During his closing monologue on Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher argued that America is better off than it was four years ago because we’re not in the middle of the time “when COVID hit and America
Chinese dictator Xi Jinping met with a group of visiting U.S. business leaders in Beijing on Wednesday, making a bid to lure much-needed foreign investment back into China’s flagging economy. Xi promised the economy would stabilize, and said overseas businessmen need not fear persecution by his authoritarian government.
On Friday, Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont (D) said that the fact that they cut taxes and “kept things open during COVID” has helped the state grow its population and the state has managed to balance its budget because it has
Disgraced former first minister of Scotland Nicola Sturgeon admitted to deleting messages with staff during the Chinese coronavirus crisis.
China’s Spring Festival was one of the biggest travel seasons in the world before the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic, and on Thursday, the state-run Global Times anticipated it would return to its full glory this year, with over nine billion passenger trips taken during the next 40 days.
China’s National Bureau of Statistics produced its data for 2023 on Wednesday, revealing the population fell for the second year in a row and fertility rates are stuck at record lows.
A South Korean think tank accused North Korea of staging public executions of people accused of violating coronavirus protocols.
China’s state-run Global Times on Wednesday quoted travel agencies that expect an “explosive surge” of “outbound tourism” during the “first post-pandemic New Year and Spring Festival holidays.”
Chinese censors on Wednesday quickly deleted an article in a maternity-related news service that leaked plummeting birth rate data for 2023, revealing China’s population crisis is even worse than the regime has previously admitted.
Restaurants are leaving Los Angeles, California, en masse due to business owners feeling disenfranchised following coronavirus lockdowns and high costs, a new report shows.
China’s outbreak of pediatric respiratory disease marches on, spreading far wider and lasting longer than Communist Party health officials anticipated.
China’s state-run Global Times was in high dudgeon on Thursday over Western media coverage of China’s respiratory illness outbreak.
The Taiwan Ministry of Health advised young and elderly citizens to avoid traveling to China during an outbreak of respiratory illness.
The end of November brings the one-year anniversary of China’s remarkable “White Paper” protests, a massive popular uprising against dictator Xi Jinping’s destructive coronavirus lockdowns.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told his people in a nightly address on Monday that discussions about the scheduled 2024 presidential election in his country were “absolutely irresponsible” in light of the ongoing Russian invasion of his country.
The Chinese government on Monday reported its first-ever quarterly decline in foreign direct investment (FDI), potentially a sign that “de-risking” initiatives from Western governments and corporations are cutting into Beijing’s bottom line.
Halloween in Shanghai was interesting this year, as a fair number of young people chose to wear costumes that delivered not-very-subtle insults to the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party, including dictator Xi Jinping.
China’s manufacturing activity crashed in October, posting numbers far lower than the slight dip many outside observers expected.
The socialist government of Zimbabwe on Sunday announced emergency measures to contain a fast-growing epidemic of cholera that has spread to every province in the country.
A federal court of appeals ruled that the White House violated the First Amendment by using social media to suppress Dr. Jay Bhattacharya.
The Indian state of Kerala shut down schools and colleges in the city of Kozhikode through September 24 in response to the confirmation of six cases of Nipah virus, a bat-borne pathogen whose outbreaks have resulted in death rates as high as 94 percent.
On Friday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “America’s Newsroom,” 2024 Republican presidential candidate Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) responded to claims by fellow 2024 GOP candidate former President Donald Trump that he shut down Florida during the coronavirus pandemic
Americans will “NOT COMPLY” with another push for lockdowns, mask mandates, or vaccine rules, former President Donald Trump declared in a video posted to Truth Social this week, promising that if he takes office again, he will use all available authority “to cut federal funding to any school, college, airline or public transportation system that imposes a mask mandate or a vaccine mandate.”
China’s faltering economy took another beating in July, as both import and export numbers came far below expectations. Imports fell 12.4 percent instead of the five-percent slide that was expected, while exports dropped 14.5 percent against an expected 12.5 percent.
The Wall Street Journal reports the flow of tourists and business travelers to China has slowed to a trickle.
Some 47 per cent reported their children’s “socio-emotional development” got worse during the pandemic, and just 16 per cent said it improved.
Democrat presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said that “climate change is being used to control us through fear,” and he released a campaign video that clarifies his position on the environment.
Radio Free Asia (RFA) on Tuesday reported troubling news on the state of mental health in China. Even the Communist regime’s official statistics show a quarter of the young population at risk from depression and mental illness, coupled with one of the developed world’s lowest ratios of psychiatrists to population.
A UK government adviser is confident any future pandemic lockdown and compulsory mask edicts will be met with compliance because people have learnt a new behaviour and, “in principle, you can switch it back on.”
One in seven adults faced food insecurity in the UK in the year leading up to the middle of 2022, the Trussell Trust found this week.
Former Health Secretary Matt Hancock suggested “more stringent” lockdown measures should have been imposed during the Chinese coronavirus.
The massive spending sprees and money printing schemes during the lockdowns is the central cause of inflation, a top central banker admitted.
China’s desperation to keep nervous international investors from giving up on its flagging economy prompted the regime to turn to its old adversary Jack Ma on Tuesday.
UK unprepared for future disasters despite experience of Coronavirus which saw a panicking government bounced into an authoritarian lockdown.
Goldman Sachs downgraded its 2023 growth forecast for China from 6% to 5.4% on Sunday, joining financial institutions like UBS, Bank of America, Nomura, and JPMorgan that have made comparable downward revisions to their China growth forecasts over the past few weeks.
Although Chinese Communist officials and regime media continue to insist the economy is fundamentally strong and merely experiencing a few bumps on the road to post-pandemic recovery, Beijing is reportedly “planning major steps” to revive a deeply ailing financial system, possibly including billions in fresh infrastructure spending and looser rules for property investment.
The Metropolitan Police said they are “considering” launching an investigation into a video showing Tory staff partying during a lockdown.
New Zealand’s government data agency revealed the economy slipped into recession in the first quarter of 2023.
During an interview with CBS News on Monday, Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R) said that he appreciates many of the things the Trump administration did for Georgia, but he did have his disagreements and noted Trump was “very critical of
Japan is struggling with an exceptionally bad outbreak of seasonal influenza among school children, prompting a number of schools across the country to suspend classes.
