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US Lawmakers Want Sanctions on Chinese Officials Over Xinjiang Abuses

A group of U.S. lawmakers have called for a tough global response to the ongoing human rights crisis in China’s far west Xinjiang region. Led by Senator Marco Rubio and Representative Chris Smith, the bipartisan Congressional-Executive Commission asked U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin to sanction Chinese officials and entities ...

James Burke

Tainted History: Taking History as a Guide

In the series Tainted History, Nspirement focuses on stories about the fates of famous Chinese people around 1949, at a time when the Communist Party occupied China after winning the civil war. Before the Republic of China retreated to Taiwan, President Chiang Kai Shek took a tremendous effort to rescue scholars and social elites. We ...

Nspirement Staff

Chen Yinke.

Real Bodies Exhibition Again Condemned, This Time in the UK

The Real Bodies Exhibition has again attracted controversy, this time in the UK where a doctor has questioned the source of the plastinated corpses put on show. Dr. David Nicholl, a consultant neurologist at a Birmingham hospital, told The Guardian (in an article now only online via the South China Morning Post) that the plastinated ...

James Burke

Genocide of Falun Gong in China ‘Virtually Ignored’

From Bangkok to Washington, D.C., events were held this week to commemorate nearly two decades of persecution that Falun Gong practitioners have undergone in China. Most of these simple acts of remembrance held around July 20 typically receive little media attention, much like the persecution itself — a phenomenon echoing sentiments put forward by a ...

James Burke

A Woman holding a small banner with Falun Gong Truth, Compassion, Tolerance

The 3 Characteristics of Chinese Communist Bureaucracy

Corruption in China and the Chinese communist bureaucracy— with its proliferation of greedy officials at all levels — is by far the worst in the world, according to Xiang Ming (a pseudonym), who published an article in the Hong Kong magazine Outpost in April 2018. The amount of dirty money involved is allegedly unbelievably huge. ...

Nspirement Staff

Chinese yuen currency.

Beijing’s Meddling in New Zealand at ‘Critical Levels’

Beijing’s political influence activities in New Zealand have reached a critical level and are a threat to the country’s sovereignty, warns a report released by Canada’s intelligence service. Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) compiled the report based on views and short papers contributed by unnamed experts at a March 6 workshop focused on the repercussions ...

James Burke

New Zealand politician Jian Yang.

Party Orders Cadres to Live With Families in China’s Xinjiang

While it may sound like something from an Orwellian story, government officials were sent to live with Uyghurs in their homes in Xinjiang so that they could watch them and ask questions about their lives and political views. That is currently the reality for families in China’s northwestern region of Xinjiang. Toward the end of ...

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CCP official with three Uyghur women.

Democracies Need to ‘Muscle Up’ and Oppose Beijing’s Interference

A leading Australian academic has urged liberal democracies to “muscle up” in dealing with Beijing’s interference by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). In the below interview with China Uncensored, Professor Clive Hamilton, author of the recently released Silent Invasion, said Beijing has been conducting comprehensive influence operations on Australia and its institutions. When researching the book, ...

James Burke