At the recently concluded Miss NTD global Chinese beauty pageant hosted by the New York-based NTDTV, one sponsor particularly stood out—Winnie Tse, Deputy General Manager of the health and wellness store, Green Eastern USA Inc. Amidst the bustling crowd, Tse confidently introduced her company’s offerings, albeit in halting Mandarin. As a pageant’s sponsor, her radiant smile spoke volumes about her unique resilience and strength. Many may not realize that Tse’s business faced substantial setbacks just two years ago. Owing to pressure from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), her once best-selling products were pulled off the shelves of over 200 chain stores. Now, having reestablished herself in the United States, she has reintroduced these once-popular items to the American market in a matter of months—thanks to an indomitable spirit that she attributes to her Hong Kong roots. Her goal? To carve out a business landscape devoid of fear and manipulation....Read more https://www.theepochtimes.com/china/hong-kong-entrepreneur-overcomes-ccp-suppression-to-thrive-in-the-us-5508680
The Chinese regime has forcibly deported a large number of North Koreans, raising a concern that the returnees will face harsh punishment by the regime in Pyongyang, according to a human rights group. The spokesman for South Korea’s Unification Ministry, Koo Byoung-sam, confirmed the repatriation on Oct. 13, saying, “It appears to be true that a large number of North Koreans were repatriated to North Korea from China’s three northeastern provinces.” “[The South Korean] government’s position is that there should be no circumstances in which North Koreans living abroad would be forcibly repatriated back home against their will,” he added.... 
The wife of a former Chinese deputy consul in Melbourne has been on hunger strike for over 20 days, protesting against illegal imprisonment for her belief, a Minghui report says. He Xiaoling, 66 years old, was abducted from her home on Sept. 8, 2023, and was sentenced to imprisonment of one year and eight months after a closed-door trial on that day, for her belief in Falun Gong, according to the report. A resident of Leshan City, China’s southwestern Sichuan Province, Ms. He was once a reporter for Sichuan Business Daily and later an employee of the Leshan Giant Buddha Management Committee. The Leshan Giant Buddha is a world heritage site....
With its last three giant pandas set to be returned to China in December, the Smithsonian National Zoo will no longer have any pandas for the first time in 50 years. After former President Richard Nixon’s visit to China in 1972, the communist regime adopted “panda diplomacy” at the National Zoo in Washington D.C., which has since continually hosted giant pandas from China symbolizing the warming of U.S.–China relations. Other zoos in the United States and other Western countries are also returning giant pandas to China. China observers believe that the “panda diplomacy” that represented the communist regime’s soft power is coming to an end, as the world is derisking and decoupling from it....