Writing in Foreign Policy, VOC Senior Fellow in China studies, Dr. Adrian Zenz, and researcher Muetter Tohti explore how Beijing is pioneering new tools of transnational repression. Transnational repression has moved from the margins of human rights reporting to the… Read More
In the province of Xinjiang, China operates the world’s largest system of state-imposed forced labor. Government documents reveal how millions of Uyghurs and members of other population groups are systematically put to work through coercive programs. From cotton and tomatoes to the polysilicon in… Read More
The rigorous evidentiary foundation that exposed the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) campaigns of mass internment and forced labor in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region was driven by a groundbreaking methodology developed by Dr. Adrian Zenz, Director of China Studies at… Read More
The Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, the Lantos Foundation for Human Rights and Justice, and the International Coalition to End Transplant Abuse in China (ETAC) welcome the successful advancement of S.4009, the Falun Gong and Victims of Forced Organ Harvesting Protection Act,… Read More
Every year, VOC commemorates what happened on June 4, 1989, when the Chinese Communist Party crushed a massive pro-democracy movement by sending tanks into Tiananmen Square. Beijing has since erased all mention of June 4 from its history. We still… Read More
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
