News Analysis
Since August 2024, The New York Times has published nine articles attacking Shen Yun Performing Arts and disparaging the Falun Gong spiritual practice. The articles blatantly distort key facts, in particular by ignoring the crimes committed by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) against Falun Gong practitioners and the Chinese people. Feng Chongyi, an Australian scholar who has been following the issue closely, says that the newspaper’s bias reflects its pro-CCP stance and its long-standing historical prejudice.
Undermining the Principle of Religious Freedom
Feng Chongyi, associate professor of China Studies at the University of Technology in Sydney, told the Chinese edition of The Epoch Times that while freedom of speech and of the press are central to democratic societies, they must be balanced against respect for religious and spiritual freedom….