Chinese reporters talk to Bitter Winter about how they are prohibited from publishing real news about the epidemic. They should follow the official guidelines and press releases, thus depriving their readers of potentially vital information.
Coronavirus: CCP Censorships Makes the Epidemic Worse
How Many Li Wenliangs Are There in China?
Amid the spread of the coronavirus epidemic, China’s communist government is censoring and suppressing any information that might damage its reputation.
Chinese Propaganda Attempts to Blame the US for Coronavirus
From government spokespersons to teachers in schools, the Chinese authorities are trying to divert attention from their inability to deal with the outbreak.
Chinese Officials Hunt for ‘Pirated’ Bibles
As the campaign “to eradicate pornography and illegal publications” sweeps across the country, religious materials not approved by the Communist Party are seized.
Testimonies
Buddhist Statues Continue to Disappear Across China
Reminiscent of the Cultural Revolution, the CCP’s drive to eliminate Buddhism sweeps across the country. Even icons in state-sanctioned temples are not spared.
Spy Culture Invades China’s Universities
The authoritarian regime incites teachers and students to report each other, forced to act as informers to monitor and snitch on dissidents and believers.
Hubei Province Destroys Buddha Statues and Seals Off Temples
Threatened to be fired, local officials intensify crackdowns on outdoor religious statues and temples, leaving Buddhists with no place to worship.
Folk Religion Temples and Ancestral Halls Suppressed in Hubei
Ahead of central government inspections and a significant international event, the province launched numerous campaigns against religion in 2019.
Op-eds
Rape in Xinjiang Camps: The Tibetan Precedent
Accounts of sexual abuse of detained Uyghur and ethnic Kazakh women are highly believable. Buddhist nuns are also raped in Tibet’s transformation through education camps, where rape is used as a tool for re-education.
Wu Huayan: Dying of Hunger in a China “Without Poverty”
Xi Jinping claimed poverty would disappear by 2020. Here is 2020, and here is a young student who died of malnutrition.
Interviews
Demolishing Graveyards in Xinjiang: Even Dead Uyghurs Are Now Persecuted
After CNN revealed the CCP’s destruction of Uyghur cemeteries, Chinese propaganda claimed these were just fake news. Uyghur poet Aziz Isa Elkun tells us the true story.
Missing Uyghurs Do Not Reappear: The Case of the Hamdullah Family
The CCP campaigns claiming that the Uyghurs who disappeared are now safely home is a lie, as proved by the case of two prominent Uyghur businessmen and their relatives.
Featured
The New National School Textbooks: A Weapon Against Democracy and Religion
The Ministry of Education of China has uniformed and “sinicized” the curriculum, and is training teachers to use the new materials to criticize the West and promote atheism.
Documents
English Translation of the 2019 Administrative Measures for Religious Groups
Bitter Winter offers the first complete English translation of these new provisions, coming into force on February 1, 20202. As we commented, they make the situation of religion in China from bad to worse.
An Urgent Appeal: Stop Police Brutality in Hong Kong
40 parliamentarians and dignitaries from 18 countries write to Carrie Lam
Members of Lithuanian and European Parliament to Kazakhstan: Do Not Deport Refugees Back to China
Bitter Winter reported on the case of two ethnic Kazakhs who escaped the transformation through education camps. Some brave European politicians, led by Lithuanian MP Mantas Adomėnas, now speak up in their favor.
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