On April 19, a nine-and-a-half minute audio recording of a phone call between a German resident in Shanghai and a translator working for the local neighborhood committee went viral on Chinese and overseas social media. The...
Shanghai has extended a city-wide lockdown amid the worst COVID-19 outbreak in two years amid growing anger at quarantine rules. With 311 symptomatic and 16,766 asymptomatic cases reported on Tuesday, the megacity of 26 million...
Freestyle skier Eileen Gu and figure skater Zhu Yi, both American-born teenagers who chose to compete for Team China at the Beijing Winter Olympics, have made headlines in China for very different reasons. While Gu won gold and...
After being held without trial for over two years, Australian writer Yang Hengjun was tried on murky espionage charges in Beijing on Thursday, March 27. If convicted (fewer than .1% of trials end in acquittal), Yang faces at...
The Chinese government has formally arrested Cheng Lei, an Australian journalist who worked for state-broadcaster CGTN, alleging that she illegally shared state secrets. The news was announced by the Australian government on...
Australian writer Yang Hengjun, who has been detained in China since January 2019, is expected to go on trial soon after his case was sent to the Beijing second intermediate court for prosecution. Yang’s lawyer indicated...
The Australian government recently announced that journalist Cheng Lei, an Australian citizen who worked for the official Chinese overseas broadcaster CGTN, has been detained. Elias Visontay and Helen Davidson report for The...
Prosecutors in China have filed cases against two Canadians, Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor, on charges of spying. Both men were detained in December 2018, shortly after the detention of Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou in Canada....
Two Americans, Jacob Harlan and Alyssa Petersen, were detained in Jiangsu Province in late October, and the company they work for, China Horizons, has closed down. Harlan is the owner and Petersen is the director of the company....
Amid ongoing tensions over trade and other issues between China and several countries, a number of...
Canadians Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor have been arrested for “gathering state...
American citizen Mark Swidan has been sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve in the drug...
The Dalian Intermediate People’s Court in Liaoning province sentenced Canadian Robert Lloyd...
The detention of former Canadian diplomat Michael Kovrig and China-based Canadian businessman...
Chinese state media reported Thursday that a Chinese court will this weekend hear a Canadian...
Bloomberg is reporting that Canadian Michael Kovrig, who was detained in Beijing on suspicion of...
On Wednesday, Chinese authorities confirmed that they had detained Canadian Michael Spavor on...
New reports suggest that Canadian Michael Kovrig is being held in Beijing on suspicion of harming...
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