The chairman of the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee and a former National Security Advisor are among those claiming that “The Lancet,” “The New York Times” and others willingly downplayed the Wuhan lab theory.
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Less Apps on Chinese Smartphones from January 1, 2023
A new regulation limits the number of pre-installed Apps phones can be sold with, and makes it more difficult to download new ones. The aim, as usual, is more surveillance.
Detained leaders of Church of Abundance Accused of “Violating National Security”
A new charge hits the Christians from Xi’an, who have been detained for more than 140 days.
Zhanargul Zhumatai: A Dramatic Interview with an Ethnic Kazakh Camp Survivor Who May Soon “Disappear”
Bitter Winter interviewed the 43-year-old artist in Urumqi, where the police is threatening to take her to a psychiatric hospital.
USCIRF Charges China’s Authorized Religious Bodies as Communist Party Accomplices
A new report exposes the five authorized religions’ “complicity in the government’s systematic, ongoing, and egregious violations of religious freedom.”
Zhao Weikai: Russian-Style Jail Sentence for “Extremism”
Inspired by Putin’s crackdown on “illegal” religion, Chinese authorities now claim that pastors they do not like are guilty of “extremism.”
Pastor Hao Zhiwei: 8-Year Prison Sentence Confirmed on Appeal
The female pastor from Hubei, was never forgiven for having abandoned the CCP-controlled Three-Self Church, where she was once a rising star.
Chinese Christians Compelled to Honor Deceased CCP Leader Jiang Zemin
Three-Self Church honors him as “a great Marxist we love and miss” and says he did “a good job in religious work.” In fact, he increased surveillance and persecuted believers.
Xiao Liang: Artist Arrested for Painting Portrait of Sitong Bridge Protester
Peng Lifa, who hung banners with anti-Xi-Jinping slogans on a bridge in Beijing, is in jail but remains the man the CCP is most afraid of.
Butchers of Tibetan Buddhists and of Falun Gong Practitioners Sanctioned by the U.S.
Wu Yingjie, former CCP Secretary in Tibet, and Tang Yong, prison bureaucrat in Chongqing, are among those sanctioned.