Increasing pressure from Beijing on the small Pacific Island states to which it provides extensive funding—either as aid or investment in projects that benefit the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)—has caused visible cracks in the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) for
Taiwan’s High Court has sentenced a former military officer to 14 months in prison over his bid to collect intelligence on Falun Gong for Beijing. The man, Hsueh Chen-chun, solicited details about Falun Gong’s founder Li Hongzhi and his daughter—both
For the first time in more than four years, the wife of imprisoned Chinese dissident blogger Ruan Xiaohuan—better known by his online pseudonym “Program Think”—was allowed to see her husband inside Shanghai’s Tilanqiao Prison on Aug. 22. In a post on
A Chinese national has been sentenced in a San Diego federal court to two years in prison for being part of a multinational fraud scheme targeting elderly Americans. U.S. District Judge Jinsook Ohta handed down the sentence for 35-year-old Liu Jiaci on Aug.