Frank Fang is a Taiwan-based journalist. He covers U.S., China, and Taiwan news. He holds a master's degree in materials science from Tsinghua University in Taiwan.
An independent federal agency is recommending that lawmakers strip the Chinese regime of its trade privileges with the United States, ending what is known as permanent normal trade relations (PNTR) status, which Beijing has enjoyed for more than 20 years. In its annual report to Congress released on Nov. 19, the U.S.–China Economic and Security […]
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has confirmed that it deported a group of 109 Chinese nationals unlawfully present in the United States on a charter flight back to China on Nov. 16. The department said in a Nov. 18 press release that the latest deportation marks the third charter flight to China in less […]
TAIPEI, Taiwan—About 5,300 individuals dressed in color-coordinated clothing put together a giant display on the island’s iconic Liberty Square on Nov. 17 in an event aimed at inspiring people around the world to embrace the goodness in human nature. Three giant Chinese characters in bright yellow, each formed by more than 400 participants, represented the […]
Chinese state-sponsored hackers have breached several U.S. telecommunication providers, in a cyber campaign aimed at stealing data from individuals working in government and politics, according to federal investigators. In a joint statement issued on Nov. 13, the FBI and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) described the Chinese hacking campaign as “broad and significant […]
NEW YORK—Audience members who attended a weekend screening of a documentary about forced organ harvesting said more people should learn about the sinister state crime that’s happening in China. Nabil Hamati, a Brooklyn resident working in the medical field, told The Epoch Times that the film, which played on Nov. 9 at Village East by […]
Eight China-based companies and eight Chinese nationals have been charged with federal crimes related to trafficking synthetic opioids and fentanyl precursors, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced on Oct. 24. The defendants “openly advertised their ability to thwart border officials,” used evasive tactics such as mislabeling the contents of shipments, and had shipped “a stable […]
Communist China’s officials will likely be more confident in countering the United States over the next decade, as the regime is pursuing the “most rapid expansion” of its nuclear arsenal in history, according to a new assessment published by the Pentagon’s intelligence agency on Oct. 23. The Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) said in its 2024 […]
TAIPEI, Taiwan—A U.S. congressional delegation has arrived in Taiwan to meet with senior Taiwanese officials and participate in the island’s National Day celebrations on Oct. 10. Rep. Debbie Lesko (R-Ariz.) led the delegation, which arrived in Taiwan on Oct. 6 for a six-day visit, according to a press release from Taiwan’s foreign ministry. Lesko is […]
Federal prosecutors have charged five Chinese nationals with allegedly lying and trying to conceal their actions, more than a year after authorities spotted them near a remote Michigan military site where thousands of troops had gathered for summer drills. The five defendants, who were undergraduate students at the University of Michigan at the time of […]
The United States and four of its allies conducted joint maritime exercises in a part of the South China Sea on Saturday, as China held its own military exercises in the disputed ocean territory. The day-long exercise involving the United States, the Philippines, Australia, and Japan took place in Manila’s exclusive economic zone in the […]
WASHINGTON—A bipartisan House committee on China has prioritized legislation restricting U.S. investment in China, according to the panel’s chair. Rep. John Moolenaar (R-Mich.), chairman of the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, said that U.S. investors should not be “funding our own demise.” “We have to have an outbound investment regime that basically […]
WASHINGTON—Communist China has gained “back-door access” to U.S. technologies through partnerships between academic research institutions over the past decade, with millions of dollars in U.S. funding indirectly going to advance Chinese military technology, according to a new congressional report. The report, a collaboration between Republicans on the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party […]
President Joe Biden told leaders of Australia, India, and Japan that communist China is “testing us” with its aggression in the Indo-Pacific, a remark that was caught on a hot mic at a summit of the Quad alliance on Saturday. The summit, which Biden hosted near his hometown of Wilmington, Delaware, was attended by Indian […]
The top Republican on the Foreign Affairs Committee said “hostage diplomacy” is on the rise, a day after the Chinese regime released an American citizen and pastor who had been detained for nearly 20 years. The State Department announced on Sept. 15 that David Lin, who was on a missionary trip to China in 2006 […]
A former CIA officer who provided “a large volume” of classified U.S. national defense information to China was sentenced to 10 years in prison on Sept. 11. Alexander Yuk Ching Ma, 71, a naturalized U.S. citizen born in Hong Kong, was arrested in August 2020. In May, he pleaded guilty to conspiring to gather and deliver […]
TAIPEI, Taiwan—A local court released a former Taiwanese presidential candidate on Sept. 2, two days after he was arrested as part of a graft investigation. Ko Wen-je, who finished third in January’s presidential election as a candidate from the Taiwan People’s Party (TPP), was arrested on Saturday after Taiwan’s Agency Against Corruption questioned him for […]
U.S. national security adviser Jake Sullivan on Thursday met with a senior Chinese military official in a bid to manage tensions brewing between China and U.S. treaty allies in the region. Sullivan met with General Zhang Youxia, vice chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC), which is China’s top military body helmed by the Chinese […]
U.S. national security adviser Jake Sullivan met with Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leader Xi Jinping on the third and final day of a rare visit to Beijing after holding talks with a senior Chinese military official on the same day. Sullivan’s visit to Beijing is the first such trip by a U.S. national security adviser […]
President Joe Biden and Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leader Xi Jinping will speak in the “coming weeks,” the White House said, following two days of talks in China between national security adviser Jake Sullivan and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi. “Both sides welcomed ongoing efforts to maintain open lines of communication, including planning for a […]
The U.S.’s top security aide arrived in Beijing on Tuesday for a three-day visit during which the world’s two largest economies seek to engage diplomatically amid China’s recent aggression—and U.S. condemnation thereof—in the South China Sea. White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan told reporters ahead of a closed-door meeting with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang […]
