Geopolitics

Time on China's side as it encircles major rival India

China looms like an enormous bullying giant above its borders with India stretching more than 4,000 kilometers from the high Himalayas to the west to more mountains and lower level frontiers to the east. Read More.

String of strategic explosions and fires target Iran

In the latest in a string of mysterious disasters to strike Iran in recent weeks, seven ships at the southern Iranian port of Bushehr reportedly caught fire on July 15. Read More.

Seoul joins North Korea in thwarting defector's info war

A defector from North Korea who founded a group which has for years been sending food assistance and leaflets containing information into the North is not surprised by the threats he and his fellow defectors regularly receive from the Kim Jong-Un regime. Read More.

Article by Chinese retired general justifies invasion of Taiwan

On July 9, on the popular WeChat social media platform, retired People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Major Gen. Wang Haiyun, former Chinese Defense Attache to Russia, published a detailed justification for China to invade the democratic island of Taiwan. Read More.

China media: U.S. policy on S. China Sea is 'mentally retarded'

The new policy position of the United States, which rejects China’s claim to most of the South China Sea and the resources within, is being slammed by communist China's propaganda outlets. Read More.

Slavery in UK: 100,000 victims get no help from police

Criminal networks have enslaved some 100,000 people in Great Britain, but police are too frightened to intervene out of fear of being labeled "racists," anti-slavery groups say. Read More.

Ultimatum: U.S. formally rejects China’s claim to South China Sea

The administration of President Donald Trump has issued a multi-agency rejection of the Chinese government’s expansive claims to most of the South China Sea, saying they are illegal under international law. Read More.

UK bans China’s Huawei 5G in key Trump win

In another victory for President Donald Trump in his stand-off with communist China, Great Britain announced that it is banning China’s telecom giant – Huawei - from the UK’s high speed 5G network. Read More.

Hong Kong takeover already impacting Christians' freedom

The oppressive restrictions placed on religious people on mainland China are already being felt in Hong Kong in the wake of the Chinese Communist Party's new national security law which essentially ended Hong Kong's autonomy. Read More.

Why Black LIves don't matter to BLM: Marxists are ‘bullies’

“More people have been shot and killed in Chicago at this point in 2020 than in 2019, despite two months of stay-at-home directives,” conservative radio host Larry Elder told The Washington Times. “Where is Black Lives Matter when you need them?” Read More.

'We'll be disappeared': Chinese virologist took warning seriously

A Chinese virologist and coronavirus whistleblower who fled Hong Kong in April, said China knew about the virus well before it admitted it did. Read More.

U.S. slam UN rebuke on killing of Soleimani: 'Pass to terrorists’

The United Nations is "giving a pass to terrorists" after it concluded that the U.S. drone strike which killed Iranian commander Qasem Soleimani was "unlawful." Read More.

Bolsonaro has virus, credits God and hydroxychloroquine

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro announced on Tuesday he had tested positive for coronavirus and that he was taking hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin to combat the virus. Read More.

U.S. sanctions Chinese officials over rights abuses in Xinjiang

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced on Thursday the U.S. has imposed sanctions and visa restrictions on three senior Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials over the continued human rights abuses targeting minority groups in China's Xinjiang province. Read More.

Defector values press freedom more than North-South diplomacy

The insistence of a pair of brothers on scattering hundreds of thousands of leaflets from balloons fired over North Korea confronts the South with tough questions. Read More.