China Change, July 25, 2025 (Email subscribers may have to view in browser to see the embedded YouTube link.) This documentary offers, for the first time, an authoritative overall account and analysis of the 709 Crackdown on human rights lawyers in China that began ten years ago in 2015, covering all aspects of the incident: arrests, smear campaign, torture, forced confession, trials, and more.  Eleven lawyers appear on camera: Wang Yu, Bao Longjun, Zhou Shifeng, Li Heping, Wang Quanzhang, Xie Yanyi, Jiang Tianyong, Sui Muqing, Chen Taihe, Xie Yang, Chen Jiangang; rights activist Wu Gan; and three 709 lawyers’ wives: Wang Qiaoling, Li Wenzu, and Yuan Shanshan.  The film also explains the intrinsic logic of the Chinese Communist Party’s suppression of lawyers and rights defense […]

China Change, July 8, 2024 Six 709 lawyers and three 709 lawyers’ wives speak out on the 9th anniversary of the 709 Crackdown on human rights lawyers and defenders about the continuous harassment, loss of livelihood, and the significance of the fateful event that started nine years ago and is still ongoing. 709大抓捕九周年，六位律师（周世锋，王全璋，王宇，江天勇，谢燕益，李金星）和三位709律师家属（陈桂秋，李文足，王峭岭）描述他们的现状，表达他们的心声。 16 minutes. Chinese and English subtitles.

November 11, 2023 This year, a phenomenal Halloween party occurred in the streets of Shanghai, of all places. It interests us because it offers a unique window to observe the young people in China. The themes are eclectic, some political and social. The fact that such a crowd was able to amass is extraordinary, given the Chinese authorities’ perennial fear of unscripted, spontaneous assembly. China Change has edited this 9-minute montage with comment. Related: Young and Furiously Laughing in China, Yaxue Cao, May 28, 2023. Shanghai Spring, a record of the Shanghai lockdown, May 11, 2022. 1. Food / 食物 1:09 – 8:12 2. Resist Incessant Testing / 抵制核酸检测 8:12 – 9:45 3. Oppose Hard Lockup / 反对硬隔离 9:45 – 15:27 4. The Collapse of Residential Committees / 居委会面临崩溃 15:27 – 33:09 5. Mass Quarantine / 方舱 33:09 – 49:32 […]

Lin studied Taiwan-PRC relations, focusing on the CCP’s United Front Work in Taiwan. He worked as an aide to Democratic Progressive Party council members in Taipei and New Taipei City prior to running office. He served in the Special Forces of Taiwan’s army before as part of the country’s compulsory active duty military service for men. We spoke about China, both its influence operations and the threat of conflicts, as well as the challenges facing Taiwan’s defense.

“The Taiwan Interview Series” is a result of a China Change team going around Taiwan for 30 days in Nov. and Dec, 2022. The time frame for the trip was deliberately chosen to observe the local elections against the backdrop of China’s military threat, and to take measure of Taiwanese attitudes towards totalitarian China as they enjoy their robust democracy.

On June 1, 2, and 3, 2021, Stand News in Hong Kong ran a three-part feature story titled The Battle of the ‘Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China’: 1989-2021. This 17-minute short, subtitled by China Change, is a documentary accompanying the feature story in which you see and hear some key members of the Alliance speaking before their arrests.

Shanghai Spring is a sequel to “LOCKDOWN Shanghai 2022” that was posted on China Change YouTube channel on April 9. The sequel is a compilation of 200 select video clips and stills from Shanghai, taken between April 10 and May 10. In ten segments, it offers a comprehensive view of the Shanghai lockdown, an event that is bound to have political, economic, and social repercussions in China far beyond Covid control. 101 minutes.

“Rights defense lawyers” emerged at the beginning of the 21st century. From their appearance, to the notorious 709 mass arrests in 2015, to today, the Chinese Communist government has subjected them to intimidation, disappearance, torture, imprisonment, and disbarment, ignoring the UN Basic Principles on the Role of Lawyers. This 68-minute documentary film reviews the twenty-year journey of human rights lawyers in China.

Chair Merkley, Co-Chair McGovern, Members of the Commission, thank you for holding this hearing and for asking me to share my thoughts on the case of the Chinese tennis star Peng Shuai. Indeed, Peng Shuai has become a special kind of political prisoner. Meanwhile, the Women’s Tennis Association’s decision to suspend all tournaments in China has raised a moral question for all of us. I will address these two aspects of the Peng Shuai incident.