Where has the “Merkel Era” gone, and why have China-German relations changed so much? Recently, a friend related the shocking experience of a wealthy German businessman setting up a business in China. It may be helpful for other business people considering doing business in that communist stronghold. This is an eye-opening experience but not unusual ...
One fateful day in 2022, Chinese Communist Party (CCP) public security officers came pounding on Zhang Yuxuan’s door and shouted: “You know what you have done.” Then, they took him to the Public Security Bureau, asked him to sign a confession, and left him there for four or five hours before releasing him. The ‘red ...
One evening, around 9 o’clock, a young Taiwanese man named Zhang Yuxuan was scrolling through his mobile phone in his rented apartment in Shanghai when suddenly, he heard a crashing bang, and the front door was smashed open. Several public security officers of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) barged in, grabbed a hold of him, ...
According to the Chinese Cultural Revolution Library (third edition), on April 20, 1968, Lu Hongen and 14 other detainees in the cell were called to the guidance room and they sat on the floor. Behind the desk sat the guiding officer, the interrogator, and another government agent sent by the higher authorities. The guiding officer ridiculed ...
Lu Hongen, conductor of the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, was the first high-profile intellectual to be publicly executed during the Cultural Revolution. The day after he was killed, the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP’s) Public Security Bureau went to his wife and said: “You have to pay 20 cents; this is the cost of the bullet that ...
In 1896, at the age of 59, Wu Xun fell ill. This beggar, whose fame had already spread far and wide, continued to think day and night about raising money to establish even more free schools. Unwilling to spend money on medicine, he succumbed to his illness. He passed away in one of the very ...
During the Cultural Revolution, Wu Xun was labeled as a “traitor of the working people.” In the summer of 1966, Red Guards in Guan County, Shandong, smashed open Wu Xun’s tomb, destroyed his statue, and paraded his coffin through the streets. His bones were shattered by hammers and, along with the coffin, were ultimately burned ...
During the Qin Dynasty, Xiang Yu, the king of Western Chu, and Liu Bang, the king of Han, were in a bitter and bloody conflict. Following years of vicious fighting, there was still no clear outcome or decisive winner. The situation remained a stalemate. As a result of the years of bitter fighting, the soldiers ...
On April 5, 1949, at the Tang’s household on Henry Road, in the French Concession of Shanghai, large luggage items had already been transported to Hong Kong in advance, leaving only a few small boxes to carry to the airport. On the desk were two plane tickets destined for New York, with the flight scheduled ...
On July 13, 2023, the U.S. House Select Committee on China held its hearing themed: Risk Business: Growing Peril for American Companies in China. During the hearing, three senior experts familiar with the Communist Party of China (CCP) ‘s commercial black box operations testified and gave solid, first-hand evidence of the dangerous risk and harm ...
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