A sordid affair of sex and blackmail ended the monastic career of Sichuan’s Shi Zhaojie, long honored by the CCP as a model “patriotic monk.”
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China’s Own Propaganda Side Event at the UN Human Rights Council
In connection with its Universal Periodic Review, the CCP regime mobilized fake “experts” to “applaud China’s achievements in human rights protection.”
China’s Water Hegemony Policy: A Threat to Neighboring Countries and Human Rights
Water is the single most important human resource. China’s attempt to control as much water as possible creates ecological, political, and human problems.
China, New White Paper Hails “Deprogramming” of “Religious Extremists”
The “Legal Framework and Measures for Counterterrorism” attacks Western critics and hail the Chinese way of “reeducating” dangerous religionists.
“Prove Your Love for the Party”: Hui Muslims Submitted to “Patriotic Education”
The Guidelines instructing religious communities to implement the Patriotic Education Law and increase CCP propaganda were immediately enforced.
No Horse Racing, Please, We’re Chinese: The End of a Venerable Tradition in Macau
The government closed horse racing activities as they “do not correspond to the developmental needs of society”—nor to Xi Jinping’s new “red” moralism.
China: Guidelines Instruct Religions How to Implement the New Patriotic Education Law
The key statute on domestic indoctrination is in force since January 1. Now religions are told how they should enforce it. We offer a full English translation of the Guidelines.
China, Another Schoolboy Dies Mysteriously, Thousands Protest
Like Hu Xinyu’s last winter, Xiao Yang’s death at Yuhuayuan School in Ningling County, Henan, was classified as suicide. This time, 10,000 came to protest.
A Pro-China Campaign Against the Prague Inter-Governmental Religious Freedom Conference—and Bitter Winter
Anti-cultist Steven Hassan and fellow travelers of the Chinese Communist Party, joined forces against the International Religious Freedom or Belief Alliance summit—and our magazine.
Coming in February: Harsher Religious Regulations Just for Xinjiang
Special “Regulations on Religious Affairs” for Xinjiang, of which “Bitter Winter” offers a full English translation, will further reduce the possibility of religion to survive, if not as a propaganda mouthpiece of the Communist Party.