“Over the course of April and throughout May,” writes Timothy McLaughlin in The Atlantic, “Beijing was undertaking aggressive actions across Asia.” These include: The ramming — and sinking — of a Vietnamese vessel in the South China Sea. Intrusive surveying by a Chinese research vessel (plus coast-guard and other ships) near a Malaysian oil rig, […]
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“[A]t a time of rising tensions with China” is “the objectivity of news” . . . dead? Wounded? So wonders Arthur Bloom, lamenting for The American Conservative, in “China’s Long Tentacles Extend Deep Into American Media.” “We’ve got this tremendous disconnect between what the American people actually think about China and what the media has […]
China and its lapdog, the World Health Organization (WHO), face increasing global anger over having initially hid the person-to-person spread of coronavirus, which has killed a staggering 126,000 people worldwide. So far. Still unrepentant, Beijing and the WHO have continued to butcher the truth — even in petty ways. Late last month, a Hong Kong […]
When times get tough, you learn who your friends are. Take the United States’ relationships with Taiwan and the People’s Republic of China. The island nation sports a population roughly the size of Australia’s, about 24 million; just across the Taiwan Strait, what we used to call “Red China” holds the world’s largest number of […]
For weeks, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Department of Health and Human Services told us not to wear face masks. The Surgeon General even warned that mass use of masks could “increase the spread of the coronavirus.” “My nose tells me,” I posted on Facebook weeks ago, “that all the info […]
Which country has handled this worldwide pandemic best? The question was asked on Facebook, by one friend, and answered this way by another: “Government: South Korea; People: Japan.” My response? “Combo of people and government: Taiwan.” There is a lot in the Taiwanese response to explore. “The first cause of Taiwan’s success,” write Javier Caramés […]
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What Was I Thinking?
Time sure flies when you’re having fun. Today is my birthday. I am 60, and thus begin my 61st year on this planet. For the last four decades — my entire adult life — I’ve worked in politics. That might not seem like much fun. Politics is a constant struggle, a slog. But working for […]
Are you going to make a big fuss? I mean, about China — dominated by the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Because some people get all bent out of shape over their totalitarian government placing a million or two Muslim Uighurs into re-education camps surrounded by high walls and razor wire in order to browbeat, […]
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The Most Deadly Disease
Anyone knowledgeable about medicine — or history, for that matter — is taking very, very seriously the coronavirus outbreak in China, and its subsequent spread across the globe, including to the U.S. More than 70,000 Chinese have been diagnosed and over 1,700 have died, along with one death in each of France, Japan, Hong Kong […]
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Tough Time for Tyrants
How much longer does the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) have to put up with freedom-loving loudmouths? Thoughtful Party rulers can’t even entertain their subjects with NBA basketball or English Premier League soccer without fear that Chinese fans will then discover the tweet of some busybody droning on against Chinese repression in Hong Kong or complaining […]