On January 18, 2017, Genova, only one of the gates to the sprawling Palais de Nations (Palace of the United Nations) remained open. There were long lines for security checks. Junior staff at the UN were drafted to escort the 200 members of the Chinese delegation accompanying the Chinese President Xi into the building. The […]
The street in front of the Chinese Embassy in Washington, D.C. will be renamed “Liu Xiaobo Plaza” if a new bill to that effect can be passed by Congress. This symbolic move is meant to honor a human rights activist, a Nobel Peace Prize winner, who was put in jail for years by the Chinese […]
Ms. Yang Shuping, a senior graduate from the University of Maryland, recently delivered the commencement speech at her graduation. She said she grew up in a city in China where she had to wear a face mask every time she went outside, otherwise she might get sick. However, the moment she arrived in the United […]
On February 8, 2017, Mr. Hu, his wife and children, returned to his hometown, Luokan Town, Zhenxiong County, in the Yunnan Province, to celebrate the Chinese New Year. The officials of the Birth Control Office in Luokan Town dragged him out of his house and forced him to have a vasectomy. The officials claimed that […]