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Commentary The recent shooting of massage parlor workers in Atlanta, Georgia, has sparked a string of anti-Asian hate demonstrations throughout the country. In the United States, the issue of systemic racial discrimination is complex. There are several key points that stand in the way of me being able to agree that systemic racial oppression exists […]

Two Chinese lawyers have been punished by Chinese authorities—one lawyer barred from traveling abroad, one’s company facing dissolution—both have had their licenses revoked for crossing Beijing’s red line by representing politically sensitive high-profile cases. Chinese human rights lawyer Lu Siwei and Ren Quanniu represented two of the 12 Hong Kong youth, who were intercepted by

A House of Commons committee voted unanimously Wednesday to condemn Beijing’s sanctioning of a member of Parliament and a parliamentary subcommittee. Members of the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development said they “stand in solidarity” with Conservative MP Michael Chong, after Beijing announced sanctions against him and the Commons Subcommittee on International Human

The British government on Thursday announced sanctions against a Burmese (also known as Myanmar) business conglomerate linked to the military regime. The Myanmar Economic Corporation (MEC) is being sanctioned for its “involvement in serious human rights violations by making funds available to the military, as well as its association with senior military figures,” the UK

The United States is suspending its visa and citizen services at a consulate in Russia and making the services available only at its embassy in Moscow following a safety and security review of its operations, the U.S. ambassador said on Thursday. The move comes after the United States halted work at two consulates in Russia

Commentary Chinese media outlets reported on March 29 that China’s Ministry of Science and Technology and other government departments have recently issued successive policies in an attempt to solve what they call “bottleneck issues,”  including the shortage of chips and key technologies. However, the shortage of industrial gases, especially electron specialty gases, is a big

LOS ANGELES—The Los Angeles County sheriff said detectives have determined what caused Tiger Woods to crash his SUV last month in Southern California but declined Wednesday to release details, citing unspecified privacy concerns for the golf star. Woods suffered serious injuries in the Feb. 23 crash when he struck a raised median around 7 a.m.

A Border Patrol canine sniffed out several packages of fentanyl pills that were hidden inside burritos this week in Arizona, officials said. “A canine handler referred the male driver of a Chevrolet Tahoe to the checkpoint’s secondary inspection area at approximately 3 p.m., after his canine partner alerted to the vehicle,” according to the agency.

The Chinese regime is accelerating its efforts to challenge the U.S. dollar’s dominance in global markets and trade by taking advantage of the economic shifts caused by the pandemic, a Chinese professor recently revealed. In the post-pandemic world, China should be the “one who decides the benchmark of value,” Di Dongsheng, associate dean of the

WASHINGTON—The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits rose by 61,000 last week to 719,000, signaling that many employers are still cutting jobs even as more businesses reopen, vaccines are increasingly administered, and federal aid spreads through the economy. The Labor Department said Thursday that the number of claims increased from 658,000 the week before.