Massimo Introvigne mercatornet.com Massimo Introvigne is an Italian sociologist of religions. He is the founder and managing director of the Center for Studies on New Religions (CESNUR), an international network of scholars who study new religious movements. From 2012 to 2015 he served as chairperson of the Observatory of
It’s not exactly groundless to worry that, if Russia’s Ukraine gamble pays off, China will see it as a green-light to invade Taiwan. After all, Beijing has been rattling its sabres across the Strait constantly and makes no bones that it regards the island nation as a renegade
The Morrison government’s confrontation with China is about to escalate, as Australia finally gets serious about its security in Antarctica. In a long-overdue move, Australia will strengthen its historic claim to Antarctic territory and push back against China’s expansion there. As I wrote some years ago, it is
Paul Luciw has lived in Hong Kong since 1991. He founded the AsiaXPAT site in 1999, and has written thousands of articles about Hong Kong and Asia powering the expat Must Reads section. Whatever the issue, if Hong Kong is involved, he’s got an opinion and usually an answer.
Communist China is the Nazi Germany of the 21st century. Every time I write that sentence, even I can’t help thinking it’s a paranoid hyperbole. Still, facts are facts: rabidly nationalist, racist, socialist, dictatorship, concentration camps, genocide… tick… tick… tick. As it turns out, it’s not just
As I reported yesterday, it’s plain which Australian political party China wants in power. The Chinese Communist Party is doing everything in its power to buy the next election for Labor. Whether its Labor powerbrokers lobbying for China and hobnobbing with accused Chinese spies, CCP-connected businessman handing over literal
An alleged Chinese spy has been caught trying to bankroll CCP-“sympathetic” candidates and buy influence in parliament. After the last two years of relentless diplomatic and economic warfare against Australia by China, not to mention China’s threats of launching actual warfare against our friends and allies, you’d
Vera Stanton Nowhere else in the world has the zeal for ZeroCovid taken a more dystopian bent than in China and, by extension, Hong Kong. The once-international financial centre of more than 7 million has been cut off from the entire world – including mainland China and neighbouring SAR Macau. The
Michael Cook mercatornet.com Michael Cook is the editor of MercatorNet. February 9, 2017 was not one of Hu’s better days. Unbeknownst to him, family planning authorities in his home county in Yunnan, a province in southwestern China, had learned that he was the father of four children – three
China has blinked first in its diplomatic war against Australia. For over a year, the communist regime has been escalating its attacks on Australia and the Morrison government. “Crazy”, “Insane” are just some of the epithets the “wolf warriors” have hurled our way. Then there are the trade sanctions: enraged
Cutting new endings onto great films is nothing new. For instance, classic 50s science fiction/Cold War paranoia film, The Invasion of the Body Snatchers was originally neutered by its studio. Execs thought that the ending — with the hero standing in traffic, Cassandra-like shouting apparently insane warnings to heedless commuters
Despite the tub-thumping of Xi Xinping and the gawping gullibility of too many commentators (especially academics), China is facing a long slide into the demographic doo-doo. As Mark Steyn so pithily put it, China’s rapidly getting very old and very, very male. So, “Unless China’s planning on becoming
For the past decade and more, we’ve been regularly treated to gushing commentary about China’s “economic miracle”. But, every time I’ve heard some economist babbling about “X% growth”, my first thought has been: That’s if you believe the Chinese Communist Party. The first thing anyone must
In his books Silent Invasion: China’s influence in Australia and Hidden Hand: Exposing How The Chinese Communist Party Is Reshaping The World (co-written with Mareike Ohlberg, Australian academic Clive Hamilton exposes, “the Chinese Communist Party’s global program of influence and subversion, and the threat it poses to democracy”
We all knew a global pandemic was not a matter of “if” but “when”. With that in mind, groups like the WHO and the CDC spent decades carefully developing pandemic management plans for governments, building on experience with recent outbreaks like SARS and Ebola. By an irony of history, the
The BFD has recently reported on the Rich Kids Funding Eco-Terrorism and on China’s useful idiots secretly pushing the CCP’s global domination agenda via the climate movement. But, as other recent revelations show, the tentacles of Beijing’s influence reach into every level of the environmental movement. Australia’
