Social Control

Hong Kong sentenced 45 pro-democracy activists to up to 10 years in prison, in the largest single prosecution under the CCP-imposed national security law.

Dozens of Chinese counter-protesters moved to block banners from view of the road using large Brazilian and Chinese flags.

Analysts told The Epoch Times this could fuel discontent with the regime and create catalysts for social unrest.

The whistleblower’s father said his son, a hospital intern, refused to source child donors and thus may have been murdered, according to an Epoch Times source.

‘Practicing one’s faith should not be a crime,’ Yao’s son said.

China watchers attributed the reluctance of young people to get married to the high unemployment rate and rising costs of living.

Xu Zhiyong, a law scholar who urged Xi Jinping to step down, has been on hunger strike since Oct. 4, demanding to be free from ill-treatment.

Job applications in the public sector have hit a record high amid China’s unemployment crisis and gloomy economy.

The United Front Work Department is an official agency set up by Beijing for suppressing dissidents, recruiting, and infiltrating groups in Western countries.

This is the first prison term handed down by Hong Kong’s court in a sedition case against journalists since the city’s handover to Beijing in 1997.

The probe into PVH Group follows Washington’s move to block Chinese software and hardware in connected vehicles.

The revised National Defense Education Law emphasizes the importance of conscription.

David Lin was a pastor on a missionary trip to China when he was arrested in 2006; in 2009, he was sentenced to life in prison.

China is grappling with an aging population, a shrinking workforce, and a record low birth rate.

Beijing said it ‘will not continue to process cases at any stage,’ other than those covered by a narrow exception.

The new probe into pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca comes as foreign investors’ confidence in the world’s second-largest economy wanes.