A Hong Kong court on Tuesday sentenced 45 pro-democracy activists and former activists to up to 10 years in prison, concluding the largest case brought to date under the authoritarian “national security law” imposed by Beijing to crush the 2019 pro-democracy movement.
The Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF), a semi-official organization created by the government of Taiwan, reported last week that at least 40 Taiwanese travelers went missing in communist China over the past year and remain unreachable.
Tuesday was the official beginning of National Day, a Chinese holiday marking the anniversary of Communist Party rule.
A 27-year-old man named Chu Kai-pong pled guilty to “sedition” in a Hong Kong court Monday because he wore a t-shirt with a protest slogan.
A Hong Kong court finds two editors of the now-defunct Stand News guilty of “sedition” for covering the pro-democracy uprising in 2019.
A federal court in New York convicted naturalized U.S. citizen Wang Shujun of working as an agent for China’s Ministry of State Security.
A man was caught with over 100 live snakes in his pockets while trying to smuggle them into China from Hong Kong, customs officials said.
Courts in Hong Kong heard four liquidation suits against Chinese developers from their frustrated creditors last week, a record number of cases to hit the courts at the same time.
Both pro- and anti-China demonstrators gathered outside Australia’s Parliament House in Canberra on Monday as Chinese Premier Li Qiang paid a visit.
Taiwan held various public events on Tuesday to observe the 35th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre.
Family members of the civilians killed by Chinese troops at Tiananmen Square in June 1989 sent their annual letter to dictator Xi Jinping.
A Hong Kong-born former U.S. CIA agent has pleaded guilty to spying on behalf of China, the Department of Justice announced Friday.
A former Royal Marine accused of spying for China-controlled Hong Kong found dead in what police call unexplained circumstances.
Police charged three with assisting Hong Kong intelligence amid growing concern that hostile states are trying to interfere with the UK.
The Chinese government celebrated heavy travel and tourism during China’s Labor Day holiday season, which ran from May 1 to May 5, as a sign the struggling economy is beginning to recover.
A Hong Kong court approved the Communist-controlled government’s effort to ban “Glory to Hong Kong,” the anthem of the 2019 protests.
The 2023 edition of the State Department’s annual human rights report blasts China for repression, torture, and genocide.
Much like when California’s far-left Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) made a politically useful visit to China in October, Chinese state media on Sunday fawned over visiting San Francisco Mayor London Breed (D).
The Iran-backed Houthi terrorists of Yemen launched missiles at a Chinese-owned oil tanker, seemingly violating a promise of safe passage.
The McDonald’s fast-food chain suffered a worldwide system failure on Friday that knocked out the ordering system in many of its restaurants.
A massive trove of leaked documents reveals Chinese security firm I-Soon worked as hackers under contract to the Chinese government.
Science fiction and fantasy authors were disqualified from winning the Hugo Awards if their work displeased the Chinese Communist Party.
Local soccer authorities in Beijing and Hangzhou, China, announced this weekend that they would no longer host friendly games scheduled for March featuring Argentina’s national team, apparently part of the ongoing backlash in China against Argentine star Lionel Messi for being injured during a game in Hong Kong.
Chinese dictator Xi Jinping used his Lunar New Year address to praise tighter “integration” with Hong Kong and Macau.
China’s state-run Global Times newspaper accused Lionel Messi on Wednesday of having “political motives” for not playing in Hong Kong.
India’s stock market is soaring as investors seek an alternative to China’s faltering economy and oppressive policies.
A court in Beijing on Monday sentenced Australian writer Yang Hengjun to a “suspended death sentence” on espionage charges — effectively sentencing him to life in prison.
A Hong Kong court on Monday ordered the gigantic China Evergrande Group to liquidate, a long-feared but perhaps inevitable step that brings China’s troubled property market one step closer to a dangerous crisis.
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) released its annual census of imprisoned reporters this weekend, and found China was once again the world’s worst jailer of journalists, followed closely by Myanmar, with Belarus in third place.
The Chinese Foreign Ministry declared media mogul Jimmy Lai a “mastermind” of the 2019 pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong on Monday, apparently ruling him guilty on the same day that his trial for alleged “sedition” began.
Residents went to the polls on Sunday in Hong Kong’s first district council elections since Beijing banned pro-democracy candidates.
The end of November brings the one-year anniversary of China’s remarkable “White Paper” protests, a massive popular uprising against dictator Xi Jinping’s destructive coronavirus lockdowns.
Pro-China demonstrators clashed with pro-Tibetan demonstrators outside the Hyatt Regency hotel in San Francisco on Wednesday as Chinese dictator Xi Jinping arrived for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) conference.
Ten Catholic bishops have called for the immediate and unconditional release of Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Jimmy Lai, provoking the ire of Beijing-backed officials.
ApeFest, a festive gathering for “Bored Ape Yacht Club” NFT enthusiasts in Hong Kong took an alarming turn as several attendees reported distressing eye injuries and skin damage, reportedly caused by UV lights used on the event’s stage.
A Hong Kong university has fired a professor who researches China’s deadly Tiananmen Square massacre after being denied a visa extension.
Chinese state media on Monday gushed over visiting Governor Gavin Newsom of California, praising the “sincere and warm” Democrat for his “deep connection” with China and hoping his week-long trip would “play a positive role for bilateral ties.”
China’s Evergrande Group took a horrifying $2 billion plunge in the Hong Kong stock market on Monday morning, losing 80 percent of its share value on the first day of trading after a 17-month suspension.
South Korea’s Coast Guard confirmed this week that it had arrested a man from China attempting to enter the country on a jet ski. In remarks on Wednesday, a human rights campaigner confirmed that the man in question was anti-communist dissident Kwon Pyong, who served an 18-year prison sentence in 2017 for wearing an anti-Xi Jinping shirt.
NBA player James Harden is enjoying lavish coverage from Chinese state media and selling out on his name-brand wine collection after disparaging the president of the Philadelphia 76ers, Daryl Morey during an event in Beijing this week.
