2021: The Year Democracy Died in Hong Kong
2021 was the year Communist China smashed the dream of freedom and democracy in Hong Kong, with only modest opposition from the civilized world.

2021 was the year Communist China smashed the dream of freedom and democracy in Hong Kong, with only modest opposition from the civilized world.

The Chinese Communist Party is waging an increasingly hysterical – and, thanks to its dangerous economic leverage, largely successful – war against Western companies for using Asian models in their advertisements.

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has adopted new Administrative Measures for Internet Religious Information Services to restrict the spreading of religious content via the internet, Bitter Winter revealed Wednesday.

The Chinese government on Wednesday approved a merger of rare earth companies to form what the state propaganda newspaper Global Times described as a “behemoth” corporation, powerful enough to control the global supply chain for the vital minerals.

Chinese officials tore down the “Pillar of Shame,” a 26-foot-tall statue of brutalized bodies commemorating the 1989 massacre of Tiananmen Square protesters by the Chinese Communist government, on Thursday over the objections of its creator.

Thirty-three members of Congress are listed on the “congressional advisory board” of an organization that is partnered with a Chinese Communist Party-affiliated (CCP) think tank, according to a Washington Examiner report.

The Chinese government is racking up favors from Third World leaders by intervening in conflict zones to offer economic support and security assistance, buying itself positions everywhere from Africa to the Middle East.

Chinese state media on Sunday trumpeted the “landslide victory” of pro-Beijing “patriotic” candidates in Hong Kong, while governments across the free world expressed grave concerns about a sham election in which pro-democracy candidates were legally persecuted and prevented from running.

The Beijing controlled government in Hong Kong has issued arrest warrants for exiled activists calling for boycotts of the “sham” election.

House Republicans sent a letter to Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo on Friday demanding answers about her family’s financial ties to China following a report that her husband works for a tech company funded by the Chinese government.
Josh Mandel said Joe Biden is “personally [and] financially corrupted” by his family’s financial dealings with China.

Chinese dictator Xi Jinping on Tuesday warned artists to create only “healthy” art that extols the virtues of “socialism with Chinese characteristics,” or else “the people will not accept it” – a not-very-veiled warning that Xi’s totalitarian government will punish artists who challenge the Chinese Communist ideology.

Rubio blasted Biden for “appeasement” and signaling “weakness” to China during his recent “Summit for Democracy.”

On Tuesday’s “Hugh Hewitt Show,” Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) stated that Chinese espionage in the U.S. “probably surpasses anything we ever saw from Soviet Russia” and that the FBI’s domestic counterintelligence to counter this is not sufficient. Cotton also opined

Former President Donald Trump told Breitbart News exclusively that the United States of America is “much weaker now” under Democrat President Joe Biden’s leadership and that the world does not “respect” America anymore, thanks to that weakness.

A Chinese state-run news site published, then deleted, an editorial in recent days that argued every Chinese Communist Party (CCP) member should have three children to help reverse China’s declining birth rate, the Guardian reported Thursday.

Rep. Drew Ferguson (R-GA) told Breitbart News on Friday that U.S. athletes should not compete in the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, China.

American athletes should not participate in the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, China, Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) said on Wednesday.

Rep. Tim Ryan (D-OH) criticized the Biden administration’s “diplomatic boycott” of the Beijing Winter Olympics, saying it “does not go far enough” to hold China accountable.

Consumers’ Research, an educational nonprofit dedicated to consumer information, released state-specific ads along with sending a letter to the ten governors whose state’s public pensions are heavily invested in China-investing BlackRock, warning that they are putting American security, along with billions of dollars, at risk with the Chinese Communist Party.

British police have launched an investigation after Hong Kong activists were targeted by a £10,000 anonymous bounty for information.

China’s state-run Global Times on Wednesday mocked vegetarianism as an unhealthy obsession of Chinese entertainers who spend too much time on the “blind worship” of Western values.

Chinese state media and the Chinese Tennis Association (CTA) responded with outrage on Thursday to the international Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) suspending all tournaments in China over the mistreatment of Peng Shuai, the tennis star who accused former Vice Premier Zhang Gaoli of sexually assaulting her a decade ago.

Hunter Biden was reportedly praised as the “True sheikh of Washington” by former British SAS officer James Gilliar, who had a close connection to one of the largest energy companies in the world that allied closely with the Chinese Communist Party, emails from Hunter’s “laptop from hell” revealed.

Nearly four centuries after the first arrival of English ships, the Caribbean island of Barbados will officially remove Queen Elizabeth II as its head of state, renouncing the Crown in favour of becoming a republic.

Viewers of the Disney+ streaming service in Hong Kong noticed on Friday that an episode of the long-running animated series The Simpsons disappeared from the lineup without notice or explanation.

(AFP) — An episode of The Simpsons in which the cartoon American family visit Tiananmen Square is missing from the Disney+ streaming service in Hong Kong, adding to concerns about mainland China-style censorship in the city.

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) – Lawmakers from all three Baltic states met with Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen on Monday in a sign of further cooperation between European Union nations and Taiwan.

When naming the latest coronavirus variant, the WHO skipped the fourteenth letter of the Greek alphabet, spelled Xi.

A Lithuanian MP said “communism is a plague” after the latest round of threats from Beijing over the opening of a de-facto Taiwan embassy.

The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) on Tuesday announced new regulations to control entertainment content, especially the sort of content that fuels rabid fan-worship of celebrities.

Chinese photographer Chen Man vowed to “educate” herself on Chinese history and improve her “ideologies” on Tuesday in a blog post after the Chinese Communist Party declared a photograph of an Asian woman she shot for the French luxury fashion house Christian Dior racist.

The saga of Chinese tennis star Peng Shuai, who disappeared after accusing former Vice Premier Zhang Gaoli of raping her prior to a consensual affair and may still be under duress from the Communist regime, took another turn on Wednesday with revelations that Zhang had a leadership role in setting up the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics.

Dimon joked Tuesday night that his bank would outlast the Communist Party in China. Now he’s apologizing.

The NBA’s Enes Kanter is courageous in critiquing China while LeBron James and Colin Kaepernick conform to leftism, Vivek Ramaswamy said.

China officially downgraded diplomatic ties with Lithuania in protest after Taiwan established a de facto embassy in Vilnius.

Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) chairman and CEO Steve Simon on Wednesday expressed deep skepticism about a purported email from missing Chinese tennis star Peng Shuai. Simon said he had a “very hard time believing that Peng Shuai actually wrote the email.”

The state-run China Global Television Network (CGTN) published a statement on Tuesday allegedly written by Chinese professional tennis player Peng Shuai — who recently disappeared from the public eye after accusing former Chinese Vice Premier Zhang Gaoli of sexual assault — in which Peng claims she is “not missing” but simply “resting at home.”

The Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) on Monday called for a full investigation into the allegations of sexual assault made by Chinese tennis star Peng Shuai against a senior Chinese Communist Party (CCP) official.

HONG KONG (AP) – Hong Kong authorities declined to renew a visa for a foreign journalist working for The Economist without any explanation, the magazine said.
