For Christmas last year, the spirit of the Chinese government was simple: Forget Christ, celebrate Mao Zedong.
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A Tale of Two Rival Deities: God and the CCP
Mr. Marco Respinti, Director-in-Charge of Bitter Winter delivered a slightly shortened version of the following text during the seminar Freedom of Religion in China, organized at the European Parliament in Brussels by Mr. Bastiaan Belder, Dutch representative for the European Conservative and Reformists Group (ECR), Mr. Christian Dan Preda, Romanian representative for the European People’s Party (EPP), and Mr. Josef Weidenholser, Austrian representative for the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats (S&D).
You Shall Have No God Before Marx and Lenin
The Chinese Communist Party is cracking down on its members who secretly believe in God. Devotion to the Party must be absolute.
New Surveillance Program Tracks the Religious
“Sharp Eyes” increases the number of cameras on streets, part of China’s plan to install them everywhere, monitoring everyone, including people of faith.
Shanghai Closes Christian Orphanage on False Pretenses
Fearing damage to the Party’s reputation of caring for the most vulnerable, a private orphanage that sheltered and placed disabled children is shuttered.
Fengqiao – a Maoist Revival to Attack Religion
Cultural Revolution technique revived from the 1960s pits masses against masses, brother against brother, faith against faith, to control belief.
Millions Employed to Manipulate Public Opinion
As surveillance of online activity increases, China builds a professional cyber army to control how citizens think, and to spread propaganda globally. Documents recently obtained by Bitter Winter shed light on China’s escalating campaign to control the conversation on...
CCP Is Turning Churches Into Seniors’ Centers and Factories
This year alone, multiple Protestant Three-Self churches in Henan havebeen closed down or demolished entirely. Many of those that have managed tosurvive, have been turned into places for things other than worship.
Is Huawei Spying on Us All on Behalf of the CCP?
What may seem to be only the most recent episode of the trade war between the United States and China brings back to light another question of primary importance. Perhaps the Chinese telecommunications giants are the operative arm of Beijing’s repressive Big Brother, useful to control refugees abroad, dissidents at home, and westerners everywhere, thanks to the exploitation of the future of the Internet that we all rightly dream of but that we should actually dramatically fear.
Punished for Speaking Out: Authorities Crack Down on Dissent
Under the powerful “stability maintenance” policy, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) continues to deprive the Chinese people of their freedom of speech.