by Tyler | Jul 19, 2019 | Asia, Censorship, China, Chinese Communist Party, Entertainment, Hollywood, Joe Biden, National Security, Politics, trade war, Trending, Xi Jinping
The L.A. Times on Thursday documented how Hollywood studios owe former vice president and 2020 presidential candidate Joe Biden a few billion favors because he played a pivotal role in helping them gain access to the lucrative box office in China.
by Tyler | Jul 19, 2019 | Asia, China, concentration camps, Ilham Tohti, Jewher Iham, Muslim, National Security, Politics, Trending, Uighurs
Victims of religious persecution from around the globe who came to the U.S. for a religious liberty summit met with President Donald Trump.
by Tyler | Jul 19, 2019 | Asia, China, Donald Trump, Justin Amash, National Security, Politics, the squad, Trending
China’s state-run Global Times was very taken this week with formerly Republican representative Justin Amash’s (I-MI) diagnosis of American politics as sinking into a “partisan death spiral.”
by Tyler | Jul 18, 2019 | Asia, China, Donald Trump, National Security, Philippines, Rodrigo Duterte, South China Sea, Trending, United States
Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte told a celebrity pastor on Wednesday that he was invoking the nation’s Mutual Defense Treaty with the United States to demand the U.S. Navy attack China.
by Tyler | Jul 14, 2019 | Asia, Belt and Road Initiative, China, Economy, Hezbollah, Iran, National Security, Trending, U.S. sanctions, United States
Some advisers within U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration are allegedly urging secondary economic restrictions on Beijing for continuing to import Iranian oil despite American sanctions against the purchase, Politico reported this week, citing anonymous U.S....
by Tyler | Jul 12, 2019 | Asia, Beijing, China, Hong Kong, Hong Kong extradition bill, National Security, Politics, Trending
A group of pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong continued a hunger strike that entered its eighth day on Thursday over a proposal that would allow the extradition of anyone in the city accused of crimes by communist China.
