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Xi’an Light of Zion Pastor Jiao Yong Taken in Shanghai by Xi’an Police; Whereabouts Unknown
SHANGHAI/XI’AN, September 24, 2026 — Pastor Jiao Yong (焦咏) of the Xi’an Light of Zion church was taken away in Shanghai on the morning of September 21 by individuals identifying themselves as officers of the Xi’an Public Security…
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Beijing Jiaquan Church Pastors and Workers Reported Detained Days Before Xi’s Washington Visit
BEIJING/WASHINGTON, September 24, 2026 — Chinese authorities have detained multiple pastors and church workers from Beijing’s Jiaquan Church, an influential urban house-church network with more than two decades of ministry in the Chinese capital, according to first-hand reports…
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Thousands to March on Washington as Xi Meets Trump — Tibetans, Uyghurs, Hong Kongers Declare Xi “Not Welcome”
WASHINGTON, September 24, 2026 — As Chinese President Xi Jinping sits down with U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House on Thursday for their formal bilateral meeting, thousands of demonstrators from Tibetan, Uyghur, Hong Kong, Taiwanese, Southern…
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Trump to Press Xi for Release of Wrongfully Detained Americans Youlin Chen and Min Zin at Summit
September 23, 2026 — President Donald Trump will ask Chinese leader Xi Jinping to free two wrongfully detained Americans — seismologist Youlin Chen and scholar Min Zin — when the two leaders meet at this week’s summit in…
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Fortify Rights: Eight Zion Church Pastors and Leaders Remain Detained Awaiting Trial; Nine More Out on Bail Still Face Charges
September 23, 2026 — Fortify Rights has called on the Chinese authorities to immediately and unconditionally release eight pastors and leaders of the unregistered Zion Church who remain in detention awaiting trial, nearly a year after their arrest…
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Former Shandong CPPCC Member Zhou Chunwei Calls for an End to One-Party Rule; Free China Movement Responds
Former Shandong CPPCC member Zhou Chunwei published an open letter on September 8, 2026 opposing the CCP’s long-term monopoly on state power. The Free China Movement responded by welcoming her public break with one-party rule while separating that…
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Zhu Yufang Taken Away by Police in Beijing’s Fangshan District; Whereabouts Unconfirmed
Rights defender Zhu Yufang was reportedly taken away by police in Beijing on September 17. Her location and legal status remain publicly unconfirmed.
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New Working Paper Tests Whether AI Can Extend the Great Firewall Into Knowledge Production
Free China Movement publishes Working Paper 1.0 on whether AI-era information controls can affect legitimate knowledge search, with a preregistered model-audit framework and explicit falsification criteria.
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New Working Paper Examines the Great Firewall as a Potential Innovation Tax on Mainland China’s Frontier Economy
A revised scholarly edition of Working Paper 0.5 examines whether information restrictions become more economically consequential as mainland China approaches the technological frontier.
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News: New DeepSeek Audit Documents Content-Sensitive Response Differences in Controlled Tests
New Free China Movement research documents controlled black-box DeepSeek tests involving Tiananmen Mothers, the 1989 Beijing student movement and Lian Shengde, while explicitly limiting conclusions to observed behavior.