• Tue-01-2025
A Story Well Lived (December 30, 2024, ChinaSource)

With the homegoing of Dr. Rudolf Mak on October 1, 2024, the ChinaSource community lost a valued mentor, colleague, teacher, friend, and pioneer. Rudolf was all of these—a dear brother in Christ who left an indelible impression on those with whom he served. His vision and unstoppable determination to seek the expansion of Christ’s kingdom in China were instrumental in shaping ChinaSource into the organization it is today.

  • Tue-01-2025
A Year of Unity and Anticipation (December 27, 2024, ChinaSource)

From forming new partnerships with Chinese-led ministries to strengthening existing collaborations, we’ve seen a diversity of voices—emerging leaders alongside seasoned ministries—joining us to share their stories with the global church. These partnerships remind us that, even in a world marked by division, the body of Christ is being built and unified in powerful ways.

  • Tue-01-2025
Sharing the Gospel in a Fast-Changing Culture (December 26, 2024, China Partnership)

A lot has changed since 2018, when we first visited Chinese cities in prayer, but much has also remained the same. We wanted to close out this year of prayer by re-visiting a 2018 interview with a Xiamen pastor. This year, many pastors specifically told us that things in Xiamen grew more difficult after 2019 (a year after this interview), but there are still commonalities from 2018, specifically that Xiamen believers are focused on making money, and it’s hard for them to find time to think about deeper things.

  • Tue-01-2025
China Is Building More Prisons for Xi's Political Enemies—Report (December 30, 2024, Newsweek)

Analysts have said China's existing anti-graft crackdown has served as a tool for Xi to eliminate political rivals. Academics have called Xi's new expanded detention processes "deeply disturbing."

  • Tue-01-2025
After year of big corruption crackdown, China promises more probes, retribution (January 6, 2025, Reuters)

One day before a key meeting of China's anti-graft watchdog, the state broadcaster aired a programme on how grassroots corruption is being crushed, dispelling any notion that China is losing its grip on graft.

  • Tue-01-2025
Explainer: Hong Kong’s national security crackdown – month 54 (January 5, 2025, Hong Kong Free Press)

December 2024 was the 54th month since a Beijing-imposed security law was enacted in Hong Kong, and nine months since further security legislation was passed into law by Hong Kong’s opposition-free legislature. As the public was beginning to feel the festive vibe on Christmas Eve, the government announced another round of action against overseas activists.

  • Sat-12-2024
From gym closures to rotten tofu, Hong Kong consumers faced a year of scams (December 26, 2024, South China Morning Post)

Residents were beset by shoddy deals and blatant cons in 2024. The Post recounts some of the biggest cases that hit consumers this year.

  • Sat-12-2024
Hong Kong dollar peg at risk in Trump’s coming fight with China (December 26, 2024, Asia Times)

The new arrest warrants may provide more fuel for hawkish American lawmakers to advocate for more sanctions against Hong Kong officials and companies or even more extreme measures such as the removal of some Hong Kong-based banks from the SWIFT financial transfer system, which if implemented could trigger a de-pegging of the Hong Kong dollar and to the US buck.

  • Sat-12-2024
Cityscape of Hohhot in N China's Inner Mongolia (December 23, 2024, Xinhua Net)

Hohhot, capital city of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, is writing a new chapter of high-quality development by building industrial clusters that range from traditional ones like dairy processing to pioneering ones like green computing capability, in addition to its enhanced efforts in boosting ecological protection and cultural tourism.

  • Sat-12-2024
How a Mao-era system creates second-class citizens in modern China (December 27, 2024, Financial Times)

China’s hukou system, which in effect treats people with rural household registrations as second-class citizens, has long been seen as deeply socially regressive. But recent anaemic growth is putting increasing scrutiny on the system’s cost to the world’s second-largest economy.