Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s principal China policy adviser, Anhui-born Dr. Miles Yu, made a rare public appearance on Sept. 22 to reject the “multilateralism” approach advocated to the world by Chinese leader Xi Jinping at the U.N. General Assembly. Yu, who has been labelled the number one traitor to the Chinese race in modern history by Chinese […]

KYIV, Ukraine—Leader Alexander Lukashenko of Belarus was sworn in to his sixth term in office at an inaugural ceremony that wasn’t announced in advance, amid weeks of protests against the authoritarian leader’s reelection, which the opposition says was rigged. One opposition leader called the secretive Sept. 23 ceremony “a farce,” and several European countries reiterated that […]

MINSK—Ignoring calls for an end to his 26-year grip on power, President Alexander Lukashenko of Belarus was sworn in for a sixth term on Wednesday after an election that the opposition and several foreign governments say was rigged. The ceremony would normally have been publicized as a major state occasion but was instead held without […]

You’ve finished a lovely dinner together, enjoyed a bottle of wine, and now you’re walking through the restaurant’s parking lot with your date, Maggie, who last week won her black belt in karate. Suddenly a big man, cursing, clearly intoxicated, and fist raised, lurches toward you from the shadows. Do you 1. duck behind Maggie, […]

Commentary On Sept. 9, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang convened an executive meeting of the State Council and mentioned the obstacles to consumption demand, a major economic issue that was first mentioned last year at the closing address of the Two Sessions, the annual rubber-stamp legislature meetings. “Consumption obstacles” seem to refer to the severe downturn […]

Former “Empire” star Jussie Smollett insists that he was the victim of a setup and claims there are two new witnesses to prove that he did not stage a racist and homophobic attack on himself in Chicago in January of 2019. In an interview with former CNN commentator Marc Lamont Hill, which was shared on Instagram on […]

Commentary It’s the denouement of the silly season, so I suppose we shouldn’t be surprised that the commentariat is abuzz with silliness. I understand that competition for the title of the silliest entry is stiff. But I am inclined to give the palm to “In Defense of Looting: A Riotous History of Uncivil Action,” one […]

MINSK—The opposition in Belarus rejected official election results handing President Alexander Lukashenko a landslide re-election victory on Monday, saying the poll was rigged and that talks needed to begin on a peaceful transfer of power. Earlier, the central election commission said Lukashenko, in power for more than a quarter of a century, won 80 percent […]

Police groups are concerned that making it easier to sue police officers for damages would cause them to pull back in their jobs, which could impact communities and public safety in the long run. “To take away qualified immunity from people that really go out there and really take their oath seriously, it’s going to […]

Commentary The next three months will be among the most perilous in American history. Will Donald Trump—a man who inspires frothing fury in his enemies, who have sworn to depose him by any means necessary—defeat the hologram of a semi-senile and reclusive Joe Biden? Or will the party of slavery, segregation, secularism, and sedition seize […]

Commentary The left-wing charge that America is a racist country is the greatest national libel since the Blood Libel against the Jews. America is, in fact, the least racist multiracial, multiethnic country in world history. Neither the claim that America is a racist society nor the claim that it is the least racist country can […]

PARIS—The Paris appeals court, on Friday, July 1, upheld a decision to end a years-long investigation into the plane crash that sparked Rwanda’s 1994 genocide, citing lack of sufficient evidence. The probe has damaged France–Rwanda relations for years, because it targeted several people close to current Rwandan President Paul Kagame. His justice minister welcomed Friday’s […]

Commentary One positive aspect of having spent three years and two weeks incarcerated in U.S. federal prisons (for crimes I would never have dreamt of committing and of which I was ultimately acquitted and pardoned), was that it gave me considerable insight into the lives and treatment of lower-income African and Latino Americans. I got […]

Beijing will establish a security agency in Hong Kong, allowing it to heighten its control over the territory, according to a blueprint of a new national security law unveiled on June 20. China’s communist regime will set up a dedicated central government bureau in the former British colony responsible for analyzing so-called security risks in […]

SEOUL, South Korea—North Korea said on June 17 that it will send soldiers to now-shuttered inter-Korean cooperation sites in its territory and reinstall guard posts and resume military exercises at front-line areas, nullifying tension-reducing deals reached with South Korea just two years ago. The announcement is the latest in a series of provocations North Korea […]

Commentary Two pro-China communist parties—Freedom Road Socialist Organization and Liberation Road—are playing leading roles in coordinating the often-violent protests now occurring across the United States. These groups openly state their desire to destroy the Trump presidency and bring down the Republican Party, and the current protests and rioting should be viewed in that context. This […]

Commentary Many are trying to figure out how things went so wrong in our country, how so many of our young (and old) people—politicians, entertainers and media notable among them—are clamoring for such absurdities as defunding the police when 18 people were murdered in Chicago last weekend alone. I’m not. I have suspected I knew […]

Nationwide protests against police violence are still persisting more than a week after George Floyd died while taking a knee to the neck by a Minneapolis police officer. His death has ignited more than just protests and riots—the ongoing debate on a Supreme Court-made legal doctrine that insulates police officers from civil liability has reached […]

Commentary That Venezuelan socialist dictator Nicolas Maduro remains in power is a testament to his military’s guns, secret police repression, torture of his pro-democracy opposition and the malign charity of four buddy dictatorships, Russia, Iran, Cuba and China. As late as January 2020, the month during which a Maduro ally hired fancy lobbyists to gull […]

How is it that Drew Pavlou, a 20-year old student who peacefully protested his Australian university’s ties to the Chinese Communist Party, is now facing expulsion? Why do Drew and his lawyer describe his recent disciplinary hearing as a “kangaroo court”? And, what compels him to keep going, despite being slandered and receiving death threats […]

U.S. State Department certified that Iran, North Korea, Syria, Venezuela, and Cuba were not cooperating fully with U.S. counterterrorism efforts in 2019 and notified Congress about it on May 12, according to a statement. Cuba has been certified as not fully cooperating with antiterrorism efforts the first time since 2015 for refusal to extradite ten […]

Commentary The Democratic Party and the morally bankrupt Washington political media that have parroted the party line these four years have finally recognized the impending collapse of their corrupt stranglehold on the American state and public opinion. It need not be emphasized that the Republicans, the Trump administration, and the president himself are far from […]

Government officials from the United States, the UK, and Taiwan have expressed concerns following the mass arrests of 15 pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong on April 18, the biggest crackdown on the city’s pro-democracy movement since large-scale protests erupted in June last year. “Politicized law enforcement is inconsistent with universal values of freedom of expression, […]

Originally produced by London’s National Theatre of Great Britain back in 2012 and later brought to Broadway’s Music Box Theatre the same year, this side-splitting farce was available, free of charge, on the small screen via YouTube. As if from a front-row seat, you’d be seeing a live performance of this major hit, filmed before […]

Just how did Iván Simonovis, a former police chief of Caracas, Venezuela’s capital, end up as a political prisoner sentenced to 30 years in prison? How did he escape? How was Venezuela transformed by the socialist regimes of Hugo Chavez and Nicolas Maduro? And how have terrorist and criminal organizations like Hezbollah set up shop […]

CHICAGO—A few weeks ago if one walked into a theater lobby in Chicago, one would hear the sound of people talking, laughing, and socializing in a festive mood. As patrons entered the auditorium and found their seats, one could hear the palpable silence of excited theatergoers as they looked to the stage in anticipation. Now, […]

The United States has indicted Venezuela’s socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro and other top regime officials in a narco-terrorism and drug trafficking conspiracy that aimed to “flood the United States with cocaine,” the Justice Department announced. The department unsealed a criminal indictment against Maduro, accusing him of facilitating efforts in conjunction with a violent terrorist organization—the […]

Commentary There’s no longer any real competition between the two major political scandals that emerged following the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Proponents of the first scandal, commonly referred to as “Russiagate,” claim that the man who had just won the election was an undercover agent who took orders straight from Moscow. The other one that […]

Commentary The election of 2016 revealed the fault lines in U.S. political culture in a way that no event has since the Civil War. Now, as then, Americans suddenly realized they had no idea who their brothers, husbands, fathers, and neighbors really were; that people they thought of as fellow countrymen, defending the same principles […]

Chinese-born Swedish bookseller Gui Minhai has been sentenced to 10 years in jail for illegally providing intelligence overseas, the Ningbo Intermediate People’s Court in China said in a Feb. 25 statement on its website. Gui, who sold books critical of China’s political leadership while previously based in Hong Kong, was detained by mainland police in […]