Geopolitics

Pompeo: Chinese people long to be free of CCP

The Chinese people are yearning for freedom from the Chinese Communist Party which controls all aspects of their lives, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said. Read More.

China blocked lived Dem debate when Xinjiang came up

On Dec. 19, Democrats themselves got a taste of what government censorship of political speech looks like when China’s censors cut the live feed of the Democratic Party presidential debate. Read More.

Hong Kong demonstrators note silence of the U.S. Left

While conservatives such as U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio are championing pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong, American leftists have mostly remained silent as communist China brutally cracks down on Hong Kong demonstrators. Read More.

GREATEST HITS, 2019: Israeli strikes in Syria, humble Russia, China

A successful Israeli air strike against Iran's military facilities inside Syria has resulted in China and Russia blaming each other for the humiliatingly embarrassing air defense failure. Read More.

Why the UK-Brexit vote will make a geopolitical splash

The Dec. 12 general election in the United Kingdom overwhelmingly endorsing the Conservative government of Prime Minister Boris Johnson was also a pivotal global strategic event. Read More.

What impeachment? Stock market booms

The stock market mocked the political circus on Wednesday. Read More.

China’s dedicates 2nd aircraft carrier with warning to Taiwan

China’s first domestically-built aircraft carrier was officially commissioned by supreme leader Xi Jinping on Dec. 17. Read More.

Conservative uprising in Seoul protests unchecked ruling party

South Korea’s National Assembly on Monday canceled a vote on fast-tracked legislation being pushed by leftist President Moon Jae-In after a massive protest by opposition lawmakers and their supporters in the streets outside the parliament. Read More.

U.S. ousts Chinese diplomats who entered special ops base

The Trump administration has expelled two Chinese diplomats who reportedly breached a U.S. Special Operations base in Virginia. Read More.

Report: Iran protesters 'massacred', witnesses arrested

Amnesty International has reported that at least 304 people were killed in Iran during a three-day crackdown against protests in November. Read More.

Greta seems to take President's advice: 'I’m taking a break'

While skipping school and traveling the world (nice gig if you can get it), 16-year-old Greta Thunberg is often seen angrily scolding world leaders with lots of finger-wagging thrown in for good measure. Read More.

North Korea: From 'delicate path of dialogue' to brinksmanship

While dictator Kim Jung-Un is huffing and puffing about arbitrary deadlines to diplomatic negotiations between the United States and North Korea concerning Pyongyang’s nuclear and ballistic missile proliferation, the UN Security Council met to deliver a unified call for peace and disarmament on the divided Korean peninsula. Read More.

After Tory landslide, Trump sees 'harbinger'

Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his Conservative Party on Thursday won a sizable majority in the British parliament and now says Brexit will become reality at the end of January. Read More.

China using supercomputers, 5G tech for total control

Communist China has tested in several of its major cities a new system which uses millions of cameras linked to supercomputers to compile databases on citizens in what critics say is an Orwellian move to control all behavior. Read More.

Time’s person of the year: Who, if not the Hong Kong protester?

In naming Greta Thunberg its Person of the Year, Time chose a “teenager who skipped school to travel around the world telling people that they are horrible and the planet is doomed. It’s a living,” The Federalist publisher Ben Domenech wrote in a Dec. 11 op-ed. Read More.