The “Lab Leak” is back in the news again, it seems. You know, the “right-wing conspiracy theory with no evidence”? Yes, that one. Even more odd, the “racist conspiracy theory” is now being floated by no less than a high-ranking Chinese official. The top Chinese official who led
libertynation.com While Chinese Minister of Commerce Wang Wentao looked for ways to pick America’s financial pockets in a meeting with US counterparts Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo and US Trade Representative Katherine Tai, Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin visited Beijing for collaborative discussions with President Xi Jinping and
It’s fair to say that the Chinese Communist Party has little regard for history. After all, it’s estimated that some three-quarters of China’s vast wealth of cultural heritage was deliberately destroyed during the orgy of mass murder and destruction of the Cultural Revolution. With Mao’s
Shocking reports have recently detailed how Chinese ships are systematically looting maritime war graves for steel from sunken WWII ships. It’s also widely-known that a massive, shocking illegal organ-harvesting industry exists in China. Prisoners, even religious and political dissidents and other enemies of the regime are allegedly
Antonio Graceffo mercatornet.com Dr. Antonio Graceffo, PhD, China MBA, is a China economist, the author of Beyond the Belt and Road: China’s Global Expansion and The Wrestler’s Dissertation. He is based in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) 2023 Annual Report documented
Geoffrey Miller democracyproject.nz Geoffrey Miller is the Democracy Project’s geopolitical analyst and writes on current New Zealand foreign policy and related geopolitical issues. He has lived in Germany and the Middle East and is a learner of Arabic and Russian. He is currently working on a PhD on
Did you know that the Chinese Ambassador to New Zealand, Wang Xiaolong, has sent a 36 page, 11,300-word letter to numerous New Zealand MPs, railing against the United States? You certainly won’t have heard about it from the New Zealand media, who are strangely silent on the
Jose Caballero Senior Economist, IMD World Competitiveness Center International Institute for Management Development (IMD) China’s billions of dollars in global investments and infrastructure projects seem to be paying off politically and economically. Just recently, Honduras signalled it is set to cut diplomatic ties with Taiwan, having been one of
Don Brash bassettbrashandhide.com A few weeks ago, the New Zealand media gave some coverage to the spectacle of the US President and the Prime Ministers of Australia and the UK signing an agreement whereby Australia will buy eight nuclear-powered submarines over the next two decades at a cost
Liberty Nation News libertynation.com During meetings in Moscow, President Xi Jinping of China and Russia’s President Vladimir Putin went to great lengths to impress the rest of the world with their “friendship without limits”. It was obvious Putin was sparing no expense to lavish ceremonial pomp on the
As recently reported for The BFD, former Australian PM Paul Keating was back in the news last week. The very person who coined the phrase “Relevance Deprivation Syndrome” was doing his best to desperately try and claw back some relevance and at the same time earn his spot on the
Tierin-Rose Mandelburg Staff Writer/Researcher newsbusters.org Tierin-Rose grew up in a large Christian family on the coast of Connecticut. After high school she moved to Alabama to dance with a professional ballet company while attending Liberty University. She served as an MRC Culture intern in Spring 2021
In an episode of The Simpsons, Homer, left alone to supervise the kids, is given a simple piece of advice: “Always do the opposite of what Bart says”. There are some people in life who are just like that. Their talent for being wrong and/or venal is so pronounced
There is very little I’ll credit the Albanese government for, but one faint praise I’ll damn them with is that at least they haven’t scuttled the AUKUS deal. In doing so, it’s swimming against some very powerful internal tides. After all, China was clearly hoping for
It’s long ago been relegated to the dusty closet of the embarrassing past like a tatty old pair of Roller Strollers, but back in the 80s it was the height of fashion. I’m talking about the propensity of furrow-browed, mid-wit chin-strokers to declare that the
In his excellent book Tombstone, Yang Jisheng relates what it was like to actually live through the monstrous crime of the Great Leap Forward. As an estimated 40 million of their fellow citizens starved to death, most Chinese had no idea it was even happening. How did the Mao regime
