A system where exit is a privilege that can be withdrawn burdens ordinary travelers, while criminals (unfortunately) and dissidents (happily) will continue to buy their way out.
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Inside the Maoist Communist Party of China. 3. A Failed Protest?
Exclusive interviews with militants who believe that the leftist movement is doomed by its own fundamentalist Marxism and uncertain strategy.
Inside the Maoist Communist Party of China. 2. A United Front with “Bourgeois” Dissidents?
The left-wing opposition to Xi Jinping is divided on whether to cooperate with “liberal” opponents—an exclusive investigation into a secretive world.
Inside the Maoist Communist Party of China. 1. A Leftist Dissent
An exclusive investigation into a secretive group that tries to control the labor protests of the Jasic Workers Solidarity Group and attack the CCP from the left.
China’s Weaponization of Tibet’s Green Revolution
The Chinese Communist Party is using dams, solar farms and power lines to fortify its Himalayan frontier, threatening its neighbors.
Frank Dikötter’s “Red Dawn Over China”: When History Is Itself Anti-Communist
A must-read scholarly book, criticized by Chinese propaganda, illuminates the early CCP with rare archival depth and uncompromising independence.
Why “Cults” Resist Repression in China: A Major Study by Two PRC Scholars
Xi Chen and Xu Jing analyze thousands of judicial decisions and add fieldwork data to explain why campaigns against “xie jiao” remain a CCP priority but do not work.
China’s Silent Anniversary: How the Cultural Revolution’s Sixtieth Year Was Erased
The tragic event started between May and August 2026. Not only is there no celebration of the anniversary, but those commemorating it risk going to jail.
Communist Confession Rituals Return in Hong Kong
A machinery of remorse reminiscent of Stalin and Mao compels dissidents to confess and apologize publicly on TV.
CCP Scholar: China’s New Ethnic Unity Law Moves from Administration to Assimilation
A Party School teacher’s commentary in the “Beijing Daily” reveals how the statute formalizes assimilation of minorities as state doctrine.