A shabby move
Billionaire Hungarian investor George Soros has accused Chinese dictator Xi Jingping of being the “greatest threat that open societies face today.” The remarks were made during a speech at the Hoover Institution last week. “2022 will be a critical year in the history of the world,” said Soros. “In a few days, China – the […]
‘Political Interference’
CCP says US ‘scoffed at’
Right.
Speaking to Portlaoise County Council personnel during his tenure as President of the European Parliament, Pat Cox lauded the EU’s commitment to liberal democracy and its institutions. By contrast, he described in graphic terms the charade that was China’s National Peoples’ Congress. It was, he observed, a bloated assembly of ‘yacking donkeys’ whose brays might be heard […]
Hungary, as every bien pensant knows, is beyond the Pale these days, mostly due to the decision by the Hungarian government not to facilitate the promotion of transgenderism in state schools. Of course, that is only the latest of the offences, as perceived by the establishment, to have been committed by Viktor Orban, Chief of […]
This year marks 100 years since foundation of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and its Czechoslovak counterpart – KSČ (Communist Party of Czechoslovakia). Both parties set off with the same ”Leninist” pattern but their current shape is quite different from each other. Both parties organised terror in their countries, which cost thousands of lives in […]
A Taiwanese youth who had worked in Shanghai for four years once told me that, when she read books in the bookstore during her leisure time, she would often find herself thinking: these books were abridged; when going to the movies, she thought: these were cuts. With incomplete content and no information about its validity, […]
A Taiwanese youth who had worked in Shanghai for four years once told me that, when she read books in the bookstore during her leisure time, she would often find herself thinking: these books were abridged; when going to the movies, she thought: these were cuts. With incomplete content and no information about its validity, […]
In 1983, US President Ronald Reagan was recorded as first using the phrase “Evil Empire” to describe the USSR. In doing so, the Cold War Warrior focused the minds of America and the West on defeating the totalitarian regime in Moscow. This phrase was the beginning of the end of the Soviet Union, rolling back […]
Koen Stoop is the EU Policy Coordinator of the World Uyghur Congress, an international organisation which represents the Uyghur people. Koen talks to Gript about the ongoing repression of the Ughur people, a situation a growing number of politicians and academics have said constitutes genocide. #gript