Hong Kong police announced on June 28 that preparations are underway for Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s “possible” visit next month to mark the 25th anniversary of the city’s handover from Britain to China. Hong Kong Assistant Police Commissioner Lui Kam-ho told reporters at a press conference that Xi will attend a series of official events […]
The Chinese regime sealed residents’ homes in Xi’an on Jan. 8, but didn’t arrange for a reliable food supply, residents say. After being locked down for almost three weeks, they are lacking in food and on the edge of mental breakdown. The Chinese regime has claimed the COVID-19 outbreak in Xi’an has been under control […]
The Chinese regime forced Tibetan monks and Tibetan people to watch the demolition process of a 99-foot tall Buddha statue at Thoesam Gatsel temple in Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province, in December. The Buddha statue was built after the regime approved the project in 2015, and has special meaning for local Tibetan monks and […]
News Analysis Nuclear-armed China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States—the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council—released a joint statement on Jan. 3 stating their commitment to avoid an arms race and saying that they “consider the avoidance of war between Nuclear-Weapon States and the reduction of strategic risks as our foremost […]
The Chinese regime urged the United States to act responsibly in space on Dec. 28, after its space station was forced to take evasive action to avoid collision with satellites launched by Elon Musk’s SpaceX Starlink program.
An American Delta Air Lines flight turned back to Seattle in midair due to the new COVID-19 rule that China’s Shanghai airport launched, the airline stated on Dec. 27. A Delta staff member told The Epoch Times on Dec. 26 that “China’s arbitrary and unreasonable pandemic prevention policy not only sets an insurmountable threshold for Chinese […]
Chinese tennis star Peng Shuai said on Dec. 19 that she had never accused anyone of sexually assaulting her, and that her post on social media had been misunderstood. In a six-minute interview with Singapore’s pro-Beijing Chinese-language media Lianhe Zaobao, Peng said she was not under house arrest and her posts were misunderstood. On Nov. […]
Lithuania said on Dec. 15 that it pulled the remaining diplomats from Beijing to protect them, and would operate the embassy in China remotely. This is the latest development in Lithuania–China tensions after Vilnius approved Taiwan to open a representative office under the name of Taiwan. In the past months, the regime recalled its ambassador […]
Su Yunxia, 67, was beaten to death at Heilongjiang Women’s Prison on Sept. 4, two days before her five-year-sentence was to end. Jailed for her beliefs, Su was beaten because she refused to give up the previously government-endorsed qigong practise called Falun Gong, according to Minghui.org, a U.S.-based website that documents the Chinese regime’s persecution […]
A senior Pentagon official talked with his Chinese counterpart for the first time since President Joe Biden took office. In the talk, the pentagon affirmed the U.S. vision for the Indo-Pacific region, while Beijing didn’t mention the region at all. The Department of Defense (DoD) released the brief of the secure video conference between Dr. Michael […]
China carried out assault drills near Taiwan on Aug. 17, with fighter jets, anti-submarine aircraft, and combat ships exercising off the southwest and southeast of the island in what the country’s armed forces said was a response to “external interference.” In a brief statement that was released on Tuesday, the People’s Liberation Army’s (PLA) Eastern […]
Over 3,000 fake COVID-19 vaccination cards from China have been seized in Memphis, Tennessee en route to other cities in the United States. U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) caught a shipment from Shenzhen, China to New Orleans, Louisiana, which contained 51 blank counterfeit vaccination cards, CBP said in a press release on Aug. 13. “It […]
More than 40 Chinese officials have been fired or punished over accusations they failed to respond properly to the latest surge of the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, commonly known as novel coronavirus, throughout the country. Among those fired were a vice mayor, heads of city districts and health commissions, and managers and staff in […]
American investment management company Blackstone is under antitrust investigation over its deal with SOHO China, one of China’s largest real estate developers. The investigation may take six months to be carried out. If the deal is approved, Blackstone will pay over $3 billion to its Chinese partner, making it the New York-headquartered company’s biggest bet […]
China announced its highest daily infections of new COVID-19 patients on Aug. 6, in the current outbreak that was first reported on July 20. Officials blamed the latest clusters mainly on the highly transmissible Delta variant, ordered residents in the cities that have outbreaks to line up for mass tests, restricted people’s movement, and locked […]
Prosecutors in Hong Kong dropped corruption charges against a prominent pro-democracy singer on Aug. 5, after accusing him of providing entertainment to induce voters in a legislative by-election. Anthony Wong, a Cantonese pop singer, was asked to pay a guarantee of 2,000 Hong Kong dollars ($257), and was given a binding-over order of 18 months during […]
The Chinese Communist Party regards the United States as an enemy and utilizes American’s kindness to grab resources and develop itself, according to a veteran ideology professor for the party’s Central Party School. “The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) teaches the people to hate the United States … has consistently, from 1949 to this day, promoted […]
Hong Kong online pro-democracy news outlet Stand News announced five actions to protect its employees, donors, readers, and board members in the event action is taken against it by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) on June 27. The outlet vowed to continue its news reporting, and urged supporters to donate to other independent media, free […]
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has changed its notorious one-child policy to allow for three children and said it would raise the retirement age to resolve the huge pension deficit and dramatic decline in births. However, economists and experts say these methods can’t resolve the deficit nor the issue of the country’s aging population. China […]
Chinese state-owned media outlet Global Times has urged the regime to equip the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) with the largest possible number of nuclear warheads and missiles in a short time, to “make the U.S. elites tremble when they think about fighting with China.” “We must prepare for a tense ending to the United States’s […]
The Chinese regime denied on Monday that lab staff in Wuhan were infected with COVID-19 before the pandemic, in response to a question about a WSJ report. On May 23, the Wall Street Journal reported on an undisclosed U.S. intelligence report about three researchers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) who sought hospital care with […]
The Chinese communist regime announced on May 23 that 21 athletes, including China’s marathon champions, died at the Gansu ultramarathon due to the extreme weather. The death list includes Liang Jing, 31, China’s ultramarathon record holder, Huang Guanjun, 34, winner of the men’s marathon for hearing-impaired runners at China’s 2019 National Paralympic Games, and famous […]
The U.S. Space Command is tracking uncontrolled debris from a Chinese rocket that sent part of a planned space station into orbit last week, the White House said on May 5. The debris comes from the Long March 5B rocket launched on April 29 to deliver a new 22.5-tonne module for China’s Tianhe space station. […]
The United States and China, the world’s two biggest carbon emitters, agreed to cooperate on the climate crisis with seriousness and urgency, said in a joint statement.
Aides of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte criticized China on April 5 for anchoring hundreds of its vessels for a month in the disputed South China Sea areas, which could lead to “unwanted hostilities,” his legal counsel warned. Duterte is usually reluctant to confront China. He even angered Filipinos by refusing to press China on respecting a landmark 2016 […]
Between 622,800 to 968,800 people in Wuhan had COVID-19 by April 2020, and the first case emerged between mid-October and mid-November 2019, according to two new studies. “6·92 percent of a cross-sectional sample of the population of Wuhan developed antibodies against SARS-CoV-2, with 39·8 percent of this population seroconverting to have neutralising antibodies,” wrote the […]
A nurse has died eight days after being vaccinated with the Chinese-made CoronaVac vaccine in East Java on Feb. 14, Indonesian media reported. Erny Kusuma Sukma Dewi, 33, tested positive for the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, commonly known as novel coronavirus, and was treated in a hospital, but then died. All her colleagues and friends […]
Chinese foreign affairs minister Wang Yi urged the United States to meet four requirements from Xi Jinping’s regime at the Lanting Forum, a video conference organized by the Chinese foreign affairs ministry on Feb. 22. The requests include: ending support for Taiwan, Hong Kong, Xinjiang, and Tibet; resuming the U.S.-China dialogue; ending the tariffs on Chinese products […]
The European Union condemned the Chinese regime’s human rights record during a recent meeting, while the latter tried to court more trade and investment with central and eastern European countries. Around the same time, France sent a warship and submarine to the South China Sea for a “freedom of navigation” patrol, to Beijing’s ire. Some […]
China recently issued conflicting sets of data for the number of cell phone and landline users in the country. But the data all reflect a net loss of millions of cell phone users, leading some to speculate whether the decline was due to the economic downturn, pandemic-related deaths, or something else all together. Today, nearly […]
As CCP virus outbreaks across China continue to worsen, authorities recently issued conflicting policies on traveling during the Lunar New Year holiday.
Officials in China’s capital of Beijing and its financial hub of Shanghai announced new CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus infections this weekend and locked down dozens more neighborhoods. Meanwhile, the northern provinces of Heilongjiang, Jilin, and Hebei also reported more COVID-19 cases on Jan. 24, as did southern China’s Guangdong Province and eastern China’s Jiangsu […]
Internal documents from the Inner Mongolia government revealed that local bureaucrats were incompetent and corrupt. The government of Hulunbuir city arranged ten inspection teams composed of senior officials to probe different government departments and organs from late March to late May. Later, the inspection teams finished 11 reports and sent them to the municipal government. […]
Despite enacting stringent lockdown measures, Chinese authorities are struggling to contain CCP virus outbreaks throughout northern China. Hebei Province is the hardest-hit, with two cities, Shijiazhuang and Xingtai, seeing the biggest surges in new infections. Authorities have publicized little information despite imposing restrictions on people’s movements and requiring mass testing for COVID-19, the disease caused […]
Hebei, Liaoning, Heilongjiang, Henan, and Ningxia provinces, as well as Inner Mongolia and Beijing entered “wartime” mode due to surges in virus cases.
The largest metropolis in northern China’s Hebei Province barred its 11 million residents from leaving city confines on Jan. 7 in an effort to curb the spread of the CCP virus which causes COVID-19. Locals in a nearby city said in interviews with The Epoch Times that they were under lockdown, though authorities did not […]
CCP virus outbreaks in areas of northern China continued to worsen over the weekend as authorities announced that they detected patients infected with the new virus variant that first emerged in the United Kingdom. The metropolis of Shanghai and southern Guangdong Province each reported a patient who tested positive for B.1.1.7, the new UK-derived virus […]
A CCP spokesperson recently expressed congratulations to Biden, leading China commentators to analyze why Beijing changed course from its earlier statement.
China’s foreign ministry said it would wait for the U.S. presidential election results to be finalized before congratulating the victor, while Chinese leader Xi Jinping has yet to formally respond. Meanwhile, state-run media have published several editorials expressing hopes that the U.S.-China relationship they envision would come true under a Biden administration. Formal Announcements The […]
A building within Huawei’s lab campus in southern China’s Dongguan city caught on fire on Sept. 25 afternoon, killing at least three people. The city government claimed that the building has no relationship with laboratories, but Chinese media quoted Huawei employees who said the facility contains 5G labs. Huawei is China’s largest manufacturer of telecom […]
Chinese authorities locked down Ruili city in southwestern Yunnan Province on Sept. 14, mandating that anyone who wants to enter or leave the city must apply for a special permit. Yunnan governor Ruan Chengfa announced on Monday that regions that border Burma, Laos, and Vietnam have entered “wartime status” to prevent a further outbreak. Authorities […]
Chinese tech companies have been documented to cooperate with Chinese authorities on censoring information and pushing Beijing’s propaganda messages. One way the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) uses a popular news aggregator app owned by ByteDance to promote the regime’s propaganda content to users was unveiled in an internal document recently obtained by The Epoch Times. […]
Amid talks of further U.S. action to restrict Chinese students coming to the United States, a Texas university has expelled visiting scholars who were funded by a Chinese government scholarship program.
Chinese official data confirmed that wheat production declined this year, while the Communist Party’s rubber-stamp legislature said it would issue new laws to prohibit food waste, further indicating that the country was facing a food shortage. Chinese leader Xi Jinping issued a directive on food waste via state-run media Xinhua on Aug. 11, in which […]
Chinese Vice Premier Hu Chunhua recently asked the governors of each province in China to make sure the sown areas of agricultural crops would not shrink and crop yield won’t be reduced this year. At a food security meeting held in Beijing on July 27, he warned that governors would be punished if they failed […]
Chinese authorities have launched more control measures after the latest wave of CCP virus outbreaks were reported in far-western Xinjiang and northeastern Dalian city. But the virus has continued to infect more people and spread to more regions of the country.
Restrictive quarantine policies and the designation of more hospital beds in northeastern China’s Dalian city and the farwestern region of Xinjiang indicate that their local CCP virus outbreaks are severe, despite authorities publicizing limited information. Urumqi is the capital of Xinjiang and home to a large population of Uyghurs. Local authorities locked the city down […]
Dalian city in northeastern China announced a new CCP virus outbreak, with authorities announcing three diagnosed patients and 12 asymptomatic carriers on July 23.
All three of China’s major rivers—the Yangtze, Yellow, and Huai rivers—overflowed due to heavy rains on July 21, with water levels at most regions going over alert levels.
Heavy rainfall in the regions downstream of the Yangtze River caused severe flooding in southern China, with the cities of Zhenjiang and Nanjing in Jiangsu Province upgrading their flood response alert to the highest level over the weekend. Meanwhile, the Chinese minister of water resources hosted two meetings on July 18, instructing local authorities to […]
The Chinese regime has backtracked from its initial theory that the recent CCP virus resurgence in Beijing was caused by contaminated imported salmon. Wu Zunyou, a chief epidemic disease specialist at China’s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), told state-run newspaper Beijing News on July 6 that his team researched this second-wave outbreak in […]
The southwestern Chinese megacity of Chongqing is the latest area to be hit by flooding, as southern parts of the country battles with the worst flooding it has seen in decades. Weeks of heavy rainfall have wreaked destruction across 26 provinces, affecting 19 million residents. At least 106 people have been confirmed dead or missing. […]
After a Beijing woman was notified of her positive CCP virus diagnosis while she was at a shopping mall, the facility was placed under lockdown, leaving thousands of shoppers stuck for several hours. Authorities also confirmed that at the Orient MGM International Hotel, which was converted into a makeshift quarantine center, a cluster outbreak occurred […]
Beijing authorities have underreported the number of diagnosed patients, according to leaked documents from the city’s only designated hospital for treating COVID-19 patients. The city claims that the second wave outbreak is under control and that one facility would suffice. But The Epoch Times previously obtained city government documents that showed health authorities were requiring […]
Heavy rain continued to fall on dozens of Chinese cities on June 29, leading to severe flooding. But unlike past instances of major disasters, no senior Chinese Communist Party officials have visited the affected regions thus far. Moreover, the Three Gorges Dam, located in the upper region of the Yangtze river in Hubei Province, and […]
Beijing announced more CCP virus patients over the weekend as restaurant workers became infected after exposure to a market linked to the capital’s latest outbreak. Meanwhile, locals said they believe authorities were underreporting cases, as medical staff were dispatched from other parts of the country to help treat COVID-19 patients in Beijing and the city […]
A new outbreak in the city of Beijing has prompted authorities to enact strict measures to contain the virus. A city official said on June 15 that the entire city has entered “war-time mode,” while people infected with the virus after visiting Beijing have been located in Hebei, Sichuan, and Liaoning provinces—spurring fears that the […]
Chinese authorities announced 51 new domestic CCP virus infections in Beijing in the past four days, causing officials to scramble to contain its spread. It should be noted that local governments in China have been documented to underreport infections. The city, which has kept a tight lid on information since the virus began spreading earlier […]
A tanker truck exploded on a highway in southeastern China on Saturday, killing 19 people, injuring at least 172 others, with 24 of them in severe condition, authorities said. Locals said the explosion has destroyed much of a nearby village, causing residential buildings and factories to collapse and dozens of cars to get burned. Serial […]
The Beijing city government announced new cases of the CCP virus on June 11 and June 12. These are the first cases Beijing has officially announced since April 15. Authorities have been silent about the outbreak in the capital, despite enacting strict regulations and designating one district as a “high risk” region for virus spread. […]
Chinese authorities confirmed the first CCP virus patient in the city of Beijing on Jan. 20, but leaked internal documents revealed that the woman was diagnosed eight days prior. According to documents obtained by The Epoch Times, the patient had visited Wuhan, the central Chinese city where the virus first broke out. The Beijing city […]
Retired Chinese soccer player Hao Haidong recently caused an uproar after he called for the ouster of China’s ruling Communist Party. In a video shot from his home in Spain, Hao read a statement in Chinese, declaring that “the elimination of the Chinese Communist Party is essential in breaking the shackles of slavery imposed on […]
The suggestion by the Chinese regime that the CCP virus originated from the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in Wuhan, which sold seafood, wild animals, and fresh produce, is contradicted by an internal investigative report dated Jan. 22 that was reviewed recently by The Epoch Times. While some of the city’s first cases were connected to […]
After this year’s meetings of China’s rubber-stamp legislature concluded, Premier Li Keqiang revealed at a press conference that roughly 600 million Chinese citizens only earn 1,000 yuan, or roughly $140, a month. That is not enough to pay for monthly rent on a one-bedroom apartment in a mid-sized Chinese city. Li also admitted that the […]
As a second wave virus outbreak ripples through parts of China, Chinese authorities’ reporting of virus data has been opaque. There are no cumulative infection figures, with local governments only reporting new infections daily. Asymptomatic carriers are also counted separately from “confirmed diagnoses,” while little background is provided about the diagnosed patients. Currently, the most […]
Chinese authorities hid information from the public about medical staff who were diagnosed with COVID-19, the disease caused by the CCP virus, amid a second wave outbreak in the northeastern region of Jilin, according to internal government documents obtained by The Epoch Times. The CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, commonly known as the novel coronavirus, […]
Internal government document revealed rare example of a Chinese provincial government expressing anger at the state-run media for mis-information about the CCP virus outbreak.
The Jilin provincial government in northeastern China is underreporting the number of CCP virus-diagnosed patients, leaked internal documents recently obtained by The Epoch Times reveal. And on one recent occasion, the National Health Commission diluted the figures further. Chinese authorities have consistently concealed the true scale of the outbreak, leading to citizens’ distrust of official […]
As China’s National Health Commission continues to announce more CCP virus infections in northeastern China, local residents describe a tense atmosphere in which they’re left scrambling to learn the true scale of the outbreak. Chinese authorities have consistently underreported the number of infections and deaths, leading to citizens’ distrust of official data. The CCP virus, […]
Confidential documents from Chinese local government agencies revealed that authorities are preventing citizens from visiting Beijing to petition their cases to the central government amid a key political meeting. Lianghui, or the “Two Sessions,” is the annual meeting of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)’s rubber-stamp legislature and its advisory body to enact policies and agendas. […]
As the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) prepares for a key political meeting that will commence on May 21, authorities have enacted strict measures in Beijing to prevent an outbreak of the CCP virus among top officials. The Party’s rubber-stamp legislature and advisory body convenes annually for the Lianghui, or “Two Sessions,” to enact policies and […]
Local residents of the northeastern cities of Shenyang and Jilin told The Epoch Times there are cases of the CCP virus that aren’t being reported by authorities as they enforce strict rules to isolate people and lockdown hospitals and other facilities. The CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, commonly known as novel coronavirus, first broke out in […]
Amid an escalating CCP virus outbreak in northeastern China, six local officials have been dismissed for failing to contain the virus. The latest second wave outbreak first erupted in Shulan, a county-level municipality within Jilin city, Jilin Province. Locals told The Epoch Times that the outbreak situation was more serious than how authorities portrayed it. […]
Amid a severe CCP virus outbreak in northeastern China, authorities have isolated more than 8,000 people on May 15 who were close contacts of the first people diagnosed in the second wave outbreak. The CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, commonly known as the novel coronavirus, first broke out in the central Chinese city of Wuhan […]
As Wuhan, the central Chinese city where the CCP virus first emerged, experiences another wave of infections, residents told The Epoch Times that authorities were downplaying the scale of the current outbreak, and expressed fear of contracting the virus. On May 14, China’s National Health Commission announced three new infections in the entire country, two […]
The northeastern Chinese city of Jilin has announced a lockdown after a second-wave outbreak of COVID-19 was detected. The city shares the name of the province where it’s located and is its second-largest city, with 4.5 million residents. It’s the first major Chinese city to enact a lockdown since most regions eased quarantine measures throughout […]
The central Chinese city of Wuhan is requiring nucleic acid tests for the CCP virus for all residents, totaling more than 10 million. Authorities plan to complete testing within 10 days. Due to the timing of China’s upcoming “Lianghui” political meeting on May 21, some analysts believe authorities want to conduct widespread testing in order […]
The Chinese regime announced a new cluster outbreak of the CCP virus in Wuhan on May 11, the first official indication of a severe outbreak in the epicenter since authorities ended lockdown measures in early April. Locals reported that the current outbreak in Wuhan is more severe than how authorities have portrayed it. A mother also began […]
Chinese authorities reported new CCP virus cases in northern China and the virus’s initial hot spot of Hubei Province over the weekend. Officially, China’s National Health Commission announced on May 10 that there were 12 new cases in the entire country. But local governments reported more infections than that. Days earlier, a senior high school […]
The Beijing city government has arranged for hospitals to set up funeral home offices in May, according to internal documents obtained by The Epoch Times.
A district in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou announced more than 10 asymptomatic carriers of the CCP virus in recent days. A neighboring province and the nearby city of Shenzhen also reported new infections among people who came from Guangzhou, indicating the second wave outbreak was further spreading in southern China. In late April, […]
After two hospitals in the northeastern city of Harbin experienced CCP virus cluster outbreaks, the nearby city of Mudanjiang also reported cluster outbreaks at the Kang’an Hospital, considered the city’s top hospital. Both cities are located in Heilongjiang Province. Internal documents that The Epoch Times recently obtained also revealed that the Heilongjiang government issued strict […]
Beijing mandates residents wear protective masks if diagnosed with “infectious respiratory diseases” and must cover their nose and mouth when coughing.
China’s Guangzhou city announced on April 24 that it found 185 CCP virus infections when it recently conducted mass testing of “key groups.” However, netizens realized that the data conflicted with information the Guangdong government previously published. And two days earlier, in the nearby city of Shenzhen, authorities announced that six teachers and 21 students […]
In the northern Chinese city of Harbin, where a second wave of the CCP virus outbreak has occurred, one family described how six members became infected after attending a big family dinner in early April.
Officials in the northern China city of Harbin have underreported cases of the CCP virus during the second wave of its local outbreak, according to internal government documents obtained by The Epoch Times. Meanwhile, one major hospital in Harbin has stopped accepting new patients because of overcapacity and infections among medical staff. Some workers were being […]