Rural Management, a term for teams introduced in 2023 under the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (Ministry), has quickly stirred public anger. The teams are managing the countryside like was done in the Mao era when grains were the main agriculture, produce was strictly forbidden, and peasants who grew their greens were seen as…

“In July 2020, the implementation of the ‘National Security Law (NSL)’ no doubt officially turned Hong Kong into Xianggang and at the same time sent Hong Kong to the guillotine,” Professor Cheung Chan-fai, former head of the Department of Philosophy at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), said. As a septuagenarian, now 73 years…

Commentary With the stroke of a pen, President Joe Biden established a new plan that strongly resembles legislation. However, no one in the legislative branch of government agreed to it or had anything to do with its creation. The president’s student loan forgiveness plan is just the latest exercise in what amounts to government-by-fiat in…

Commentary In the trajectory laid out by F.A. Hayek in his 1944 book, “The Road to Serfdom,” dictatorship is the end game of a period of immense government failure. The ruling class begins by tinkering with the normal function of markets and society with some high goal in mind (think: virus eradication) and the results are…

China’s rubber-stamp legislature is scheduled to hold its once every five-year meeting this fall. The re-election of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leader Xi Jinping is the main focus of this year’s meeting. As the meeting approaches, Chinese social platforms and media have been releasing various signals that show Xi’s political opponents have continued to…

Commentary Some federal officials have made startling statements in recent days. Given the times in which we live, we can no longer take for granted that they won’t be convincing. Ever since lockdowns, which shattered all our social and political rituals and assumptions about government and public health, it seems like everything is open to…

Commentary Reports suggest that Russian generals are afraid to tell the truth, which proves the weakness of dictatorships in fighting wars. Recent news from the Ukrainian war indicates that Russian forces have accidentally shot down their own plane and that many military commanders are afraid to tell Vladimir Putin the truth. To understand why, we…

Commentary It was two years and a few months ago—only a few months before lockdowns—that I dragged myself to see “Joker,” a movie I dreaded but ended up respecting. “It’s a movie about one man’s descent into madness,” said the ticket taker. “Nothing else.” Why was the ticket seller pre-reviewing this movie for me? The…

Americans need to be vigilant and exercise their right to free speech to push back against the social control that has been accelerated by governments across the world during the COVID-19 pandemic, or the nation may fall into a “scientific dictatorship,” according to Patrick Wood, director and founder of Citizens for Free Speech. Speaking to EpochTV’s…

An Australian senator is pushing back on Beijing’s claim that it allegedly does not care whether foreign representatives attend its upcoming Winter Olympic Games while denying concerns about its human rights records. Countries including the United States, Australia, Canada, Lithuania, and the United Kingdom are to stage a diplomatic boycott of the 2022 Winter Olympics,…