How do you get out of poverty and food insecurity without cheap, reliable, abundant, and scalable energy?
Rule of law? For sure …
Foreign investors require the reassurance of the rule of law and so they must have it, in the form of propaganda.
China releases tortured rights lawyer Chang Weiping
Lawyer is sent back to his place of household registration after serving 3 1/2 years for ‘subversion.’
‘People’s court’ issues arrest warrant for Xi Jinping
A citizens’ tribunal finds China’s leader guilty of crimes of aggression, crimes against humanity and genocide.
Dangerous levels
The Three Gorges Dam reservoir records its highest water level in July as torrential rains wreak havoc.
China’s third plenum gets underway
The country’s leadership convenes amid economic decline to enhance competitiveness and revitalize growth in the face of international trade tensions.
Flood relief donations plummet due to erosion of public trust in China’s local governments and charities
“Natural disasters may destroy homes, but the collapse of public trust is even more deadly.”
Catastrophic failure
The recent accidental launch of a space rocket in China’s Henan province highlights the challenges faced by journalists in a reporting environment controlled by the state.
Word of the Week: “709 case” (709案, 709 àn), or the “Black Friday crackdown”
The Xi Jinping regime continues to punish its champions of civil rights, including threats and harm to the children of activists as a means to silence and control them.
China extends crackdown on rights lawyers to Hong Kong
Nine years after a nationwide operation targeting rights attorneys, their lives have yet to return to normal.
Prominent Chinese dissident Xu Zhiyong cut off from other inmates
The activist who urged Xi Jinping to resign is serving 14 years and is monitored around the clock.
709: Nine years on
On the 9th anniversary of the ‘709 crackdown’ on China’s civil rights champions in 2015, a new release looks at its impact on persecuted lawyers, their families, and the rule of law.
Panic over report on use of fuel tankers to transport cooking oil
Another major food health safety scandal rocks China.
Calling Beijing’s bluffs
China is using ‘legal warfare’ to threaten foreign citizens, Taiwan’s Ambassador to Canada says.
Dike burst at China’s second-largest freshwater lake
Emergency personnel worked throughout the weekend to gain control of a 226-meter breach at Dongting Lake.


