China

Hungary’s efforts to bolster ties with Beijing in recent years has come under scrutiny from local politicians and media. During a trip to the Central European country in 2011, former Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said that Hungary would become a gateway to the European market. Wen’s trip marked the first meeting for the 16+1 platform—and […]

A professor at Guizhou University has been fired for voicing criticism of the Chinese Communist Party.

China’s manufacturing and export sectors are getting clobbered by U.S. tariffs

Despite continued doom and gloom in mainstream media, the risk that the United States and China would engage in a protracted, full-on trade war is subsiding.

As more U.S. tariffs are set to take effect, manufacturers of products ranging from memory chips to machines tools are shifting production from China. 

The Vatican signed an agreement with Beijing on Sept. 22 that would allow the Chinese authorities to appoint China’s bishops, in a move that critics say is capitulating to the Chinese regime. The Catholic Church in China, which is sanctioned by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), said on Sept. 23 it would “persevere to walk […]

MELBOURNE—Event organizers suspect the Chinese consulate is behind Victoria University’s (VU) inexplicable cancellation of “In the Name of Confucius”—an award-winning documentary that exposes a darker side of the so-called Confucius Institutes. VU is home to one of Australia’s 14 Confucius Institutes. CIs are Chinese state-run culture and language programs, which are widely seen as part […]