Thousands of American troops currently stationed in Germany are expected to redeploy to the Indo-Pacific theater as the U.S. shifts its geopolitical focus to China, the Nikkei Asian Review reported on Sunday.
China’s new “national security” law will be used to pressure businesses to accept Hong Kong as subordinate to Beijing, said Gordon Chang.
Beijing’s decision to hide the severity of the novel coronavirus during the early stages of the outbreak, a move that allowed the disease to spill over to other countries, has rendered communist China an “existential threat” to the globe, a survivor of the 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre proclaimed on Wednesday.
Jihadis were more prolific during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan this year despite the Chinese coronavirus pandemic and the associated lockdowns, carrying out at least 242 attacks, about 30 percent more than the 187 last year, data compiled by Breitbart News reveals.
Reports from across the Middle East, Africa, and Asia this weekend described Muslims ignoring coronavirus lockdown bans on large gatherings to celebrate Eid al-Fitr, the end of the Ramadan holiday season, usually celebrated in a highly social manner.
The World Health Organization is currently reeling from President Donald Trump’s decision to halt funding due to the group’s alleged mishandling of the coronavirus pandemic and its repeated deference to China’s Communist leaders who have covered up the extent of the outbreak.
TEL AVIV – Scapegoating Asian-Americans and Jews for the spread of the coronavirus has a “genuine threat” that will rob America of its civility, World Jewish Congress President Ronald Lauder warned in a recent oped.
The government of Singapore reopened its schools on Monday, bucking the global trend of countries that have been forced into closures as a result of the Chinese coronavirus pandemic.
In a taped speech broadcast early Friday, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte warned local government officials to heed his orders of quarantine or face criminal charges.
Twitter temporarily locked Philippines Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. out of his account after he replied to a leftist critic by posting, “These are fucking Communists. You shoot them. You don’t listen to them.”
The coronavirus has already hammered the travel and airline sectors as more consumers are opting to stay at home to avoid getting sick. Now the virus has claimed another economic victim: the news media and Hollywood, which are feeling the financial ripple effects of a weakening advertising market.
In the latest episode of his HBO show, host John Oliver slammed President Donald Trump over his response to the coronavirus but went comparatively easy on China for its cover-ups and attempts to silence government whistleblowers.
Deadly leftist riots throughout Latin America and the leftist regimes in Venezuela, Cuba, and Nicaragua enabling them are unequivocal signs of how fragile Latin American democracies still are.
Japanese Prime Minister Abe Shinzo ordered the closure of all elementary, middle and high schools on Thursday until the beginning of the country’s spring holidays in late March in a bid to contain the outbreak of the coronavirus.
Governments across Asia are increasing censorship efforts and media controls to suppress “fake news” about the Wuhan coronavirus epidemic, a problem the World Health Organization (WHO) also expressed concerns about on Tuesday. Free speech advocates are worried about rising censorship levels in a region that already had serious problems with authoritarianism.
The chief executive officer of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics went public Wednesday with his concerns over the spread of the deadly coronavirus, saying he was “extremely worried” about its possible effect on this year’s games.
Asian countries including Indonesia and the Philippines remain fearful of suspending visa-free entry for Chinese citizens amid the outbreak of the contagious coronavirus because they do not want to endanger their close economic and political relationship with Beijing.
Activists with Ajinomoto’s “Redefine CRS” campaign claim fears related to monosodium glutamate (MSG) are rooted not in health, but racism.
Rick Fisher, a senior fellow at the International Assessment and Strategy Center, described Taiwan’s “landslide” re-election of President Tsai Ing-wen as a victory for freedom around the world
Wuhan University in China’s Hubei province went on a crusade against foreign students Monday, expelling an unprecedented 92 of them from ten different countries. The university, which boasts about 3,300 international students, has previously expelled one or two of them per year at most.
A senior government official in the Hong Kong’s Beijing-backed government claimed on Wednesday that smoke emanating from barbeques is more toxic than tear gas used by security forces against the city’s pro-democracy demonstrators.
Chinese state media declared on Monday that the success of pro-democracy candidates in the Hong Kong District Council elections Sunday should end the city’s mass demonstrations against Beijing’s interference.
In an exclusive interview with Breitbart London, the founder of the UK based NGO, Hong Kong Watch, said that it is time for the British government to take a leading role in Hong Kong.
Chinese state media published a graphic video on Monday showing a man doused in liquid and set on fire in Hong Kong, claiming — citing the Hong Kong police force — that protesters set him on fire for defending the Communist Party.
North Korea has done nothing to decrease its nuclear stockpile or limit production of fissile material since dictator Kim Jong-un held his first summit with President Donald Trump, a report from the Heritage Foundation released Wednesday asserted.
“Persecution against Christians has worsened the most in South and East Asia,” notes a recent report documenting the growing oppression of Christians around the world.
China’s foreign ministry called the nomination of the Hong Kong protest movement to the Nobel Peace Prize by a Norwegian lawmaker “foreign interference” and glorification of violence on Friday.
Foreign policy experts say that President Donald Trump is right to play hardball in the ongoing trade negotiations with China, despite critics’ assertions that his actions are doing more harm than good.
The Senate Finance Committee is probing the Obama administration’s 2015 decision to approve the sale of a U.S. company with insight into “military applications” to the Chinese government and an investment firm run by former Vice President Joe Biden’s youngest son, Hunter Biden.
President Donald Trump and the U.S. Congress should declare, “We are Hong Kongers,” said Frank Gaffney, executive chairman of the Center for Security Policy and host of Secure Freedom Radio, in a Wednesday interview on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily with host Alex Marlow.
Hundreds of protesters swarmed the New Town Mall in Sha Tin, a suburb of Hong Kong city, on Tuesday night demanding an explanation for police violence against peaceful protesters attempting to reach a mass transit platform to get home on Sunday.
“If you own an Android phone, everything you’re talking on right now is going back to China,” said Democrat presidential candidate Joe Sestak.
China’s state-run Global Times newspaper published a story Sunday citing “experts” warning that the Communist Party could sanction American companies who sell weapons equipment to Taiwan.
One of the most violent clashes yet between protesters and riot police in Hong Kong on Sunday night left two in critical condition and dozens in police custody after authorities trapped protesters attempting to go home in a shopping mall and attacked them with pepper spray.
The U.S. State Department denied a report on Thursday in South Korean media that claimed the Trump administration is considering sanctions relief for North Korea, calling it “completely false.”
A South Korean soldier committed suicide, officials confirmed Tuesday, less than a month after his unit failed to detect a North Korean ship navigating territorial waters, leaving a suicide note berating himself for his incompetence.
Singer/rapper T.O.P of the internationally successful K-pop group Big Bang ended his mandatory military service this weekend, posting a lament on Instagram stating he was “not proud” of the controversies that occurred during his service and vowing to “repay” fans for their loyalty, Australian broadcaster SBS reported Monday.
Philippine Senator Manny Pacquiao, more commonly known outside of the Philippines as one of the most successful boxing champions in modern history, introduced a bill in his nation’s legislature Wednesday to return capital punishment to the country for major drug trafficking convictions.
Hong Kong’s anti-China protest movement attracted thousands on Monday to renew protests against a widely reviled Chinese extradition law, prompting police to use tear gas and pepper spray to keep protesters out of the city’s legislative headquarters.
Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte responded to lawmakers and assorted pundits who raised the possibility of him facing impeachment for allowing the Chinese Communist Party to fish in Philippine waters on Thursday by threatening to arrest them.
