China Rights Forum

Overview Over the past several decades, media, governments, and experts have examined China’s increasing role in international trade, politics and security. Following recent exchanges with other NGOs suggesting strong and at times challenging views of China’s influence, HRIC decided to undertake an...

Over the past three decades, China’s presence in the world has rapidly expanded, fueled by its rising economic and political clout, an ambitious soft power strategy, and increased flows of Chinese people abroad. China is now the world’s second largest economy, with cheap goods and huge investments...

The painter Hu Jie once lived in the Yuanmingyuan Artists’ Village 1 . Later, he filmed a documentary called “Seeking the Soul of Lin Zhao.” I saw it at a gathering of painter friends in Song Village 2 and was quite shocked by it. Lin Zhao and Zhang Zhixin were both followers of the Communist Party...