Commentary Foreign companies doing business in China will soon find their operating environment littered with economic roadblocks because of a series of new “anti-foreign sanctions” rules that China’s legislature rushed to pass on June 10. The new rules were introduced as countermeasures against foreign nations enacting sanctions on Beijing. This development may put foreign organizations and…
Beijing’s ‘Anti-Foreign Sanctions’ Law Puts Global Businesses in Further Bind
China’s New Counter-Sanctions Risk Spiralling Into Economic Decoupling
June 13, 2021
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Commentary China just enacted a broad extraterritorial law against anyone who aids in sanctions against China, including Chinese nationals and China’s “private” companies. China’s new counter-sanctions, announced June 11, include the ability to seek compensation from foreign companies doing business in China. They are leveled at “discrimination” against Chinese nationals, and could apply against “organizations,”…
Fact Check: China Didn’t Actually Lift 100 Million Out of Poverty Since 2014
Commentary China’s dictator, Xi Jinping, loves to brag about how the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) lifted 100 million people out of poverty since 2012, when he took office. The CCP in general boasts of lifting 800 million from poverty since 1990. It typically pluses up the numbers, conveniently leaves out the tens of millions who…
Winnipeg to Wuhan Mystery Deepens
June 9, 2021
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Commentary Xiangguo Qiu, the former program director at Canada’s National Microbiology Laboratory (NML) who transferred deadly pathogens to the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), and her husband Keding Cheng, are missing from Winnipeg and may no longer even be in Canada, according to John Woods of the Canadian Press. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP)…
When It Comes to China, Western Media Often Sees Economic Strength When There Is Weakness
June 8, 2021
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Commentary Too frequently western media misses the weakness implicit in China’s top-down centralized economic system. Indeed, reporters and commentators with a frustrating regularity describe those weakness as strengths. They will write with awe about Beijing’s grand projects—miles of high-speed rail, for example, phalanxes or shinny locomotives staggered artfully for the photo opportunity, cities that have…
Lesson of Tiananmen Square Not Learned
Commentary “Today is the anniversary of China’s brutal crackdown in Tiananmen Square,” tweeted Joe Biden back in 2019. “Authorities tried to stop peaceful calls for political change with rifles & tanks. The courage of the Tiananmen generation hasn’t been silenced & still inspires the fight for freedom and justice worldwide.” And the former vice president…
After Nearly 22 Years, Persecution of Falun Gong Still Continues in China
Commentary As I browsed through the last few days of reports on Minghui.org, a U.S.-based website that documents the persecution of Falun Gong, I saw that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is still relentlessly persecuting Falun Gong practitioners for their faith, creating more and more human tragedies. Falun Gong, also known as Falun Dafa, is…
Under CCP’s Totalitarian System, Injustice Prevails in China
June 7, 2021
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Commentary Under the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) totalitarian system, justice is often dispensed in the opposite way from what most people would expect. In many cases, hard-working citizens who stand up for their rights are sent to prison rather than the true perpetrators. There are a number of examples of this injustice happening in China…
Tiananmen and China’s Self-Serving Victimhood
Commentary Tiananmen Is broad and clean And you can’t tell Where the dead have been And you can’t tell What happened then And you can’t speak Of Tiananmen James Fenton, “Tiananmen” (1989) The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has largely silenced annual observations of the oppression that took place in 1989 in Tiananmen Square throughout the…
Hungary’s ‘Right Wing’ Government in Bed With China: Protests Against A Fudan Campus in Budapest
Commentary China wants to start a university in Hungary, with Hungary’s own money paying for the privilege. On June 5, approximately 10,000 protested in Budapest against the proposed Fudan university campus. China is allegedly corrupting Hungarian leaders, and Hungary’s president has close ties to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The Hungarian people are right to…
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