Category: panel

REPLAY: Webinar: The CCP’s Organ Genocide

The Committee on the Present Danger: China hosted an expert panel on Jan. 5 investigating how the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) profits from forced organ harvesting with help from the West. The webinar addresses the nature and vast scale of the CCP’s forced organ harvesting; its use on Falun Gong practitioners, Uyghurs, and others the…


Webinar: The CCP’s Organ Genocide

The Committee on the Present Danger: China hosted an expert panel on Jan. 5 investigating how the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) profits from forced organ harvesting with help from the West. The webinar addresses the nature and vast scale of the CCP’s forced organ harvesting; its use on Falun Gong practitioners, Uyghurs, and others the…


Panel: Persecution of Falun Gong Helped Chinese Regime Pioneer 21st Century Surveillance Apparatus

On July 20, 1999, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), led by former leader Jiang Zemin, launched a massive campaign to persecute the religious group called Falun Gong, or Falun Dafa. On July 21, 2022, Falun Gong adherents gathered in Washington to raise awareness of the ongoing persecution. Join David and an expert panel to discuss…


US House Panel Considers Bill Curbing Dual-Class Stock

NEW YORK—A U.S. House of Representatives panel plans to discuss a draft bill requiring companies that go public with dual-class stock to sunset the structure after seven years, according to a copy of the proposed legislation published late Thursday. Dual-class share structures, which give some stockholders more voting power, are out of favor among investors,…


Election Panel: The Final Push

In the lead-up to the vote on Sept. 20, we asked our panel of commentators for their thoughts on how the parties are faring in the final week of the campaign. The text of the interviews has been edited for clarity and brevity.   Joe Oliver: Very Close Race Former Conservative MP and minister of…


US Panel Votes to Approve $1 Billion for FTC Privacy Probes

WASHINGTON—The U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee voted on Tuesday to give the Federal Trade Commission $1 billion to set up a bureau dedicated to improving data security and privacy and fighting identity theft. The proposal, which Democrats included in a $3.5 trillion spending measure, would fund a new bureau over 10 years to address…


Take 2: Spacewalking Astronauts Install New Solar Panel

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—Spacewalking astronauts equipped the International Space Station with the first in a series of powerful new solar panels Sunday, overcoming suit problems and other obstacles with muscle and persistence. It took two spacewalks for French astronaut Thomas Pesquet and NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough to install and unfurl the panel to its full 63…