Section: Victims of Communism (USA)
March 29th, 2017
CHINA China’s Secret Plan to Crush SpaceX and the US Space Program Clay Dillow, CNBC Though Chinese space authorities have publicly announced the country’s ambitions to forge itself into a major space power by the early 2030s, Communist Party Leader Xi Jinping’s government is also considering ways to direct spending that will...
March 20th, 2017
CHINA China Arrests More Than a Dozen North Korean Defectors Elizabeth Shim, UPI China may have arrested as many as fourteen North Korean defectors in the last two weeks, according to multiple sources. An activist of an unidentified nationality who works with refugees reported that Chinese “traffic police” in the northeastern city of Shenyang...
March 17th, 2017
CHINA China Pushes Legal Overhaul That Would Bolster State Power Javier C. Hernández and Owen Guo, THE NEW YORK TIMES For six decades, Chinese leaders have tried to put in place a sweeping civil code to explain the law on some of China’s most contentious issues, including property rights, migrant workers, defamation and divorce. And for six...
March 15th, 2017
CHINA China’s Panchen Lama Calls for Patriotism, Says Greed Taints Tibetan Buddhism Christian Shepherd, REUTERS Patriotism is the “mission” of religion in China, but greed is tainting Tibetan Buddhism, says the government-appointed second-highest spiritual leader of the faith, who was chosen by Beijing to win the hearts and minds of...
March 7th, 2017
CHINA Corruption, Lack of Opportunities Challenge Job Growth in China’s Rust Belt William Ide, VOICE OF AMERICA As China’s economy slows to growth rates not seen in more than a quarter of century, the country’s Communist Party rulers are under increasing pressure to create jobs. Millions enter the workforce each year, and as...
March 2nd, 2017
CAMBODIA Cambodia Activist Kem Ley’s Murder Trial BeginsBBC A trial has begun in Cambodia of a man charged with killing prominent activist and government critic Kem Ley, who was shot dead at a petrol station in the capital Phnom Penh in July 2016. Police said at the time it was a dispute over money. But there are suspicions that the murder...
March 1st, 2017
CHINA UN Human Rights Experts Unite to Condemn China Over Expulsions of Tibetans Edward Wong, NEW YORK TIMES A half-dozen United Nations experts who investigate human rights abuses have taken the rare step of banding together to condemn China for expulsions of monks and nuns from major religious enclaves in a Tibetan region. In a sharply worded...
February 28th, 2017
CAMBODIA Jail Term Handed to Cambodian Man For Facebook Threat to Hun Sen Brooks Boliek, RADIO FREE ASIA A 27-year-old man was sentenced to two years in prison for Facebook posts that threatened Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen, according to news reports. Ven Sopheap, a resident of eastern Prey Veng province, admitted during his trial last week...
February 27th, 2017
CHINA Xi Associates to Fill Top Economic Jobs Ahead of Party Congress CHINA DIGITAL TIMES A number of sources have confirmed that He Lifeng, a close associate of Communist Party leader Xi Jinping, has been appointed by China’s National People’s Congress to direct the National Development and Reform Commission, a powerful state agency...
February 22nd, 2017
CHINA Time to Forthrightly Face China’s Human Rights Abuses Nyima Lhamo, NYDAILYNEWS.COM A week before the UN Human Rights Council opens its 2017 session, with China starting a new three-year term, I will be there to provide a dissenting voice: a rare moment of truth about the tribulations of the people of Tibet. China has been the illegal...
