China’s Social Credit System

With Mao's Great Leap Forward (1958-1962), it became increasingly clear China was a totalitarian police state willing to do almost anything to advance its aims. That attempt to forcefully move from an agrarian to a socialist industrial society cost tens of mi…

Facial recognitions first blanket ban arrived in May, when San Francisco became the only city in the nation to bar police and other agencies from using the technology. Now the powerful software, which uses machine learning algorithms to automatically track h…

Senators at a hearing on Wednesday marked the 30th anniversary of China's crackdown on student protesters at Tiananmen Square, vowing to never forget the victims and to keep a spotlight on Beijing's human rights abuses. Senate Foreign Relations Committee Cha…

Common Wealth and Collective Power

Skip to comments. Tiananmen Square Protests 30 Years Later: The Fight for Freedom ContinuesTownhall.com ^ | June 5, 2019 | Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy Posted on 06/05/2019 4:19:23 AM PDT by Kaslin In 1989, two defining moments in modern history occu…

As we observe the 30th anniversary of the massacre by the Chinese government of as many as 10,000 peaceful protestors in Tiananmen Square, the exact meaning of the event, which most Chinese residents know nothing about, remains unclear. Thus it has always be…

Oh, the Trade War waxes and wanes - one minute we're days away from a signed deal and the next minute we're going ahead all guns blazing. Did anyone really think that this was going to be easy? Whether you like or dislike the Trump Administration one thing is…

Hong Kong (AFP) A Chinese cartoonist whose anonymous political satire earned him comparisons with Banksy -- and the wrath of Beijing -- has outed himself as a former law school student who became politicised after watching a Tiananmen Square documentary in a…

China has proposed to award citizens who score high in its social credit system by giving them priorities to move to cities and find jobs.  The 'credible' citizens may also expect to enjoy fast track service while choosing kindergartens for their children, f…

A MYSTERIOUS moving light has been spotted in the sky above multiple cities in China, fuelling speculation that Beijing is secretly testing a new nuclear missile. The unidentified sighting was said to have occurred about 4.28am on Sunday and was witnessed by…