Government officials arrested a bishop of the “underground” Chinese Catholic Church on Friday, sentencing him without trial to a period of “isolation and indoctrination” following the signing of an accord between the Vatican and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
China’s Global Times on Sunday editorialized on the importance of the U.S. midterm elections, recycling a few American mainstream media narratives and bromides to conclude the fractious United States is less stable and reasonable than authoritarian China.
Chinese authorities demolished two Catholic pilgrimage sites dedicated to the Virgin Mary just weeks after the Vatican signed a deal with the Communist Party over the appointment of bishops.
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has intensified its crackdown on Christian symbols, removing several more crosses from churches this month.
Sun Zhengcai, formerly one of China’s rising political stars and a possible successor to President Xi Jinping, completed his fall from grace on Thursday by pleading guilty to taking $27 million in bribes between 2002 and 2017.
Steven Mosher, president of the Population Research Institute and author of Bully of Asia: Why China’s Dream is the New Threat to World Order, talked about China’s long-running trade war against the United States with SiriusXM hosts Rebecca Mansour and Frances Martel on Friday’s Breitbart News Tonight.
In the wake of the release of a new white paper on “religious freedom,” Beijing has ordered bibles and other Christian books removed from online bookstores across China, sparking a wave of complaints.
China’s famous ‘Ice Boy’ was removed from his new private school after the headmaster claimed they could not cope with the increased government pressure and media scrutiny.
Chinese state media reported Monday that a new round of “discipline” inspections began this weekend, seeking to stamp out graft, inappropriate behavior or any threat to Xi Jinping’s totalitarian rule within the Chinese Communist Party (CPC).
Pope Francis has taken personal responsibility for recent measures taken by Vatican officials in China, which critics have described as a “sell-out” of the Catholic Church.
In a troubling new open letter to the media, the redoubtable Cardinal Joseph Zen, China’s highest ranking Catholic prelate, has accused the Vatican of “selling out” the Church by caving in to demands of the Communist leaders.
The University of Texas at Austin declined a financial donation from a Hong Kong-based foundation because of the group’s reported links to the Chinese Communist Party. College officials also voiced concerns the intention behind the monetary offering was to influence activities and academia at the flagship campus.
China’s state news agency Xinhua confirmed on Tuesday that senior general Fang Fenghui will face charges of bribery before a military tribunal. Fang disappeared from the public eye in September 2017, right before the Communist Party’s national congress.
China’s state newspaper the Global Times reported Wednesday that Communist Party officials in some municipalities have banned members from “celebrating” Christmas in yet another way to fight an alleged “cultural invasion” of China by the West.
Chinese Communist Party newspaper Global Times is not a fan of Breitbart News Executive Chairman Steve Bannon’s address to Japan CPAC on Sunday. In an editorial published Monday evening, the Chinese paper castigated Bannon as a “fanatical populist against globalization,” whose “siren call to constrain China is poisoning U.S. society’s understanding of relations” with the communist nation.
The Chinese Communist Youth League has co-opted a popular hologram pop singer as its “youth ambassador,” noting that fictional holographic pop stars are “pure as lilies” and easier to manage than people, who “make their own decisions” and may choose at any moment to contradict the Chinese government.
It might not seem all that unusual for the state-run media and party organs of a one-party authoritarian country to fawn over the current national leader, but Chinese media has gone way overboard in praising President Xi Jinping after his elevation to near-dictatorship at the last Communist Party Congress.
China seeks to establish Communist Party branches to both spread its authoritarian ideology and keep its workers and students free of contamination by liberal ideals.
In the West, China’s cries for “socialism with Chinese characteristics for a new era” have mostly been met with confusion.
Two weeks ago, Chinese dictator Xi Jinping gave a major speech at the opening of the 19th Congress of the Communist Party. While the title of his speech, “Secure a Decisive Victory in Building a Moderately Prosperous Society in All
“Xi Jinping Thought” has officially become part of the Chinese Communist Party (CPC) Constitution following days of codifying a three-hour speech by the Chinese leader asserting that “Socialism with Chinese characteristics” should replace Marxism.
The Chinese Communist Party (CPC) Congress this week has largely focused on the development of Chinese “exceptionalism,” the development of “socialism with Chinese characteristics,” and the imposition of uniform identity through a sense of cultural and national superiority.
Chinese Education Minister Chen Baosheng announced on Monday that school textbooks are already being rewritten to include President Xi Jinping’s contribution to Communist Party dogma, even though the new dogma has not yet been officially ratified.
Chinese official Liu Shiyu, who is the head of the China Securities Regulatory Commission, told a panel at the Communist Party Congress in Beijing on Thursday that several high officials were caught plotting to overthrow President Xi Jinping and seize power for themselves.
Center for Security Policy President Frank Gaffney joined SiriusXM host Alex Marlow on Wednesday’s Breitbart News Daily to talk about Kurdish independence in Iraq, the Iran nuclear deal’s continued survival after decertification, and the rising strategic threat of China.
Contents: Steve Bannon and Henry Kissinger form project to sound alarm on China; Taiwan’s prime minister says that Taiwan is an ‘independent sovereign state’
The Chinese government has issued new rules on instant messaging services ahead of the Chinese Communist Party congress next month, the South China Morning Post reports.
Tensions are rising at some Australian universities amid concerns that the Chinese government is infiltrating teaching methods across the faculties, according to a report from news.com.au.
A documentary series praising the reforms and leadership of President Xi Jinping is airing on Chinese state television in a bid to improve his public image ahead of a key Communist Party conference this coming autumn.
A branch of the Chinese Communist Youth League has set up a dating service for young activists to find a partner, state media has reported.
A new report on religious persecution in Communist China suggests that things are getting progressively worse, not better, for people of faith in the officially atheist country.
In a new set of education rules, the Chinese Communist Party is urging citizens to spy on their neighbors and report parents who raise their children in a religious faith or have them attend religious services.
As part of a major crackdown on Christian churches and human rights groups, Chinese authorities have jailed prominent Christian church leader Hu Shigen, sentencing him to seven and a half years in prison. According to Chinese state media, Hu pleaded
A Chinese rap group has released a song alleging to show the world the “real” China, claiming that its businessmen and “vaccination issue” are the nation’s biggest problems, while praising the Communist Party’s crushing gun control measures and asserting that all Chinese and Taiwanese reject the idea of Taiwanese sovereignty.
The Communist Party of China’s Central Commission for Discipline Inspection has announced it will publish a book of confessions made by Party officials, to serve as a “vivid textbook” for other Party members.
The AFP news service notes the Chinese Communist Party has decided Chairman Mao was “70 percent right and 30 percent wrong,” and that involves ignoring a huge amount of wrong — cannibal flesh banquets, for example.
China’s Communist government is attempting to pacify the restless Xinjiang region, home of the largely Muslim Uighur minority, with a “year of ethnic unity progress,” while also expressing outrage that a Uighur leader received a human-rights award in Washington this week.
Tsoi Wing-mui, author of The Secret Emotional Life of Zhou Enlai, argues that despite his many years of marriage, Zhou had an enduring romantic relationship with Li Fujing. “Zhou Enlai was a gay politician who had the misfortune of being born 100 years early,” Tsoi writes in her book.
Somewhere, a gothic choir of the undead has lifted their voices in rapturous chorus: Paradox Interactive has acquired all White Wolf Publishing intellectual properties. Vampires are coming back, but Team Edward has nothing to do with it.
Chinese President Xi Jinping delivered his first speech on his trip to the United States in Seattle Tuesday. Xi asserted China’s alleged desire to prosper, but not conquer, crack down on cyberterrorism, and end the corruption plaguing the Communist Party for years.
