Geopolitics

Over 500 days without bail for Freedom Convoy detainees

Four men charged in connection with the 2022 Freedom Convoy which protested Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's Covid mandates have been detained without bail for more than 500 days without a trial date being set. Read More.

Lithuania defies Beijing with strategic Taiwan ties

When it comes to standing against China in the European Union, Lithuania is leading the way. Read More.

China investing big time in effort to dominate the seas

China is seizing the seas by building the world’s largest Navy, the largest Coast Guard, the largest fishing fleet, the largest maritime shipping fleet, and the largest stakeholder of seaports worldwide. Read More.

Team Biden gets U.S. back in UNESCO; Pay at the door

The United States has long had a tumultuous relationship with UNESCO, the United Nations Educational, Social and Cultural Organization. Read More.

Amb. Rahm Emanuel insults Japan, jeopardizes U.S. ties

Thanks to bad behavior on the part of America’s ambassador, a 70-year-old racket in U.S.-Japanese politics is now being exposed. In the words of a senior legislator, leading Liberal Democrats have “decided the issue by force” and have “left a mark on the democratic management of the party.” Read More.

Columnist: Xi's bioweapon put Biden in the White House

In a June 28 report, The Jerusalem Post cited a Wuhan researcher as saying that communist China created the Covid virus as a "bioweapon." Read More.

Shackling of once-free Hong Kong must not be forgotten

It used to be that July 1 was a day of celebration in Hong Kong. It marked the day in 1997 that Great Britain handed over control of Hong Kong to China. But almost immediately there were signs that a city renowned for economic freedom was coming under the control of Chinese Communist Party leaders in Beijing. Read More.

Team Biden's Iran deal alienates all sides

As with many tenets of the previous administration’s foreign policy, the Biden administration has shown little interest in maintaining the Abraham Accords — until now. Read More.

China targets tiny Pacific Islands with close ties to U.S.

The Pacific island nations of Palau, Marshall Islands, and Micronesia, known as the Freely Associated States (FAS), have long granted the United States extensive defense and security access, including the right to base at and deny entry to the FAS by someone else’s military. Read More.

Diversity: In China only Marxist Han Chinese need apply

When it comes to the Chinese Communist Party's relationship with "the people," the CCP is non-discriminatory. It persecutes all people who fail to conform to totalitarian Marxist ideology and diktats. Read More.

New reports raise possibility of Chinese troops in Cuba

China and Cuba are negotiating to establish a new joint military training facility on the island. The facility "could lead to the stationing of Chinese troops and other security and intelligence operations just 100 miles off Florida’s coast," the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday, citing current and former U.S. officials. Read More.

The 'Great Game': Russia's geostrategic breakthrough

Russia appears to have finally won secure access to the warm waters of the Indian Ocean, the goal it has pursued vigorously since the 17th Century: the old Great Game may be over, and the new begun. Read More.

Communist China’s on-again spy facility in Cuba

In a classic public-relations bungle, a June 9 leak by “U.S. officials” to the Wall Street Journal said that “China and Cuba have reached a secret agreement for China to establish an electronic eavesdropping facility on the island.” Read More.

Reports: China military worked with Wuhan lab on viruses

Just prior to the outbreak of Covid, communist China's military worked alongside scientists at the Wuhan Institute of Virology to combine the world’s most deadly viruses, reports say. Read More.

China in Cuba? Shine a light on totalitarianism

Cuba in 1960 was the first Latin American country to recognize the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) rule in China. Now all of Latin America, with the exception of Belize, Guatemala, and Paraguay, recognize the CCP. Read More.