Tag: Xi Jinping

China’s authoritarian export: the technocratic menace and global ideological battle

June 4, 2023 | Post

The Chinese regime inherently rejects the ideas and values of individual liberty, meaningful economic freedom, transparency and human rights

Is Covid China’s Chernobyl?

April 4, 2023 | Post

Just as COVID has changed our lives in many ways since 2020, Chernobyl changed the world in 1986. These were two great disasters emanating from two major communist nations. The results and consequences of both will affect us for a very long time, maybe even forever.

As many will know, Chernobyl was instrumental in accelerating the end of the Soviet Union and is critical to our understanding of this period. However, could COVID be the key to understanding, in the future, perhaps, the end of Communist China?

Hong Kong: a model city-state under siege

January 19, 2023 | Post

Although now under siege, Hong Kong still shines as an example of what a well-built city-state can be. Its development should be used as an example and a guide toward realizing what is possible.

What’s happening in China: is the communist regime in trouble?

December 1, 2022 | Post

At present, whenever the world’s attention is not on the controversial Qatar World Cup, it is firmly on what is happening in China. The authoritarian, communist regime, ruled with an iron fist by Xi Jinping for the past decade, is seeing protests on a scale not seen in generations. As more cracks appear, will China’s illiberal model prove unsustainable?

Checking in on China: why hard times lie ahead

July 15, 2022 | Post

The past couple of decades may have suggested that China’s competent, authoritarian style of governance may be an alternative model for the world. However, the regime is now faced with the consequences of its actions with a slim off ramp to preserve progress and power at the same time.