Category: China-US News

Award-Winning Film Censored by Chinese Media After Director’s Past Comments Unearthed: ‘There Are Lies Everywhere’

U.S. road film “Nomadland” topped the prizes at the 26th Critics’ Choice Awards on March 7, paving its way for the 2021 Oscars. However, hashtags of the film vanished on Chinese social media platforms. Days after its Beijing-born director, Chloe Zhao (also known as Zhao Ting), won the Best Director at the Golden Globe Awards…


EU Banking Regulator Hit by Suspected Chinese Hackers

The European Banking Authority (EBA) is the latest victim of a large-scale cyber-hacking attack connected to the Chinese regime against Microsoft’s email and calendar server. Early last week, Microsoft announced via a blog post that Hafnium, a state-sponsored hacking group operating from China, exploited flaws in its Exchange Server software. Three versions of the software…


China Increases Defense Budget, Premier Orders the Military to Prepare for War

China will increase its military budget to 1.35 trillion yuan (about $207.8 billion) in 2021, which is 6.8 percent higher than 2020, Chinese state-run media reported on Mar. 6. One expert told The Epoch Times that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)’s top priority is to strengthen its military. During the ruling party’s most important annual…


Virginia County Passes Resolution in Support of Falun Gong

Loudoun County recently became the fourth county in Virginia this year to pass a resolution to express support toward Falun Gong and condemn the Chinese Communist Party for killing practitioners for their organs. “The killing of religious or political prisoners for the purpose of selling their organs for transplant is an egregious and intolerable violation…


China’s ‘Bravest Female Lawyer’ Wins US Women of Courage Award

A woman known as the “bravest female lawyer in China,” has been honored by the United States with an International Women of Courage Award. Wang Yu, one of China’s most prominent human rights lawyers, was arrested and imprisoned amid an infamous nationwide round-up of hundreds of lawyers and rights advocates known as the “709 crackdown”…


Chinese Regime Tells Biden to Reverse Trump’s ‘Dangerous Practice’ of Supporting Taiwan

The Chinese regime’s top diplomat on March 7 warned the Biden administration to undo former President Donald Trump’s “dangerous practice” of supporting Taiwan, the democratic island that Beijing claims as its own territory. Wang Yi, the regime’s foreign minister, also called on the United States to remove “unreasonable” curbs to cooperation as soon as possible….


Biden’s Commerce Secretary Owns Stake in WeChat Parent Company as White House Reviews Trump’s Ban

Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo and her husband own a financial stake in WeChat parent company Tencent Holdings, even as the Commerce Department reviews a ban of the Chinese tech giant. Raimondo and her husband Andrew Moffit own a stake worth between $21,500 and $44,500 in Tencent Holdings, according to a financial disclosure filed Jan….


Commerce Secretary Owns Stake in WeChat Parent Company as White House Reviews Trump’s Ban

Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo and her husband own a financial stake in WeChat parent company Tencent Holdings, even as the Commerce Department reviews a ban of the Chinese tech giant. Raimondo and her husband Andrew Moffit own a stake in Tencent worth between $21,500 and $44,500, according to a financial disclosure filed Jan. 19…


US Condemns China’s Hong Kong Moves, Working to ‘Galvanize’ Action Against Abuses

WASHINGTON—The United States on March 5, called China’s moves to change the Hong Kong electoral system a direct attack on its autonomy and democratic processes and said Washington was working at “galvanizing collective action” against Chinese rights abuses. Earlier on Friday, Beijing proposed legislation that would tighten its increasingly authoritarian grip on Hong Kong by…


Sen. Blackburn Wants NBA to ‘Come Clean’ on Its Deal With Chinese State Television

Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) is questioning the National Basketball Association’s (NBA) reported new deal with Chinese state television, the latest official to raise concerns over the league’s relationship with the Chinese regime. The NBA famously drew the wrath of the Chinese communist regime in late 2019 after then-Houston Rockets General Manager Daryl Morey tweeted in…