The present Italian leadership expressed the intention to walk out of the 2019 Belt and Road agreement signed by the previous government. So far, it has not happened.
Wang Yi’s Visit to Italy: A Missed Opportunity
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China
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.
The US-China Balloon Crisis: A Uyghur View
Writing in Bitter Winter last year, I prophesied—without a crystal ball—that something similar would happen. And worse incidents in the future, too.
More than 10,000 Church of Almighty God Members Were Arrested in 2022
More than 3,000 were tortured and at least 14 were killed. These are the shocking figures of the church’s own yearly report on persecution. And they are believable.
United Nations: “One Million Tibetan Children Forcibly Separated From Their Parents”
In November, three UN Special Rapporteurs wrote to China. There has been no satisfactory answer, and they have decided to go public.
Beijing Shouwang Church: The House Church That Refuses to Die
On February 8, the police “discovered” that the megachurch liquidated in 2019 continues to exist clandestinely.
Zhanargul Zhumatai: Ethnic Kazakh Dissident Detained
She told Bitter Winter and the world she was in grave danger of being arrested. She was right.
Qu’ran Burns in Sweden: China Protests—Hypocritically
China’s protest against the burning of the Qu’ran in Stockholm is just propaganda. The CCP offends Islam daily in much worse ways in the Uyghur homeland.
Wang Jiafang: Falun Gong Professor of Mathematics Persecuted for 23 Years
The woman resisted years of deprogramming, and from 2000 on has spent most of her time in jail.
Hu Xinyu’s Body “Found”: When the Cure is Worse than the Disease
The police says the 15-yer-old student committed suicide. But the story the authorities tell fuels the scandal rather than suppressing it.