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CCP Dissident Sentenced to 8 Years in Prison Just 3 weeks Before Beijing Winter Olympics.

The United States, Australia, the United Kingdom, Canada, Lithuania, Belgium, Denmark, and Estonia have all announced diplomatic boycotts of the Games. As a Beijing court has sentenced a Falun Gong practitioner to eight years in prison as the 2022 Winter Olympics approach. The heavy-handed sentence again spotlights the Chinese Communist Party’s human rights violations as the regime seeks to exalt its political image during the upcoming Games, according to Wu Shaoping, a Chinese human rights lawyer in the United States. “The International Olympic Committee should open its eyes to the current situation of human rights in China under the Chinese Communist Party and should not continue to cooperate with it,” and “This is a shame for the IOC.” Wu stated in an interview Xu Na, a 53-year-old Beijing still-life painter, was one of 11 Chinese citizens jailed in July 2020…

Ex-Xinjiang Commander Promoted by Xi to Terrorize Hong Kong.

Peng Jingtang, a Xinjiang paramilitary officer, was nominated by China’s dictator Xi Jinping to lead Chinese forces in Hong Kong on January 9. Peng oversaw the Chinese Communist Party’s crackdown in Xinjiang, where a genocide has been occurring for years. From 2018 to 2019, Major General Peng served as the regional chief of staff of the People’s Armed Police (PAP). He also served as the PAP’s overall deputy chief of staff. The PAP is primarily responsible for countering riots and protests. Peng, on the other hand, headed “counterterrorism” efforts in Xinjiang, where the only terrorism is that imposed by the CCP. The CCP in Xinjiang uses Uyghur terrorism as an excuse to impose Han bigotry on the region through a network of concentration camps, “reeducation” centers, and factories where forced laborers are subjected to slave-like conditions such as torture, rape, mass…

Beijing’s ‘Olympic Bubble’ is Keeping Chinese Dissidents out of the Winter Olympics.

A coronavirus outbreak in Tianjin, Beijing’s adjacent city, has occurred just four weeks before the start of the Chinese capital’s Winter Olympics. This means that all 15 million citizens of Tianjin are unable to travel to Beijing, which is only 100 kilometers distant. Meanwhile, Beijing’s “Closed Loop” or “Bubble” precautions for the Winter Olympics are fully operational. The Olympics will begin on February 4th. Twenty more patients tested positive for COVID-19 PCR testing on Jan. 9, according to the Jinnan District Center for Disease Control and Prevention in Tianjin, a day after 20 others were discovered to have the virus. The infection has reached to at least three schools. In two of the instances, the Tianjin Center for Disease Control and Prevention used genetic sequencing to identify the virus as the novel Omicron variant. The Tianjin municipal government agreed on…

China’s Second Largest City, Follows Xi’an in Imposing Strict COVID Measures, Causing Residents to panic Buy Food & Necessities.

After two asymptomatic COVID-19 cases were discovered on January 2 and a third on January 3, 2022, China’s central Henan Province placed Yuzhou City under lockdown. Yuzhou is China’s second-most-strictly-closed city, behind Xi’an, with inhabitants being prohibited from leaving their homes except for COVID-19 testing in the wake of the recent epidemic. Xi’an, in China’s northwest, is under one of the world’s strictest curfews. Since Dec. 9, 2021, when a positive COVID-19 case was discovered, thirteen million inhabitants have been confined to their homes or in collective isolation facilities on the city’s outskirts. On Jan. 6, Zhengzhou, the provincial capital of Henan, reported 26 additional cases. In Zhengzhou, panic shopping began almost immediately, with YouTube footage showing people swarming into supermarkets and food stores in search of basics. Yuzhou, a small county-level city in China, has registered 55 positive COVID-19…

China Fires a Government Official Who Speaks Out Against CCP’s Extreme COVID Restrictions.

The Chinese regime fired a government official for posting on social media the true situation in Xi’an under the COVID-19’s strict COVID quarantine measures. A 31-year-old guy traveled eight days and nights to his village due to a lack of funds, absence of public transportation, and fear of quarantine in Xi’an, among the facts revealed by the official. Two other migrant laborers from Xi’an were on the same mission, with one riding a bike for 10 hours through the frigid night and the other wading across a frozen river. The dictatorship, on the other hand, labeled the official’s message as a rumor, took it down from the internet, and blocked it. “An ordinary official knows the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) rules very well. They don’t dare to say the things which might anger the regime, not to mention the dismissed…

China Starts Initiative to Become Technologically Autonomous Despite Semiconductor Challenges.

Beijing’s quest for “scientific and technological independence,” particularly in the semiconductor sector, has gotten mixed reactions from around the world. While overseas companies fear the measure will stifle innovation and disrupt global trade, some China experts feel China’s chip development quality and success rate aren’t likely to produce meaningful results. In October 2021, T-Head, Alibaba’s semiconductor division, revealed the E-Ten 710, a new CPU chip. The chip, which is reported to be 5 nanometers in size, will be utilized only for Alibaba’s cloud computing business, with no intentions to sell it to third parties, according to Alibaba. Alibaba’s cross-border chip development is tied to the Chinese Communist Party’s “core making” objectives as an e-commerce powerhouse. China is the world’s largest chip consumer, accounting for around 36% of global consumption but just 15.9% of global output. Chip production is a primary objective…

Another Chinese Pro-Democracy Media Outlet Shuts Down Due to CCP Censorship.

On Jan. 3, a Hong Kong independent online newspaper announced its decision to close was prompted by the recent closure of Stand News, and that their journalists no longer felt secure under law enforcement’s ambiguous rules. Citizens News, a digital newsroom formed in 2017 by a group of senior journalists, announced its abrupt closure on Sunday, stating that it will cease updating its website at midnight on January 4 and shut thereafter. The online news organization, which had protected journalists from the now-defunct pro-democracy Apple Daily, claimed it could no longer function due to “rapid changes in society in the last two years and the deterioration of the media environment.” The decision, according to Stand News, was made to guarantee the safety of its employees. Chris Yeung, Citizen News’ lead writer, told reporters on Monday that the recent proceedings against…

Two Editors of Chinese Media Outlet Stand News Denied Bail for Conspiring to Publish “Seditious” content.

On Dec. 30, a Hong Kong court refused bail to two former top editors of Stand News who were accused of conspiring to publish “seditious” content. They were among seven people detained the day before in a police crackdown on their pro-democracy news organization, which garnered international outrage. The outlet’s former head editor, Chung Pui-kuen, was the lone defendant to appear at West Kowloon Magistrates’ Court on Thursday. Patrick Lam, who was interim editor-in-chief at Hong Kong’s Stand News until resigning after his detention on Wednesday, had his lawyer apply for bail while he was in the hospital. Best Pencil (Hong Kong) Limited, the company behind the now-defunct Stand News, was charged with the same offense. On Wednesday, the independent online news organization declared its closure, only hours after 200 national security agents stormed its office, froze its assets worth…

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken Publicly Detests Arrest of Media Staff Members by the CCP.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has demanded that Beijing and the Hong Kong government promptly free the media employees who were detained in Hong Kong on December 29 after a police raid on their workplace the same day. According to a statement, Blinken stated, “We call on PRC [People’s Republic of China] and Hong Kong authorities to cease targeting Hong Kong’s free and independent media, and to immediately release those journalists and media executives who have been unjustly detained and charged,” Over 200 national security authorities invaded Stand News, a Hong Kong-based independent internet news outlet, on December 29. Under a colonial-era statute, the police froze the outlet’s assets worth HK$61 million (approximately $7.8 million) and detained two current and former editors, as well as four former board members, on charges of “conspiracy to publish seditious publications”. Stand News declared…