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From June 28, 2022, to Feb. 8, 2024, two of China’s most well-known stock indices, the Shanghai Stock Exchange Index and Hong Kong’s Hang Sang Index, have lost 20 percent and 28 percent of their value, respectively. And this is after the…

A Beautiful China: China’s Twentieth Century Xu Zhiyong, February 12, 2024 Note From the Editor Born in 1973, Dr. Xu Zhiyong (许志永) is a legal scholar, pioneer of China’s rights defense movement, and a founder of the New Citizens…

The Wall Street Journal reported this week that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is applying freshly heightened regulatory scrutiny to Boeing over recent quality issues and safety scares. But Boeing also finds itself beholden to…

Hong Kong leaders backed by Red China’s communist party (CCP) are planning to accelerate their crackdown on basic freedoms throughout the city, government officials announced on Tuesday. Hong Kong Chief Executive John Lee revealed…

Former Wyoming Republican Congresswoman Liz Cheney encouraged former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley to stay in the presidential primary on the left-wing podcast “Pod Save America” Friday. “I hope she stays in the race as long as she has to,”…

Ilham, My Brother Yaxue Cao, January 15, 2024 Ilham Tohti in the fall of 2013, not too long before his arrest. Photo: Wang Lixiong 1. People often automatically assume that I personally know Ilham Tohti. I don’t. When Ilham was arrested…

Several high-profile purges are said to have happened in China over the past few months. What do they mean? Do the mysterious removals of cabinet ministers and generals signal weakness? Paranoia? Or something else? Because China is a…

The first consequential election of 2024 will take place on Jan. 13, when millions of Taiwanese go to the polls to choose the island’s next president. Communist China framed the election as a choice between “peace and war.” It’s false…

With the Christmas season ending and radio stations returning to their regular selection of music, one song I most certainly will not miss is that painful British tune “Do They Know It’s Christmas.” Written nearly 40 years ago by a group of…

A leaked document coauthored by American and Chinese scientists provides fresh and disturbing evidence supporting the Covid origin lab-leak theory. Emily Kopp, an investigative journalist at U.S. Right to Know, an…