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After the Chinese regime recently revealed the number of casualties from the Sino-Indian border clash that occurred last year, several Chinese netizens were detained for questioning and criticizing the official data. On Feb. 19, the CCP for the first time disclosed information on Chinese soldier deaths from the border conflict with India which took place in the Galwan Valley, in the eastern Ladakh border region in June 2020. Four deaths were mentioned, including battalion commander Chen Hongjun, and three soldiers named Chen Xiangrong, Xiao Siyuan, and Wang Zhuoran. The information also disclosed one substantial injury sustained by regimental commander Qi...

China has not punished a single official for concealing or underreporting the CCP virus when it first broke out in December last year. However, in the past four months, when there was a resurgence of the virus, local officials were fired.The deputy head of Fengtai District was fired when Beijing had a new outbreak linked to Xinfadi market in June, and a grassroots official in Wuhan lost his job when six new cases emerged in a residential complex in May.Officials in all provinces and cities only reported “imported cases.” That is, all the new cases in their daily reports are...

A long article by Chinese Communist Party (CCP) mouthpiece Xinhua News Agency that lambasted U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo for criticizing the communist regime has unexpectedly backfired, as Chinese netizens expressed support for Pompeo and criticized the CCP.The 30,000-word article that Xinhua published on Aug. 25 criticized a speech Pompeo delivered outside the Nixon Presidential Library in California on July 23. Xinhua said it was “a total negation of the China-U.S. relations” and “malicious attacks” on the CCP’s political system, and “undermines the CCP’s relations with the Chinese people.” It then excerpted 26 passages from Pompeo’s speech, and...