Peng Lifa, who hung banners with anti-Xi-Jinping slogans on a bridge in Beijing, is in jail but remains the man the CCP is most afraid of.
Hu Zimo
Our Hero, the Lone Protester: Will He End Up in a Psychiatric Hospital?
A brave citizen fooled the police and managed to hang protest banners on Beijing’s Sitong Bridge on the eve of the 20th Congress. Will he share the fate of the “Ink Girl” —or her father?
Release on Bail in China: Do the New Rules Really Make It Easier?
The September 2022 rules are hailed as progressive and liberal. But they are unlikely to improve the situation of those arrested for ‘separatism” or religion-related offenses.
Compulsory Military Education for Chinese Students
New regulations deal with teenagers from age 13, but in fact another ordinance had already extended the program to primary schools.
“Ice-Cream Assassins”: Chinese Communist Party’s New Public Enemies
Prices of the ice-creams are too high, and many complain. For the CCP, it’s an excellent opportunity for more control.
Xi Jinping’s Zero-COVID Policy: It’s the Ideology, Stupid
The CCP has clarified that Marxism, rather than medical science, is the reason why the current strategy cannot be changed.
COVID-19, Ukraine, Protests: Now the Chinese Communist Party Is Really Scared
The Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission warns that a Ukraine-style anti-Party “color revolution” may erupt in Chinese cities at all time.
Public Security: New Training Directives Teach “CCP’s Absolute Leadership Over Human Rights Work”
Based on Xi Jinping’s speeches, officers will be trained to apply the principle that human rights are what the Party says they are.
Central Political and Legal Work Conference: The CCP Does Not Feel Safe
Reading between the lines of the important meeting, it appears that the Communist Party is expecting in 2022 “infiltration, subversion, and sabotage.”
China Has a New “Great Helmsman,” Xi Jinping
The political implications of using for Xi a title so far attributed only to Mao are alarming.
Hu Zimo
Uses a pseudonym for security reasons.