Thomas Catenacci on May 26, 2021 Liberal media fact checkers were quick to label reporters and lawmakers who supported the lab leak theory as conspiracy theorists in the wake of the 2020 coronavirus outbreak. “We can’t disregard these as lunatic conspiracy theories on the fringes,” Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting, a progressive media watchdog, stated…
Andrew Kerr on May 25, 2021 A Chinese Communist Party-controlled news outlet paid major newspapers and magazines over $1.95 million between November and April to run advertisements stylized as news stories, according to a Justice Department disclosure filed Monday. Time Magazine received $700,000 from the outlet, China Daily, for “advertisement expenses” during the six-month time…
For well over a year, The Libertarian Republic has been correctly reporting that the Wuhan Lab was the most likely origin of COVID-19. This while many bodies of authority have been labeling this as a fringe conspiracy theory, despite being the most simple, likely and reasonable explanation the entire time (Occam’s Razor). A regular, low-information…
By Andrew Trunsky Zhang Ming, China’s ambassador to the European Union, likened Chinese “deradicalization centers” to detention camps in the United States and Europe. “Countries like the U.S., the U.K. and France have established deradicalization centers or correction centers,” Zhang said during a European Policy Centre webinar, adding that China’s camps were critical in fighting…
Jonathan Schulman, Northwestern University No matter the outcome of Donald Trump’s impeachment trial, the Republican Party must now decide whether to maintain or abandon Trump-era policies during the Biden administration. Among them is Trump’s “America First” foreign policy agenda. Trump portrayed the United States as a dominant, self-sufficient world leader that needs little but subservience…
The Department of Defense appears to be making an unpopular move to develop a national 5G network, an idea that seemed dead on arrival following near-universal opposition in 2019. Among those opponents is President Donald Trump. On the surface, the idea may seem admirable: a secure 5G network to compete with China. China is undoubtedly a huge problem when it…
In a recent release, the company renowned for World of Warcraft and Call of Duty, Activision-Blizzard, announced their latest title in the latter series set to release sometime later this year—Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War. However, not all has gone well with the reception of it for the Triple A publisher, even though…
Chris White TikTok CEO Kevin Mayer resigned from the Chinese-owned application after less than four months on the job, CNN reported Thursday morning. “The role that I signed up for — including running TikTok globally — will look very different as a result of the US Administration’s action to push for a sell off of…
It is all too clear that the greatest threat to the former structure of nations in geopolitics is China. Their continual aggression in Southeast Asia is legitimate cause for concern and demands presence to defend nations such as Taiwan, Japan, and Vietnam—especially after the loss of Hong Kong’s autonomy. However, their seemingly inevitable ascendency as…
Over the weekend, Chen Weihua, tweeted outrage regarding the United States and Israel forming an agreement to keep China’s claws out of 5G infrastructure. Weihua is the China Daily EU Bureau Chief and columnist. In the tweet, he called Israel ungrateful, citing that Jewish refugees were given a safe haven in Shanghai during WWII. There…