As Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping began a morning of meetings Friday with Vice President Joe Biden and Los Angeles leaders and businesspeople, hundreds of protesters and supporters gathered across the street from the J.W. Marriott hotel at L.A. Live. A group of about 200 students from USC’s Chinese Scholars Student Assn. stretched along the [...]

Both supporters and protesters from Iowa State, the Ames community and all over the Midwest stood outside Wednesday night in downtown Des Moines to pay a visit to China’s Vice President Xi Jinping. Xi spent the day in Iowa visiting Muscatine and drinking tea with old friends, and later flew to Des Moines to be [...]

Where is Gao Zhisheng? When Vice President Xi Jinping, China’s future president, visited the White House this week, President Obama should have pressed him to reveal the whereabouts of China’s famed human rights and religious freedom attorney and other dissidents who have disappeared while in Chinese custody. Gao vanished three years ago this month. His [...]

Obama, Biden Press Beijing’s Next Leader on Divisive Issues; Trip Aims to Define Ties for Next Decade WASHINGTON—Xi Jinping, China’s expected next leader, began a week of wooing America Tuesday as he met with President Barack Obama for the first time, kicking off a visit that could shape the bilateral relationship for a decade to [...]

Persecution, murder and organ removal of Falun Gong practitioners in China a story that belongs in Winnipeg museum, human rights lawyer David Matas argues By: David Matas Leo Tolstoy began the novel Anna Karenina by writing „Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” One can say the same [...]

Deeplink by Rainey Reitman This is the first in a two-part series explaining the background around the EFF call to action over Cisco assisting the Chinese government in abusing human rights. This article outlines the background of the issue and the first of our two demands to Cisco: intervening on behalf of dissident writer Du [...]

But is it scary? In the video the tool is set to attack a university website that’s been offline for a decade The clip shows up without explanation, lasting for about six seconds during a rather mundane documentary about hacking produced by the state-sponsored China Central Television The video appears to give a peek at [...]

The following letter was sent to the Vice President: August 15, 2010 The Vice President Old Executive Office Building Washington, DC 20500 Dear Mr. Vice President I write today on behalf of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom to wish you well on your upcoming trip to China. During your trip, we urge you [...]

Chinese tourists at Yehliu Geopark. They follow a regimented schedule and have little time to meet locals. TAIPEI, Taiwan — As two dozen anxious Chinese travelers began their maiden voyage across the Taiwan Strait, their tour guide called an impromptu meeting in the airport departure lounge. He warned them about littering, spitting, flooding hotel bathroom [...]

Profs working in Canada „must have no record of Falun Gong” A rule imposed by Confucius Institutes — an educational arm of the Chinese government that operates on at least eight Canadian campuses — breaks “all human rights codes in Canada,” human rights lawyer Clive Ansley told The Epoch Times.   The main CI website [...]