Larry Ong

Journalist

Larry Ong is a New York-based journalist with Epoch Times. He writes about China and Hong Kong. He is also a graduate of the National University of Singapore, where he read history.

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China’s Leadership Structure Could Change at Fall Congress

News Analysis The Politburo Standing Committee has been the Chinese regime's top decision-making body in recent history. Thus, ...

China News August 23, 2017
North Korea Escalation Will Hinge on China’s Factional Struggle

News Analysis President Donald Trump's warning to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, promising "fire and fury," gained ...

China News August 17, 2017
How the Chinese Leadership Could Take Shape at a Key Political Meeting

The Chinese Communist Party elite have a decades-old habit of determining policies and key political appointments while vacationing ...

China News August 7, 2017
End and Disband?

Holding the corner of a banner under the intense midday sun on a 100-plus-degree day, Chinese-American medical scientist ...

China News July 24, 2017
Why Xi Jinping Removed a Potential Candidate for the Party Leadership

Midway through 2017, the trajectory of high-ranking Chinese Communist Party official Sun Zhengcai suggested that he would have ...

China News July 24, 2017
Before Anniversary of Falun Gong’s Persecution, Xi Jinping Stresses Importance of Helping Petitioners

When practitioners of one of China's largest spiritual communities first learned that they were being targeted for persecution ...

China News July 20, 2017
Reining in North Korea, With Chinese Characteristics

Since meeting Chinese leader Xi Jinping at Mar-a-Lago in April, President Donald Trump has maintained that China is ...

China News July 18, 2017
Purge of Former Top Shanghai Property Developer Signals Decline of Political Clan

Chinese leader Xi Jinping recently took out yet another key member of a rival political faction—one whose name, ...

China News July 11, 2017
Encircling a Consigliere

Chairman Mao Zedong's ruthless running of China might have come to a premature end if he had had ...

China News July 10, 2017
Former Chinese State Asset Regulator Deputy Head Purged

The deputy head of China's state asset manager, and the world's largest controlling company, was recently arrested for ...

China News July 3, 2017
Reading Xi Jinping’s Hong Kong Speeches

Official speeches by Chinese officials are sleep-inducing stuff—until you get past the obligatory Communist Party rhetorical verbiage and ...

China News July 3, 2017
Confined Shanghai Lawyer Suffers Abuse After Exposing ‘Shanghai Gang’

Zheng Enchong, a Shanghai-based human rights lawyer, has been under house arrest for over a decade. Local security ...

China Human Rights June 27, 2017
Factional Agenda and Political Credibility

Two years ago, this newspaper reported on fugitive Chinese billionaire Guo Wengui's unsavory business and political dealings. Guo, ...

China News June 26, 2017
Xi Jinping Takes ‘First Step’ in Gaining Further Control Over China’s Domestic Security

In recent weeks, many senior officials in the Chinese regime's security apparatus have been reshuffled or suddenly dismissed ...

China News June 21, 2017
A Warning for Conspirators?

Making sense of news from Hong Kong political magazines is tricky business. Details of high-level, internal discussions of ...

China News June 12, 2017
Why Non-Elite Chinese Officials Are Being Picked for Top Offices

Cai Qi spent 14 years in several modest official positions in the eastern Chinese province of Zhejiang. Finally, ...

China News June 6, 2017
Can China Be a World Leader?

In recent months, mainstream media outlets have rushed to laud China as the new "world leader" after moves ...

China News June 5, 2017
China Sentences Six Ex-Top Chinese Officials in One Day

On May 31, courts across China separately found six disgraced high-ranking Chinese officials guilty of corruption and issued ...

China News May 31, 2017
Human Rights Music Festival Blacklisted in Los Angeles Chinatown

A music festival that seeks to raise human rights issues in China was blocked from its original venue, ...

US May 29, 2017
Anti-Corruption and Its Discontents

A lengthy list of purged officials—that's the only concrete achievement Xi Jinping can wave about after nearly five ...

China News May 29, 2017
Terry Branstad Confirmed as US Ambassador to China

The U.S. Senate voted overwhelmingly on May 22 to confirm former Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad as President Donald Trump's ...

China News May 23, 2017
Gauging Xi Jinping’s Political Strength

Just how much control over China does Xi Jinping have? One view holds that Xi is the most ...

China News May 22, 2017
Chinese Embassy Letter Exposes Effort to Block Shen Yun in Thailand

Shen Yun Performing Arts, the premier classical Chinese dance company, was set to perform in Thailand for the ...

Asia & Pacific May 19, 2017
The Most Underreported Story in Modern China

On May 13, 1992, a youthful-looking, 41-year-old Chinese northeasterner began lecturing on traditional morality and cosmic principles in ...

China Human Rights May 15, 2017
Falun Dafa Founder Speaks at Annual New York Conference

NEW YORK—Wearing their trademark yellow T-shirts or blue jackets, practitioners of Falun Dafa, a traditional Chinese spiritual discipline, ...

China Human Rights May 14, 2017
Falun Dafa Marks 25 Years With Grand Parade in Manhattan

NEW YORK—Over 10,000 Falun Dafa practitioners from 57 countries and regions assembled in Manhattan on May 12 for ...

US News May 12, 2017
World Falun Dafa Day in New York Begins With Exercises, Musical Performances

NEW YORK—Nearly a thousand Falun Dafa practitioners converged on Union Square's north plaza on May 11 to kickstart ...

NY News May 11, 2017