Chen Guangcheng, Dr. Bill Saunders, and Peter Tozzi (former intern at The Heritage Foundation) summarize the recent events and significance of Cardinal Joseph Zen's imprisonment and trial. Cardinal Zen is an advocate of basic freedoms and human rights for Hong Kong and has been the target of harassment and mistreatment from the Chinese Communist Party.

Chen Guangcheng, Dr. Bill Saunders, and all of the Center for Human Rights wishes you and your family a Merry Christmas. We hope that this new year will be filled with blessings for you and change for the Chinese people who remain oppressed by the Communist Party.

To listen to the rest of this podcast, check out the Humanize Today Podcast at https://humanize.today/podcast/chen-guangcheng-on-the-current-tyranny-in-the-peoples-republic-of-china/ The Humanize Today Podcast is produced by the Discovery Institute as a part of its Center on Human Exceptionalism, which is directed by Wesley Smith.

Chen Guangcheng gives background information surrounding the upcoming trial of Hong Kong human rights activist and Apple Daily media founder Jimmy Lai. The trial has been delayed until September 2023, and we encourage our viewers to watch the recently released documentary about him, The Hong Konger: https://thehongkongermovie.com/

Chen Guangcheng discusses the anti-lockdown protestors who demand that Xi Jinping resign.

Communism is perhaps the greatest threat humanity has ever faced. It has murdered more innocent people than any political system in history and has imprisoned millions more. In the last century, it threatened to engulf the world, but even today it controls the world's largest nation and threatens to spread.  

Dr. William Saunders of the Catholic University of America Center for Human Rights and Dr. Lee Edwards who founded the Victims of Communism Museum to discussed the lessons we can learn from resistance to communism in the past in order to confront and defeat it in the present.  Dr. Lee Edwards is adjunct professor of politics at the Catholic University of America and co-founder of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation in Washington, D.C.

During the past Communist Party Congress, Xi Jinping, President of China, has tightened his grip over his government by appointing young supporters of his to key positions.

Recently at a protest in Britain, a pro-Hong Kong protestor was allegedly dragged into the Chinese embassy and severely beaten. Chen Guangcheng comments on the implications of this story.

Bob Fu, Founder and President of China Aid, talks about his instrumental role in arranging Chen Guangcheng's escape from the Chinese Communist Party's clutches to the United States.

Bob Fu, Founder and President of China Aid, talks about his instrumental role in arranging Chen Guangcheng's escape from the Chinese Communist Party to the United States.