Asia

Although Vietnam calls itself a socialist country, the way people here think is more in tune with capitalism than is the case in Europe.

Sri Lanka’s collapse reveals the painful consequences of ignoring the fundamental realities that govern energy, food production, and human civilization.

The Chinese were long used to authoritarian social controls, but popular anger exploded at the imposition of brutal totalitarian restrictions.

Abuse of power mounts as politicians and bureaucrats amass devotees; the liberal principles that built Western civilization slide away.

Communist China favors three tactics: threatening families in China, targeting victims outside China by using threatening agents in the target’s country, and kidnapping the people it wants to be repatriated, according to Safeguard Defenders.

The disappearance of WTA tennis player, Peng Shuai, demonstrates that dictators cannot even tolerate a single critic.

A look at the actions of the Chinese Communist Party through a “public choice” economics lens.

China had been chipping away at Hong Kong’s remaining walls of freedom, by bringing out sledgehammers. 

If the Chinese Communist Party is looking for a country to question the legitimacy of, perhaps it should stop looking at Taiwan and look in a mirror.

What would a Biden victory mean for the energy-importing countries of the Asia-Pacific region?

A recent New York Times editorial board member wrote that it was difficult to know whether the United States is “better, worse, or the same” as China.

Some Americans say our government should be more like China’s. Repressive government controls like China’s should not be our role model.

NBA’s silence over Hong Kong dissidents follows the league’s silence on an elephant-in-the-room issue by a league that prides itself on promoting good values through its role model players: the issue of unwed fathers.

Hong Kong’s protest leader Joshua Wong recently Tweeted this image [by @harcourtromanticist] of a painting, which imitates Liberty Leading the People (1830) by French romanticist painter Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863), whose painting is at the Louvre in Paris. This...

China demonstrated that our government debt, built over half a century of excessive welfare-state spending, is a major threat to our national security.

South Australia has eschewed modernity, progress, and human well-being, and has instead chosen to chain itself to the unpredictability of intermittent sources.