The Chinese President, like Chairman Mao before him, is trying to propose himself as an object of worship worthier than god. Bitter Winter has selected some typical reports about this bizarre, yet worrying development.
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China’s New Measures for Religious Groups 2019: From Bad to Worse
The new provisions will be in force from February 1, 2020. They reinforce the already restrictive regulation of 2017 and order all religions to “spread the principles of the CCP.”
The Beijing Declaration on Human Rights: A Fraudulent Document
The CCP recruited its friends to sign an alternative declaration on human rights, whose aim is in fact justifying Chinese and other violations of the same human rights.
Bitter Winter Feature Series for Human Rights Day (IV): The CCP’s Continuing Violation of All Human Rights
December 10 was Human Rights Day. Bitter Winter celebrates it with four articles. Here, we address issues other than religious liberty.
Bitter Winter Feature Series for Human Rights Day (III): Sinicizing Religions
December 10 was Human Rights Day. Bitter Winter celebrates it with four articles. The third is devoted to the real meaning of religious “sinicization.”
Bitter Winter Feature Series for Human Rights Day (II): High-tech Surveillance Measures
December 10 was Human Rights Day. Bitter Winter celebrates it with four articles. The second is devoted to how high-tech surveillance is used to violate human rights.
Bitter Winter Feature Series for Human Rights Day (I): Religious Persecution
December 10 is Human Rights Day. Bitter Winter celebrates it with four articles summarizing typical cases of violations of human rights in China. The first is devoted to religious persecution.
China’s Anti-Christian Student League of 1922: Preparing the Persecution
Arguments and campaigns of the 1920s against Christianity were still used in subsequent decades, from Chairman Mao to Xi Jinping.
Resolute to Persevere, Christians Worship in Dire Conditions
A collection of Bitter Winter reports on how Christians in China continue practicing their faith, in the face of persecution, deprived of places to worship.
Mongolian Buddhism: Under the Shadow of the CCP
Since 2012, Buddhists in Mongolia are without an officially recognized Jebtsundamba, their local leader. Beijing claims Mongolia should only enthrone a CCP-friendly Jebtsundamba – or else.