A group of six independent Senators has said that the 2022 Winter Olympics should not take place in Beijing and that, if the International Olympic Committee doesn’t change the venue, the Olympic Federation of Ireland (OFI) should boycott the event. Led by Independent NUI Senator Rónán Mullen, the Oireachtas group criticized the “deteriorating human rights […]
The director of the Chinese Centre for Disease Control & Prevention, Gao Fu, has admitted that the country’s vaccine effectiveness remains low compared to other jabs. To date, China has developed a total of 5 vaccines, ranging from 50% (below the World Health Organisation’s threshold) to 79% effectiveness. This compares to the Pfizer, AstraZeneca and […]
Swedish international clothing retail brand, H&M, were onto something real when they declared they would not use Chinese cotton from the Xinjiang region because of the ongoing Uyghur genocide in that province. China accounts for an estimated 22% of world cotton production and 84% of their cotton is grown and picked in the Xinjiang province, […]
In 1974 local farmers digging a well near the Chinese city of Xian came across one of the greatest archaeological discoveries ever made. The discovery of a clay warrior figure soon revealed many more by state archaeologists. In fact there may be 8,000 terracotta figures in total, each individually modelled and purposely arranged in three […]
A senior Estonian scientist employed by NATO has been convicted of conducting intelligence activities on behalf of the Chinese military.
Since the inclusion of China into the World Trade Organization (WTO) by the Clinton Administration, some politicians in the United States have continued to labour under a dubious illusion: that after the advancement of China’s economy, its politics will gradually democratize. This illusion has finally been shattered by recent events. Evidence that has gradually emerged […]
On March 8, the Newlines Institute for Strategy and Policy published a comprehensive report whose title speaks for itself: The Uyghur Genocide: An Examination of China’s Breaches of the 1948 Genocide Convention. The report arrives at the same conclusion as the former Trump administration and states that China’s treatment of the Uyghurs meets all of […]
Quietly, this is one of the most significant stories in global politics today, but (probably understandably) it’s not going to make headlines in most Irish media outlets: China’s military executed a coordinated test launch of its top anti-ship ballistic missile into the South China Sea last August to send an “unmistakable message,” the head of […]
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 […]
Trapped for 2 years More than 18,000 people have now signed a petition calling on the Irish government to intervene and get an Irish citizen home from China where he has been kept against his will for 2 years. Dublin businessman Richard O’Halloran has now been under detention in China since March 2019. He is […]
The Sino-Vatican agreement on the appointment of bishops in China appears to have been torn up by the CCP. New regulations on the appointment of religious leaders by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) omits any mention of the Vatican’s role in approving bishops to the state-run church there, casting doubt over the integrity of the […]
At the first conference of Stakhanovites in November 1935, Stalin declared to his audience that “Life has improved, Comrades. Life has become more joyous.” For himself and the thieves, psychopaths and rapists in his inner circle, it certainly had. For the millions living in abject poverty and those struggling to survive the aftermath of the […]