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China Studies

A must-read exposé from the Financial Times features key research and insight from VOC’s Dr. Adrian Zenz on China’s cultural genocide against the Uyghurs. Journalist Alison Killing argues that the CCP has entered a new phase of repression, expanding its… Read More

Last month, firsthand testimony from a former Han Chinese police officer who supervised Uyghur labor transfers in Xinjiang described how the system works. Workers are taken to cotton fields under armed escort. Identity cards are confiscated to prevent escape. Those who refuse… Read More

On Thursday, May 14, VOC Fellow Ethan Gutmann spoke before the Congressional-Executive Commission on China on a panel entitled A Market Built on Victims: Stopping Illegal Organ Trafficking in China and Beyond. Gutman provided detailed accounts of his groundbreaking field… Read More

On Tuesday, April 28, VOC’s Associate Director of China Studies, Serkan Tas, testified before the Office of the United States Trade Representative regarding the Section 301 investigation into economies that have failed to effectively prohibit the importation of goods produced… Read More

In a new report from the Victims of Communism Foundation, Dr. Adrian Zenz, VOC’s Senior Fellow and Director in China Studies, outlines a long-needed framework to better identify and measure systems of forced labor, empowering national and multilateral entities to… Read More

Pop Mart’s viral Labubu dolls, sold in “blind boxes” across U.S. retail stores, are linked to state-imposed forced labor in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, a new study confirms. Independent laboratory testing verified by The New York Times and published… Read More

Speaking with the New York Times, VOC Senior Fellow and Director of China Studies Adrian Zenz explains how the viral Labubu dolls, sold across America by the Chinese company Pop Mart, are linked to state-imposed forced labor in China’s Xinjiang… Read More

Pop Mart’s Viral Labubu Toys Expose Forced Labor in Global Supply Chains Pop Mart’s collectible Labubu dolls, sold in “blind boxes” across U.S. retail stores, contain cotton that traces directly to China’s Xinjiang region, where up to 3 million Uyghurs… Read More

Chinese Communist Party pressures third-country government to detain and deport a US citizen, setting a dangerous precedent for human rights advocates  WASHINGTON, DC — The Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation (VOC) today condemned the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) use of the… Read More

New exclusive research from the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation (VOC) draws on firsthand testimony from Zhang Yabo — a former Han Chinese police officer who served in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region from 2014 to 2023 — to prove that state-imposed… Read More