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Just as they are doing with seemingly every obstacle in their way, Hong Kong protesters innovated around the need for a strong leader.
As the world’s most powerful fascist regime, one would expect China to encounter great difficulties spreading its influence on liberal Australian university campuses, the student bodies of which are hypersensitive to right-wing teaching or teachers.
While the Chinese government continues to transform Xinjiang through its cultural genocide program aimed at eliminating the distinct identity of the Uyghur population, it is also putting a high priority on controlling the history of the region and its people.
If China is responsible for the attack on the Australian parliament, the intelligence that it has gathered could be very useful in eroding the appeal of democracy worldwide.
China now stands poised to lead the world in the development of artificial-intelligence technologies, which rely, for their machine-learning algorithms.
In the course of the semester, we would take the enormous, world-shaping corpus of American film and feed it through the leftist salami slicer: race, class, sexuality, gender, ability (notably not religion).
When the institutions we entrust to pursue the truth start avoiding the truth—particularly academic research that few of us can do on our own—we all suffer.
Dictators, of course, are terrible people. They also tend to be terrible writers. Yet many tyrants have entertained the illusion that they were literary super geniuses. Mein Kampf and Quotations from Chairman Mao (aka The Little Red Book) are the best-known works in the dictatorial canon, but they represent only
What can we do about China’s potential future ability to harm American politicians through influencing Internet companies that operate in both China and the United States?
Chinese genocidal hatred against the Japanese simply cannot be dismissed as the bigotry of a nationalist fringe movement.
The rising popularity of a genre known for its politically subversive content and heavy use of profanity clearly unnerved some of the more staid.
Most Chinese and many Western analysts still mistakenly think, however, that China is heading toward a golden future under the current regime.
China quickly found itself facing dissatisfaction from those steamrollered by a policy of growth at all costs, in spite of the country’s economic and diplomatic successes.