His Holiness is aging, but his birthday is a day of joy and hope, not despair.
Op-eds China
The Day That Ignited the Flame of Freedom: A Personal Memory of the June 15 Uyghur Student Demonstration
In 1988, the Uyghur people decided that enough was enough. June 15 is not just a date—it represents honor, courage, and resistance. A personal memory.
Why Did Xi Jinping Meet the Fake Panchen Lama?
China’s President waited a decade before meeting the highly loyal religious leader. The encounter was likely related to the Dalai Lama’s succession.
Jiang Yurong’s Harvard Speech and the CCP’s Soft Power Indoctrination
A Beijing loyalist spoke at the prestigious university’s graduation ceremony. She criticized the U.S. but ignored China’s human rights violations.
The Cost of Silence: Reflections Three Years After the Xinjiang Police Files Leak
The Files should have generated robust policies against companies profiting from slave labour in the Uyghur region. In the UK, it did not happen.
Securing the Invisible: Hidden Tech Threatens National Security
Seemingly inoffensive Chinese devices such as solar inverters and batteries may hide spying devices, a problem for security—and human rights.
China: Religious Leaders Asked to Spread “Chinese Traditional” (in Fact, Communist) Culture
A week-long training confirmed that the “tradition” the United Front wants government-controlled religions to promote is simply the usual CCP ideology.
Pope Leo XIV, Father Dowling, and China
Like the literary character of a priest-detective from Chicago created by Ralph McInerny, the American Pope may hold a few surprises.
Sinicization of Chinese Buddhism: What Does It Mean?
The 2023–27 Five-Year Plan for Sinicizing Chinese Buddhism is reaching the end of its first two-and-a-half-year period. An event in Beijing discussed its results so far.
Chinese Communist Party Hails the Dissolution of the Unification Church in Japan
A statement by the Party-controlled China Anti-Cult Association celebrates a verdict against the “anti-communist” church and hopes it will inspire similar moves abroad.