They say everything is big in Texas. This must include big hearts as well. Examples of heroism and kindness were seen aplenty as Texans came together in the southeast of the Lone Star state to help those affected by Hurricane Harvey, the worst rainfall disaster in U.S. history. The death toll of the disaster has ...
A decision by a Hong Kong appeals court to jail three young democracy activists has been met with a barrage of criticism from around the world. The court’s re-sentencing of Alex Chow, 26, Joshua Wong, 20, and Nathan Law, 24, on August 17 to 6-8 months for unlawful assembly has been widely condemned, especially considering they ...
Free trade with China is failing the U.S. because of the Chinese government’s unfair trade practices, says an American professor of economics. Brian Brenberg, an associate professor of economics at The King’s College in New York, said the idea of free trade with China is threatened by Beijing’s theft of intellectual property (IP). “China is one ...
An Australian academic has likened the large-scale killing of prisoners of conscience for organ harvesting in China to crimes committed by the Nazis during World War II. “I’m a professor of ethics and medicine; the parallels to what was happening to Jewish prisoners and others in Nazi concentration camps in Germany were too obvious to ...
Grace Gao is the brave daughter of a brave man, Chinese human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng. It’s not easy being the child of a rights lawyer in China. In the video from the Oslo Freedom Forum, Grace recently described how her family was torn apart by China’s ruling communists because of her father’s rights work. ...
The presence of a Chinese Navy spy ship monitoring large U.S.-Australia war games on the Queensland coast has been described as provocative by senior Australian military officials. The Chinese Navy ship — an Auxiliary General Intelligence vessel (AGI) of the Type 815 Dongdiao-class — eavesdropped from international waters on this month’s Talisman Sabre war games ...
A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist for The New York Times, Walter Duranty, covered up one of the worst genocides in modern history. The atrocity I’m referring to is the Ukrainian famine of 1932-33 that was orchestrated by Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin. It killed an estimated 7 to 10 million people. Walter Duranty is now viewed as ...
China’s defense ministry says it has engaged in talks with the U.S. about returning a U.S. underwater drone that the Chinese Navy stole out of the South China Sea on Thursday, an act that has escalated tensions between the two superpowers over the vast expanse of international water that Beijing claims as its own. The ...
The potential flashpoints in the South China Sea and the East China Sea didn’t get much of a mention during the race for the U.S. presidency, largely because they aren’t core issues for domestic America. If there was any China-related talk during the campaign, the now President-elect Donald Trump mostly spoke about trade issues with the ...
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