Tag: human rights

Ex-China: Smart Investors Are Fleeing China for the Rest

Commentary The investing term “ex-China” has a lovely ring to it. It means everything but China. So for emerging market (EM) investors, many of whom have traditionally invested in China, an EM ex-China fund provides the opportunity to invest in emerging markets, except China. The biggest emerging market economies, ex-dictatorships, are Brazil, India, and Mexico,…


Why Australians Have Been so Compliant With COVID-19 Restrictions

Commentary As Australia’s death toll from COVID-19 passes 1,000, opinions about the efficacy of draconian lockdowns are beginning to diverge across the country. “This is not a sustainable way to live,” Prime Minister Scott Morrison declared recently. An increasing number of Australians, who have endured the pain of the world’s longest lockdowns, are inclined to…


Taliban Urges Women to Stay Home, Never ‘Trained’ How to Respect Them

The Taliban urges employed Afghan women to temporarily stay indoors until fighters of the terrorist group are trained in respecting and dealing with women. “Our security forces are not trained [in] how to deal with women—how to speak to women,” the group’s spokesman, Zabihullah Mujahid, told reporters at a press briefing on Tuesday, referring to some…


Taliban Executed Civilians, Recruited Child Soldiers, UN Rights Chief Warns

The United Nations high commissioner for human rights expressed concerns on Tuesday that she had obtained “harrowing and credible reports” of serious human rights violations, including “summary executions,” by Taliban terrorists in Afghanistan. Michelle Bachelet didn’t provide additional details on the findings while speaking at an emergency meeting with the UN Human Rights Council, but…


Report Reveals Human Rights Cost of China’s Global Investment

A rights group has recorded more than 600 human rights abuses allegedly committed by overseas Chinese businesses between 2013 and 2020. A report (pdf) by the Business and Human Rights Resource Centre (BHRRC) profiles 679 allegations of overseas Chinese businesses by sector, region, and issue. The Aug. 11 report titled “‘Going Out’ Responsibly: The Human Rights…


China’s Belt and Road Dam Project Leads to Human Rights Disaster in Cambodia: Report

A Chinese dam built in Southeast Asia has destroyed fisheries, farmlands, and ancestral homes, according to a new report released by Human Rights Watch (HWR) on Aug. 5. The U.S.-based nonprofit organization released a 137-page report (pdf) titled “Underwater: Human Rights Impacts of a China Belt and Road Project in Cambodia.” It analyzes the ongoing…


China’s Belt and Road Dam Project Leads to Human Rights Concerns in Cambodia: Report

A Chinese dam built in Southeast Asia has destroyed fisheries, farmlands, and ancestral homes, according to a new report released by Human Rights Watch (HWR) on Aug. 5. The U.S.-based nonprofit organization released a 137-page report (pdf) titled “Underwater: Human Rights Impacts of a China Belt and Road Project in Cambodia.” It analyzes the ongoing…


Activists Call on Germany to Halt Deportation of Chinese Dissident

A Chinese dissident is facing deportation back to China by the German government. Overseas rights activists are seeking international help to stop the foreseeable persecution of the young man by the Chinese communist regime. Liu Bing from northeastern China has been detained in a German immigrant prison. The German government will deport him back to…


How Expanding Human Rights Increases Government Control, Ingratitude, and Resentment

Commentary The concept of human rights, once it attaches to material benefits, has a profoundly damaging effect on the human personality. It persuades many people that they are being denied that to which they are entitled by mere virtue of being alive; it also limits or stunts the moral imagination. If you receive what you…


Is the World Waking Up to Dangers of Dealing With China? Feat. Gordon Chang

The world knows the China regime intentionally pushed coronavirus around the world from Wuhan. The world suspects the China regime accidentally (or otherwise) leaked the virus from its Wuhan lab. The world knows about the China regime’s human rights abuse of various groups, its crackdown on Hong Kong democracy, and its bullying of Taiwan. If…