Commentary China has been carefully planning the XXIV Olympic Winter Games to showcase Chinese leadership on the world scene. Has the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) accounted for everything? CCP leader Xi Jinping and his underlings have invested a great deal of personal and national prestige in preparing what they hope will be a carefully choreographed…
UK Labour Leader Denies Breaking COVID-19 Rules Over Office Beer
UK Labour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer has refused to apologise after images emerged of him drinking beer in an office in April 2021, insisting that he did not break COVID-19 rules. Starmer was pictured having a drink in the office of Mary Foy, Labour MP for the City of Durham, on April 30, 2021,…
Netherlands Eases COVID-19 Lockdown
AMSTERDAM—Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte on Friday announced the reopening of stores, hairdressers, and gyms, partially lifting a lockdown. “We are taking a big step and that also means we’re taking a big risk,” Rutte told a televised press conference. Non-essential stores, hairdressers, beauty salons, and other service providers will be allowed to reopen under…
Omicron Reaches Beijing, Deepening Uncertainty for Winter Olympics
The fast-spreading Omicron variant has hit China’s capital Beijing amid emerging COVID-19 clusters across the country, raising pressure on the regime to keep the virus at bay just three weeks before the city is due to stage the Olympic games. Beijing on Jan. 15 reported its first locally transmitted Omicron case from Haidian—the second-largest district…
Top 10 Xi’an Incidents That Tell the Facts Behind ‘Zero-COVID’ Policy
Since China imposed lockdowns on CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus (coronavirus) stricken regions in an attempt to achieve “zero-COVID,” numerous real-life stories have emerged, giving a glimpse of what’s exactly taking place behind the harsh measures of the “successful” containment policy. Despite the censored and controlled information and media, many Chinese reports from the city of Xi’an,…
The Great Social Experiment: China’s Draconian Lockdowns and the Loss of Human Agency
Commentary Do lockdowns actually work? The answer appears to be a rather resounding no. The argument in favor of lockdowns—both from a scientific and medical standpoint—carries very little weight. Not only are lockdowns ineffective, they are unnecessarily cruel. This cruelty comes in many forms: economically, psychologically, spiritually, and existentially. Human beings are social creatures. We…
Downing Street Apologises for Lockdown-Breaching Party on Eve of Royal Funeral
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s office has apologised to the Queen after it was reported that two lockdown-breaching parties were held on the eve of the Duke of Edinburgh’s funeral in April. The Telegraph reported that advisers and civil servants gathered after work for two separate events on April 16, 2021, in violation of COVID-19…
Lithuania: Europe Should Stand Up to China
Cybersecurity is on the docket ahead of the Beijing Winter Olympics. The British Olympics Association is offering new smartphones to its athletes—to block personal data from landing in the communist regime’s hands. In Beijing, police are greeting early arrivals to the Games. Officers then accompany the visitors straight from the airport to a closed area…
Global Lockdowns Will Be Seen as a ‘Huge Public Policy Error’: Former Brexit Minister
The world will look back at the CCP virus restrictions and see it as a “huge public policy error,” The UK’s Lord David Frost said on Thursday. The former Brexit minister resigned from the Cabinet on Dec. 18, citing disagreements with the government’s stance on lockdown restrictions, taxation, and regulation. During an interview on The Telegraph’s…
UK’s Johnson Faces Calls to Resign From Senior Conservatives Over Lockdown Party
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been urged to resign by senior Conservative politicians after he admitted attending a social gathering in the Downing Street garden during England’s first COVID-19 lockdown. At Prime Minister’s Questions in the House of Commons on Jan. 12, Johnson said he attended a gathering in the garden for around 25…
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