Dr. Heng He Chinese political commentator headshot

Dr. Heng He, Senior Fellow

Dr. Heng He (横河) is a well-known Chinese political commentator. He authored and presented a Sound of Hope radio talk show program from 2005 to 2020, and a New Tang Dynasty Focus Talk program since 2008 (both in Chinese language). The topics of those two programs include Chinese politics, religious persecutions, organ harvesting, the leadership power struggles among the upper echelons of the Chinese Communist Party, and the Chinese regime’s soft and sharp power in Western countries. Heng He is a prolific author with several hundred articles under his name published in Epoch Times (both in English and Chinese). He was also a guest commentator for Voice of America and Radio Free Asia. He has been invited to speak at more than 20 “Nine Commentaries Forum” and other China Affairs forums in the United States, Canada, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Taiwan, Belgium and the United Nations Human Rights Convention. He is also the Director of Research at Human Rights Law Foundation, Washington D.C. He was invited to testify (present) at the European Parliament Subcommittee on Human Rights and at the United States Congressional-Executive Commission on China on human rights abuse in China, especially the illegality of persecution of Falun Gong.