TodayWhy Editorial

In the summer of 1999, the Chinese Communist Party launched what would become the longest sustained campaign of religious persecution in modern Chinese history — targeting a meditation group that, by the government’s own earlier assessment, had done nothing but improve the health and morality of tens of millions of citizens: Falun Gong China. Twenty-seven … Read more

If you search for Falun Gong online, you will quickly encounter two sharply different characterizations: a persecuted spiritual movement whose practitioners have been tortured, imprisoned, and killed for their beliefs — or a dangerous “evil cult” that China was right to suppress. The gap between these descriptions is not a matter of interpretation. It is … Read more

In August 2024, a 58-year-old man named Cheng Pei Ming stood before a press conference in Washington D.C. and pulled back his shirt to reveal a 35-centimeter scar running across his chest. He was, investigators said, the first known survivor of China’s forced organ harvesting program. The reason there are so few survivors, human rights … Read more

Every year, thousands of people see Shen Yun’s advertisements plastered across bus stops, newspapers, and social media. Many buy tickets expecting an evening of classical Chinese dance. Few realize they are watching a performance born from one of the most severe religious persecutions of the 21st century — and that the Chinese government is actively … Read more