The great exodus of people and capital as China’s economic decline and squeezed politics push many to vote with their feet.
Israel helps Taiwan in defending against Chinese aggression
The possibility that Taiwan and Israel have formed a military alliance must give China pause.
Mr. Xi, tear down this firewall
The CCP has turned the internet, designed as a tool of freedom, into the ultimate tool of control.
‘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.
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.
Calling Beijing’s bluffs
China is using ‘legal warfare’ to threaten foreign citizens, Taiwan’s Ambassador to Canada says.
Bookstores become sites of subtle protest against Xi Jinping
The placement of books published by President Xi Jinping alongside titles that seem to be making a political point continue to titillate.
Chinese society is rapidly militarising
President Xi is determined to shape a society that is both loyal to the Party and prepared to defend its interests.
‘China’s people are increasingly aware of human rights’
The growing vulnerability of Xi Jinping’s strongman rule.
China revives socialist ideas to fix its real-estate crisis
Today’s housing crisis is much more severe than the last downturn, economists say, leaving the government with an even bigger challenge to clear up the mess.
A banking and land-sales crisis threatens China’s stability
If banks fail, social unrest can follow.
Hutong, DJ bar, youth, and unexpected politics: the detained “Blank Paper” protesters of Beijing
An intimate look at the youth detained for their first public moment in the face of systematic suppression.
TIMELINE: What Prime Minister Trudeau knew and when about Chinese Communist Party interference in Canada’s 2019 general election
Abundant evidence attests to widespread infiltration by China’s Communist Party (CCP) into the Canadian parliament and Canadian institutions, including Privy Council Office documents that are now a matter of public record.
After Canada was bought and paid for, President Xi is understandably piqued at Trudeau’s performance
Canada is said to be more exposed than other Western democracies to China’s interference, but Prime Minister Justin Trudeau either deflects or stonewalls on concrete actions. Why?
The Great Absurdity
Is insisting on “Zero Covid,” an early rehearsal for total social control?


