australia, chinese communist party, chinese-australians, foreign influence

Foreign Influence Laws Usher in a New Era for Chinese-Australians

It is often said that we Chinese migrants leave our “loyalties” in the motherland, despite living in Australia. This statement may be distasteful, but it is the status quo. The good news is, however, that since the Foreign Influence Transparency Scheme (FITS) came into force, such a phenomenon has been gradually changing. Although the Australian ...

Jack Roberts

CCP’s Final Preparations to Wipe Out Tibetan Identity

The CCP is trying to wipe out Tibetan identity. On the back of a commitment made by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in 2013, the Standing Committee for the National People’s Congress officially abolished the scandalous Re-education Through Labor (RTL) camps targeted at Tibetan people. However, a new report shows that the country has broken ...

Armin Auctor

A Tibetan monastery in the mountains.

Chinese Rights Lawyer Scheduled for Release From Jail but Goes Missing

A Chinese human rights lawyer released from jail for “subverting state power” has gone missing. His supporters believe he has been disappeared by state security. Two friends of lawyer Jiang Tianyong went to collect him from a prison in Henan Province on March 1; however, they were told by police that someone had already picked him ...

Nspirement Staff

Chinese prison.

One Reaps What One Sows

There is a saying: “One reaps what one sows.” It is customary for the Chinese to go to temples at the beginning of the new year. Popular temples are packed all day with crowds that are eager to light incense and pray for a good year to come. However, it was not like this during ...

Nspirement Staff

The Red Guards destroying Buddha statues.

World’s Silence on This ‘Barbaric Issue Must Stop’

Researchers from an Australian-led study have called for the withdrawal of more than 400 organ transplant research papers from China amid concerns the organs were acquired from prisoners. In the study published this month in the medical journal BMJ Open, researchers said that 445 research papers published in English language medical journals included studies using ...

James Burke

Cardinal Zen Honored for His Fight Against Communism

Cardinal Joseph Zen Ze-kiun from Hong Kong has been chosen to receive the “Truman-Reagan Medal of Freedom” for his role in furthering the cause of fundamental human rights. Awarded by the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, the Cardinal was honored with the Freedom Medal on January 28, 2019.   Honoring Cardinal Zen   “Cardinal Zen ...

Nspirement Staff

Cardinal Joseph Zen.

Canadian Government Demands China Release Arrested Citizens

After the Canadian government arrested Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou as a part of an extradition treaty with the U.S., the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) “hit back” by arresting a few Canadian citizens. While the call for releasing the arrested Canadian nationals grows stronger back home, allies like the U.S. and EU have also extended their ...

Nspirement Staff

China Has a Big Bribery Problem

China is aiming to be the No. 1 superpower in the world. But the country has many fundamental problems, among which is a long history of bribery. Unlike Western nations, where bribery is seen as “dirty” and something to be ashamed of, the Chinese, after the arrival of the communists, have seen bribery as normal. A ...

Nspirement Staff

Giving and accepting a bribe.

‘We May See Mass Murder’ in Xinjiang

The possibility that communist authorities in China could kill Turkic Muslims en masse in Xinjiang cannot be ruled out, leaders from a Uyghur group said during a panel discussion held at a Sydney university. Leaders of the U.S.-based Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP) say the international community needs to effectively respond to the ongoing human ...

James Burke