Politics

Australia’s Anti-Espionage Laws Put Chinese Student Visas on Hold

New anti-espionage laws in Australia have put Chinese student visas on hold. In recent years, numerous reports have been published by major media outlets around the world regarding the Chinese government’s infiltration and intervention in Australia. Through Confucius Institutes, Australian students have been provided with a distorted version of Chinese history. The Chinese Communist Party’s ...

Nspirement Staff

News of Xi Jinping’s Power Grab Causes International Stir

Xinhua, China’s state-run news agency, released the full text of a proposal by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) to remove the clause stating that the President and Vice-President of the People’s Republic of China “shall serve no more than two consecutive terms” from the country’s Constitution. The release of the ...

Nspirement Staff

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Intimidation Won’t Silence New Zealand Academic Anne-Marie Brady About Beijing Interference

New Zealand academic Anne-Marie Brady has been subjected to break-ins and a menacing letter after her research brought to light how the Chinese Communist Party is threatening her country’s sovereignty. University of Canterbury professor Anne-Marie Brady told the Australian Parliament’s Intelligence and Security Committee in Canberra that both her office and home have recently been ...

James Burke

Senator Penny Wong Speaks for Peace in a Time of Disruption

Senator Penny Wong is Australia’s Opposition Leader in the Senate and Labor’s Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs. This position gives her the opportunity to show her good international citizenship by supporting peace, prosperity, and stability through a commitment to the rules-based international order. Penny Wong lived in Kota Kinabalu, and her family migrated to Australia ...

Trisha Haddock

How Red China Supported the Brutal Khmer Rouge

The brutal Khmer Rouge regime ruled Cambodia from 1975-1979, and during that time they were aided by communist China. Under leader Pol Pot, the Chinese-armed Khmer Rouge overthrew the country in 1975, and after they took the capital Phnom Penh, they immediately ordered its evacuation. Some 2 million people were sent out into rural areas ...

James Burke

Foreign Media Excluded From China’s 19th National Congress

China’s 19th National Congress held on October 25, 2017, excluded several mainstream media organizations. The Foreign Correspondents’ Club of China (FCCC) regards the exclusion as a serious violation of freedom of the press. The committee, which sees as its purpose protecting the rights of journalists, condemned the action and believes it to be an act ...

Hermann Rohr

China’s Real Friends WeChat Post Goes Viral

Mainland China’s social media platform WeChat recently circulated a post entitled “Who is China’s real friend and who is the real enemy?” China’s real friends Wechat post consisted of questions and answers to actual historical events. The answers are contrary to how the Chinese state news media portrays China’s relationship to Russia and the United ...

David Jirard

New York Times Journalist Walter Duranty Covered Up Genocide

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 ...

James Burke