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Somebody … to Squelch

Relevance: 19%      Posted on: November 26, 2021

I AM . . . somebody! . . . with an officially “restricted” Facebook account. I’d like to thank my family and friends for always believing in me — even many decades ago when it was unclear if I had what it takes to even get arrested. And now, after…

China Trip Itinerary

Relevance: 19%      Posted on: January 25, 2022

It’s nice to be invited. Either former NBA basketball player Yao Ming or a Chinese Communist Party handler standing just behind him had the idea of inviting Enes Kanter Freedom to visit China, where Yao Ming would be his tour guide. Mr. Freedom, a current NBA player, is a sharp…

Virtual Private Communist

Relevance: 18%      Posted on: February 18, 2022

“China censors Olympic gold medalist’s defense of China’s internet censorship . . .” informed Mashable.com’s ironic headline.  The medalist in question? Eileen Gu, the 18-year-old phenom who just became the youngest ever Olympic freestyle skiing champion. Born in San Francisco to an American father and a Chinese mother, Gu is…

No Laughing Matter

Relevance: 18%      Posted on: May 22, 2023

Without freedom of speech, the jester’s art can be perilous. Chinese comedian Li Haoshi, who performs under the name House, recently did stand-up comedy at a Beijing club, after which, reports Reuters, “an audience member posted online a description of a joke he had made . . . describing it…

Good Relations with Genocide?

Relevance: 18%      Posted on: November 24, 2020

“Beijing is trying to convince the incoming Biden administration that the U.S.-China relationship can be smooth and positive,” writes Washington Post columnist Josh Rogin, “but only if Washington dumps the Trump administration’s policies, ignores China’s worst behaviors and pretends everything is fine.” It is more than a little scary because…

‘Hardly Peace’

Relevance: 17%      Posted on: November 28, 2023

Xi Jinping’s “charm offensive” had hardly begun — punctuated by the standing ovation from a roomful of American CEOs even before the leader of this recognized genocidal regime offered his fervent desire for peace and friendship — when, over the weekend, as NBC News reported, “China Confronts U.S. Warship as…

Tyranny Without Limits

Relevance: 17%      Posted on: October 24, 2022

This weekend, at the 20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), a unanimous vote of elite communist party officials gave President Xi Jinping his third five-year term. But the story that made the headlines focused on the physical removal from the main chamber of Hu Jintao, the previous…

Why We Fight

Relevance: 17%      Posted on: March 30, 2023

A recent Senate hearing addressed a big problem facing America’s All-Volunteer Force (AVF): recruitment.  The Army fell 25 percent short of its 2022 goal; the Air Force is 10 percent below; the Navy met its target for enlisted folks but not officers; and the Marines hit their mark but said…

Not Being Norway

Relevance: 17%      Posted on: May 27, 2021

Aren’t Norwegians the good guys? Yet, somehow, this bastion of human rights (and “best democracy in the world”) has, since 2010, “forcibly registered the nationality of Taiwanese residing in Norway as ‘Chinese’”? “The action is considered an act of appeasement,” The News Lens paraphrases Joseph Liu, a Taiwanese lawyer based…

Optimized for Attack

Relevance: 17%      Posted on: July 12, 2021

Whence came this pandemic?  Now that we can investigate the lab leak theory without being smeared as conspiracy nuts or buried in an avalanche of disinformation from China, the World Health Organization, and the U.S. scientific community — all protected in their deceit by Big Tech and our mainstream media…