by WorldTribune Staff, June 17, 2021 Chinese Communist Party (CCP) authorities ordered police in Hong Kong to raid the offices of the pro-democracy Apple Daily newspaper on Thursday. Several top editors were arrested and accused of violating Article 29 of the communist nation’s national security law, which bans “collusion with a foreign country or with […]
by WorldTribune Staff, April 13, 2021 The Epoch Times has reported yet another attack on its Hong Kong printing press in what is believed to be the latest attempt by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to silence the news outlet and eliminate freedom of the press. Four masked intruders armed with sledgehammers and a knife […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler Amid the theatrical fanfare and political pomp, China’s annual “National People’s Congress” met in Beijing to dutifully endorse the ruling Communist Party’s (CCP) vision for the future. Nearly 3,000 delegates surrounded by the red and gold trappings of the People’s Republic and energized by the musical choreography of […]
Analysis by WorldTribune Staff, March 14, 2021 The communist government in China has approved a resolution to overhaul Hong Kong’s electoral system. China calls it the “patriots governing Hong Kong” resolution. It passed the National People’s Congress (NPC) on Thursday. One day earlier in Washington, Democrats in the House passed an election reform bill that […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 28, 2021 It has been eight months since the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) imposed a national security law aimed at crushing the pro-democracy movement in Hong Kong. In that time, the former freewheeling British colony “has all but been brought to heel” by the brutal crackdown, a report said. “Moving with […]
by WorldTribune Staff, January 4, 2021 U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo slammed China after the communist nation issued prison sentences to several pro-democracy activists who attempted to flee Hong Kong after communist authorities tightened control over the formerly autonomous region. “A regime that prevents its own people from leaving can lay no claim to […]
by WorldTribune Staff, December 14, 2020 An October intelligence report compiled by researchers who examined public records revealed just how compromised the Biden family is to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Media tycoon Jimmy Lai, long a source of angst for the CCP, and Christopher Balding, two of the people who were instrumental in compiling […]
by WorldTribune Staff, October 2, 2020 The New York Times on Thursday published a propaganda piece from a Hong Kong official who heaped praise on the communist Chinese government for its brutal crackdown on pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong. In the article, headlined “Hong Kong is China, Like it or Not”, Regina Ip defended the […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 27, 2020 Chinese communist authorities arrested 12 Hong Kong residents who were attempting to sail to Taiwan to apply for political asylum, Hong Kong media reported. China’s provincial Coast Guard Bureau said in a post on its social media site that the boat was intercepted and the people on board were […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 11, 2020 Jimmy Lai, founder of the Apple Daily, Hong Kong’s popular pro-democracy newspaper, has been released on bail after being arrested Monday on suspicion of collusion under the Chinese Communist Party’s new national security law, reports say. The Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Hong Kong said in a statement that Monday’s […]
