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Thousands gathered in London on Saturday for a rally against China’s planned “mega-embassy” project. The demonstrators called out China’s human rights abuses against oppressed groups like the Uyghurs and Tibetans, and said the mega-embassy could become a headquarters for surveillance against dissidents abroad.

A recently released United Nations agency report compiles evidence that China has dramatically expanded its state-sponsored slavery program.

A devastating earthquake rocked a remote region of Tibet near Mt Everest on Tuesday, killing at least 95 people and collapsing “many buildings.”

China’s Foreign Ministry on Saturday announced the assets of two Canadian human rights groups have been frozen in retaliation for their advocacy on behalf of the oppressed Uyghur Muslims and Tibetans.

The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) issued a statement on Thursday that said it would conduct a massive campaign over the next two months to erase all content deemed “illegal and harmful” by Chinese Communist Party censors.

A federal court in New York convicted naturalized U.S. citizen Wang Shujun of working as an agent for China’s Ministry of State Security.

Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, who debuted as Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign running mate on Tuesday, reportedly chose to get married on the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre and honeymooned in communist China.

A delegation of Congressmen led by Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX) and including former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) met with the Dalai Lama, the leader of Tibetan Buddhism, on Wednesday in a display of solidarity against Chinese occupation.

Both pro- and anti-China demonstrators gathered outside Australia’s Parliament House in Canberra on Monday as Chinese Premier Li Qiang paid a visit.

Human Rights Watch (HRW) released a report that accused China of forcibly relocating more than 700,000 Tibetans since 2016.

Human rights activists and Uyghur organization leaders staged a protest on Monday in Paris to condemn President Emmanuel Macron’s enthusiastic welcome to China’s genocidal dictator Xi Jinping.

The 2023 edition of the State Department’s annual human rights report blasts China for repression, torture, and genocide.

Freedom House ranked China one of the world’s least free countries in the 2024 edition of its flagship Freedom in the World report.

Chinese security forces are cracking down hard on Tibetans protesting against a massive hydroelectric dam project that will destroy several villages and Buddhist monasteries.

Science fiction and fantasy authors were disqualified from winning the Hugo Awards if their work displeased the Chinese Communist Party.

Radio Free Asia (RFA) published a report on Wednesday that found “graphic torture” is “standard practice” during police interrogations in China, including abuses so severe that one victim was rendered comatose and died.

Pro-China demonstrators clashed with pro-Tibetan demonstrators outside the Hyatt Regency hotel in San Francisco on Wednesday as Chinese dictator Xi Jinping arrived for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) conference. 

China’s state-run Global Times on Sunday claimed Tibetans are pleased with China for sending their kids away to communist boarding schools.

Beijing published a “standard map of China,” labeling nearly the entire South China Sea, Taiwan, and large areas of India under its rule.

Former NBA player Enes Kanter Freedom, sidelined from the league after wearing shoes reading “Free Tibet” to a basketball game in 2021, told Congress on Tuesday that his manager estimates he has lost $50 million in player salaries and potential endorsements since condemning China.

The Chinese Communist Party’s quest to dominate Tibetan Buddhism continued this week with a press conference on Thursday to assert that the communist regime will control the death of the Dalai Lama and not allow him to reincarnate outside of China.

China, guilty of forced labor and genocide, became the improbable host of a “Forum on Global Human Rights Governance.”

Tibet’s spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, apologized on Monday after a viral video of him inviting a young boy to “suck my tongue” caused surprise and anger across the world. The Dalai Lama’s office insisted the incident was “innocent and playful.”

The Chinese government recently published a draft version of the 2023 “Administrative Measures for Religious Activity Venues,” a set of restrictions on religion that are even tighter than the 2005 rules they will supersede.

Hollywood superstar Richard Gere testified before Congress this week, and made the rounds with lawmakers, to condemn what he called China’s “genocide,” “crimes against humanity” and “longstanding brutality” in Tibet.

Radio Free Asia’s (RFA) fact-checking unit, the Asia Fact Check Lab, thought it might be interesting to ask OpenAI’s famed ChatGPT some questions of political significance to the Chinese Communist Party in Chinese, and see if the answers were different from the bot’s responses in English.

The occupied region of Tibet is less free than communist North Korea, and the Asia-Pacific region generally is among the most repressed in the world, where only five percent of people live in free countries, the international organization Freedom House revealed on Thursday.

China’s state-run Global Times newspaper marked the Tibetan New Year, known as Losar, on Wednesday with a forceful declaration that the officially atheist Chinese Communist Party must have full control over the selection of the next Dalai Lama, the highest authority in Tibetan Buddhism.

Prosecutors for the Eastern District of New York on Friday dropped their charges against Baimadajie Angwang, an NYPD officer and former U.S. Marine who was accused of reporting to Chinese officials on the activities of fellow ethnic Tibetans living in the United States.

A former senior Chinese Communist Party official said in an interview published Thursday that the totalitarian regime would have the final say on who succeeds the current Dalai Lama, the head of Tibetan Buddhism.

The Dalai Lama has expressed his “sadness” over the death of Pope Benedict XVI, declaring that the German pontiff lived a “meaningful life.”

Police in India’s eastern Bihar state on Thursday detained a Chinese woman accused of spying and threatening the safety of the Dalai Lama, the spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism.

China announced on Sunday that the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) staged “a series of tactical drills” in occupied Tibet, forcing soldiers to endure “an altitude of 4,600 meters under the harsh cold of -20 C [-4ºF]” to enhance combat capability on the Indian border.

“Years of mounting government repression” is driving a growing, and unusually interconnected, protest movement within China fueled only in part by opposition to coronavirus lockdowns, Michael Abramowitz, the president of Freedom House, told Breitbart News.

Shanghai’s downtown Yangpu district, a primarily residential area that includes the campuses of Fudan and Tongji Universities, ordered mass testing for its 1.3 million residents on Friday and ordered them to remain in their homes.

The Chinese Communist Party’s 20th Party Congress, which begins in Beijing on Sunday, is being carefully stage-managed as a coronation event for dictator Xi Jinping, who will seize a third term in power at the event and write himself into Communist history as the most consequential leader besides Party founder Mao Zedong.