A son remembers his last telephone conversation with his father in East Turkestan six years ago. After that, the father “disappeared.”
The Last Words of a Uyghur Father: A Son’s Memory
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China: Theological Seminaries Inspected to Check How “Sinicized” They Are
The 2021 regulations call for devoting at least 30% of classroom time to study Marxism and Xi Jinping’s thought. Inspections are now making sure they are obeyed.
Sinicization of Christianity Comes to Hong Kong
Hong Kong Protestant churches are told it is time to “Sinicize,” i.e., adapt to a Socialist society and to the CCP leadership, as those in Mainland China were compelled to do.
Yang Taoming: “China’s Tony Robbins” Detained
The #1 Chinese life coach has been arrested and accused of fraud. His company sued the media that had accused him of “brainwashing.”
Falun Gong: Xu Na’s 8-Year Sentence Confirmed On Appeal
The veteran dissident, poet, and artist should remain in jail until 2028.
CCP Scholars Suggest to Build China’s “Second Capital” in Xinjiang
This political move would solve an intractable historical problem: East Turkestan (Ch. Xinjiang) lies outside China’s Great Wall.
Another Scandal: France’s Cultural (and Anti-Cult) Diplomacy Is Financed by the Chinese Communist Party
A report by the Czech academic center Sinopsis highlights “major donations” by United Front’s “heavyweights” to finance French “influence diplomacy.”
Alibaba Software Selectively Monitors Trips To and From Xinjiang
Foreign journalists who go to the Uyghur homeland are spied. So are Uyghurs who visit Shanghai.
Hohhot Bible Trial: Defendants Charged with “Collusion with Foreign Forces”
Heavy jail penalties are sought against Christians who purchased “legal” Bibles from the Three-Self Church but distributed them “illegally” as part of house church activities.
China Kidnaps Southern Mongolian Dissident in Mongolia
Chinese police took writer Lhamjab Borjigin from his residence in Ulaanbaatar and deported him back to China.