A Uyghur View

The Party attacked the new President of Taiwan in the name of “all Chinese.” Uyghurs are not Chinese, however, and many Chinese do not like the CCP either.

China’s May 23 press conference focused on the Taiwan issue and was filled with provocative, uncivilized, and unrepresentative statements against independence movements in China and their “supporters,” including US and Japan. The statements followed China’s joint military exercises around Taiwan, what it called “strong punishment” for “separatist acts.”

Read more at “of the Taiwan Issue”

Anti-India Sikh Protests

Meta, the company operating Facebook and Instagram, dismantled a Chinese network of false accounts called “Operation K.”

On June 18, 2023, Canadian Sikh separatist leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar was shot and killed in Surrey, British Columbia. Nijjar advocated for an independent Sikh state, Khalistan, separated from India, and the Canadian authorities suggested that Indian intelligence services might have been involved in the assassination, originating a major diplomatic crisis between the two countries.

Read more at “China Caught Red-Handed in Promoting Fake Anti-India Sikh Protests”

Fighting Terrorism in Xinjiang

Between 1990 and 2016, thousands of terrorist attacks shook the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region in northwestern China, killing large numbers of innocent people and hundreds of police officers. Horrific stabbings and bombings rocked the land once known as a commercial hub on China’s ancient Silk Road.

The damage to local communities was incalculable while stability in the region quickly deteriorated. Authorities have been trying hard to restore peace to this land.  In this exclusive CGTN exposé, we show you never-before-seen footage documenting the frightening tragedies in Xinjiang and the resilience of its people.

We present you with other three documentaries — each under an hour — below.

The black hand — ETIM and terrorism in Xinjiang https://news.cgtn.com/news/2019-12-07…

Tianshan Still Standing: Memories of fighting terrorism in Xinjiang https://news.cgtn.com/news/2020-06-19…

The War in the Shadows: Challenges of Fighting Terrorism in Xinjiang https://news.cgtn.com/news/2021-04-02…

35 Years After

If you type today’s date in an online comment box or chat within China, your message will immediately be flagged by government censoring software and examined for content. You might be automatically disconnected from any forum, website or game you were linked to while government agents assess the context of what you wrote. And depending on the details of that context, you could soon hear a knock at your door.

The reason for the extreme sensitivity is because the leaders of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) do not want anyone to remember what they did on June 4 of 1989. So they go to extreme lengths trying to blot this dark day out of the Chinese memory.

Read more at “the Tiananmen Square Massacre, We Must Never Forget”

35 Years Ago

It happened a few hours before dawn. It was June 4, 1989, 35 years ago, more than a generation ago. In the dark of night, peaceful demonstrators camped out since April 15 in Tiananmen Square, Beijing, in the heart of the Communist People’s Republic of China, mostly students, were mowed down by People’s Liberation Army tanks. The casualties were an incalculable number: in the sense that the number of the dead that night has never been precisely calculated. Perhaps 10,000. Chinese authorities even deny that anything significant happened that day.

Read more at “the Tiananmen Massacre: How It Prepared Xi Jinping’s China”

Yan Zhengxue

A key figure of the dissident artist movement and a member of the Beijing Holy Love Fellowship House Church, he was repeatedly detained and tortured.

Prominent Chinese dissident artist Yan Zhengxue passed away in Beijing on May 28 at 3 a.m. at age 80. Yan had suffered a cerebral thrombosis last year, after his health had been severely damaged by years of persecution, detention, and torture.

Read more at “Persecuted Chinese Christian Artist Dies at Age 80”

Muslims in China

Unlike the rest of the non-Muslim world, China has always known exactly how to deal with its large Muslim population. Which is why China has no fear of the growing threat of radical Islamization that most Western nations with significant (4% – 5%) Muslim populations are now facing.

The BBC reports on China’s vanishing mosques and disappearing Islam as if it’s a ‘bad’ thing

Say what you will about China, it will never fall to Islam

China declares Islam an ‘incurable tumor’ and a ‘poisonous medicine’

Feminism

Under President Xi Jinping, women are second-class citizens. “Feminism” has become a peaceful but powerful weapon against the regime.

In the People’s Republic of China (PRC), feminist activists are arrested and jailed for voicing opposition. This is not surprising, as the Communist government in Beijing fears all kind of organized dissent.

Women have never been allowed to take their rightful place in the PRC ever since the days of Chairman Mao Zedong (1893–1976). His grandiose assertion, “Women hold up half the sky” notwithstanding, their role in society has been in fact clearly downsized. But today, under President Xi Jinping, women are not only pushed back, but the whole idea of gender equality has been completely reversed.

Read more at “Feminism vs. the Communist Party in China”

The Clock is Ticking

Written by Pastor Shane Idleman

Repentance, not the Appeals Court, is our only hope. Salvation is not coming on Air Force One. God is trying to wake us up so we draw closer to Him. When we are desperate, God finally has our attention. Most don’t seek the Lord until there is pressure. Only when our hand is forced do we yield,  when our back is to the wall and our fleshly attempts at deliverance are all washed away.

But surprisingly, our nation’s crisis is not driving us to our knees. We’re not using heavenly ammunition (2 Corinthians 10:4), but trusting in Smith & Wesson. I’ll never forget the day I read the following quote by A.W. Tozer over two decades ago: “It is doubtful whether God can bless a man greatly until He has hurt him deeply.”

I was going through a very difficult season and I soon realized that God was breaking me down to build me up. I was at a turning point: I could become bitter and resentful or humble myself and grow from the experience.  And this is where the majority of Christians find themselves today. Instead of getting better, we become bitter. Instead of humbling ourselves, we become more arrogant. Instead of emptying ourselves to be filled with the Spirit, we are full of pride and selfish ambition.

But be encouraged, broken crayons still color. God is the Shepherd of the shattered and the re-builder of the broken. God breaks us to rebuild us but we must humble ourselves so the Potter can shape the clay, or an eleven-day journey through the wilderness may take us forty years (Joshua 5:6).

We must let our pain crucify our pride. He rebuilds the broken, elevates the humble, and restores the wounded. We can rebuild the breach and strengthen what remains but we must pray “O God, take me, break me, and make me.”

Most people will never find what they’re searching for, because you cannot be truly happy without God.  In Ecclesiastes 3 Solomon looked at all he had accumulated and still found life lacking.  He, like so many today, had filled his life with vanity but was left wanting.  But Solomon realized that God has an appointed time for everything, and through time His purposes are accomplished. 

We can see the reason that you cannot be fully satisfied by material, earthly concerns is because God has placed eternity in our hearts. That’s why we never stop thinking, “There has to be more than this.”  Because of God, you’re linked to eternity!  Our bodies won’t last forever, but our souls can! Our time here on earth is always running out. That’s why today is the day for salvation. You can belong to God for all eternity.

The clock is ticking — being broken by God is our only hope!

“Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ. For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. In love he predestined us for adoption to sonship through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will— to the praise of his glorious grace, which he has freely given us in the One he loves. In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God’s grace that he lavished on us. With all wisdom and understanding, he made known to us the mystery of his will according to his good pleasure, which he purposed in Christ, to be put into effect when the times reach their fulfillment—to bring unity to all things in heaven and on earth under Christ. In him we were also chosen, having been predestined according to the plan of him who works out everything in conformity with the purpose of his will, in order that we, who were the first to put our hope in Christ, might be for the praise of his glory. And you also were included in Christ when you heard the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation. When you believed, you were marked in him with a seal, the promised Holy Spirit, who is a deposit guaranteeing our inheritance until the redemption of those who are God’s possession—to the praise of his glory.” (Ephesians 1: 2-14)

Diocese of Baoding

Those who refuse the Vatican-China deal and do not join the Patriotic Catholic Church are “disappeared.”

Catholic conscientious objectors continue to be active in China. And they continue to be persecuted. After the Vatican-China deal of 2018, the Holy See encouraged the Catholics to join the once excommunicated Patriotic Catholic Church, controlled by the government. It also clarified that those who refuse to do so for reasons of conscience, although not encouraged nor approved by the Vatican, are not excommunicated, are still part of the Catholic Church, and should be treated with “respect.”

Read more at “Repression of Catholic Conscientious Objectors Continue”