A quiet act of remembrance on June 4 leads to the detention of a Shandong monk long targeted for his views on faith and civic rights.
Buddhist Monk Detained After Marking the Tiananmen Anniversary
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Sick and Pensionless: The Long Punishment of a Xinjiang Falun Gong Professor
The story of Li Xianghong reveals how, in today’s China, a prison sentence ends, but the machinery of reprisal does not.
From Buddha to Racetrack: A Sacred Site in Drakgo Is Rewritten by Force
A revered statue’s grounds become a horseracing field. Cultural erasure in historical Tibet now proceeds through construction as much as demolition and removal.
When the Dao Must March in Formation: The New Management System for Taoist Clergy
The model tightens ideological discipline and expands monitoring, while temples quietly resist pressure to preach political doctrine rather than classical cultivation.
China’s Patriotic Catholic Church Promotes the Ethnic Unity Law
The official Catholic body promotes with zeal a law internationally condemned while ignoring the Papal encyclical that the rest of the Catholic world is discussing.
The Hague City Council Bans Pro-Chinese Lantern Festival
Following the aggression against the Lonely Uyghur, the “City of Peace and Justice” severed Beijing’s propaganda arm.
When “Autonomy” Means Obedience: China’s New “Social Sciences With Chinese Characteristics”
A CCP manifesto reveals how scholarship is being redesigned as an instrument of ideological discipline.
China, Christian Prisoners of Conscience Denied Access to the Bible
The case of the imprisoned leaders of Fuyang Maizhong Reformed Church shows that inmates’ right to receive non-illegal reading material does not extend to the Sacred Scripture.
“Magnifica Humanitas” and Xi Jinping’s Thought on AI: Same Problem, Different Solutions
A CCP essay and a papal encyclical both warn about AI’s promise and peril, yet their moral universes could not be farther apart.
When the Camera Turns Away: Carol Guzy and Amsterdam’s Lonely Uyghur
The American photographer won an award in Amsterdam. The Uyghur activist has a message for the Dutch media.