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It is just three years since China profiteered and held other countries over a barrel for medical equipment as the COVID-19 pandemic raged. With the
How Pets Took Over Taiwan Politics
Step into one of Taipei’s mosaic of neighborhood parks after sundown and you can expect to see somebody — perhaps a hoard of people — feeding stray
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In the land where the bulldozing of graveyards, splitting of families, demolition of homes, destruction of books, erasure of expression, sterilization
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Taiwan’s young people should “absorb all the good things about foreign countries and bring them back to help our country,” Democratic Progressive
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A white-shirt convicted of violently attacking protesters in Hong Kong’s Yuen Long district four years ago stated in front of a court that he felt
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BRICS may nominally be set to cover 46% of the global population with its invitation to Argentina, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia and the United
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Xi Jinping wants to censor his way out of another crisis, this time economic. With curated news, he hopes to blow a bubble of optimism in which the
Authoritarian Creep on the High Street
Facial recognition is already a regular feature of the British high street, but its future is controversial. Currently, bans are limited to sensitive
The Silence of the Hang Seng
The gamble has always been clear: The Chinese Communist Party bets greed. With copious evidence to back its standpoint and its own rapaciousness to
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In the land where the lies are so numerous that cover-ups come in bundles, censors smothered news about an academic research paper that revealed
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