HONG KONG—A British human rights lawyer and former head of Hong Kong’s Bar Association said he left the city on Tuesday evening, hours after the Chinese regime’s state-backed media said he was summoned to a local police station and interviewed by national security police. The Hong Kong-based Wen Wei Po reported that Paul Harris had…
Ex-chief of Hong Kong Barristers Says He Left City After Police Interview
CCP ‘Openly Recruiting Spies in the United States’: Michigan State Senator
The fear of someone informing on them to the Chinese Communist Party, and of the possible harm inflicted on family members in China, is so powerful and pervasive that some members of the Chinese-American community are ill-inclined even to speak to their elected representatives at public events, according to Michigan State Sen. Jim Runestad. “The…
Were the Beijing Games the Success That China Claims Them to Be?
Commentary Mercifully, the Winter Olympic Games have come to an end after a “very communist closing ceremony,” which featured a carefully choreographed parade of 365 “ordinary Chinese people” showcasing the supposedly harmonious Chinese society that Beijing has manufactured using “Chinese methods.” The event was almost a reminder of the image of uniformed Chinese youth marching…
‘Epidemic of Sellouts’: NBA Players’ Shoe Deals With Chinese Brands Linked to Forced Labor Draws Criticism
February 23, 2022
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“If you don’t stand for something, you’ll fall for anything,” so wrote retired NBA player Dwyane Wade on Twitter in June 2020. The tweet, coming out amid mass protests over the death of George Floyd, pictured the basketball player holding a pair of black shoes with the slogan painted over in capital letters: “enough is…
When Terrorists Attack, Nigeria’s Civilian Guards Run Toward the Danger
When shots are fired, and villages are burning, they are Nigeria’s front line. Young men carrying single-shot guns made by local blacksmiths are the first to charge into combat against bandit gangs on fleets of motorbikes or jihadist insurgents driving gun trucks. Increasingly, the vacuum left by conventional military has been filled by armed civilian…
Is Canada Becoming North America’s Cuba?
Commentary Canada is leaving the Western world. In terms of all-encompassing government, suppression of dissent and the denial of fundamental human rights to many of its citizens, Canada is now more similar to Cuba than to any free country. Canada may eventually return to Western civilization, but as of this writing, the majority of Canadians…
Journalist Group Denounces CCP Clampdown on Media at Winter Olympics
The Foreign Correspondents’ Club of China (FCCC) said on Feb. 21 it was “dismayed” at the Chinese regime’s interference of journalists covering the Winter Olympics in Beijing. “The FCCC is disappointed that China has tightened conditions for the press, contrary to the Olympic spirit,” the organization said in a statement. The reporters’ group pointed to…
Enes Kanter Freedom Nominated for 2022 Nobel Peace Prize
NBA player Enes Kanter Freedom has been nominated for the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize, according to a Feb. 16 story in The Atlantic. The nomination has won support from 30 Nobel laureates as well as well-wishers on social media. “I’m honored and humbled to receive the nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize,” Freedom wrote in a…
Bill Urges Blinken to Hold Cameroon Accountable for Human Rights Abuses
Rep. Karen Bass (D-Calif.) has introduced a bill urging Secretary of State Anthony Blinken to hold the government of Cameroon accountable for human rights abuses linked to Cameroon’s Anglophone crisis. The Feb. 2 bill came after a damning report by Human Rights Watch detailing the killing of children and women by Cameroonian soldiers during three…
Don’t Let the Bright Lights of the Olympics Blind You to the People Suffering in Its Shadows
Commentary While millions of people around the world were watching the opening ceremony of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, in the very same city the ceremony was taking place, Xu Yonghai was being put under house arrest at a motel. Xu is an elder at his house church, Beijing Holy Love Fellowship, and he has…
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