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‘Religious freedom is an existential threat’ to China’s communist regime, Sam Brownback said.

Journalist, writer, and activist Sonia Faleiro on the role of colonialism in countries grappling with religious extremism The post ‘The Robe and the Sword’ appeared first on Tricycle: The Buddhist Review.

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has a dystopian, radical and dangerous conception of itself. Few are aware of this very fundamental difference between how they view power and how the rest of the world does. Even those of us who have lived in China sometimes fall back into the trap of viewing it through the lens of the power relationships common throughout the rest of the world, instead of understanding the CCP as it conceives of itself.

Click to expand Image Puma Shen, co-founder of Kuma Academy, during a media event of Kuma Academy in Taipei, Taiwan, June 2, 2023.  © 2023 AP/Chiang Ying-ying (New York) – The Chinese government has announced it is investigating the Taiwanese legislator...

Announcing the move, staff at the outlet said 'authoritarian regimes are already celebrating' its potential demise.

Radio Free Asia on their commitment in bringing critical information to audiences where facts are suppressed.

A Soto Zen priest on hungry ghosts, visitations, and the overlapping nature of the Bardo Thodol and the Shobogenzo The post I See Dead People . . . or Maybe I Don’t appeared first on Tricycle: The Buddhist Review.

Radio Free Asia, founded nearly three decades ago to report on China and other Asian countries without independent media, said Wednesday it will halt production after the US government ceased funding. The broadcaster had already laid off or furloughed...

China is committing genocide against the Uyghurs precisely to secure permanent control over strategic resources such as rare earths. A Uyghur journalist’s appeal to the U.S. The post Opinion: Stop Dealing with Thieves. America Must Recognize the Uyghurs’ Stake...

The national security threats China poses today go beyond traditional notions of espionage - in this new world, threats are far more complex

By Rosa Hwang The newsroom is dark. The microphones are off. Broadcasts have been silenced. Publishing is paused. On social media. On our websites. Due to uncertain funding, Radio Free Asia is not delivering news to our audiences for the...

Rare Red Sprites, Milky Way, and Southern Liguts All Captured in One Spectacular Photo We’ve seen some fantastic photos of red sprites, but photographer Dan Zafra has given us something we’ve never seen before—red sprites, the Milky Way, the...

From the executive editor: funding uncertainty is driving RFA’s remaining teams to stop delivering the news for now

With the delay in receiving funding, RFA suspends remaining editorial operations amid funding uncertainty.

How approaches from different Buddhist traditions can complement and support each other on the path to awakening The post Liberation Through Non-Clinging Across Buddhist Traditions appeared first on Tricycle: The Buddhist Review.

Is Kiran Desai’s The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny the great American–Indian novel?

Tired of a two-day commute to see her overworked doctor, my mother turned to tech for help with her kidney disease. She bonded with the bot so much I was scared she would refuse to see a real medicThis...

Direct flights were suspended in 2020 due to pandemic-induced restrictions and border clash in Ladakh that strained ties between the two countries for nearly five years.      

Aware of the Chinese threat, the new Japanese government may revamp an old history of friendship with the Uyghurs. The post Prime Minister Takaichi and the Fight Against the East Turkestan Genocide: A Uyghur View first appeared on Bitter...

Taiwan Retrocession Day is observed on Oct. 25 every year. The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) government removed it from the list of annual holidays immediately following the first successful tran...

A new photo opportunity with the CCP for the former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, who failed to confront the regime on the Uyghurs’ cultural genocide. The post Michelle Bachelet at the Court of Communist China first appeared...

The election of Cheng Li-wun (鄭麗文) as chair of the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) marked a triumphant return of pride in the “Chinese” in the party name. Cheng wants Taiwanese to be proud to call themselves Chinese again.

In China’s autonomous region of Tibet, during one of the region’s New Year celebrations, a tradition places the fate of households in the paws of their most loyal resident, the family dog. The unusual ritual known as “Inviting the...

Holding court for the cameras in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, last week, a manically self-congratulatory US President Donald Trump, Gaza’s make-believe savior, hailed his fellow “tough guys” — tame tyrants...