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IN-DEPTH: Bribery Case Targeting Falun Gong Reveals CCP’s ‘Covert Warfare’ in US

June 7, 2023
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Chen Jun, the man recently arrested over a bribery scheme to help the Chinese communist regime carry out its repression in the United States, is no stranger to sculptor Chen Weiming. He had heard Chen Jun’s threats years ago. “Let me tell you, if you have a Chinese passport, and we take a photo of…

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The CCP Cover-up of Religious Genocide and Repression

January 25, 2022
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Commentary On Dec. 4, 2021, Chinese leader Xi Jinping gave his first public speech on religion in five years, blandly reemphasizing his “Sinicization” policy of “actively guiding religions to adapt to the socialist society.” In practice, Xi’s policies toward religious groups are far more wrathful. Documents leaked to The New York Times include Xi’s private…

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‘Erasing History’: Russia Closes Top Rights Group, Capping Year of Crackdowns

December 29, 2021
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MOSCOW—Russia’s Supreme Court ordered the country’s oldest human rights group to disband on Tuesday for breaking a law requiring it to act as “a foreign agent,” capping a year of crackdowns on Kremlin critics unseen since the Soviet era. The closure of Memorial International bookmarks a year in which Alexei Navalny, the Kremlin’s top critic,…

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The CCP’s 100 Years of Misery: Famine, War, and Repression

June 30, 2021
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Commentary The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is “celebrating” its 100th anniversary with fireworks and parades on July 1. Those who won’t be celebrating are the executed, the war dead, and the would-be grandchildren of the millions who died childless, or who were never born, because of tens of millions who starved to death during the…

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Biden Is Right to Curb US Investment in China’s High-Tech Spying and Repression

June 4, 2021
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Commentary American investors will have to tread carefully in considering Chinese companies for their portfolios. On June 3, President Biden signed an Executive Order expanding Trump era restrictions on U.S. capital from resourcing Chinese companies, including subsidiaries, that form part of China’s military-industrial complex. This is as much a religious freedom and human rights sanction…

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