Commentary With Oscar nominations released for 2023 recently, one may look forward to Hollywood’s grandest moments of the year. But the sad truth is that Tinsel Town isn’t what it used to be, which was no great moral paragon, for sure. But what it’s become is even worse than what it was before. Bowing to…

Commentary China’s dam against COVID-19 has broken. Beijing canceled lockdowns precipitously, and the resulting tidal wave of infections is inundating the country. Hundreds of millions of Chinese are now estimated to have COVID. China’s biggest cities, including Beijing, are the hardest hit. Half of Shanghai could already be infected. Modeling predicts as many as 1…

Commentary The brilliant former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia was once quoted as saying, “Words have meaning. And their meaning doesn’t change.” That is absolutely true, but the meanings of commonly understood words are frequently corrupted, represented, or obfuscated by nefarious people. Both the Chinese Communist Party and the U.S. Democratic Party are masters…

Commentary Secretary of State Antony Blinken said at a conference at Standford University on Oct. 17 that the Chinese regime is escalating its threat against Taiwan and accelerating its plan to take the island by force. He said that by doing so, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is signaling that it’s no longer happy with the…

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has continued to persecute Falun Gong practitioners nationwide in the months before the CCP’s 20th national congress. At least 47 Falun Gong practitioners in China were imprisoned for their belief in September 2022, and nearly 2,000 were arrested or threatened, and their homes were raided by local police in July…

Commentary Chinese leader Xi Jinping has seized all the power and will continue to return China to a stricter form of socialism with more central planning and less openness. Going into the 20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), Xi holds the following titles: general secretary of the CCP, head of state, chairman…

Police in China’s northeastern Daqing City of Heilongjiang Province abducted almost 100 Falun Gong practitioners on July 12 for their faith, raided their homes, and took away their money and personal belongings, according to a report published on Minghui.org. Minghui.org is a U.S.-based nonprofit organization that reports on the ongoing persecution of the Buddhist-school spiritual belief Falun…

Police in China’s northeastern Daqing City of Heilongjiang Province detained almost 100 Falun Gong practitioners on July 12 for their faith, raided their homes, and took away their money and personal belongings, according to a report published on Minghui.org. Minghui.org is a U.S.-based nonprofit organization that reports on the ongoing persecution of the Buddhist-school spiritual belief Falun…

News Analysis The Chinese economy is flagging while Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) countries deal with debt and inflation. In the first half of 2022, China’s overall BRI investment slowed, with zero money flowing into Russia. Launched in 2013, the BRI (also known as “One Belt, One Road”) is Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s plan to expand…

Feng Zhenguo, former owner of a profitable wood furniture factory in China’s central Heibei province, experienced extortion from the environmental authorities and police, and was forced to sell his factory to Chinese police at a very low price. “The communist regime’s so-called reform and opening up is just to loosen the shackles around Chinese people’s…