Fresno County, California, “will receive a $125,000 settlement from the owner of the building where an illegal biological lab with links to China” was recently uncovered in the city of Reedley. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has completed a cleanup…
How do you rein in a belligerent colossus with 1.4 billion people, nuclear weapons, and a desire to command and control the world’s economic order that has prevailed since the end of World War II? Well, there is a way;…
The annual summer retreat of the CCP leadership in Beidaihe has concluded, and it ended without fanfare. It can be reasonably inferred that no major resolutions were reached during the retreat. Those who expected the CCP to introduce significant measures…
When China lifted its authoritarian COVID restrictions last December, its economy was expected to roar back. But its second-quarter numbers just came in, and they suggest that the economy is sputtering and slipping into deflation. In fact, some economists have…
China has hit a rough patch. As it widened its COVID lockdown catchment areas in 2022, the economic ramifications caught up with it, resulting in its second-worst economic growth rate since the 1970s. Late in the year, just as President…
Communist China’s guiding ideology, epitomized first by “Mao Zedong Thought,” and now by “Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era,” has always been predicated on the notion of unceasing struggle. “Marxism,” Chairman Mao maintained, “can…
I It is the morning of July 1, 1958, and a bleary-eyed Chairman Mao Zedong is rising from his double bed, having passed a restless night in his official residence at the Zhongnanhai’s Library of Chrysanthemum Fragrance. The 64-year-old Great…
Kevin McCarthy might not ultimately manage to become the Speaker of the House. He has some 20 members of the Republican caucus who are firm opponents of his ascension to succeed Nancy Pelosi, and McCarthy’s allies are howling that if…
In China, authoritarians flood Twitter with ads for prostitutes and pornography in an effort to prevent users from obtaining information about protests. Authoritarians in the United States threaten to remove Twitter from more than 1.5 billion devices worldwide. “Apple has…
Boy, there sure is an awful lot of discrediting news for the Branch Covidian crowd lately, isn’t there? Sure seems like they put us through two years of hell for — if not nothing, then certainly not much. We can…