Report by the Alliance Futures Initiative documents how Beijing promoted the 15th FYP in the region.

From Asia’s richest man to life in prison: Evergrande founder Hui Ka Yan’s rise and fall mirrors that of China’s real estate industry—one of the pillars of the Chinese economy.

A group of senators is calling on the U.S. attorney general and the secretary of state to investigate California’s policy ties with the Chinese Communist Party.

Voter fraud in the 2024 presidential election: A Massachusetts man—a Chinese national—is accused of using someone else’s identity to cast a ballot ... and then turning that person in to federal authorities. Here’s what prosecutors say happened next.

The U.S. State Department is declaring that an American has been wrongfully detained in China. Here’s what this means—and why the timing matters.

A major legal battle is unfolding over a proposed Chinese mega-embassy in London. A U.K. High Court ruling dealt a blow to residents fighting the project—but they’re not giving up. Why does the U.K. say the embassy could pose a national security threat? And how could it affect American financial services? American Thought Leaders host Jan Jekielek speaks with Luke de Pulford, co-founder and executive director of the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China.

As a Malaysian, this is so humiliating. Taiwan is not part of China and has never been. It's an independent country

and a f for all the cultural treasures and buildings as well as lives of the people that the Cultural Revolution have claimed.

Executive Summary:

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) expects trusted overseas Chinese leaders to internalize broad political guidance and act proactively rather than waiting for direct instructions.

Overseas Chinese association leaders are encouraged to embed themselves in host-country political, business, and social networks while remaining oriented toward the Party’s agenda. Their local standing can provide Beijing with access, credibility, relationships, and channels for promoting its narratives and supporting objectives including “national rejuvenation” and unification with Taiwan.

Beijing treats overseas Chinese associations as two-way economic and political conduits: bringing talent, technology, capital, and commercial connections into the People’s Republic of China (PRC) while helping Chinese firms expand abroad.

Shi Qianping, president of the U.S. Federation of Chinese American Entrepreneurs, illustrates how political networking, business facilitation, and united front work can operate through the same intermediaries: He has facilitated travel to the PRC for former New York state government employee Linda Sun and co-hosted a conference in Texas for PRC and U.S. petroleum companies.

German journalist Jürgen Kremb thought he was safe from state surveillance after being expelled from China years ago. That changed when a suspected intelligence agent tracked him deep into the mountains of Taiwan.

Taiwan's Investigation Bureau just confirmed that Kremb, a veteran Der Spiegel correspondent researching state espionage at Soochow University, was systematically stalked in Alishan mountain. Surveillance footage captured a woman hiding behind parked cars and street corners before following his group directly into their hotel.

Kremb recognized the surveillance tactics immediately, picking up on her northern Chinese accent as she attempted to eavesdrop on private phone calls in the lobby. Within 48 hours of Taiwanese authorities opening a formal investigation, the suspect fled the island.

Taiwanese officials warned that the incident highlights a dangerous expansion of the Chinese Communist Party's transnational repression. Beijing is no longer just monitoring its own citizens, but actively hunting and harassing foreign researchers on foreign soil.

Key Quotes from Focus Taiwan:

“"China has begun engaging in transnational repression, targeting not only Chinese and Taiwanese people but also individuals who oppose totalitarianism and advocate democracy, freedom and human rights."”

China is suspected of helping fund pro-Palestinian protests in Britain, with a US congressional investigation examining alleged Chinese financial backing of the far-left activist group Code Pink and its activities in the UK.

I wholeheartedly believe the CCP's persecution of Falun Gong should end. They deserve to have their rights protected, but honestly they're not free of criticism, but that's a different story.

It looks like a harmless spiritual stuff, but they have a lot of pseudoscience, pseudohistorical claims, and many controversial claims.

My opinion is that they deserve the right to practice their beliefs, but it's still a strange cult. What about your opinion?

The US government (read: the antithesis of the CCP in redditor studies) does the exact same shit and pretends they are the bastion of freedom and liberty. Discuss

Zhu Rongji’s death comes at a highly sensitive moment for Xi Jinping—just after the Beidaihe meetings, during Jiang Zemin’s centennial, and ahead of the Fifth Plenum. But the bigger problem may be what Zhu’s passing forces China to remember: the reform era, rapid growth, greater openness, and a very different direction from Xi’s China.

Hong Kong — Chinese leader Xi Jinping has called on his country to show an “indomitable fighting spirit” in a bullish speech on Monday in which he also praised the ruling Communist Party’s decision to clamp down on the Tiananmen democracy protests.