BLOG Post #343: China’s Surveillance State and Its Meaning for Us 5 Jul 202229 Jul 2022 The audio of this blog is at https://www.podserve.fm/episodes/64174/52-chinas-surveillance-state-and-ours.mp3 The Tools of Surveillance In a recent commentary, I discussed the visit to China of the UN’s chief human rights official…
BLOG Post #341: Co-opted: The UN’s Misguided Mission to Xinjiang 16 Jun 202215 Jun 2022 The audio version of this blog is at https://www.podserve.fm/episodes/62559/49-co-opted-the-uns-failed-mission-in-xinjiang.mp3. A Genocidal Policy The top UN human rights official recently traveled to Xinjiang province in China, hoping to persuade Beijing’s leaders…
BLOG Post #290: Biden’s Opportunity with China 23 Feb 202121 Feb 2021 The dominant view of China in both Washington and in American public opinion is that the United States faces an increasingly ruthless Chinese leadership, requiring that US policy restrain if…
APB APB: “Standing Up” for Hong Kong 24 May 2020 Has Xi Jinping finally overplayed his hand? The new security law for Hong Kong may be just that. Whereas the “cultural genocide” in Xinjiang, the roundup of lawyers and journalists…
BLOG Post #254: India’s Failed Democracy 22 Jan 202021 Jan 2020 Citizenship Denied India is often billed as the world’s biggest democracy. But that title has worn thin: Under Prime Minister Narendra Modi, India is becoming a nationalist state home to…
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