Business

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.

Scientists Worry About China’s Effort to Build a Massive DNA Database

Recently, it came to light in an Australia Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) report that the Chinese Communist Party is collecting DNA samples of almost 10 percent of its male population in order to create a massive DNA database. Pro-Beijing supporters claim that the DNA database will eventually boost crime investigation. However, some activists and scientists ...

Jack Roberts

DNA strands.

Beautiful Rock Formations and Waterfalls in Taiwan’s Jialeshuei

Jialeshuei (佳樂水) is a tourist destination located on the southernmost of Taiwan’s east coast in Pingtung County (屏東縣). It is famous for its unique and interesting rock formations along a 2.5km-long stretch of the coral coastline in Manzhou Township (滿州鄉). Origin of the name Jialeshuei This area was formerly known as Chialuoshui (佳落水), which means ...

Billy Shyu

Jialeshuei featuring rock formations

U.S. Considers Expelling All CCP Members

The New York Times reported on July 15 that the Trump administration is considering a travel ban on all Chinese Communist Party (CCP) members and their families, which would prevent them from entering the United States. When news of the proposal came out, search volume on Google for the term “Quit the CCP” soared.  On ...

Michael Segarty

Chinese who have withdrawn from the CCP.

Amid Pandemic, Reduced Economic Activity Making Earth Cleaner

While the CCP coronavirus pandemic is nothing short of a global tragedy, with more than 100,000 confirmed dead, millions sickened, and tens of millions out of work, it’s hard to find a silver lining to the crisis. One of the few positives that have emerged from the pandemic is the fact that people around the world ...

Armin Auctor

New York City on a clear day.

Pompeo: It’s Time to Act Against the Chinese Communist Party (Part 2)

This is the second in a two-part series on U.S. Secretary of State Michael Pompeo’s speech at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library in California on July 23. Part 1 can be accessed here. U.S. Secretary of State Michael Pompeo has urged free nations of the world and the Chinese people to join America in dealing with ...

Jack Roberts

Pompeo giving a speech at the Richard Nixon Library.

Black Ghosts of Shanghai (‘The Shanghai Friendship Store’ — Chapter 6)

This novel chronicles the experiences of a small foreign community living in Shanghai in the 1980s, when memories of the Cultural Revolution were still fresh. This period was the heyday of China’s state-run Friendship Stores, which sold Western goods and souvenirs to tourists, foreign residents, and diplomats. Nowadays, only a few of these stores remain. ...

Nspirement Staff

Shanghai street scene.

Pompeo: It’s Time to Act Against the Chinese Communist Party (Part 1)

This is the first in a two-part series on U.S. Secretary of State Michael Pompeo’s speech at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library in California on July 23. Part 2 can be accessed here. U.S. Secretary of State Michael Pompeo has urged free nations of the world and the Chinese people to join America in dealing with the ...

Jack Roberts

Mike Pompeo giving a speech.

U.S. Officials Speak Out on Forced Organ Harvesting From Religious Prisoners in China

The Trump administration has expressed concern about long-standing allegations that people imprisoned by the Chinese authorities for their faith are being murdered for their organs, which is called forced organ harvesting. On July 20, U.S. State Department officials condemned the Chinese Communist Party’s persecution of Falun Gong, as adherents marked 21 years since the beginning ...

Jack Roberts

Secretarry of State Mike Pompeo.

Bowing to CCP Censorship: U.S. Attorney General Slams Companies

William Barr, the U.S. Attorney General, recently criticized American companies for kowtowing to Chinese communist censorship. In addition to tech giants like Google Yahoo, Apple, and Microsoft, Barr also targeted the Hollywood industry. He was delivering a speech at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum and Library in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Threat from Chinese censorship Barr ...

Jack Roberts

William Barr.