In the mandator statement, they promise to educate their children to socialism and atheism.
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The “Buddhist and Taoist Clergy Database,” Another CCP Imposture
Advertised as a tool against fraudulent “false monks,” it will in fact also help cracking down on Buddhist monks and Taoist priests not controlled by the CCP.
Courtesy of the Two Sessions: Two New Powerful (and Dangerous) Chinese Agencies
Meet the new National Financial Regulatory Administration and National Data Bureau. Both mean more CCP control on the economy and the Internet.
The Italian Job: How the CCP Laundered Mafia Money in Italy
A massive Italian Tax Police investigation unveiled a 15-billion-euro money laundering operation involving Italian mafia, Colombian drug barons, and Putin’s oligarchs.
Burning Effigies: China Threatens American Academic Miles Yu
A Cultural-Revolution-style statue vilifies a scholar who has mightily upset the Communist Party.
The Digital China 2023 Plan: Is There Something New?
The document reiterates a strategy Xi Jinping is pursuing since before he came to national power. What is new (and alarming) is the propaganda.
Early Rain Church: Family Blocked at Home and Forbidden to Attend “Illegal” Sunday Service
The door lock of Deputy Deacon Xiao Lubiao’s home was repeatedly damaged, and the police told them they should stay home on Sunday.
China’s New Directives on Law Schools: They Should Teach that Separation of Powers Is Wrong
A document by the Central Committee published on February 26 orders law schools to oppose “constitutionalism” and other Western democratic fallacies.
Death of a Radio Host: Falun Gong Practitioner Pang Xun Beaten to Death in Jail
A smuggled video appeared on social media in mid-February and documented yet another extrajudicial killing of a dissident in Chinese prisons.
Xi Jinping Launches His “Non-Western” Model of Modernization
As “a new form of human civilization. Chinese-style modernization breaks the myth of ‘modernization=Westernization’” and offers a (non-democratic) model to the world, Xi said.