A speech on 8th April 2014, outside Taiwan's Legislative Yuan, Taipei, which students had occupied for 3 weeks, protesting against a controversial free-trade pact with communist China.

Dear fellow democrats,

Permit me to congratulate the many thousands of you for having demonstrated your principles to be outside the Yuan every day for almost three weeks in rain and shine. I understand that public support for your “Sunflower Student Movement,” the coalition of students...

Hong Kong University (HKU) recently awarded an honorary doctorate to China's former vice-minister for health, Huang Jiefu. Last year, the University of Sydney awarded Huang an honorary professorship.

Both universities have been forced to defend these awards, as Huang is one of the architects of China's organ transplant system which...

This year will mark the 25th anniversary of the June 4, 1989, Tiananmen Massacre in Beijing. In remembrance of the horrific tragedy of that day and in...

Chinese authorities in the Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR) appear to be trying out a new, softer approach to winning over the loyalty of Tibetans while continuing to arrest those who protest.

The party chief in TAR, Chen Quanguo, has begun meeting and exchanging friendly letters with monks from restive areas, especially Driru County, the site of several anti-Beijing protests in recent years.

While a military presence continues in the restive areas...

President Barack Obama met exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama on Friday in spite of the usual warnings from the Chinese communist regime that the visit would "seriously damage" the relationship between the two countries.

The White House said that President Obama reiterated his support for Tibet's unique religious, cultural and linguistic traditions and human rights for Tibetans.

"The president stressed that he encourages direct dialogue to resolve...

Microsoft’s search engine Bing appears to be censoring information for Chinese language users in the US in the same way it filters results in mainland China.

The Guardian reports that searches first conducted by anti-censorship campaigners at FreeWeibo, a tool that allows uncensored search of Chinese blogs, found that Bing returns radically different results in the US for...

China has criticized the United States' decision to transfer three Uighur inmates from the Guantanamo Bay prison to Slovakia.

The men were the last of 22 Uighur Muslims held at the controversial facility, which U.S. President Barack Obama has vowed to close.

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang said Thursday the men are dangerous and should have been returned to China.

"They are genuine terrorists. They not only threaten...

The proposed new American Ambassador to Beijing, Mr. Max Baucus, has caused great interest among Chinese at the moment, not because he is 72 years old, or his experience as a diplomat, but that Mr Baucus is seeking a suitable Chinese name before taking up his post.

Many Chinese offered suggestions to...

The United States Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC) has called on China to cease its policy of harassing foreign journalists.

The CECC said that: "Critical to understanding developments in China has been the ability of journalists to cover that country. Domestic journalists operate under heavy censorship while foreign journalists now report a worsening environment under President Xi Jinping. In November, Chinese officials denied a visa to Paul Mooney, an American...

On Dec, 12. 2103, the European Parliament has passed a resolution in Strasbourg, France, expressing “deep concern over persistent and credible reports of systematic, state-sanctioned organ harvesting from nonconsenting prisoners of conscience in the People’s Republic of China, including from large numbers of Falun Gong practitioners...

Two NGOs unveiled a new Barbie doll in Paris on Tuesday (December 10). While her arrival is just in time for Christmas, the latest version of the iconic doll lacks holiday cheer.

The life-size Sweatshop Worker Barbie doll was unveiled in a towering hot pink box, in the centre of a busy intersection in Paris, by French...

The Chinese regime does not like any criticism or exposure of its authoritarian and criminal behaviour exposed, either at home or overseas.

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has ruled for over 60 years. It has killed 80 million of its own Chinese citizens and persecuted hundreds of millions. The persecution of tens of...