China Politics
China Steps up Campaign Against Pavlou
It was only a matter of time before the Chinese Communist Party really came for Drew Pavlou. Pavlou is the Australian human rights activist who first came to attention when he was a student, subjected to an extraordinary campaign of harassment from University of Queensland, after he organised protests against
They Said Never Again. They Lied
Australian human rights campaigner Drew Pavlou has endured the wrath of the Chinese Communist Party for years, from his own university turning on him, to being arrested for holding a blank sign outside the Chinese consulate in Brisbane. But the CCP’s vengeful persecution reached a peak this week. Pavlou
China’s Not Hampered by Climate Crazies
Donn Dears cfact.org Donn is an engineer and retired senior executive of the General Electric Company who spent his career in the power sector. He led organizations that provided engineering services for GE’s large electrical apparatus and spearheaded the establishment of GE subsidiary companies around the world. The
There’s No Free BRI Lunch
As William S. Burroughs once said, beware of whores who say they don’t want money. The hell they don’t. What they mean is that they want more money; much more, these are the most expensive whores what can be got. Burroughs added, above all, avoid confirmed criminals. Xi
Hollywood’s Love Affair With China Falters
As Ricky Gervais so brutally reminded the 2020 Golden Globe audience, Hollywood talks a big game about ‘progressivism’ and human rights, but they’re perfectly happy to jump in bed with the world’s worst people if the money’s right. For years, Hollywood had an unspoken rule of not
Has the “Economic Miracle” Run Dry?
Like me, most BFD readers would be old enough to remember when Russia was feted as the emerging economic superpower. Through the late ’70s and early ’80s, the communist giant was hailed as the economic Next Big Thing that would put those upstart capitalist Yanks in their place, once and
The CCP’s History of Virus Lies
The reason the Covid pandemic has been so devastating can be summed up in a simple sentence: China lied, people died. It really does come down to that: for every week that China lied and tried to hide the outbreak in Wuhan, the opportunity to contain the disease — and the
Hong Kong Chinese Style Snoops on Citizens
Hong Kong Free Press globalvoices.org Hong Kong Free Press is an English language news source seeking to unite critical voices on local and national affairs. Free of charge and completely independent, HKFP arrived amid rising concerns over declining press freedom in Hong Kong and during an important time in
From the Desk of a Male Pale and Stale
In 1996 I arrived in Hong Kong. There I worked in various capacities including factory inspections within a territory ranging from Japan across to India and down to New Zealand. Over a decade I probably performed over 300 factory inspections: checking all sorts of things – health, safety, employee age, remuneration,
She’s Thinking Big Things Again
Remember Helen Clark’s “incredibly benign strategic environment” zinger? Oh, how we all laughed. If only we were laughing about Helen’s spiritual offspring, Jacinda Ardern, and her similarly clueless foreign policy witterings. As Australian journalist Nick Cater writes, if Ardern’s recent speech on China is a genuine expression
Daddy Xi Says Do as You’re Told
Anyone who thinks Australia is set for a bright new dawn in China relations, with the election of Anthony “Mr 32%” Albanese, is kidding themselves. China is carrying right on with its bullying ways. The only difference is that now they’ve got the government they paid for — one which
China’s Great Philosophers Would Be Horrified by What Mao and the CCP Created
Lawrence W. Reed fee.org Lawrence W. Reed is FEE’s President Emeritus, Humphreys Family Senior Fellow, and Ron Manners Global Ambassador for Liberty, having served for nearly 11 years as FEE’s president (2008-2019). He is author of the 2020 book, Was Jesus a Socialist? as well as
Why NZ Needs to Keep Both China and the USA Happy
Don Brash bassettbrashandhide.com Don Brash was Reserve Bank Governor from 1988 to 2002, and National Party Leader from 2003 to 2006 The Prime Minister’s recent visit to Washington, during which she seemed to have signed New Zealand up as a strongly pro-US outpost in the South Pacific
Slipping a Forked Tongue Between Xi’s Cheeks
One of William Blake’s most insightful rhyming couplets is: A truth that’s told with bad intent, beats all the lies you can invent. Jacinda Ardern is an arch-liar, despite promising never to tell a lie in politics (which turned out to be just her first political lie)
The New Empire of the Middle Kingdom
The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which – George Orwell, Animal Farm As the unforgettable conclusion of Orwell’s great anti-communist satire shows, no matter what they tell