Category: Chinese government

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…


2 Face Trial as China Enforces Online Control Amid Pandemic

TAIPEI, Taiwan—More than a year after two amateur computer coders were taken by police from their Beijing homes, they are set to be tried Tuesday in a case that illustrates the Chinese regime’s growing online censorship and heightened sensitivity to any deviation from the official narrative on its COVID-19 response. Authorities have not said specifically why…


China-Linked Hackers Used VPN Flaw to Target US Defense Industry: Researchers

WASHINGTON—At least two groups of China-linked hackers have spent months using a previously undisclosed vulnerability in American virtual private networking devices to spy on the U.S. defense industry, researchers and the devices’ manufacturer said Tuesday. Utah-based IT company Ivanti said in a statement the hackers took advantage of the flaw in its Pulse Connect Secure…


Spy Chiefs Say They Don’t Know How Virus Started, But That China Has Not Been ‘Fully Transparent’

American spy officials said Wednesday that the intelligence community is still unsure how the coronavirus first spread to human populations, though they are confident that the Chinese government has not been transparent about the matter. “The intelligence community does not know exactly where, when or how COVID-19 virus was transmitted initially,” Avril Haines, the director…


Video: CCP Is Taking Over Other Nations That Once Free—Se Hoon Kim On The Captive Nations of China

In this episode, we’ll be speaking with Se Hoon Kim, director of the Captive Nations Coalition of the Committee on the Present Danger: China, about the Chinese government’s abusive policies towards other countries. These stories and more in this episode of Crossroads. Crossroads is an Epoch Times show available on Facebook and YouTube. Join Patreon…


Video: CCP Is Taking Over Once Free Nations: Se Hoon Kim on China’s Captive Nations

In this episode, we’ll be speaking with Se Hoon Kim, director of the Captive Nations Coalition of the Committee on the Present Danger: China, about the Chinese government’s abusive policies towards other countries. These stories and more in this episode of Crossroads. Crossroads is an Epoch Times show available on Facebook and YouTube. Join Patreon…