Charges against Chinese national Jia Wei were unsealed on Sept. 17, alleging unlawful access to U.S. communications company networks to steal proprietary information on behalf of Chinese entities. Wei, a member of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) People’s Liberation Army (PLA), was assigned to Unit 61786, which is tasked with obtaining communications and information via […]

Local lawmakers condemned the actions of a man who allegedly assaulted multiple Falun Gong practitioners during and after a Mid-Autumn Festival parade in Brooklyn over the weekend. “I welcome the Falun Gong members marching in the parade on Saturday peacefully as they have every right as Americans to do so and they have the necessary […]

Typhoon Bebinca hit Shanghai on Sept. 16, bringing the financial hub to a standstill. Bebinca was a Category 1 storm when it made landfall at about 7:30 a.m. local time and is the most powerful tropical cyclone to reach the city since 1949, the year of the Chinese communist revolution, with top wind speeds of […]

Leading prime ministerial candidate Shinjiro Koizumi called for U.S. cooperation against the “shared challenge” of China’s steel industry. China is the world’s top steelmaker, and both Japan and the United States are trying to curb cheap Chinese steel imports to protect local industries. “If China, producing cheap steel without renewable or clean energy, floods the […]

NEW YORK CITY—An Asian man attacked two female Falun Gong practitioners during a parade for the Chinese Mid Autumn Festival holiday in Brooklyn’s Chinatown neighborhood on Sept. 14, according to witnesses. The parade was organized by the Global Service Center for Quitting the CCP, a New York-based organization that helps Chinese people renounce their ties […]

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said at a press conference Wednesday that Chinese consul general Huang Ping in New York is no longer holding his position after her request to the U.S. State Department that he be ousted. It comes a day after a former top-level aide of the governor was charged with spying for […]

Sixteen years ago, martial arts master Youfu Li began chairing the NTD International Traditional Chinese Martial Arts Competition in a shared mission to revive an art form that had been reduced to ashes. This year, he saw new growth and a vision of what may one day bear fruit. NTD, a television station founded by […]

Ninety-one martial artists from 11 countries gathered in New Jersey to participate in the 8th NTD International Traditional Chinese Martial Arts Competition, taking part in a shared mission to revive martial virtue. The awards ceremony took place on Sept. 2, with martial artists receiving gold medals in the male unarmed and male weapons categories. The competition […]

Martial artists from 11 countries participated in the 8th NTD International Traditional Chinese Martial Arts Competition, taking part in a shared mission to revive martial virtue. Preliminaries in Germany and Taiwan have already taken place, and on Aug. 31, preliminaries were held in New Jersey for 66 of the 91 total martial artists, with 79 […]

Martial artists from 10 countries participated in the 8th NTD International Traditional Chinese Martial Arts Competition, partaking in a shared mission to revive martial virtue. Preliminaries in Germany and Taiwan have already taken place, and on Aug. 31 preliminaries were held in New Jersey for 66 of the 91 total martial artists. Seventy-nine semifinalists will […]

Traditional Chinese martial arts are beautiful, says Li Youfu, chair of the NTD International Traditional Chinese Martial Arts Competition, which on Aug. 30 welcomed 91 martial artists from 11 countries to New Jersey for the 2024 competition. Preliminaries are underway, with semifinals scheduled for Sept. 1 and the live broadcast of the finals on Sept. […]

Ninety-one martial artists from 10 countries joined NTD in New Jersey to compete in the 8th International Traditional Chinese Martial Arts Competition with the shared mission of reviving traditional Chinese martial arts. The competition began on Aug. 30 with preliminary events and wraps up with finals and awards on Sept. 2. The competition is one of […]

On Aug. 19, dozens of pianists around the world received for the first time the piano score for “Holy Grace,” a work that will premiere in October during the 2024 NTD International Piano Competition in New York City. Fans of the competition series may remember that each competition year, a unique new work—featuring a blend […]

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced on Aug. 27 that it had charged China-based investment adviser QZ (Qianze) Asset Management Ltd., its South Dakota-based holding company, and its CEO, Blake Yeung (Pu Lei), for fraud. The SEC alleges Yeung and his companies defrauded hundreds of people out of at least $6 million in […]

The U.S. Department of the Treasury and the Department of State on Aug. 23 sanctioned close to 400 individuals and entities supporting Russian war efforts, including several Russian and Chinese companies. “Russia has turned its economy into a tool in service of the Kremlin’s military industrial complex,” Deputy Secretary of the Treasury Wally Adeyemo said […]

A Chinese dissident living in New York City has been charged for allegedly acting as a spy for the Chinese regime’s intelligence agency, according to the Department of Justice (DOJ). Tang Yuanjun, 67, a naturalized U.S. citizen, was arrested in the Flushing neighborhood of Queens, New York, on Aug. 21 on charges of “acting and […]

A federal judge has set Hunter Biden’s sentencing date for Nov. 13 in Delaware. In June, Biden was found guilty on three gun charges after a six-day jury trial over which U.S. District Judge Maryellen Noreika presided. Special counsel David Weiss led the prosecution. The U.S. Probation Office was ordered to prepare a presentence investigation […]

NEW YORK—Hundreds of Falun Gong practitioners joined a parade through Manhattan’s Chinatown on July 20, calling for an end to the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) ongoing, 25-year-long persecution campaign against the spiritual practice. Shortly after midnight on July 20, 1999, the CCP launched a nationwide initiative, raiding the homes of Falun Gong practitioners and making […]

U.S. Senators and Representatives sent letters and video statements in support of Falun Gong on the eve of July 20—which marks the 25th anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) launch of a persecution campaign against practitioners of the spiritual practice in 1999. Falun Gong, also known as Falun Dafa, is a spiritual practice that […]

The U.S. State Department “won’t hesitate to take appropriate actions” against the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) continued persecution of the spiritual group Falun Gong, a spokesperson said on July 18. Falun Gong, also known as Falun Dafa, is a spiritual discipline that was introduced to the public in China in 1992. Its practitioners live by […]