Following the release of U.S. intelligence assessments exposing Russian, Chinese and Iranian interference in the 2020 election—as well as revelations that cyber actors from all three countries were...
It might be time to question the conventional wisdom.
The Belt and Road Initiative is about more than infrastructure
China’s rulers let loose a deadly virus and imprison a champion of human rights
Come to think of it, so does Greenland
They deserve more support than they’ve been getting.
A policy of moderation through economic seduction was delusional, but a shift to economic coercion without emphasizing human rights will be just as ineffective.
Imagine it's 15 years ago, immediately after the 9/11 attacks. You are told that in September 2016, a couple of major counterterrorism victories would be just around the corner. These impend...
In the 66 years since Mao Tse-tung founded the People’s Republic of China, there has been just one brief spell in which the people of China escaped the chains of their rulers, enough to spe...
Should it matter to the rest of us that Hong Kong has erupted this past week with demonstrations for democracy? China’s rulers say this is an internal matter. Western leaders, while express...
Here in the West, everyone knows Tank Man — the brave Chinese protestor (pictured above) who stood alone in front of a column of tanks on Changan Avenue in Beijing, just outside Tiananmen S...
Download the full written testimony here (PDF). Ch...
It’s 24 years since China’s government crushed the mass uprising we remember by the name of Tiananmen Square. I was there, reporting then for the Wall Street Journal’s...
Compensation of victims of terrorism sounds like a good idea. But is this something the United Nations should be involved with? Fresh from the Guardian newspaper comes a dispatc...
Investigating Chinese surveillance is a rather lonely job. For all the dissidents yammering about dramatic arrests and torture and harvesting of organs, you can’t really guarantee publicati...
Assad has created a humanitarian crisis – and a strategic opportunity.
Last week, some 200 baton-wielding policemen prevented Mia Farrow and members "Dream for Darfur" group from holding a rally near the site of Cambodia's "killing fields" to urge the People�...
How significant that the architect of the original U.S. overture to China now feels compelled to write a primer on averting war with his own creation. Henry Kissinger's essay, "Avoiding a U....
Press Release March 21, 2011 CONTACT: Susan Firey (202) [email protected] New FDD Iran Human Rights Project to Serve as Resource for Policy MakersThe Project Holds Tehran Accountable for Record of Abuse Washington, D.C. –The
The popular uprising in Egypt invites a variety of historical comparisons. It could end up like Bucharest in 1989 — cosmetic change in the leadership that subsequently resulted in violent o...