Geopolitics

Having scorned Biden, Saudis roll out red carpet for Xi

A powerful wind from the East is blowing across the Arabian desert. During a significant but overlooked three-day visit to Saudi Arabia, China’s leader Xi Jinping has scored a “strategic partnership” with oil rich and strategic Saudi Arabia. Read More.

Hong Kong publisher silenced for questioning Xi's authority

The history of the media is full of stories about journalists who defied authority, risked death covering wars and sought stories behind cover-ups. Few media heroes can match Jimmy Lai, founder of Apple Daily, a Hong Kong paper that was shut down last year after 26 years of defending Hong Kong's democracy movement and offending China's leadership in Beijing. Read More.

GOP: Covid origin may be tied to China bioweapons program

Republicans on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence said there are “indications” that the Covid virus could have originated as part of communist China’s bioweapons research program. Read More.

CIA briefed on U.S. research in Wuhan long before pandemic

Since 2015, U.S.-based EcoHealth Alliance was briefing the CIA on ongoing dangerous gain-of-function research EcoHealth was involved in conducting at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China, a former top official at EcoHealth reported. Read More.

In Iran, protests against 'core values' of the Islamic system

The ruling clerics' decades-long effort to ensure Iran stays on a strict Islamic path is facing its greatest threat yet as protests against the regime which call for more freedom continue nationwide. Read More.

Great Britain to open first new coal mine in three decades

UK Housing and Communities Secretary Michael Gove on Wednesday approved a plan to open the first new coal mine in Great Britain in 30 years. Read More.

China scales back lockdown, aims at anti-CCP radicals

The communist regime in Beijing has loosened Covid restrictions in the wake of nationwide protests, reports say. Read More.

Battle between communism and freedom playing out

The China-wide demonstrations against the Chinese Communist Party and supreme leader Xi Jinping shocked the world and were called a protest against the regime's brutal Covid lockdown policies. Read More.

N. Korea's 8 ICBM tests are 'clear threat' to Japan, U.S. bases

North Korea’s petulant and isolated regime wants attention. It’s thirty-something Dictator Kim Jong-Un vies for the noxious notoriety which much of the world has focused on Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine or Xi Jinping’s military threats to Taiwan. Read More.

Enraged citizens shattered the CCP’s Internet firewall

Demonstrators in China said firefighters were unable to respond to and contain a blaze at an apartment building in Urumqi, capital of the heavily Muslim region of Xinjiang, where an unknown number of people died because of the communist regime's Covid-19 lockdown. Read More.

China mining for EV industry ruins Indonesia's environment

In mining the metals needed for its electric vehicle industry, China has created an environmental catastrophe in Indonesia that might never be cleaned up, a report said. Read More.

Protesters defy ‘surveillance state’ imposed after Tiananmen

As video from nationwide anti-lockdown protests in China goes viral, supporting demonstrations in New York, Toronto and other world capitals have erupted highlighting the distinction between the relatively small CCP and the Chinese people. Read More.

Anti-lockdown protests continue to rage in China

Chinese Communist Party (CCP) authorities have deployed security forces throughout the country to put down massive and possibly coordinated protests against Xi Jinping's zero-tolerance coronavirus (Covid) lockdown policies. Read More.

Desperate Biden lifts sanctions on brutal Maduro regime

Team Biden is addressing the U.S. energy crisis by encouraging more oil drilling — in the socialist hellhole of Venezuela. Read More.

MI5 chief: 'Game-changing' challenge of China espionage

Chinese operatives have been recruiting British citizens as spies as part of influence operations that can last years and even decades, according to the chief of domestic intelligence in the United Kingdom. Read More.