Max Lu

North Korean Female Prisoners: Exposing the Torture

The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights has released a 72-page report detailing the human rights abuses perpetrated by North Korean police and security officers on North Korean female prisoners. The report contains interviews with more than 100 North Korean female prisoners. Abusing North Korean female prisoners The interviewed women have one ...

Max Lu

The North Korean capital.

Hidden Unemployment Crisis Looms in China

Is China facing an unemployment crisis? China’s unemployment rate in June was revealed to be 5.7 percent, which is lower than the February peak of 6.2 percent. The country’s unemployment rate has remained quite stable over the past decades, hovering around 4 percent to 5 percent. As such, the fact that the COVID-19 outbreak only ...

Max Lu

A crowded Chinese sidewalk.

New Zealand: Anti-CCP Activists Mysteriously Die in Car Crash

Two ethnic anti-CCP activists were recently killed in a car crash in New Zealand while on their way to the Parliament to petition the government about the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Three people were left injured in the crash. Some have speculated whether they were victims of sabotage given that the two dead victims, 48-year-old ...

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Car of the two anti-CCP activists who were killed.

CCP in Control: Hong Kong Financial Future Looking Grim

Several weeks have passed since Beijing forcefully implemented the National Security Law in Hong Kong, effectively ending the region’s autonomy and reducing it to yet another communist-controlled city. As a consequence, a city that has been regarded as the financial hub of East Asia is at risk of losing the trust of the international business ...

Max Lu

Hong Kong skyline.

CCP Officials Pay Scant Attention to Flood Victims

Floods have affected over 54 million people in China and caused damage to the tune of US$20 billion. Rather than comforting the citizens in their worst times, the authorities seem to have decided that silence is the best way to deal with the flood victims. This could easily be categorized as one of the worst ...

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A flooded street.

Babies as Bribery for a High Ranking CCP Official

On July 14, Changsha on the Palm under the Changsha Evening News reported that China Judgments Online recently published the verdict of Guan Chengshan, a controller at the Shandong Shengong Haite Electronic Technology Co. Ltd. on bribery charges. Guang received a 3.5-year sentence with a 2-year suspension. Guan’s conviction was in relation to paying US$480,000 ...

Max Lu

A judge's gavel and block.

Why Corporate China Is Still Obsessed With Rubber Stamps

In China, rubber stamps (also known as chops) are very important for business transactions. The rubber stamp represents the identity and legal evidence of the company’s decisions. Despite advancing technologically, the importance of rubber stamps in business communication has remained strong. There have also been numerous instances of the misuse of rubber stamps. Chinese companies ...

Max Lu

Rubber stamps with a blue stamp pad.

Three Gorges Dam Under Scrutiny as China Reels Under Heavy Flooding

China is receiving the second-highest rainfall in over five decades and the results have been devastating. Large areas around the Yangtze basin and its tributaries have borne the brunt of the floods. The Three Gorges Dam was constructed in 2006 to control floods and has proven to be ineffective. And some are apprehensive about whether ...

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The Three Gorges Dam.

Australia Standing Up to China

China has been using its economic might to bully or coerce many countries in Asia, Africa, and South America to accept its demands and side with its ideologies. When a conflict between China and Australia arose, Beijing might have calculated that Australia will eventually take a step back since the Asian nation is a major ...

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The Australian flag.