Biden Shouldn’t Meet Xi Jinping in China. He Should Do It in America.
The news that President Joe Biden is preparing to meet face-to-face in Asia in November with the head of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), Xi Jinping, broke shortly after I’d …
Hong Kong
Hong Kong Uses Covid Excuse To Extinguish Citizens’ Last Remaining Freedoms
Using Covid as an excuse for more restrictions, the CCP and its lackeys in Hong Kong are hoping to further assimilate the city into the top-to-bottom-run system used in China. …
Hong Kong Is a ‘Wake-Up Call for the World’
“For a very long time, we thought we could leave China alone, and China would leave the world alone,” says Simon Lee, co-founder of the Hong Kong–based free market think …
Hong Kong Police Arrest 90-Year-Old Catholic Bishop In Latest Round-Up Of Dissidents
Cardinal Joseph Zen, 90, joined singer-activist Denise Ho, and Margaret Ng, an attorney and ex-Hong Kong lawmaker, in Chinese detention. The FederalistThe Federalist is an American conservative online magazine and …
The Pandemic Killed Dissent in Hong Kong
When Great Britain returned control of Hong Kong to China in 1997, a condition of the transfer was that Beijing would allow the territory to maintain its own government until …
Hong Kong’s Politicians and Cops Use Pandemic Justifications To Do Beijing’s Bidding
In March 2020, curfews were implemented in most major American cities. Schools were shuttered and people were given stay-at-home orders. Though many in the West have rightly wondered about the …
Immigration Is a Bright Spot in the America COMPETES Act
This week, House Democrats introduced the America COMPETES Act of 2022, a nearly 3,000-page bill that is supposed to strengthen supply chains and bolster American innovation. Many of its provisions …
When the CCP Threatens International Students’ Academic Freedom
When Hong Kong’s national security law went into effect in June 2020, critics warned that forcing the long-independent special administrative region into China’s fold would winnow away at both legal …
Hong Kong’s Anti-Freedom Crusade Ramps Up With New ‘Treason’ And ‘Sedition’ Laws
The crackdown on freedom in Hong Kong is getting worse, as authorities plan to impose laws against more so-called ‘national security crimes.’ The FederalistThe Federalist is an American conservative online …
Brickbat: All the News That’s Fit to Punish
Hong Kong police have charged two former editors of a pro-democracy newspaper with sedition. Chung Pui-kuen and Patrick Lam, former editors at Stand News, were denied bail. They face up …