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It was the statement that caused all the pearls to be clutched – when Chamath Palihapitiya, part owner of the Golden State Warriors, said he didn’t really care about the genocide the Chinese communists are committing against its Uyghur Muslim population. The Pavlovian virtue signaling reflex kicked in, from almost everyone, about how outrageous such a statement was. Then everyone who made it went right back to not giving a damn about the Uyghurs, just without saying it. First, what did Palihapitiya say? “Nobody cares about what’s happening to the Uyghurs, okay. You bring it up because you care and...

China is claiming House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is “full of lies and disinformation.” That’s not necessarily untrue most of the time. But in this case Pelosi is being blasted by Communist China’s loudest mouthpieces because she’s actually done the right thing – almost. To protest China’s long list of serious human rights violations, which is a good thing, Pelosi has urged global leaders and diplomats to boycott the Winter Olympics in Beijing in February. Nice try, Nancy. But somehow, I don’t think China’s rulers will be losing sleep over your idea. Their country is not going to look bad in...

It feels like a lifetime since we lived in a world without constant, violent mobs running through the streets. Four months ago, George Floyd tragically died in police custody. Since then, protests that began as calls for legitimate police reform were hijacked by Black Lives Matter, a movement whose own founders identify as Marxists and whose platform includes, among other things, the destruction of the nuclear family. As you might expect, with such a group at the helm the protests quickly spiraled out of control.Even as our cities burned, numerous companies and large corporations rushed to kneel at the altar...

BEIJING: Even as additional security personnel and machinery poured into Urumqi, the Chinese foreign ministry has got into action asking several countries including Pakistan to prove their friendship by taking a stand on the issue. Beijing wants several countries to unearth the links between their citizens and the World Uyghur Congress. A worried Hu Jintao, secretary-general of the Communist Party of China and the country's president left the G8 summit in Italy and rushed back to Beijing on Tuesday night as it dawned on Chinese authorities that the Urumqi violence might set off a chain reaction and eventually affect the...