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By Yitong Wu, Ha Syut and Ray Chung for RFA Cantonese China’s army of “little pinks” – nationalistic supporters of the ruling Chinese Communist Party – are calling for a boycott of milk powder giant Feihe following reports that it cooperated with a Japanese company. Yet the campaign may be a bridge too far for Beijing. The \"patriotic\" campaign is the latest wave of anti-Japanese sentiment to sweep the country, which intensified after the Japanese authorities released treated wastewater from the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant into the surrounding ocean in 2023, sparking fears of tainted seafood and environmental damage. There are also growing concerns about anti-Japanese hate in China following the killing of a 10-year-old Japanese boy in the southern city of Shenzhen last month, wit...

  FILE - Chinese lawyer Yu Wensheng is seen working at his office in Beijing, Feb. 24, 2107. On Oct. 29, 2024, a court in Suzhou, China, sentenced the human rights lawyer and his wife, Xu Yan, to prison on charges including "inciting subversion of state power." taipei, taiwan — A court in the eastern Chinese city of Suzhou on Tuesday sentenced Chinese human rights lawyer Yu Wensheng and his wife, Xu Yan, to prison. Yu and Xu were detained by police in April 2023 while on the way to meet with high-level European officials visiting China. They were later charged with “picking quarrels and provoking trouble” and “inciting subversion of state power,” two crimes that Chinese authorities often use against dissidents. Yu was sentenced to three years in prison, while Xu, who had a...

washington — China hosted its sixth World Media Summit this week in Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang, in northwestern China. Organizers say more than 500 participants from 208 leading media organizations participated in the event, which was cohosted by state-run Xinhua News Agency and the Xinjiang regional government. The three-day summit, which ended on Thursday, focused on "Artificial Intelligence and Media Transformation." Chinese media highlighted the potential benefits of global AI collaboration, but the choice of Xinjiang as the event's venue was criticized by activists concerned about China's alleged human rights abuses in the region. Adrian Zenz, director of China studies at the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, told VOA he believes organizers chose Urumqi to draw a...

Authorities in China are moving to seize more than 3 billion yuan (US$435 million) in assets belonging to a former high-ranking official from the northeastern province of Heilongjiang who has fled to the United States, claiming to be a persecuted critic of the government. According to the Mudanjiang Intermediate People's Court, former Jixi vice mayor Li Chuanliang stands accused of holding illegal assets including real estate, companies and engineering equipment worth 3.1 billion yuan, according to details it published in the Oct. 11 edition of the People's Court Daily, a specialist legal newspaper. Li, 61, who has served as vice mayor of both Jixi and Hegang cities, stands accused of embezzling public assets, accepting bribes and appropriating public funds by awarding contracts to c...