Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leader Xi Jinping warned in early July that if communist party members lose their belief in Marxism and communism the CCP will collapse and disintegrate, suffering the same fate as the Soviet Union. On July 4, Mr. Xi told the state members at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit by video connection…

Commentary A recently released report from the Canadian Competition Bureau confirms what grocers have been saying all along: There is no “greedflation” happening in the retail food market and profit margins for retailers are low. And although the bureau did note that consumers would be better served if there were more competitors in the retail…

WASHINGTON—A former FBI agent who took more than $1.4 million in cash and diamonds to trade secrets with Russia and the former Soviet Union in one of the most notorious spying cases in American history died in prison Monday. Robert Hanssen, 79, was found unresponsive in his cell at a federal prison in Florence, Colorado,…

Canada is sanctioning seven people with ties to Moldova whom Ottawa has deemed to be “Russian collaborators,” along with a minor political party in the eastern European country. The new sanctions target the Shor Party and its founder, as well as oligarchs, business people and politicians Canada says are connected to Russia. The move follows…

Commentary The United States has, since the removal of President Richard Nixon in 1974, been moving along a strategic trajectory largely determined by its adversaries. Strategic success is associated with achieving identified goals and moving upon a trajectory determined by sovereign will rather than by an external force, especially the force of an adversary. So…

Chinese Ambassador to France Lu Shaye angered many countries with his televised remark that the ex-Soviet Union countries did not have sovereign status. However, this seemingly inadvertent remark reveals a deep-seated fear the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has had for the last three decades—that the sudden collapse of the Soviet Union and demise of the…

Canada has set the stage with Moldova to start sanctioning people and companies based in that Eastern European country who are helping Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau met with Moldovan President Maia Sandu in Ottawa just weeks after her cabinet said that “hybrid warfare generated by Russia” is trying to overthrow…

The Chinese communist regime’s ambassador to France publicly claimed on Friday that Crimea “belongs to Russia from the very beginning,” and that post-USSR republics “have no effective status” in international law, infuriating European leaders. Lu Shaye, the Chinese regime’s “wolf warrior” diplomat who often makes aggressive and controversial remarks, was interviewed by French media on…

Commentary When Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin met in March, it was to firm up a new Sino-Russian strategic partnership crafted last year. Yet there is always a hierarchy in every alliance, and it is increasingly apparent that Russia is the junior partner in this relationship. It wasn’t always so. From the founding of communist…

“When there is nothing to die for, there is nothing to live for … and that’s why I think that nationalism is a very good word when it goes together with freedom and human rights. The moment you separate them, you’re getting awful dictatorship or empty, shallow, decadent life.” I sit down with former Soviet…