Liu Xiaobo, a Nobel Peace Prize winner for his efforts to promote democracy in Communist China, died at age 61 due to multiple organ failure from cancer. He was the second Nobel laureate to die in prison since 1938, when pacifist Carl von Ossietzky died protesting the Nazi Germany regime. He was imprisoned by the […]
That’s a major ‘oops’ moment: Taiwan’s navy on Friday mistakenly fired a supersonic anti-ship missile, although there were no injuries caused by the mishap, the official Central News Agency reported. The 500-ton patrol boat Chinchiang was undergoing an inspection inside a military base when the missile — a Hsiung Feng III — was fired off […]
Today is June 4th, when the protests were brutally put down by the Communist Chinese government. Oh, and a cyber attack disrupted an online meeting to commemorate the massacre, probably done by the Chinese government. Photo by xiquinhosilva
No outrage over a Democratic billionaire donor, but only if the name “Koch” is in the headline, right? Billionaire Democratic donor Tom Steyer helped finance a company used by the family of China’s former head of state to park investments in overseas tax havens, leaked corporate documents reveal. Steyer’s hedge fund joined a firm with […]
Well, there you have it…so much for free speech in China: A former journalist with China’s official news agency says he has been blocked from traveling to the United States to accept a Harvard University prize for a 2008 book uncovering the devastating toll of the Great Chinese Famine of 1958-1961. Harvard’s Nieman Fellows in […]
Let’s allow the Chinese Communists to waste their money propping up clean energy initiatives. It hasn’t worked well for America or their taxpayers, who’ve footed the bill for the likes of Solyndra.
The disparity between the number of men to women in China, along with a rapidly shrinking labor force, means that China may suffer for a decade or so before the population growth catches up again.