Geopolitics

Hong Kong lost its freedom and China is still communist

How time flies. It’s been 25 years since Hong Kong returned to Chinese control, a quarter century since the prosperous British Crown Colony became a semi-autonomous part of the People’s Republic of China, the world’s largest dictatorship. Read More.

Zelensky: Ukraine wants more money

The total amount of U.S. taxpayer money either already sent to or pledged by Team Biden to Ukraine is nearing the $50 billion mark. That apparently isn't enough for President Volodymyr Zelensky. Read More.

Commnist China stakes claim to Taiwan Strait

Is China drawing yet another provocative red line, this time in the narrow but strategic Taiwan Strait? Read More.

China goes public with demands it made on Biden

China, which analysts say increasingly views the Biden administration as weak and conciliatory, did not hold back in publicly stating the demands it made during a recent meeting with U.S. national security adviser Jake Sullivan. Read More.

Analyst: Convince China it can't win any war it starts

Each time it is allowed to get away with "minor aggressions," the communist leadership in Beijing becomes more confident that China can invade and take over Taiwan, an analyst said. Read More.

Global investments rebound, 'unlikely to be sustained'

Foreign investment flows worldwide have rebounded to pre-pandemic levels reaching nearly $1.6 trillion. That’s the good news. Yet as a new report warns, the war in Ukraine and widening global uncertainty make the prospects for expansion appear grim. Read More.

Not sanctioned: Russian who gave Hunter $3.5 million

Team Biden has been very boastful about how it has sanctioned so many of the bad Russian oligarchs it says are helping to bankroll Vladimir Putin’s war on Ukraine. Read More.

Americans fighting for Ukraine captured by Russia

Two Americans have been taken prisoner by Russian forces on the outskirts of Kharkiv in Ukraine, reports say. Read More.

U.S. vulnerable to attack from ‘multiple vectors’

China, Russia and North Korea in the past year have accelerated the development and deployment of weapons “specifically designed to threaten our homeland,” the commander of the Pentagon’s Northern Command recently told the U.S. Congress. Read More.

Biden won't recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital

The Biden administration is moving forward with a plan to establish a new Office of Palestinian Affairs in Jerusalem that will act independently of the U.S. ambassador to Israel’s office, reports say. Read More.

'Complete failure': Biden's Summit of the Americas

While many of their citizens were availing themselves of Joe Biden’s open borders, many of the leaders of Central and South America boycotted the 2022 Summit of the Americas hosted by Team Biden in Los Angeles last week. Read More.

Research: Chinese doctors harvested organs of prisoners

Chinese medical doctors were responsible for executing prisoners by removing their hearts and lungs for transplant. Many of the prisoners were still alive while their organs were being harvested, researchers have discovered. Read More.

80 years on, another showdown in the South Pacific

The South Pacific is again a battleground. China is not nearly at the stage of taking over any of the 15 islands stretching across the region of Oceania, but it's definitely disturbing the foes of Chinese expansionism. Read More.

China won't, so Taiwan remembers Tiananmen massacre

Since communist authorities ban any public commemoration of the event on the Chinese mainland and are cracking down on anything regarded as dissent in Hong Kong, Taiwan's president took up the mantle of remembrance for the Tiananmen Square massacre. Read More.

Outdated U.S. strategic forces won't deter China ‘breakout’

The Pentagon risks losing a 50-plus year strategic advantage in deterring Russia and China if it fails to replace missiles, bombers, and submarines that are outdated, U.S. defense officials say. Read More.