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Former Shenzhen fitness coach Chen Weijie, who made his daring journey to the United States in May 2023, declares he will never return to China unless the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) rule ends. An ancient simplicity at the foothills of the Panamanian jungle Upon his arrival at the base of the Panamanian jungle, Chen Weijie ...
Chen Weijie, a native of Fenyi County, Xinyu City, Jiangxi Province, and former fitness coach from Shenzhen who migrated to the United States in May 2023, declared he would never return to China unless the Communist Party ceased to rule. Chen Weijie’s early life was marred by hardship. His mother passed away during his childhood, ...
China is making its stance on establishing total dominance over Hong Kong clear even though its muscle-flexing has raised eyebrows in global circles. The National People’s Congress (NPC) of China recently approved new rules that stop anyone from being a candidate in Hong Kong elections without the approval of a Beijing loyalist committee. This effectively ...
On the evening of July 21, 2019, dozens of masked men in white T-shirts stormed the Yuen Long train station and assaulted people returning home after a pro-democracy protest, as well as passers-by, with wooden sticks and metal rods. There has been widespread speculation that the attackers belonged to the Hong Kong triads — the ...
Another young person has fled Hong Kong in order to avoid the brutality of the Chinese Communist regime. The 19-year-old youth, who goes by the pseudonym “Hammer,” has endured being arrested, beaten, and harassed by police, as well as having his house illegally searched — all for participating in Hong Kong’s anti-extradition movement in 2019. ...
Hong Kong’s controversial National Security Law is making itself further felt, this time with Hong Kong schoolchildren in the city’s schools with a drastic revamp to the education that includes. instigating a pro-Beijing curriculum that includes the targeting of liberal studies. Included in new measures issued on February 4 are an increase in monitoring of ...
Renowned Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has just released (via Vimeo on demand) the film Cockroach — a visual record of the final moments of an independent, democratic Hong Kong. “Cockroaches” is what the protesters call themselves, and although this name had been used toward them as an insult from the pro-Beijing side, it’s a term ...
Foreign ministers of the U.S., Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the UK have jointly raised concerns over the diminishing of Hong Kong’s freedoms after Beijing enacted a new set of rules to disqualify elected legislators in the semi-autonomous city. The foreign ministers reiterated their serious concerns over a Chinese government resolution that resulted in the ...
Known as the “King of Chinese Animation,” the cartoonist known as Daxiong, whose real name is Guo Jingxiong, recently joined in collaboration with Canadian realist figure sculptor Ben Li to create a 3-meter high painting and sculpture to support the anti-extradition protest movement in Hong Kong and the Hong Kong protesters. This artistic partnership is ...
In his first inaugural address, Abraham Lincoln said: “We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.” A ...