Podcasts about Chen Guangcheng

Vanessa Hope is the director of Invisible Nation, a documentary film that takes a look at the presidency of Tsai Ing-wen, Taiwan's first female president and events that happened during her tenure. We talked about what first brought Vanessa to Taiwan which meant that she was there in 1996 during the inauguration of Lee Teng-hui, Taiwan's first directly elected president. Then in 2016 after Vanessa came to Taiwan with an international delegation to observe Taiwan's presidential elections and witnessed the election of Tsai Ing-wen, she came up with the idea for a film about Tsai Ing-wen's presidency.   Related Links: https://talkingtaiwan.com/invisible-nation-director-vanessa-hope-discusses-her-documentary-about-tsai-ing-wens-presidency-ep-284/   Vanessa's first feature length documentary, All Eyes And Ears examined relations between the U.S. and China through the stories of U.S. Ambassador to China Jon Huntsman, his adopted Chinese daughter Gracie Mei, and blind legal advocate Chen Guangcheng.   When I asked Vanessa about her experience making a documentary film in China, she recounted a story that explained why she personally related to the backlash and pressure from China that Chou Tzu-yu, a Taiwanese member of a K-pop band has faced.   We also talked about the challenges in making Invisible Nation over a seven year period, Vanessa's personal motivations for making the film and where Invisible Nation is going to be screened in the near future.   Here's a little preview of what we talked about in this podcast episode: ·       What brought Vanessa to Taiwan and got her interested in Taiwan ·       What Vanessa observed when she was in Taiwan for the inauguration of Lee Teng-hui, the first directly elected president of Taiwan ·       The first time she dabbled in filmmaking ·       How Vanessa wrote and recorded the podcast, Love Is a Crime, which tells the story of her family's connection to film ·       The state of the film industry which Vanessa's husband Ted Hope writes about on Substack ·       How Vanessa came up with the idea for the film, Invisible Nation ·       Vanessa worked at the Council on Foreign Relations ·       Vanessa came to Taiwan with an international delegation to observe Taiwan's presidential elections in 2016 and witnessed the election of Tsai Ing-wen ·       How Vanessa secured a grant focused on women, peace and security ·       How film producer Sylvia Feng helped Vanessa with submitting a proposal to President Tsai's office regarding her idea for a documentary film ·       How they filmed an interview with Chen Chu before hearing an answer from President Tsai's office about the documentary film proposal ·       How Vanessa originally envisioned working a film about Taiwan's first female president ·       The backlash President Tsai received from China initially ·       The discrimination that Taiwan faces internationally ·       How Taiwan has been excluded from international organizations like the WHO, the United Nations, the Olympics and others ·       How Russia's invasion of Ukraine highlighted concerns about the threat Taiwan faces from China ·       How Xi Jinping has said that he will not renounce the use of force against Taiwan ·       Where the name of the film, Invisible Nation came from ·       The film Vanessa produced, Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism in America, about ·       If President Tsai had any say in the film Invisible Nation ·       What personally motivated Vanessa to make the film, Invisible Nation ·       How the interview and scene with Chen Chu in the film came about ·       How Chen Chu wrote her will when she was in prison and dedicated her life to the people of Taiwan ·       What it was like meeting former President Ma Ying-jeou ·       How Vanessa's mentor at the Council on Foreign Relations, Jerome Cohen had been a professor at Harvard Law School to Ma Ying-jeou and Annette Lu ·       What Vanessa learned from working at the Council on Foreign Relations ·       What fascinated Vanessa about how the singer Chou Tzu-yu was forced to apologize for waving a flag that represented Taiwan ·       Wen Liu's comments about President Tsai that didn't make it into the film Invisible Nation ·       How it was decided that historical facts to keep in the film or not ·       How part of the editing process for the film Invisible Nation was to test it on audiences ·       How Vanessa has had to edit down Invisible Nation from 85 minutes to 55 minutes for television ·       Who is the target audience of the film, Invisible Nation ·       Why some of the Taiwanese who worked on Invisible Nation had to use pseudonyms ·       China's 3 T's that you are not supposed to talk about, Taiwan, Tibet, and Tiananmen ·       The difference in working on documentary films in China vs. Taiwan ·       What happened to Vanessa when she was in Tibet and tried to board a train with U.S.  Ambassador to China Jon Huntsman, who she was filming for her first documentary film, All Eyes and Ears ·       Why Vanessa could relate to what happened to the singer Chou Tzu-yu ·       Scenes that had to be cut from the film, Invisible Nation ·       The challenge in making Invisible Nation ·       Feedback that Vanessa has received at screenings of Invisible Nation ·       What Vanessa hopes that people take away from the film Invisible Nation ·       If Vanessa has gotten any negative feedback or threats from pro-China media or parties ·       Where Invisible Nation is going to be screened ·       Vanessa's future film projects   Related Links: https://talkingtaiwan.com/invisible-nation-director-vanessa-hope-discusses-her-documentary-about-tsai-ing-wens-presidency-ep-284/

Western news outlets became fascinated with Chen Guangcheng, a blind self-taught lawyer who advocated for human rights inside communist China. When Guangcheng escaped house arrest and fled to the US in 2012, he was held up as a symbol of freedom and democracy. But in the subsequent years, observers were puzzled when Guangcheng re-entered the public sphere as a Trump supporter, repeating right-wing talking points. And the humble dissident who stood up to China's authoritarian government was spotted in Washington on January 6th.The podcast “Dissident at the Doorstep” from Crooked Media looks at Guangcheng's story, tracing his early advocacy for reproductive freedoms and disability rights, to the diplomatic crisis caused by his flight from captivity, and his latter day emergence as a right wing darling. Hosts Alison Klayman, Colin Jones, and Yangyang Cheng ask if the man known as “the barefoot lawyer” changed his political stripes…or was he misunderstood from the beginning?OUR SPOILER-FREE REVIEWS OF "DISSIDENT AT THE DOORSTEP" BEGIN IN THE FINAL 11 MINUTES OF THE EPISODE.In Crime of the Week: Every dog has his DNA. For exclusive podcasts and more, sign up at Patreon.Sign up for our newsletter at crimewriterson.com

Lauren Layfield introduces Dissident at the Doorstep on the podcast recommendation podcast - Your Next Podcast. What happens when someone becomes a human-rights icon – but then turns out to stand for something else entirely? Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng was locked up for fighting against China's One Child Policy and suffered years of unlawful imprisonment. In 2012, following a daring midnight escape, he landed in the United States a hero. But that's only the beginning of his story. Just a few years later, he would re-enter the spotlight as an avid Trump supporter and a “Stop the Steal” rally-goer. How did this happen? Alison Klayman, Colin Jones, and Yangyang Cheng set out on a journey to find out – did Guangcheng change, or was he totally misunderstood from the beginning? You can follow Dissident at the Doorstep and listen to all of the episodes on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music or wherever you get your podcasts.

It's 2011. Hollywood A-lister Christian Bale is in China and gets punched in the face by security guards for trying to visit Chen Guangcheng, a local human rights activist under house arrest. It's all captured by a CNN crew and broadcast across the world. A few months later Guangcheng would escape to the United States. But after you arrive in America as a hero, what happens next? 

It's 2011. Hollywood A-lister Christian Bale is in China and gets punched in the face by security guards for trying to visit Chen Guangcheng, a local human rights activist under house arrest. It's all captured by a CNN crew and broadcast across the world. A few months later Guangcheng would escape to the United States. But after you arrive in America as a hero, what happens next?

What happens when someone becomes a human-rights icon – but then turns out to stand for something else entirely? Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng was locked up for fighting against China's One Child Policy and suffered years of unlawful imprisonment. In 2012, following a daring midnight escape, he landed in the United States a hero. But that's only the beginning of his story. Just a few years later, he would re-enter the spotlight as an avid Trump supporter and a “Stop the Steal” rally-goer. How did this happen? Alison Klayman, Colin Jones, and Yangyang Cheng set out on a journey to find out – did Guangcheng change, or was he totally misunderstood from the beginning? From Crooked Media, This is Dissident At The Doorstep.

What happens when someone becomes a human-rights icon – but then turns out to stand for something else entirely? Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng was locked up for fighting against China's One Child Policy and suffered years of unlawful imprisonment. In 2012, following a daring midnight escape, he landed in the United States a hero. But that's only the beginning of his story. Just a few years later, he would re-enter the spotlight as an avid Trump supporter and a “Stop the Steal” rally-goer. How did this happen? Alison Klayman, Colin Jones, and Yangyang Cheng set out on a journey to find out – did Guangcheng change, or was he totally misunderstood from the beginning? From Crooked Media, This is Dissident At The Doorstep.

Oppressive states and regimes run by a dictator have something in common; an iron grip on every aspect of their citizens' lives.  Basic freedoms-like speech, assembly, religion-don't exist in these countries.  As westerners, we read about these oppressions.  But every now and then, we are able to hear a first-hand account of what happens inside these secretive governments.  We are honored that today is one such day.  Our guest is Chen Guangcheng.  An activist and lawyer, Chen was beaten, jailed and placed under house arrest by the Chinese government.  In April 2012, Chen escaped house arrest and was given refuge in the US embassy in Beijing.  In May 2012, Chen and his family were granted US visas and they came to the United States.  We are beyond excited to have Chen as our special guest, joining our all-star student panel, for this insightful and first-hand account into life inside the People's Republic of China.

Chen Guangcheng, Chinese human rights activist and Distinguished Fellow at the Catholic University of America, gave the keynote address at IWP's Presidential Investiture and Commencement for the Class of 2023. Mr. Chen was honored by IWP for his moral courage in the face of totalitarian coercion and received a Doctor of Laws, Honoris Causa, from the Institute. In his remarks, Mr. Chen discussed how he resisted the Chinese Communist Party and encouraged our graduates to stand firm in their values even when those in power attempted to suppress them. This event took place on May 13, 2023 at the Fairmont. ***Learn more about IWP graduate programs: https://www.iwp.edu/academic-programs/ ***Make a gift to IWP: https://interland3.donorperfect.net/weblink/WebLink.aspx?name=E231090&id=18

Hour 1 * Guest: William L. Saunders, Professor and Director, Center for Human Rights, School of Arts & Sciences, Co-Director, Center for Religious Liberty, The Catholic University of America – catholic.edu/chr * Guest: Chen Guangcheng, A Chinese lawyer and human rights advocate who has been an outspoken critic of the Chinese government- particularly its policy of forced abortions and sterilizations. * As he wrote in his memoir, “The Barefoot Lawyer,” he largely had a happy childhood, with his brothers teaching him how to recognize the feel and sounds of things in the world. * Blind from an early age and self-taughtin the law, Chen is frequently described as a “barefoot lawyer” who advocates for women's rights, land rights, and the welfare of the poor. * Chen would eventually be charged with “overbirthing,” because he and his wife had a second child in defiance of the one-child policy. He was also charged with providing information to foreigners, because he had given an interview to the Washington Post. * Chen is a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at The Catholic University of America in Washington, DC. Though Chen is not himself a Christian, he told CNA last year that he supports freedom of thought and religion for all people. Hour 2 * Two Hour Riveting Interview With The Good Professor And “The Barefoot Lawyer,” Continues! * As the Rule of Law Disappears, So Do Chinese Dissidents – The Justice Ministry once praised Gao Zhisheng's work as a lawyer. He hasn't been heard from since 2017 – Chen Guangcheng. * how does the CCP treat Chinese citizens? Is it bound by the law? * Who is Gao Zisheng and has happened to him? * How does the CCP “infiltrate ” America? * Is the CCP a threat to ordinary Americans? * is the CCP a competitor or an enemy of the USA? * What happens during the so-called “sensitive ” times in China? * ChinaAid: Walking With The Persecuted Faithfull. * ChinaAid is an international, Christian non-profit human rights organization that inspires, informs and invites people to transformative action on behalf of persecuted people of all faiths in China. Our main goals are to equip leaders and encourage victims so that together, we can bring religious freedom to all in China. Get involved You can help! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/loving-liberty/support

* Two Hour Riveting Interview With The Good Professor And "The Barefoot Lawyer," Continues! * As the Rule of Law Disappears, So Do Chinese Dissidents - The Justice Ministry once praised Gao Zhisheng's work as a lawyer. He hasn't been heard from since 2017 - Chen Guangcheng. * how does the CCP treat Chinese citizens? Is it bound by the law? * Who is Gao Zisheng and has happened to him? * How does the CCP "infiltrate " America? * Is the CCP a threat to ordinary Americans? * is the CCP a competitor or an enemy of the USA? * What happens during the so-called "sensitive " times in China? * ChinaAid: Walking With The Persecuted Faithfull. * ChinaAid is an international, Christian non-profit human rights organization that inspires, informs and invites people to transformative action on behalf of persecuted people of all faiths in China. Our main goals are to equip leaders and encourage victims so that together, we can bring religious freedom to all in China. Get involved You can help!

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has infiltrated the United States to an alarming degree, not just to steal economic and military secrets, but also to censor academia and bribe politicians, according to Chen Guangcheng, the blind human rights lawyer who escaped communist China and spoke at the 2020 GOP convention. Joining Larry Elder, Mr. Chen calls on the Biden administration to take CCP's threat more seriously and help the Chinese people regain control of China. A Harvard-Harris poll shows that the public has no idea how bad the illegal immigration crisis is. When asked how many illegal crossers are entering the U.S., they dramatically underestimate the number. Joining Larry Elder to discuss this is Art Del Cueto, the Vice President and spoke person for the National Border Patrol Council. He says people are “ill-informed because we have an administration that refuses to inform people on what's really going on out there”. The Larry Elder Show is sponsored by Birch Gold Group. Protect your IRA or 401(k) with precious metals today: http://larryforgold.com/ ⭕️Watch in-depth videos based on Truth & Tradition at Epoch TV

In the current episode of Humanize, Wesley interviews Chen Guangcheng, an authentic human rights hero and adamant opponent of Chinese Communist Party tyranny that rules the People's Republic of China. Known internationally as “the barefoot lawyer,” Chen is a renowned human rights activist who fearlessly advocated for the welfare and rights of women, the disabled, and the poor while in Read More ›

0:00 - Dan & Amy react to Lightfoot's attempt to keep the Bears out of Arlington Heights 12:09 - Prevailing over CRT 29:30 - Dan & Amy check out Fauci on TheHill.com‘s “Rising”…on natural immunity, antibody testing 48:13 -A taste for cannibalism? 01:00:18 -Chen Guangcheng, distinguished fellow at the Center for Human Rights at the Catholic University of America: Why the Chinese Communist Party Is Destroying My Village. Be sure to check out Chen's book The Barefoot Lawyer: A Blind Man's Fight for Justice and Freedom in China 01:19:02 - President at Wirepoints, Ted Dabrowski, notices as democrat run cities bleed population their leaders remain unfazed. Check out Ted's latest at wirepoints.org 01:35:08 - Equity plans for universities 01:50:33 - Carol Roth,  former investment banker, entrepreneur and author of The War on Small Business: How the Government Used the Pandemic to Crush the Backbone of America, declares a reality emergency. Follow Carol on twitter now!  @caroljsroth See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The 2022 winter Olympics in Beijing China opens a few weeks from now, and the International Olympic Committee's 2015 decision to have China host the event looks ever more dubious.  Since then, it's become obvious to most observers that China, never a champion of human rights, is growing ever more oppressive. It's Communist Party leadership has become even more deeply committed to preserving its monopoly on power through state sponsored repression, surveillance, and indoctrination.  Witness its takeover of Hong Kong, the internment of Muslims in Xinjiang, the disappearance of tennis star Peng Shuai, its totalitarian social credit system, the Covid coverup and mounting threats to democratic Taiwan.  So why are democracies from all over the world moving ahead to send their athletes to a country so antithetical to their values? My guests for this episode provide a first hand and stark assessment as to why they should not. Chen Guangcheng, a Chinese civil rights lawyer, was imprisoned and under house arrest by the Chinese government for seven years for his human rights activism. Since escaping to America, he has remained a persistent voice for freedom, human dignity, and the rule of law in his native country.   Reggie Littlejohn, who as the president of Women's Rights Without Frontiers, has spent years campaigning against China's forced abortion policies. and Yaxue Cao, who grew up in northern China during the Cultural Revolution, and went to college at Peking University in Beijing. She founded DC-based ChinaChange.org to inform the world about human rights, rule of law, and civil society in China - aspects of China's political landscape that are the most censored and least understood.  China claims that the Chinese people “experience a broad, thorough and true democracy” and the China's National People's Congress “guarantees that the people are masters.”  To this Guangcheng responds “the Chinese people have never had a free election, the National People's Congress is made up entirely of the party's handpicked officials and the subject of democracy has been banned from kindergarten to university classrooms since 2013.” Surveillance and social control are pervasive.  Yaxue Cao explains, “If you speak any dissent on the internet, your accounts will be suspended or deleted. And not only that, policemen will quickly be able to identify who you are, and find you offline, and threaten you, sometimes take you away to the detention center.” When the Olympic athletes go to China in a few weeks, they are entering into this surveillance culture.  “They need to understand their movements are going to be tracked, all of their social media posts,” says Reggie. “What if an athlete posts something that is very critical of the government? What's going to happen then?” It's not just governments, it's also the major multinational corporations, who are looking the other way.  “The Chinese Communist Party is very calculating and has used China's market, the world's second largest, as an enticement,” says Guangcheng.  With billions at stake, the multinationals do not want to risk offending the CCP. These are but a fraction of the endless issues surrounding this Olympics. Why it's going ahead is not a mystery, but it is wrong. Listen in as my guests, with first hand experience of the CCP's iron hand, talk about what's at stake.

Chen Guangcheng risque sa vie pour avoir dénoncé les avortements forcés pratiqués dans le cadre de la politique de l'enfant unique en Chine.// Reportage au Liban, où des réfugiés enretiennent de petits jardins dans le désert.

The Hundredth Anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party – Westminster Institute (westminster-institute.org) Chen Guangcheng is a blind Chinese civil rights activist, known internationally as “the barefoot lawyer.” Blind since infancy, illiterate until his late teens, he taught himself law and became a fierce advocate for his country's voiceless poor. For his trouble, he spent more than four years in prison on charges of “disturbing public order” and was then held under strict house arrest in his heavily guarded home in Shandong province from 2010 to 2012. In a daring escape that captured worldwide headlines, he fled to the U.S. embassy in Beijing. After high-level negotiations between the U.S. and China, Mr. Chen was allowed to leave for America. Since 2013, he has been a senior research fellow at Catholic University of America, the Witherspoon Institute, and the Lantos Foundation. Chen has written a riveting memoir and a revealing portrait of modern China, titled The Barefoot Lawyer: A Blind Man's Fight for Justice and Freedom in China. The Atlantic Monthly said, “This exceptional book will join the ranks of classic accounts of individual bravery, principle, and vision in the face of cruelty and repression. Chen Guangcheng is known around the world for the daring of his escape from captivity; as The Barefoot Lawyer makes clear, his journey and the accomplishments before that were at least as remarkable. Anyone who wants to understand the struggle for China's future, being waged inside that country and by friends of China around the world, will want to read this book.”

On "EWTN News Nightly" tonight: A key US House subcommittee has approved President Joe Biden's spending bill without including the Hyde Amendment. Pro-life Republicans say they plan to fight the bill the way it's written. And facing pressure from his allies to expand voter access, President Biden visited Philadelphia and gave a speech, telling his audience: “Ensuring every vote is counted has always been the most patriotic thing we can do.” The International Religious Freedom Summit is a three day event which brings together a broad coalition of people who support the rights of the faithful. The event kicked off today. Ambassador Sam Brownback, co-chair of the summit and one of the speakers at the event, tells us about it, why it is so important and why it is being held now. One of the speakers is Chen Guangcheng, a lawyer who exposed a forced abortions program in his native China and spent four years in prison. Distinguished fellow at the Center for Human Rights at the Catholic University of America, Chen Guangcheng, is joined by the Director of the Center for Human Rights at Catholic University, William Saunders to discuss the importance of Chen's activism and the summit. Finally this evening, as the coordinator of Catholic Care for Children International, Sister Niluka Perera joins to share what she spoke about at the event, "Sisters Empowering Women, Taking Care: The Mission of Religious Women." Don't miss out on the latest news and analysis from a Catholic perspective. Get EWTN News Nightly delivered to your email: https://ewtn.com/enn

On "EWTN News Nightly" tonight: A key US House subcommittee has approved President Joe Biden's spending bill without including the Hyde Amendment. Pro-life Republicans say they plan to fight the bill the way it's written. And facing pressure from his allies to expand voter access, President Biden visited Philadelphia and gave a speech, telling his audience: “Ensuring every vote is counted has always been the most patriotic thing we can do.” The International Religious Freedom Summit is a three day event which brings together a broad coalition of people who support the rights of the faithful. The event kicked off today. Ambassador Sam Brownback, co-chair of the summit and one of the speakers at the event, tells us about it, why it is so important and why it is being held now. One of the speakers is Chen Guangcheng, a lawyer who exposed a forced abortions program in his native China and spent four years in prison. Distinguished fellow at the Center for Human Rights at the Catholic University of America, Chen Guangcheng, is joined by the Director of the Center for Human Rights at Catholic University, William Saunders to discuss the importance of Chen's activism and the summit. Finally this evening, as the coordinator of Catholic Care for Children International, Sister Niluka Perera joins to share what she spoke about at the event, "Sisters Empowering Women, Taking Care: The Mission of Religious Women." Don't miss out on the latest news and analysis from a Catholic perspective. Get EWTN News Nightly delivered to your email: https://ewtn.com/enn

Because of the Covid pandemic, many jurisdictions have placed limits on religious worship. Protests that such limits infringe the religious liberty guarantees of the First Amendment have reached the Supreme Court. What are the permissible limits on religious worship? How can we expect the Supreme Court to rule before its terms ends in June?Mark Rienzi is Professor at The Catholic University of America, Columbus School of Law, and President of the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty. Mark teaches constitutional law, religious liberty, torts, and evidence. He has been voted Teacher of the Year three years in a row, and he is widely published, including in the Harvard Law Review. He is Director of the Center for Religious Liberty at the Columbus School of Law.Mark has broad experience litigating First Amendment cases. He represented the winning parties in a variety of Supreme Court First Amendment cases including Hobby Lobby, Wheaton College, and Holt. In January 2014, Mark successfully argued before the Supreme Court in McCullen v. Coakley, a First Amendment challenge to a Massachusetts speech restriction outside of abortion clinics, winning the case 9-0. Mark and his colleagues at Becket won several important religious liberty cases at the Supreme Court in the past year, including Our Lady of Guadalupe, Little Sisters of the Poor, and Agudath v. Cuomo.William Saunders is a graduate of the Harvard Law School, who has been involved in issues of public policy, law and ethics for thirty years. A regular columnist for the National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly, Mr. Saunders has written and spoken widely on these topics. He is the Director of the Program in Human Rights for the Institute for Human Ecology at The Catholic University of America. (For information about his innovative Master of Arts in Human Rights, go to mahumanrights.com) Saunders works closely with Chinese dissident and CUA Distinguished Fellow, Chen Guangcheng, on human rights issues, and he is co-director of the Center for Religious Liberty at the Columbus School of Law. Mr. Saunders’ new book, Unborn Human Life and Fundamental Rights: Leading Constitutional Cases Under Scrutiny, was published in 2019.Support the show (http://www.faithandlaw.org/donate)

Did you see Chen Guangcheng speak at the RNC? Reggie Littlejohn, Founder of Women’s Rights Without Borders shares her personal story of leading the international effort to free him and how she began working in China to save babies from forced abortion and widows. Inspiring!  

It's a TikTok focused episode that kicks off with news ByteDance COO and TikTok CEO Kevin Mayer has resigned. Next, Alex comments more on the potential acquisition of TikTok's U.S. business and news that Walmart might also be involved in the deal. The show closes with thoughts on the amazing power of platforms and how it can unfortunately be abused when Governments take too much control. Alex listens to an excerpt from Chen Guangcheng's speech at the Republican National Convention. Originally Aired: 08/27/20

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. This week, the Republican convention gave a platform to many heroes. Among them was one of freedom’s most impressive champions, a blind Chinese dissident who found safety and liberty in America after he escaped torture and imprisonment at the hands of the Chinese Communist Party. In brief remarks subsequently tweeted by President Trump, Chen Guangcheng warned: “The CCP is an enemy of humanity. It is terrorizing its own people, and it is threatening the wellbeing of the world….The U.S. must use its values of freedom, democracy and the rule of law to gather a coalition of other democracies to stop the CCP’s aggression.” This reality must inform our pending national decision. Our next Commander-in-Chief will face no more important national security, economic and public health threat than that posed by the CCP. We must know now if they will act accordingly. This is Frank Gaffney.

August 27, 2020 - Daily Unbiased NewsSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/theoneminutenews)

See omnystudio.com/policies/listener for privacy information.

What are the most important lessons to learn from the pandemic? Listen as Chen Guangcheng and William Saunders discuss this question in light of the latest information from sources in China. Click here to view a transcript of Mr. Chen's talk.Chen Guangcheng is a Chinese civil rights lawyer and activist who has been a persistent voice for freedom, human dignity, and the rule of law in his native country. Working in rural communities in China, where he was known as the “barefoot lawyer,” Chen advocated for the rights of disabled people, and organized class-action litigation against the government’s violent enforcement of its one-child policy. Blind since his childhood, Chen is self-taught in the law. His human rights activism resulted in his imprisonment by the Chinese government for four years, beginning in 2006; after his release he remained under house arrest, until his escape from confinement in 2012, whereupon he came to the United States, where he was a scholar at New York University in 2012-13. Mr. Chen is a Distinguished Fellow at the Catholic University of America. William Saunders is a graduate of the Harvard Law School, who has been involved in issues of public policy, law and ethics for thirty years. A regular columnist for the National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly, Mr. Saunders has written widely on these topics, as well as on Catholic social teaching. He has given lectures in law schools and colleges throughout the United States and the world. He is the Director of the Program in Human Rights for the Institute for Human Ecology.Support the show (http://www.faithandlaw.org/donate)

You may have noticed that over the last couple of years, China has become a more frequent topic in the news and on BreakPoint commentaries. The reason is simple: its increasingly horrible treatment of Christians and other religious minorities. While other countries rank higher on Open Doors' recently released “World Watch List,” China's economic might, global clout, and sheer population size makes its contempt for religious freedom and treatment of religious minorities an enormous concern.  In fact, the news from there in this regard is virtually all bad these days, and only getting worse. In light of the devolving conditions for our brothers and sisters in Christ in China, this year's Wilberforce Award winner is particularly fitting. Pastor Bob Fu is founder and president of ChinaAid, a Christian “human rights organization committed to promoting religious freedom and the rule of law in China.” It does so by exposing the systematic persecution, harassment, torture, and imprisonment of Chinese Christians and human rights lawyers in China. ChinaAid also “financially supports Chinese Christians and their families who have experienced persecution by the Chinese government,” and “provides leadership and rule of law training for Christians and church leaders in China to defend their rights.” Now, if the biblical phrase “for such a time as this” comes to your mind too, it should. Bob Fu never intended this would be his life. Born in Shandong Province to a disabled father and beggar mother, he enrolled in university, fully intending to join the Communist Party and become a government official. God, however, had other plans. An American professor gave him a biography of a Chinese intellectual who converted to Christianity. As Fu told the Wall Street Journal, “that book changed my life.” After graduation, Fu taught English at a Communist Party School in Beijing while he and his wife, Heidi, became active in the house church movement. They even established a Bible school, which used chairs he borrowed from the Communist Party's school. The Communist Party didn't quite share Fu's sense of irony. He and his wife were jailed. About a year after their release from jail, Heidi became pregnant. It was their second child. Because the “One-Child Policy” was still being vigorously enforced in China, they emigrated to Hong Kong which, at the time, was still under British rule. Fu was granted political asylum by the Clinton Administration in 1997. Just as the persecution of the Church has, at times throughout history, led to the unintended spreading of the Gospel, Pastor Fu's forced emigration has only increased his impact. From his base of operations in west Texas, he operates what the Wall Street Journal has called “the most influential network of human-rights activists, underground Christians and freedom fighters in China.” Some of what Fu and China Aid have accomplished is the stuff of movies: In 2009, Fu and his allies in China helped smuggle the wife and children of Christian human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng, whom Amnesty International has called “the bravest lawyer in China,” out of the country. More recently, Fu worked closely with another human rights lawyer, Chen Guangcheng, a.k.a., “the barefoot lawyer,” whose harrowing escape from China was the topic of a BreakPoint commentary a few years ago. All of this has earned Fu a fitting nickname: “the Pastor of China's underground railroad.” For all these reasons and more, the Colson Center for Christian Worldview is pleased to announce that the 2020 William Wilberforce Award will be given to Pastor Bob Fu, a man who truly lives out his faith without fear—in truth and in love. Join us this May 14-17, just across the river from Washington, D. C., for this year's Wilberforce Weekend. We'll honor Dr. Bob Fu and hear from other Christian thought leaders like Os Guinness, Lee Strobel, Andy Crouch, Obianuju Ekeocha, Max McLean, and more.

Gary Locke served as the U.S. ambassador to China from 2011 to 2014. Locke was not only the first Chinese-American ambassador to China, but also the first Chinese-American state governor and secretary of commerce. This week on Sinica, he joins Kaiser in a show taped in Seattle, Washington, to talk about his early visits to his ancestral village in China's Guangdong Province, the attempted defection of Chongqing police chief and erstwhile Bó Xīlái 薄熙来 underling Wáng Lìjūn 王立军 to the U.S. consulate in Chengdu, and rare details about the flight of blind dissident lawyer Chén Guāngchéng 陈光诚 to the U.S. embassy in Beijing.7:58: State-level interactions with China17:54: Working as the secretary of commerce under President Obama33:32: Wang Lijun’s attempted defection 41:55: A look back at the Chen Guangcheng debacle 1:01:09: Xi Jinping, and how he changedRecommendations:Gary: Knives Out, written and directed by Rian Johnson, and the movie Parasite, directed by Bong Joon-ho. Kaiser: The blog Reading the China Dream, which contains a collection of translated works of Chinese intellectuals.

Chen Guangcheng is a blind Chinese civil rights activist, known internationally as “the barefoot lawyer.” Blind since infancy, illiterate until his late teens, he taught himself law and became a fierce advocate for his country’s voiceless poor. For his trouble, he spent more than four years in prison on charges of “disturbing public order” and was then held under strict house arrest in his heavily guarded home in Shandong province from 2010 to 2012. In a daring escape that captured worldwide headlines, he fled to the U.S. embassy in Beijing. After high-level negotiations between the U.S. and China, Mr. Chen was allowed to leave for America. Since 2013, he has been a senior research fellow at Catholic University of America, the Witherspoon Institute, and the Lantos Foundation. Chen has written a riveting memoir and a revealing portrait of modern China, titled The Barefoot Lawyer: A Blind Man’s Fight for Justice and Freedom in China. The Atlantic Monthly said, “This exceptional book will join the ranks of classic accounts of individual bravery, principle, and vision in the face of cruelty and repression. Chen Guangcheng is known around the world for the daring of his escape from captivity; as The Barefoot Lawyer makes clear, his journey and the accomplishments before that were at least as remarkable. Anyone who wants to understand the struggle for China’s future, being waged inside that country and by friends of China around the world, will want to read this book.”

Americans' theory that more trade with China would open up the country to more democracy has been proven wrong. In fact, say Reggie Littlejohn, Huchen Zhang and Chen Guancheng on The Bill Walton Show, they have backfired. "You cannot tolerate evil. You cannot treat evil with kindness," Zhang said. The Chinese consider Western countries to be naive and easily manipulated, but if the US will stand up to them in trade deals, it will earn the support of the Chinese people and deprive the government of the money to control the country's social structure, Chen Guancheng said on The Bill Walton Show.

This discussion is a part of IWP's China series. About the Lecture: The Chinese Communist Party has ruled China for decades, bringing untold disaster upon the Chinese people. Why is it so tenacious, and why do democratic nations continue to engage with it? With decades of experience facing off against communist authorities, human rights activist Chen Guangcheng illuminates the structure of the party-state system in China and its disastrous impact on both Chinese citizens domestically and democratic nations abroad. About the Speaker: Chen Guangcheng, known to many as "the barefoot lawyer," was born and raised in a poor, remote village in Shandong, China. Blind since infancy and barred from school until his late teens, he nonetheless taught himself law as a young adult and became a committed advocate for the poor, disabled, and persecuted. His work drew the ire of the authorities, leading to over seven years of harassment including repeated house arrests, detention in black jails, and over four years in prison. After twenty months of brutal isolation in his own home, on April 20, 2012, he made a dramatic escape that caught the attention of international media. The American embassy in Beijing secured his temporary safety before high-level diplomatic negotiations enabled his exodus to the US. Since beginning his advocacy work, Mr. Chen has been the recipient of numerous awards including Time Magazine 100 Most Influential List (2006), The Ramon Magsaysay Award (2007), The Lantos Human Rights Prize (2012), the UK Parliament's Westminster Award (2013), and the Geneva Summit for Human Rights and Democracy Courage Award (2014). Chen is a frequent media commentator as well as guest speaker at conferences and events around the world. He has established a not-for-profit foundation to further human rights in China, and serves as Visiting Fellow at the Catholic University of America, Distinguished Senior Fellow in Human Rights at the Witherspoon Institute, and Senior Distinguished Advisor to the Lantos Foundation for Human Rights and Justice. Mr. Chen's memoir, The Barefoot Lawyer: A Blind Man's Fight for Justice and Freedom in China, was released by Henry Holt Publishers in 2015 and has since been translated into eight languages worldwide.

Over the past 16 years, there has emerged in China a community of self-identified "rights defense" (weiquan) lawyers, akin to "cause lawyers" in the United States, who select cases and frame legal advocacy with a goal of achieving wider societal impact.  Once celebrated in official discourse, these lawyers have increasingly come under scrutiny and pressure by the Chinese Party-state, that has intensified despite official promotion of "rule of law" concepts since the CCP Central Committee’s Fourth Plenum in 2014.  In this episode, scholar and activist Teng Biao, one of China’s earliest and most famous weiquan lawyers, discusses with Neysun Mahboubi the history and current predicament of "rights defense" lawyering in China, and charts possible future directions for this work.  The episode was recorded on April 11, 2018. Dr. Teng Biao is an academic lawyer and a human rights activist.  He was formerly a Lecturer at the China University of Political Science and Law, in Beijing.  Since first coming to wide public attention in connection with the Sun Zhigang incident in 2003, he has provided counsel in numerous human rights cases, including those of activists Chen Guangcheng and Hu Jia, religious freedom claims, and death penalty appeals.  He has also co-founded two groups that have combined research with advocacy in human rights cases, the Open Constitution Initiative (Gongmeng) and China Against the Death Penalty.  Most recently, he has visited at Harvard Law School, Princeton’s Institute for Advanced Study, and NYU’s US-Asia Law Institute.  He maintains an active blog in Chinese and you can also follow him on Twitter @tengbiao. Music credit: "Salt" by Poppy Ackroyd, follow her at http://poppyackroyd.com  Special thanks to Nick Marziani, Justin Melnick, and Kaiser Kuo

Here’s the story of Chen Guangcheng, a Chinese human rights activist who was imprisoned and tortured by the Chinese government for speaking out, who made a harrowing escape from the Chinese, and made his way to the U.S. He did all of this while being blind. Today, Chen Guangcheng lives in Washington D.C. But his fight for human rights in China is not over. In this episode, Chen Guangcheng shares his story of escape and Rep. Chris Smith (NJ) tells us about his own involvement from the U.S. For more information: https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/chinese-human-rights-activist-on-vatican-china-deal-a-slap-in-the-face-82186 https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/christian-bale-presents-award-to-blind-pro-life-activist-from-china https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/activists-departure-from-nyu-draws-fear-of-chinese-pressure https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/despite-changes-genocide-of-chinas-one-child-policy-endures-activists-say-42712 https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/blind-activist-appeals-to-us-over-chinas-human-rights-abuses

In this episode of the Sinica Podcast, taped live at the US-China Strong Foundation’s China Careers Summit in Washington, D.C., on May 31, Kaiser talks to former assistant secretary of state for East Asia and Pacific affairs Kurt Campbell about his career, his critique of engagement, and the fascinating events that happened on his watch — including the extrication of blind activist lawyer Chen Guangcheng and the attempted defection of Bo Xilai’s former police chief in Chongqing, Wang Lijun. Recommendations: Kurt: Darkest Hour, a movie about Winston Churchill in the early 1940s that shows what is possible even in our darkest moments. Additionally, Kurt recommends The Narrow Road to the Deep North, a book by Richard Flanagan about an Australian POW’s experiences during World War II. Kaiser: Road to Unfreedom, a book by Timothy Snyder about the developments in Putin’s Russia and their implications for democracy and law across Europe, the United States, and other regions.

Professor Jerome A. Cohen began studying the law of what was then called “Red China” in the early 1960s, at a time when the country was closed off, little understood, and much maligned in the West. Legal institutions were just developing in that time and, under the rule of Mao Zedong, were liable to dramatically change every three to seven years, Jerry says. After 12 years of persistence, he was finally able to visit the elusive country, and quickly became a pioneering Western scholar of China’s legal system. To read more about Jerry’s highly unusual decision to study Chinese law way back in 1960, see the first chapter of his memoir here. He later practiced law for 20 years, representing companies and individuals that had disputes to settle or contracts to negotiate in China, and retired from a partnership of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP in 2000. Jerry is now a professor of law at New York University, where he teaches courses on Chinese law, society, Confucianism, and international business contracts. Jerry sat down with Jeremy and Kaiser at the China Institute in New York on May 17, 2017, to discuss his long and distinguished career, to comment on China’s legal development and the state of rule of law in China, and to talk about his relationship with Chen Guangcheng, the blind self-taught lawyer who left China in 2012 with Jerry’s help — only to find himself used by conservative ideologues in the U.S. Recommendations: Jeremy: Jerry’s video memoirs, posted as a wonderful collection of YouTube videos on his website. Specifically, the clip titled “The Soup Is Not Too Clear.” Jerry: A recommendation that we have an administration in Washington that would do more to endorse the rule of law. One of the least-noticed sins of the current administration is its refusal to do this, specifically in relation to China. Kaiser: The South China Morning Post’s excellent explainer on five projects of China’s Belt and Road Initiative.

Kai-Fu Lee 李开复 is one of the most prominent figures in Chinese technology. He founded China’s noted early-stage venture capital firm Sinovation Ventures after launching and heading up Google’s China operations during their years of growth from 2005 to 2009. Born in Taiwan and educated at Columbia and Carnegie Mellon, Kai-Fu had an early career in Silicon Valley, including a stint as principal research scientist at Apple. Microsoft brought him to Beijing in 1998 to set up a research division, as he has seen the rise of the Chinese internet from its earliest days.   Kai-Fu has more than 50 million fans on the social media platform Weibo and is a much-loved public speaker and author. He is perhaps most admired for his gutsy investing in Chinese startup companies: Sinovation puts money into startup companies in their riskiest early years or even months. Kai-Fu founded it in 2009, at least half a decade before the world began to take Chinese innovation seriously. He was an early believer in mobile companies when many investors were still seeing the internet as a desktop world. Now Kai-Fu is turning his attention to artificial intelligence (AI), and he spoke to Kaiser and Jeremy about it for this podcast at — of all places — the Trump International Tower in midtown New York City. Jiayang Fan from the New Yorker was finishing off an interview as they arrived, and she stayed for the chat. The discussion ranges from new technologies that are coming from Chinese engineers to the inexorable rise of AI and how it will change the way we live, work, and think. Recommendations: Jeremy: “My Family’s Slave,” a controversial cover story in the June 2017 issue of the Atlantic about a Filipina-American “nanny” who raised the author. Jiayang: Abacus: Small Enough to Jail, a documentary on the only bank in America prosecuted for mortgage fraud, which brings the characters of the Abacus Federal Savings of Chinatown in New York to life. Screenings started on May 19. Kai-Fu: An “anti-recommendation” against all sci-fi movies except one: Robot & Frank. The 2012 film, he says, gives a truly realistic and thought-provoking view into what the next steps for AI technology may be. Kaiser: “Friends Like These: How a famed Chinese dissident got caught up in America’s culture wars,” the 2013 Reuters profile of the political kerfuffle in the U.S. over blind human rights lawyer Chen Guangcheng.

Actor Christian Bale tells the remarkable story of his friend Chen Guangcheng, a blind self-taught lawyer who took on the Chinese government’s one-child policy and stood up for women being forced into having late-term abortions and forced sterilisations. Guangcheng risked everything to stand up for what he believed in and paid the price. Christian Bale recalls being attacked during his own dramatic attempt to visit Guangcheng under house arrest in China. In Their Own Words is a podcast from Amnesty International, where people around the world tell their extraordinary stories of fighting for their rights. Subscribe now and don’t miss an episode. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

As Hillary Clinton campaigns for the US presidential nomination, she will perhaps not be helped by the testimony of Chen Guangcheng, the Chinese dissident who escaped house arrest in Dongshigu and sought refuge in the US Embassy in 2012. Chen’s memoir, The Barefoot Lawyer, reveals his view of the flawed diplomacy between Clinton and the Chinese government, and details his work with Chinese women who suffered abuse under the One Child policy. He discusses his campaigning and his memoir with audiences at Edinburgh International Book Festival and you can hear it here.

The blind Chinese dissident and human rights activist, Chen Guangcheng, escaped house arrest in Dongshigu and sought refuge in the US Embassy in 2012. Here he speaks about his memoir, The Barefoot Lawyer, in which he reveals his view of the flawed diplomacy between the US and Chinese governments, and details his work with Chinese women who suffered abuse under the One Child policy. Recorded live at the Edinburgh International Book Festival.

Why do women more often vote for Democrats? What can the Republicans say and do to get a higher percentage of the female vote? Also, how should the US handle dissidents from China like the activist Chen Guangcheng? In Dr. Tony’s corner, learn how you can access your electronic health record. Also, this show’s health tip is how to find … Read more about this episode...

Famously, China has a one child policy. How is that policy implemented? The answer may shock you. We announce our big news. Plus we discuss the Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng. Take a listen!

Live from the Helium Comedy Club in Portland, OR, Greg carries on about the cars, Cher, and Chen Guangcheng.

(05/07/2012) Episode 12: Ted Nugent vs. The "Communist Monkeys".Ted Nugent joins us for the show as we talk about blind Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng, the current state of Election2012, gay-hating pastors, North Carolina's anti same-sex marriage Amendment 1, and more Craaazzzyyy News.www.AllanandJacksonLoveAmerica.comwww.facebook.com/AllanJacksonUSAwww.twitter.com/AllanLovesUSAwww.twitter.com/AllanJacksonUSA

Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, Emily Bazelon, and special guest, The New Republic columnist Timothy Noah. This week: Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng, the anniversary of Bin Laden's death, and Tim's book, The Great Divergence Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Chen Guangcheng has been offered a fellowship in the US. How are the Chinese government and Obama Administration managing an historically awkward moment?

Gideon Rachman is joined by Geoff Dyer, Kathrin Hille and James Kynge to discuss the consequences of the case of Chen Guangcheng, the blind legal activist who has left the US embassy in Beijing following a deal between the US and China. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Cassetteboy gets the Prime Minister of Israel to play the pipes of peace, Eric Lampaert explores some of the creative ways prisoners have kept writing behind bars and we meet the Palestinian womens football team as they try to qualify for the 2012 Olympics. Plus, Colonel Gaddafi makes a very special appearance. Can you spot him? Find out all about the show and more at www.amnestytv.co.uk