“The Chinese communists game the system,” Rep. Chris Smith said. “People are afraid to stand up to them.” In this episode of “American Thought Leaders,” host Jan Jekielek discusses human rights and China with Smith, a representative of New Jersey’s 4th district. For the past four decades, Smith has been one of Congress’s most vocal…

In a Jan. 25 press release, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) unveiled the broad outlines of the America COMPETES Act, a bill designed to increase American competitiveness in STEM fields, manufacturing, and rare earth metal extraction; however, the bill would also allow for the importation of thousands of new refugees and other immigrants…

The 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics is an opportunity for the Chinese communist regime to legitimize the ongoing genocide and atrocities it inflicts on Tibetans, Uyghurs, Hong Kongers, and other minorities in China, human rights advocates said, as they called for a full international boycott of the Games. In a Jan. 4 panel discussion hosted by the…

The 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics is an opportunity for the Chinese communist regime to legitimize the ongoing genocide and atrocities it inflicts on Tibetans, Uyghurs, Hong Kongers, and other minorities in China, human rights advocates said, as they called for a full international boycott of the Games. In a Jan. 4 panel discussion hosted by the…

British lawmakers from across the political divide have renewed their calls on the government to impose a full diplomatic and political boycott of the Beijing Winter Olympics after leaked papers linked top Chinese leaders to the crackdown on Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang. A series of documents published online by the UK-based campaign group Uyghur Tribunal…

TAIPEI, Taiwan—A Chinese professional tennis player not seen in public since she accused a former top government official of sexual assault purportedly sent an email claiming she was safe and that the allegation was false, a message that only amplified concerns about her safety and demands for information about her well-being and whereabouts. So far,…

For the first time since laws prohibiting the import of products believed to have been manufactured by slave labour were established in 2020, a shipment of goods from China has been seized by Canada.  The ban was put in place by the trilateral USMCA trade deal signed by Canada in 2018, although the prohibition did…

WASHINGTON—A group of Democratic and Republican U.S. senators wrote to remote-control maker Universal Electronics Inc on Wednesday about concerns the Arizona-based company could be implicated in the mistreatment of Uyghur Muslims in China’s Xinjiang region. The letter cited a Reuters report earlier this month that Universal struck a deal with authorities in Xinjiang to transport…

Commentary President Joe Biden has never met a foreign policy decision he couldn’t get wrong. That has never been more true than it is now in the wake of our withdrawal from Afghanistan. Much has been made of the damage the withdrawal has done to the United States’ reputation, to our relationship with our allies,…

With the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics just months away, a new survey shows more than half of Canadians support boycotting the event to be hosted by the Chinese communist regime. A total of 64 percent of respondents said they would support or somewhat support a Canadian boycott of the Beijing Olympics “because of tensions between…