu in southwestern China was told that her son, who she had dropped off at school just hours ago, had died. Distraught, she went to Chengdu No. 49 Middle School immediately, but was not allowed to…


Drop in Xinjiang Birthrate Largest in Recent History: Report

BEIJING—Xinjiang in far western China had the sharpest known decline in birthrates between 2017 and 2019 of any territory in recent history, according to a new analysis by an Australian think tank. The report from the Australian Strategy Policy Institute (ASPI), obtained exclusively ahead of publication by The Associated Press, showed the 48.74 percent decline…