http://www.alliancealert.org news from the frontlines of the culture war Thu, 24 May 2012 23:12:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/24/official-vows-china-will-correct-gender-imbalance/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/24/official-vows-china-will-correct-gender-imbalance/#comments Thu, 24 May 2012 21:53:53 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=134653 XINHUANET: With most Chinese provinces experiencing a serious gender imbalance, a government official in charge of family planning has pledged the country will work hard to ameliorate the problem. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/24/official-vows-china-will-correct-gender-imbalance/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/24/china%e2%80%99s-population-control-inspired-by-ideas-of-the-club-of-rome/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/24/china%e2%80%99s-population-control-inspired-by-ideas-of-the-club-of-rome/#comments Thu, 24 May 2012 21:51:41 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=134651 Turtle Bay and Beyond: They were inspired by the reports of the Club of Rome, a think tank that unites Heads of States, UN bureaucrats, diplomats, scientists and business leaders who claim they “share a common concern for the future of humanity and the planet.” ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/24/china%e2%80%99s-population-control-inspired-by-ideas-of-the-club-of-rome/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/24/us-says-human-rights-deteriorating-in-china-vietnam/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/24/us-says-human-rights-deteriorating-in-china-vietnam/#comments Thu, 24 May 2012 16:16:08 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=134569 AP reports. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/24/us-says-human-rights-deteriorating-in-china-vietnam/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/22/china-whats-worse-than-abortion-this-is/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/22/china-whats-worse-than-abortion-this-is/#comments Tue, 22 May 2012 19:56:25 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=134364 Catholic.org (includes video): In China, one thousand five hundred abortions occur per hour. Let that number sink in for a minute. These are the results of an investigative report that has been presented by Accuracy in Media and Women's Rights Without frontiers (WRWF) have been presented in the online publication, The Blaze. The details are gruesome and shocking. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/22/china-whats-worse-than-abortion-this-is/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/21/chen-in-u-s-help-me-promote-justice-in-china-family-still-at-risk/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/21/chen-in-u-s-help-me-promote-justice-in-china-family-still-at-risk/#comments Mon, 21 May 2012 21:32:37 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=134246 LifeNews: Chen Guangcheng has arrived in the United States, but his extended family, supporters and others working with him in China to stop forced abortions are still in danger as they face continued persecution. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/21/chen-in-u-s-help-me-promote-justice-in-china-family-still-at-risk/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/21/u-s-lets-china-bypass-wall-street-for-treasury-debt/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/21/u-s-lets-china-bypass-wall-street-for-treasury-debt/#comments Mon, 21 May 2012 19:50:11 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=134239 Reuters: China can now bypass Wall Street when buying U.S. government debt and go straight to the U.S. Treasury, in what is the Treasury's first-ever direct relationship with a foreign government, according to documents viewed by Reuters. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/21/u-s-lets-china-bypass-wall-street-for-treasury-debt/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/21/chinese-to-buy-us-movie-theater-chain-amc/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/21/chinese-to-buy-us-movie-theater-chain-amc/#comments Mon, 21 May 2012 17:05:03 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=134186 AP: A Chinese conglomerate announced Monday it will buy a major U.S. cinema chain, AMC Entertainment Holdings, for $2.6 billion in China's biggest takeover of an American company to date. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/21/chinese-to-buy-us-movie-theater-chain-amc/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/16/hong-kong-crackdowns-on-chinese-families-looking-to-get-around-one-child-policy/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/16/hong-kong-crackdowns-on-chinese-families-looking-to-get-around-one-child-policy/#comments Wed, 16 May 2012 22:39:23 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=133907 theStar.com: Over the last decade the number of mainland babies born in Hong Kong has risen from 620 in 2001 to more than 40,000 in 2010 — almost half the total 88,000 births in the territory. Some experts estimate that upwards of 60 per cent of these are second children. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/16/hong-kong-crackdowns-on-chinese-families-looking-to-get-around-one-child-policy/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/16/chen-guangcheng-could-get-passport-to-visit-u-s-in-15-days/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/16/chen-guangcheng-could-get-passport-to-visit-u-s-in-15-days/#comments Wed, 16 May 2012 15:23:17 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=133785 LifeNews: After a second Congressional hearing, during which he called to update members of Congress on the current status of his tenuous situation in China, forced abortion opponent Chen Guangcheng may finally be close to getting his ticket out of the Communist nation. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/16/chen-guangcheng-could-get-passport-to-visit-u-s-in-15-days/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/15/china-slams-britain-after-cameron-meets-dalai-lama/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/15/china-slams-britain-after-cameron-meets-dalai-lama/#comments Tue, 15 May 2012 16:52:05 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=133673 AP: China criticized British Prime Minister David Cameron on Tuesday for meeting with the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, saying it amounts to support for Tibet's independence from Chinese rule. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/15/china-slams-britain-after-cameron-meets-dalai-lama/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/14/north-korean-women-sold-into-slavery-in-china/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/14/north-korean-women-sold-into-slavery-in-china/#comments Mon, 14 May 2012 15:33:08 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=133496 Christian Science Monitor: Like the thousands of women who fled North Korea before her, Kim Eun-sun made it into China and paid a woman to help her, only to discover she'd traded one form of captivity for another. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/14/north-korean-women-sold-into-slavery-in-china/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/10/steven-aden-is-it-cannibalism-yet/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/10/steven-aden-is-it-cannibalism-yet/#comments Thu, 10 May 2012 17:10:23 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=133430 Steven Aden at Townhall: Case in point—the news that certain citizens in China, no doubt numbed to the evil of abortion by their country’s one-child policy, have literally begun to place the corpses of aborted children in refrigerators in homes. From there, the bodies are “taken to clinics where they are placed in medical drying microwaves.” In the microwaves, they are dried (cooked), and once their skin has become sufficiently dry it is ground into a powder which is used for quack “home remedies.” ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/10/steven-aden-is-it-cannibalism-yet/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/10/china-tightens-restrictions-on-chens-family/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/10/china-tightens-restrictions-on-chens-family/#comments Thu, 10 May 2012 15:51:16 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=133396 AP: Authorities in the hometown of blind activist Chen Guangcheng have notched up restrictions on members of his extended family while he awaits permission in Beijing to travel abroad under an agreement between China and the U.S. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/10/china-tightens-restrictions-on-chens-family/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/09/enter-the-dragon-federal-reserve-approves-chinese-expansion-in-u-s-banking-system/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/09/enter-the-dragon-federal-reserve-approves-chinese-expansion-in-u-s-banking-system/#comments Wed, 09 May 2012 23:12:48 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=133375 The AP reports. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/09/enter-the-dragon-federal-reserve-approves-chinese-expansion-in-u-s-banking-system/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/09/planned-parenthood-appears-ok-with-sex-selection-abortions/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/09/planned-parenthood-appears-ok-with-sex-selection-abortions/#comments Wed, 09 May 2012 19:09:19 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=133315 LifeNews: How would Americans react to find out that the nation’s biggest abortion business is fine with women coming through the doors of its clinics and arranging an abortion merely because the gender of their unborn children is not what the women preferred. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/09/planned-parenthood-appears-ok-with-sex-selection-abortions/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/09/blind-activist-widely-known-abroad-virtually-unknown-in-china-due-to-censorship/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/09/blind-activist-widely-known-abroad-virtually-unknown-in-china-due-to-censorship/#comments Wed, 09 May 2012 16:19:14 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=133276 AP: Blind activist Chen Guangcheng has drawn a global media spotlight after setting off tensions between the U.S. and China, but he's almost unknown at home - and the Chinese government is working to keep it that way ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/09/blind-activist-widely-known-abroad-virtually-unknown-in-china-due-to-censorship/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/08/china-escalates-crackdown-on-house-churches/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/08/china-escalates-crackdown-on-house-churches/#comments Tue, 08 May 2012 21:34:25 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=133219 Baptist Press: The Chinese government is engaging in a three-phase campaign to eradicate Protestant house churches, according to the China Aid Association. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/08/china-escalates-crackdown-on-house-churches/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/08/chen-thugs-beat-my-nephew-%e2%80%98ruthlessly%e2%80%99/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/08/chen-thugs-beat-my-nephew-%e2%80%98ruthlessly%e2%80%99/#comments Tue, 08 May 2012 19:30:22 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=133199 LifeSiteNews: The blind lawyer, who exposed China’s brutal forced abortion policy, said “thugs with wooden spoons” beat his nephew, Chen Kegui, “ruthlessly ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/08/chen-thugs-beat-my-nephew-%e2%80%98ruthlessly%e2%80%99/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/08/blind-activist-china-says-itll-investigate-abuse/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/08/blind-activist-china-says-itll-investigate-abuse/#comments Tue, 08 May 2012 15:14:14 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=133138 AP: Rights advocate Chen Guangcheng says the Chinese government has quietly promised him it will investigate abuses he and his family suffered at the hands of local authorities, in a rare instance of Beijing bowing to demands of an activist. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/08/blind-activist-china-says-itll-investigate-abuse/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/08/china-blogger-seeking-redress-over-labor-camp-term/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/08/china-blogger-seeking-redress-over-labor-camp-term/#comments Tue, 08 May 2012 14:53:46 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=133127 AP: A Chinese blogger is seeking compensation for a one-year labor camp sentence he served after posting a brief poem mocking now-disgraced politician Bo Xilai . . . ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/08/china-blogger-seeking-redress-over-labor-camp-term/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/07/china-still-selling-%e2%80%9chealth-pills%e2%80%9d-made-from-aborted-dead-babies/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/07/china-still-selling-%e2%80%9chealth-pills%e2%80%9d-made-from-aborted-dead-babies/#comments Mon, 07 May 2012 16:52:34 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=133037 LifeNews: News reports today are focusing on an update of a South Korean SBS TV documentary released last August that focuses on Chinese pharmaceutical companies selling “health pills” made from the bodies of babies dying in abortion and miscarriages. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/07/china-still-selling-%e2%80%9chealth-pills%e2%80%9d-made-from-aborted-dead-babies/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/04/pro-life-advocates-arrested-at-white-house-backing-chen-guangcheng/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/04/pro-life-advocates-arrested-at-white-house-backing-chen-guangcheng/#comments Fri, 04 May 2012 15:11:59 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=132930 LifeNews: Leading pro-life advocates rallied this morning at the White House for forced abortion opponent Chen Guangcheng, who may be close to heading to the United States if China approves an application for him to study here. At least one pro-life advocate was arrested. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/04/pro-life-advocates-arrested-at-white-house-backing-chen-guangcheng/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/04/chinese-dissident-is-headache-for-communists-and-dependent-obama-administration/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/04/chinese-dissident-is-headache-for-communists-and-dependent-obama-administration/#comments Fri, 04 May 2012 15:10:10 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=132881 The Hill: Observers said the U.S. and China will both be looking for a way out of the diplomatic fight that allows both sides to save face . . . Willson said he expected the situation to quickly be resolved given the two nations' mutual dependence. The two countries are tied at the hip economically – China is America's second-largest trading partner and is the largest single holder of U.S. government debt – and China's support is needed to get anything done in the UN. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/04/chinese-dissident-is-headache-for-communists-and-dependent-obama-administration/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/04/woman-who-rescued-chen-guangcheng-released-from-custody/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/04/woman-who-rescued-chen-guangcheng-released-from-custody/#comments Fri, 04 May 2012 14:53:56 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=132875 LifeNews: The saga surrounding Chen Guangcheng includes a wide variety of Chinese dissidents who provided active support to the leading opponent of forced abortions and the one-child policy in the nation — but none, perhaps, as daring as He Peirong. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/04/woman-who-rescued-chen-guangcheng-released-from-custody/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/04/china-chen-guangcheng-can-apply-to-study-in-the-u-s/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/04/china-chen-guangcheng-can-apply-to-study-in-the-u-s/#comments Fri, 04 May 2012 14:51:30 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=132873 LifeNews: Chinese officials have allowed forced abortion opponent Chen Guangcheng to apply to leave the country and study abroad at a university in the United States — in what is the first sign of good news that Chen may escape the persecution he is facing there. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/04/china-chen-guangcheng-can-apply-to-study-in-the-u-s/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/03/is-the-communist-partys-time-up-chinese-govt-frets-over-a-blind-man/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/03/is-the-communist-partys-time-up-chinese-govt-frets-over-a-blind-man/#comments Thu, 03 May 2012 21:15:46 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=132837 Wall Street Journal: Disunity among the ruling elites and the rising defiance of dissidents signal that one-party rule could be nearing its end . . . When rulers of one of the most powerful countries in the world have to worry about the defiant acts of a blind man, it's high time for them to think the unthinkable: Is the Communist Party's time up? ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/03/is-the-communist-partys-time-up-chinese-govt-frets-over-a-blind-man/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/03/chen-guangcheng-phones-congress-during-emergency-hearing/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/03/chen-guangcheng-phones-congress-during-emergency-hearing/#comments Thu, 03 May 2012 21:06:45 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=132835 LifeNews: Chen Guangcheng spoke live via telephone today at an emergency Congressional hearing today in the U.S. House about his situation and how he desires to meet with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/03/chen-guangcheng-phones-congress-during-emergency-hearing/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/03/congressman-prevented-from-visiting-china-talking-to-chen/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/03/congressman-prevented-from-visiting-china-talking-to-chen/#comments Thu, 03 May 2012 18:34:11 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=132820 Life News: During an emergency hearing in the U.S. House of Representatives about the tenuous situation of forced abortion opponent Chen Guangcheng in China, pro-life Congressman Chris Smith said he has been prevented from visiting China and was not allowed to talk to Chen while he was at the U.S. Embassy. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/03/congressman-prevented-from-visiting-china-talking-to-chen/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/02/china-threatened-to-kill-chen-guangcheng%e2%80%99s-wife-to-secure-deal/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/02/china-threatened-to-kill-chen-guangcheng%e2%80%99s-wife-to-secure-deal/#comments Wed, 02 May 2012 16:17:50 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=132666 LifeNews: Chen Guangcheng, the Chinese forced abortion opponent, was reportedly pressured to leave the U.S. Embassy and accept the deal the United States struck with China to release Chen from its temporary protection. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/02/china-threatened-to-kill-chen-guangcheng%e2%80%99s-wife-to-secure-deal/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/02/young-chinese-heroine-kidnapped-for-helping-chen-flee-advocate/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/02/young-chinese-heroine-kidnapped-for-helping-chen-flee-advocate/#comments Wed, 02 May 2012 13:37:59 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=132722 LifeSiteNews: He Peirong is a beautiful, petite Chinese woman friends describe as having a “spine of steel” - one that proved an immense benefit to her friend, human rights activist Chen Guangcheng, whose bid for freedom she spearheaded. But the young woman’s fate is now dangerously unknown, as she disappeared immediately . . . ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/02/young-chinese-heroine-kidnapped-for-helping-chen-flee-advocate/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/01/chen-guangcheng%e2%80%99s-documents-show-women-aborted-at-nine-months/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/01/chen-guangcheng%e2%80%99s-documents-show-women-aborted-at-nine-months/#comments Tue, 01 May 2012 18:11:02 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=132592 LifeNews: “In the astonishment surrounding Chen Guangcheng’s extraordinary escape from house arrest, let us not forget why he was arrested,” Littlejohn told LifeNews. “In 2006, Chen exposed the Chinese government’s systematic, massive use of forced abortion and involuntary sterilization to enforce its “One Child Policy.’” WRWF obtained a copy of Chen’s field notes and has released the first English translation of them . . . ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/01/chen-guangcheng%e2%80%99s-documents-show-women-aborted-at-nine-months/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/30/mitt-romney-calls-on-president-obama-to-protect-chen-guancheng/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/30/mitt-romney-calls-on-president-obama-to-protect-chen-guancheng/#comments Mon, 30 Apr 2012 17:29:00 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=132467 LifeNews: Likely Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney called on President Barack Obama today to provide any diplomatic protection possible for Chinese forced abortion opponent Chen Guangcheng, who escaped house arrest this past week. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/30/mitt-romney-calls-on-president-obama-to-protect-chen-guancheng/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/30/official-won%e2%80%99t-say-if-obama-admin-will-protect-chen-guangcheng/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/30/official-won%e2%80%99t-say-if-obama-admin-will-protect-chen-guangcheng/#comments Mon, 30 Apr 2012 17:22:23 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=132465 LifeNews: An Obama administration official today would not say whether the Obama administration plans to provide political asylum or some sort of other diplomatic protection for Chen Guangcheng, the forced abortion opponent in China. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/30/official-won%e2%80%99t-say-if-obama-admin-will-protect-chen-guangcheng/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/27/blind-chinese-lawyer-flees-arrest-shows-up-on-video-his-family-assaulted/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/27/blind-chinese-lawyer-flees-arrest-shows-up-on-video-his-family-assaulted/#comments Fri, 27 Apr 2012 17:50:47 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=132350 The Washington Post reports and links to video of the lawyer. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/27/blind-chinese-lawyer-flees-arrest-shows-up-on-video-his-family-assaulted/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/27/china-forced-abortion-opponent-chen-guangcheng-escapes/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/27/china-forced-abortion-opponent-chen-guangcheng-escapes/#comments Fri, 27 Apr 2012 15:11:20 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=132303 LifeNews: There is speculation that Chen is in the U.S. Embassy in Beijing and ChinaAid reports it was asked on Friday to make news of his escape known today. Chen reportedly intends to “fight to the end for the freedom of my family inside China. I want to live a normal life as a Chinese citizen with my family.” ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/27/china-forced-abortion-opponent-chen-guangcheng-escapes/feed/ 0