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China Played Key Role in Iran’s Digital Crackdown on Protesters, Report Shows

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The Iranian regime used Chinese and Russian technology to silence dissent during recent nationwide anti-government protests, imposing near-total internet shutdowns and disrupting satellite communications to suppress public scrutiny, according to a new study. On Monday, the international human rights organization Article 19 released a new report examining digital cooperation between China and Iran, detailing Beijing’s … Read more

CCP Conducts Mass Arrests of Christians Days Before Christmas

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Hundreds of Christians in China will likely spend Christmas in jail this year, according to a recent report. Starting on Dec. 13, the Chinese Communist Party mobilized “more than a thousand police officers, SWAT units, anti-riot forces, and firefighters” in the Zhejiang Province’s Yayang Town in Wenzhou City, raiding churches and conducting mass arrests of … Read more

Hong Kong Convicts Jimmy Lai

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A Hong Kong court this week convicted Jimmy Lai, the territory’s most prominent champion of democracy and basic human rights, of breaching national security. The sham trial and conviction confirm Hong Kong’s tragic descent into tyranny. Hong Kong was long one of the freest places on earth, and Jimmy Lai, age 78, both symbolizes and … Read more

The Marxist-Islamic World War Against Western Civilization

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Last month, Communist China launched its largest ever crackdown on Christians. The raids across Beijing, Shanghai and eight other cities mark the beginning of an escalation as the paranoid Xi regime sets out to suppress the growing number of Chinese Christians. While the Communist regime claims that the official number of Christians in China is … Read more

Hong Kong Catholics Deserve the Church’s Leadership, Not Silence

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COMMENTARY: Reconciliation must never sacrifice the timeless truths of the Church, but sadly that appears to be the case in China. Cardinal Stephen Chow, the bishop of Hong Kong, defended the state of religious freedom in Hong Kong in a public dialogue in Parramatta, Australia, on Sept. 15. If what he said were true — … Read more

The Hong Konger: Jimmy Lai’s Extraordinary Struggle for Freedom [Full Film]

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  The Hong Konger: Jimmy Lai’s Extraordinary Struggle for Freedom [Full Film]   See also “Trump vows to push for release of jailed Catholic activist Jimmy Lai“ Related PostsStacked Decks, “Conversation in the Spirit,” and the Catholic Future The Celestial Afterlife of Karl Marx Thomas Sowell vs The Left The Tongue and Forgiveness The worst … Read more

It’s Time to End Universities’ Foreign Tuition Dependence

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President Donald Trump has a historic opportunity to turn American academia back into an institution that serves Americans. He recently denied Harvard University additional international students in his crackdown on foreign subversion and discriminatory diversity, equity, and inclusion policies. Harvard won a temporary restraining order, but with the Supreme Court in safe hands, he is … Read more

We Should All Hope Israel Succeeds

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The best evidence for this is the way so many of the people who scream about Israel’s “apartheid” and “genocide” do not much care about apartheid and genocide elsewhere. China has real apartheid because it practices Han supremacy. Ethnic minorities have fewer rights in China. They are second-class citizens, denied the right to internal migration, … Read more

Here’s where the CCP owns farmland in America

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Serious question. After seeing what Israel did to Iran last night, why are we not taking back the CCP farmland TODAY? China owns over 380,000 acres of land in the United States, much of it adjacent to or near US military bases. The national security concern was highlighted after Israel was able to carry out … Read more

China Isn’t Taking Over Manufacturing, It’s Taking Over Retail

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American officials usually accuse China of trying to take over our manufacturing, but that’s old news. China took over our manufacturing long ago. And the parts it still hasn’t taken over are usually the parts that it doesn’t want or that are too uneconomical to be worth taking over. Taking over America’s manufacturing was never … Read more

Empire of Illusion: Frank Dikötter on Why China Isn’t a Superpower

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Frank Dikötter is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution who has recently returned to the United States after living in Hong Kong since 2006. In this provocative conversation, Dikötter challenges the prevailing narrative about China’s rise. Drawing from his latest book, China After Mao: The Rise of a Superpower, Dikötter argues that the Chinese … Read more

The Soviet Union is gone, but its admirers aren’t.

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“Here I am, then. I have come home.” So said Pope John Paul II after landing in Warsaw in 1983, bending to kiss the soil of his native country. The mood was patriotic and defiant. “Poland for the Poles!” came the shouts from the crowd—union men, priests, fathers and their sons. “We are the real … Read more

A ‘Clean Energy Race’ With China? Only If You Ignore The Coal.

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Whether China will build a hundred new coal plants in 2025 is uncertain. Nobody, including Mr. Bessent, has a crystal ball. Yet his larger point about China is correct. Though China is often lauded as a world leader in renewable energy (and in some ways it is), in recent years it has ramped up coal … Read more

The manifest failure of the Vatican deal with China

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There’s no need to sophisticated analysis; the numbers tell the story. In 2018, the Vatican entered into a secret agreement with Beijing, explaining that the goal was to ensure that every Chinese diocese was led by a bishop recognized by the Holy See. That goal is undoubtedly desirable. So after six years under the new … Read more

A Glorious, and Shackled, ‘Troublemaker’

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Jimmy Lai has lived a great life: as an entrepreneur, as a media magnate, as a freedom-and-democracy advocate. His friends and admirers want him to have a decent ending. He has been a political prisoner in Hong Kong for almost four years. Most of that time, he has been in solitary confinement. I wrote about … Read more

Resistance Leaders: China’s Man in America

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Could the anti-Trump resistance become a Chinese Communist asset? In the 2024 election, voters in California, Washington, Florida and 7 other states were able to choose not only between Trump and Kamala, but also vote for a presidential candidate from the Party for Socialism and Liberation. The Party for Socialism and Liberation was certainly not … Read more

As Jimmy Lai Attracts Worldwide Support, Vatican Continues Policy of Silence

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Coming to Lai’s defense have been more than 100 politicians from 24 countries. Political leaders, a United Nations body, and human rights groups have publicly spoken out in defense of Jimmy Lai, the Catholic Hong Kong media mogul who faces possible life imprisonment for his involvement in pro-democracy protests, while the Vatican and senior Church … Read more

China’s Crackdowns Belie Fears Within the Regime

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Halloween was widely celebrated in Shanghai, perhaps more than in Western cities. Thousands of costumed young people flocked to the city’s art deco core—a remnant of its jazz-age colonial past—joining dozens of parties set to the tune of Michael Jackson’s Thriller and other festive staples. Even the timing was perfect, as late October comes with … Read more

Mao: Worse Than Stalin and Hitler

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American schoolchildren learn about Hitler and, possibly, Stalin, but few know much about Mao. And yet, while Hitler and Stalin were deplorable, Mao murdered far more people than either of his European counterparts—and his tactics have made their way to the United States. Mao Zedong was born in a rural village in 1893, but he … Read more

Don’t Forget the Catholic Bishops Persecuted by China

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They stand as a testament to the reality that China represses the Catholic Church along with all its other religions. Pope Francis remains enthusiastic about the Vatican’s provisional agreement with China on the appointment of bishops. He recently told journalists it is a “good result” of dialogue. Yet repression against the Catholic Church in China … Read more

The Vatican–China Pact Has Proved to Be a Catastrophe

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It was a deal with the devil to begin with. The precise wording of the Vatican–China Provisional Agreement, signed on Sept. 22, 2018, remains a closely guarded secret, but its dire effects are plain for all to see. By affording legitimacy to the Chinese Communist Party–dominated Patriotic Catholic Church — theretofore deemed schismatic due its … Read more

The Biden Family’s Unseemly Role in China’s Dealings

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The extent of Chinese government infiltration of our governing system is appalling. Even more than usual, everyone should read Jim Geraghty’s Morning Jolt from Wednesday, about the appalling extent of Chinese government infiltration of our governing system (at the state and federal levels) and society. Jim is right, of course, to observe that few publications … Read more

Beijing’s Spy Games

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We need to defend America from Chinese spies with diligence and accountability, while avoiding witch hunts. A former high-level New York State employee has been charged with acting as an undisclosed agent for Communist China. This incident, along with other similar ones, presents a significant challenge to the United States: How do we effectively address … Read more

I guess the Hermitage Museum trip is off

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My favorite song is Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture. Genuinely. I haven’t read enough Russian literature but I love reading about and am fascinated by Russian history. I deeply respect the courage of the Russian people in World War II. I would have loved to visit Russia one day. Perhaps, if Vladimir Putin and the FSB have … Read more

China Lobbying and Influencing the US

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House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party chairman Mike Gallagher today urged the Justice Department to launch a review of a beltway organization that he says lobbied on behalf of a Chinese military-linked biotech firm and therefore advanced Beijing’s interests. The allegations in a letter from Gallagher to Attorney General Merrick Garland, obtained exclusively … Read more