Breaking: Falun Gong & Victims of Forced Organ Harvesting Protection Act Advances in US Senate

The U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee has moved forward with S.4009, the “Falun Gong and Victims of Forced Organ Harvesting Protection Act”, introduced by Senators Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Jeff Merkley (D-OR). The bill has been placed on the committee’s business meeting agenda with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. This means the bill has entered the formal committee review and amendment process, bringing it one step closer to possible consideration by the full Senate.

Beijing’s Shadow Over Ottawa’s NAC: Deep CCP Ties Fuel Shen Yun Cancellation

The decision by Ottawa’s National Arts Centre (NAC) to abruptly cancel Shen Yun Performing Arts after 18 years of sold-out runs is no mere scheduling dispute. We don’t have to dig for too long to discover that there is a deep and institutional entanglement between the NAC’s own Board of Trustees and the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) economic and diplomatic web in Canada, and we can’t rule out that this could be the reason why Shen Yun had to be cancelled.