Geopolitics

Hu Xijin is the editor-in-chief of the Global Times but has also become perhaps the most important mouthpiece of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Read More.

China’s ongoing military expansion continues to seek out valuable real estate around the world. The Asian communist superpower is planning to refurbish an old World War II airstrip on a remote island located in the very heart of the South Pacific, providing an ideal site for operations targeted at Australia or Hawaii. Read More.

An entire century has passed since the Armenian genocide began, yet the Biden administration has suddenly felt compelled to officially recognize it. Read More.

North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un has reportedly issued guidelines in which he is “dedicating the year 2021 to reducing desertions” in the military. Read More.

In a three-hour "confidential" conversation recently published by U.S. media, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif is heard saying that the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) overrules many government decisions. Read More.

A massive fire broke out in Iran’s southwestern city of Bushehr near the Islamic Republic’s only functioning nuclear power plant, the semi-official Fars News Agency reported. Read More.

Scenes from a BBC interview that occurred last November with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev now are going viral. In a testy exchange with BBC correspondent Orla Guerin, Aliyev confronted the leftist reporter with something she did not expect. Read More.

Propaganda is older than the medieval printing press, and every communications innovation increases the propagandists’ reach. Westerners most often think of propaganda coming from its two ardent twentieth-century practitioners: the German Nazis and the Soviet communists. Read More.

As I write this article a 100-foot, 19-ton section of a Chinese space rocket is plummeting to earth in what is euphemistically referred to as an “uncontrolled re-entry.” Read More.

China’s ongoing maritime activities are part of an effort by the communist regime of supreme leader Xi Jinping to control the region near its coasts by “winning without fighting,” an analyst said. Read More.

At the direction of supreme leader Xi Jinping, the communist government in China developed plans to assume control of the global Internet, a report said. Read More.

German police have reported shutting down one of the world's largest online platforms for pedophiles. Read More.

A resident dumping trash at a Miami landfill discovered pallets containing hundreds of brand new ventilators that listed for $26,000 apiece last spring, when such ventilators were deemed critical to saving those most severely ill in the pandemic, and thought to be in short supply. Read More.

In leaked audio recordings, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif alleged that former U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry had revealed to him information about covert operations in which Israel had struck around 200 Iranian targets in Syria. Read More.

Amid mounting concerns over its secret biological weapons program, China balked at an online meeting with American officials last year in a possible violation of an international treaty, according to a new report. Read More.