Tag: Social Control

PREMIERING 7:30PM ET: ‘Most Significant Protests Since 1989’: Benedict Rogers—Is China at a Turning Point?

This episode will premiere on Thursday, Dec. 1, at 7:30 p.m. ET. “It looks to me as if these are the most significant protests since 1989, and they are, I think, a boiling over of not just frustration at the very draconian COVID lockdowns, but actually rebellion against the very severe repression, the surveillance state…


Apple ‘Serving as Vassal for CCP’ Amid Anti-Authoritarian Protests, DeSantis Says

Amid intense and often chaotic protests in China over the regime’s authoritarian and punitive COVID-19 policies, California-based Apple Inc. is facing criticism for enforcing policies that make it harder for Chinese citizens to use certain Apple products to talk, text, and share content. Florida’s Gov. Ron DeSantis, who recently won reelection in his home state…


Photo Gallery: Jiang Zemin’s Legacy of Bloody Persecution

Former Chinese Communist Party leader Jiang Zemin died at age 96 on Nov. 30. Jiang was the architect of the persecution of the spiritual discipline Falun Gong. Under his rule, the Chinese Communist Party launched a sweeping persecution of the group in 1999, when an estimated 70 million to 100 million people across China practiced…


Overseas Chinese Students Rally to Support COVID Protests in China, Chanting ‘Down With the CCP’

MANHATTAN, N.Y.–Mass protests have been triggered across China after the Xinjiang apartment fire deaths caused by the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) restrictive “zero-COVID” control measures. Protesters are chanting slogans of “Down with the Communist Party,” “Xi Jinping Step Down,” and “We want freedom and democracy.” It’s the largest protest movement since Tiananmen Square in 1989….


Chinese Authorities Start Tracking Down Protestors After Mass COVID Demonstrations

Chinese police have started targeting participants of last weekend’s mass protests against the communist regime’s harsh COVID-19 policies, according to reports, suggesting the surveillance state is kicking into full gear in response to the country’s biggest display of civil disobedience in decades. Two protesters told Reuters that callers identifying themselves as Beijing police officers asked…


China Tightens Security After Mass Protests Over CCP’s Draconian COVID Policies

The Chinese regime tightened security in some cities in the aftermath of major protests over the weekend that flared across the country, a rare show of defiance against Beijing’s draconian zero-COVID policy that has uprooted daily life for the past three years.  Police on Nov. 28 stopped and searched people at the sites of weekend…


Benedict Rogers: Hong Kong’s Press Freedom Entirely Destroyed by CCP

Benedict Richard Victor Rogers, a British human rights activist and co-founder and CEO of Hong Kong Watch group, said in an interview with the Epoch Times on Nov. 23, that Hong Kong’s press freedom has been devastated and utterly destroyed. Rogers expressed his concerns about the upcoming trial of Jimmy Lai, the founder of Next…


Protests Erupt Across China as Authorities Expand COVID Lockdowns

Protests against COVID-19 lockdowns have broken out in major cities across China as reported infected cases surge. Despite the regime’s new epidemic prevention regulations that aimed to prevent the excessive control measures by local authorities, China is still sticking to the restrictive “zero-COVID” policies. With rapidly rising infection numbers, more cities have expanded lockdowns, causing…


Rare Mass Protests Erupt in Chinese Cities as Outrage Over Zero-COVID Restrictions Boils Over

Rare mass protests against COVID-19 lockdowns have broken out across China, including in major cities, as more cities have announced lockdowns due to a surging number of COVID-19 infections. Despite the regime releasing new epidemic prevention regulations, aimed at preventing excessive use of control measures by local authorities, the updated policies still adheres to the restrictive…


Mass Protests After Apartment Fire Deaths in Xinjiang See Authorities Lift Lockdown

Rare mass protests against COVID-19 lockdowns have broken out across China, including in major cities, following the horrific deaths of at least 10 people in Xinjiang’s capital city of Urumqi in north-western China, when first responders were unable to reach an apartment fire that was left to burn for hours due to COVID-19 blockades and locks throughout…