“If we lose freedom, we lose everything!” so told the CBS correspondent on 60 Minutes, in 2019, Jimmy Lai, an icon of the Hong Kong people, or HongKongers who love freedom and would sacrifice themselves for the freedom of their children and grandchildren. Who is Jimmy Lai? At 71, Jimmy Lai is the embodiment […]
Category: Human Rights Violations in China
“The year 2020 in China started with the death of Mr. Li Wenliang, a medical doctor, and ended with jailed Ms. Zhang Zhan, an independent investigative journalist. The Chinese Communist Party has been busy covering up the truth about the coronavirus for the whole year. Without the coverup, the regime would die.” Mr. Wang Dan, […]
“Better to have good neighbors than relatives living far away.” This Chinese proverb tells the story of Uncle Liu, who had been our neighbor since I was about five years old. Uncle Liu and my father had been colleagues since the 1970s; they both retired in the 1990s. He was quiet but funny; he was […]
“Healthcare for all” has become a buzz phrase in the United States. It is an idealistic goal for a growing number of Americans, but in communist China, where the government claims it is the norm, “healthcare for all” is a mirage: a miserable failure. I grew up in China, where the Communist Party rules the […]
In China, Moses delivers only nine commandments. Ironic? Perhaps, this was the worst news in the 2019 world of Christianity. The Chinese Communist regime erased the first commandment – “Thou shalt have no other gods before me,” and forced Christians to put the Communist Party above God as the nation’s Savior. In some Catholic churches, […]
Human Rights Lawyers in China Being Treated as Criminal In China, there is a popular idiom that loosely translates as “black and white are reversed”; it means that facts are twisted and distorted to the point that black is white and vice versa. For years, the Chinese government has accused some brave lawyers of inciting […]
Years ago, I talked in a radio show about my life as a woman in China and my experience as a Chinese Christian. I felt sad and depressed, but my friends were happy for me because I was interviewed by John Hall and Kathy Emmons in their radio program on 101.5WORD-FM, Pittsburgh, PA. A lady […]
“If you have faith as a mustard seed, you shall say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there’, and it shall move; and nothing shall be impossible to you (Matthew 17:20).” This is what is happening in China today – more and more Chinese are sowing this mustard seed and seeking the salvation of […]
The high-pitch voice of a Chinese woman teacher was ringing dominantly around the classroom. “What festival is it on the 24th of December?” A dozen of timid children ages 9 to 10 years old answered in a very low voice. “Holy Night.” The teacher kept asking those poor children in a scolding tone, “What festival […]
George was an American from California. I met him in 1991 when he was teaching English at a medical college in Beijing. His greatest dream in his 38 years of life was to visit Kashgar. “Why Kashgar?” I asked. Born and raised in Beijing, I had never heard of Kashgar, let alone as a dream […]