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’
Was the SARS-CoV-2 virus engineered in a lab? Was it the result of a freak accident of zoonosis? Was it released deliberately as a bio-warfare agent? Did it accidentally leak, probably in an infected lab worker? Thanks to the Chinese Communist Party’s non-stop litany of lies and cover-ups, we’
Recently, The BFD reported on the rich kids funding eco-terrorism. The scions of the global elite, such as the Kennedys and Gettys, are using their unearned, inherited wealth to fund more and more extremist environmental groups openly threatening violence to push their cause. The backing for these nascent eco-terrorists reaches
