Overview
To help people understand the nature of the People’s Republic of China, the Chinese Communist Party, and key issues in U.S.-China relations, the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation supports public and private events and original academic research on historical and contemporary questions in the areas of trade and economics, foreign policy and security studies, and political development and human rights in China.
Publications
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
