Section: Victims of Communism (USA)
February 21st, 2017
CAMBODIA Cambodian Political Analyst Arrested For Defaming Prime MinisterRADIO FREE ASIA Prominent Cambodian political analyst and social commentator Kim Sok was arrested on Friday and charged with inciting social chaos and defaming Prime Minister Hun Sen during a radio interview with RFA’s Khmer Service last week. Hundreds of supporters...
February 17th, 2017
CHINA China Says it Has Stopped Harvesting Organs, but Evidence Belies Its Claim Wendy Rogers, THE HUFFINGTON POST The Chinese government has claimed the country no longer harvests organs from prisoners. But recent revelations about two leading Chinese researchers indicate this may not be true. In 2005, China publicly stated what many already...
February 15th, 2017
CHINA China’s Provincial Official Sentenced to 15 Years for GraftTHE INDIAN EXPRESS A former provincial Communist Party leader in China was on Wednesday sentenced to 15 years in prison for corruption, the latest senior official to be jailed under the anti-graft drive launched by Chinese leader Xi Jinping. Zhou Benshun, former Party chief of...
February 14th, 2017
CHINA Foreign Passports Offer Little Protection for China’s Elite Ben Bland, FINANCIAL TIMES Like many wealthy Chinese businesspeople seeking an insurance policy against their capricious if often profitable political system, Xiao Jianhua acquired foreign citizenship. But if the billionaire investor thought that having Canadian citizenship...
February 10th, 2017
CHINA Backing Away from a Fight, Trump to Honor One-China Policy Simon Denyer and Philip Rucker, THE WASHINGTON POST President Trump just backed down from what could have been a serious fight with China. On Thursday evening in Washington, he appeared to shy away from confrontation with Beijing by agreeing to honor the one-China policy, during a...
February 9th, 2017
CHINA Call Me, Maybe? Trump Reaches Out to China’s President in a Letter Simon Denyer, THE WASHINGTON POST The White House has issued a statement saying President Trump “provided a letter” to Xi Jinping on Wednesday, thanking the Chinese leader for a congratulatory note he had sent on the US president’s inauguration. The letter...
February 8th, 2017
CHINA A Top Chinese Judge Is Calling Trump a “Bully” and Schooling Him on What the Law Is About Charlie Campbell, TIME The US president is an “enemy of the rule of law,” according to a top Chinese judge, reacting to Trump’s verbal attacks on an American judge who blocked his controversial travel ban last week. He Fan, a member of the apex...
February 6th, 2017
CHINA China’s Intelligent Weaponry Gets Smarter John Markoff and Matthew Rosenberg, THE NEW YORK TIMES The United States no longer has a strategic monopoly on A.I. technology, which is widely seen as the key factor in the next generation of warfare. The Pentagon’s plan to bring A.I. to the military is taking shape as Chinese...
February 3rd, 2017
CHINA Why Foreign Companies Are Shutting Shop in China Jane Li, CNBC US-based Seagate, the world’s biggest maker of hard disk drives, closed its factory in Suzhou near Shanghai last month with the loss of 2,000 jobs, in a move that has rekindled fears that China is becoming increasingly hostile towards foreign firms operating in the...
February 2nd, 2017
CHINA A China of Citizens Andrew J. Nathan, FOREIGN AFFAIRS There have been many attempts at democratic change in China, but the most creative approach to dissent, however, was perhaps that of a young lawyer, Xu Zhiyong. In 2013, Xu was arrested and later sentenced to four years in prison for his role in leading the New Citizens’ Movement....
