Category: human rights

The Fallacy of Human Rights

Commentary “Human rights” are everywhere, and are everywhere described with astonishing vagueness as something “inherent” in all human beings, simply because we are human. It’s a circular assertion. Largely in reaction to the tragedies and slaughters of World War II, The United Nations produced a celebrated Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948 announcing 30…


Big Tech Is Eliminating Human and Civil Rights by Proxy: Security Expert

Big Tech firms have become instruments to suppress human and civil rights worldwide, says cybersecurity expert Rex Lee. “They now become arms of the government [agencies], no different than an informant who is informing on people to a secret police force,” Lee, a security adviser at My Smart Privacy, told “China in Focus” on NTD…


Nigerian Christians Putting on a Holiday Face Despite Continuing Terrorist Assaults

As Christmas arrived in Nigeria’s troubled northern states, believers counted their losses and their blessings in 2022. Christians in Makurdi, the capital of Benue state, are celebrating Christmas despite recent financial reversals, according to Rev. Michael Burton, an American missionary in the city. “People are excited about Christmas, partly because nearly all employees get a…


CCP Sanctions 2 Americans in Retaliation for US Action Punishing Beijing’s Rights Abuses

Beijing sanctioned two Americans in retaliation for U.S. measures against Chinese officials over human rights abuses earlier this month. The Chinese foreign ministry announced an order on Dec. 23 targeting Miles Yu, the principal China policy adviser to former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, and Todd Stein, the deputy director at the U.S. Congressional-Executive Commission…


Human Rights Situation in Hong Kong Under CCP Rule

Commentary By the time this article is out, Christmas is just around the corner. If you live in communist Hong Kong, you feel like you are suffocating. These days, I still wake up with a heavy heart. I had a meaningful hedge fund career, and being a columnist in the finance and political sphere of…


China Insults a Submissive Biden Desperate to Talk to Xi

Commentary “Doubled-faced.” That’s how Beijing just described two senior Biden administration officials who had traveled to China, seeking to repair relations with the Chinese regime. Last week, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs Daniel Kritenbrink and Laura Rosenberger, the senior director for China at the National Security Council (NSC), flew…


Nigerian President Suffering in the Glare of Critics Amid Africa Summit

Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari came to Washington on Dec. 15 expecting to be applauded for his eight years steering Africa’s largest and most volatile nation, but the skunk at the garden party was waiting for him. Religious freedom advocates loudly protested that the African Leader Summit—hosting heads of state from more than 40 countries—had no…


Chinese Human Rights Propaganda Must Be Continually Exposed

Commentary State-run Chinese media propaganda that brags about China’s “respect for human rights” is endless—and annoying. The absurdity of their continuing patently false claims makes one wonder whether the editors at the likes of China Daily can keep a straight face when they publish such drivel: “China’s ideas, measures and practices in respecting and protecting…


LIVE NOW: CECC Holds Hearing on ‘Two Decades of Human Rights Abuse and Defense in China’

The Congressional Executive Commission on China will hold a hearing on Tuesday, Dec. 13, entitled, “CECC at 20:  Two Decades of Human Rights Abuse and Defense in China,” to hear testimony on China’s current domestic situation and international legal landscape as part of its continual effort to monitor and assess the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)…


CECC Holds Hearing on ‘Two Decades of Human Rights Abuse and Defense in China’

The Congressional Executive Commission on China will hold a hearing on Tuesday, Dec. 13, entitled, “CECC at 20:  Two Decades of Human Rights Abuse and Defense in China,” to hear testimony on China’s current domestic situation and international legal landscape as part of its continual effort to monitor and assess the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)…