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  • Article:Can Google Beat China in the Censorship Game?

    By The Cato Institute January 20, 2010

    By Timothy B. Lee Censorship is not primarily about technology. Human beings are much smarter than computers, and they inevitably find ways to circumvent filters to get the content they want. Rather, the basis of effective censorship in China, like all government power, is the ability to punish...

  • News:U.S. Physicist Convicted of Selling Space Secrets to China

    By U.S. Dept. of Justice April 08, 2009

    WASHINGTON – A physicist in Newport News, Va., was sentenced to 51 months in prison today for illegally exporting space launch technical data and defense services to the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and offering bribes to Chinese government officials. Shu Quan-Sheng (Shu), 68, a native of...

  • Opinion:Google & China-Action Speaks Louder Than Words

    By Amnesty International January 14, 2010

    By Tony Cruz and Anna Phelan, Amnesty International USA’s Business & Economic Relations Group Google made an unprecedented announcement this week by claiming it is no longer willing to continue censoring search results on Google.cn , its Chinese search engine. Meetings are underway with...

  • Research:Sex-Selective Abortions a Major Problem in China

    By Baptist Press April 13, 2009

    NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP) --- Chinese males under the age of 20 outnumbered females of that same age range by more than 32 million in 2005, due in large part to the government's one-child policy and its citizens' use of sex-selection abortion and even abandonment, according to a new study in the...

  • Opinion:Clean Energy Could Lead to U.S. Dependence on China

    By National Center for Policy Analysis May 07, 2009

    The mine in Mountain Pass, California, contains a rare-earth ore that yields neodymium, the pixie dust of green tech -- necessary for the lightweight permanent magnets that make Prius motors zoom and for the generators that give wind turbines their electrical buzz. In fact, if we are going to make...

  • News:Defense Dept. Finds Spy for China in Its Midst

    By U.S. Dept. of Justice May 13, 2009

    A Defense Department official has been charged with conspiracy to communicate classified information to an agent of a foreign government. A criminal complaint unsealed today in the Eastern District of Virginia alleges that, from approximately Nov. 2004 to Feb. 11, 2008, James Wilbur Fondren, Jr.

  • News:After Olympics, China Still Worried About Clean Air for Beijing

    By Natural Resources Defense Council June 19, 2009

    Air quality of Beijing was a focal point both before and during the Olympic Games. After the Olympics, the topic faded out of the media , but Beijing is still working hard to keep the sky blue. According to the Beijing Environment Protection Bureau, from January 1, 2009 to June 9, 2009, 81 percent...

  • Opinion:U.S. Should Condemn China for Uigher Deaths

    By Muslim Public Affairs Council July 12, 2009

    The Muslim Public Affairs Council is calling on the State Department and the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom to condemn the persecution of religious minorities in China, and to conduct a thorough and transparent investigation of the deaths of at least 156 ethnic Uighurs and...

  • Research:World Population Aging at Alarming Rate

    By National Institutes of Health July 20, 2009

    The average age of the world’s population is increasing at an unprecedented rate. The number of people worldwide age 65 and older is estimated at 506 million as of midyear 2008; by 2040, that number will hit 1.3 billion. Thus, in just over 30 years, the proportion of older people will double from...

  • News:Engineer Convicted of Selling Space Shuttle Secrets to China

    By U.S. Dept. of Justice July 20, 2009

    A former Rockwell and Boeing engineer from Orange County, Calif., was remanded into custody this morning after a federal judge convicted him of charges of economic espionage and acting as an agent of the People’s Republic of China, for whom he stole restricted technology and Boeing trade...

  • Opinion:Congress Looks Into China's One-Child Policy

    By Baptist Press November 16, 2009

    WASHINGTON -- Congress heard testimony Nov. 10 regarding China's one-child policy, which employs widespread forced abortions and sterilization as population control methods, ahead of President Obama's trip to the communist nation. Witnesses before the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission noted that...

  • Video:Amnesty Int'l Wants Human Rights to be Talk of YouTube

    By Amnesty International December 27, 2009

    Today, we’re premiering our video homage to supporters who help spread human rights stories far and wide! YouTube is featuring our new, animated video “The Power of Words” on its homepage with an introduction by actor, Morgan Freeman. The video demonstrates why the...

  • News:Chinese Bookstore Owner Imprisoned for Giving Away Books

    By Baptist Press June 11, 2009

    Shi Weihan, the Chinese bookstore owner who has been imprisoned for more than a year, was sentenced June 10 to three years in prison and a fine of nearly $22,000 presumably for "illegal business practices." Shi's friend Ray Sharpe, an Illinois businessman, told Baptist Press the sentence was...

  • Opinion:Obama to Impose Tariff on Chinese Tires

    By The Cato Institute September 13, 2009

    From the quiet shadows of the White House, at around 10 pm on Friday night, came word that President Obama will impose prohibitive duties of 35% on imports of Chinese tires. Well, we at Cato and elsewhere have warned repeatedly of the dangerous consequences of this outcome ( June 18 , July 24 ...

  • Opinion:China's Cooperation is Essential in the Global Warming Fight

    By Natural Resources Defense Council November 29, 2009

    China yesterday announced that Premier Wen Jiabao will attend the Copenhagen climate summit and that he will bring with him a target for China of reducing carbon intensity by 40 to 45 percent from 2005 levels by 2020. Coming a day after the announcement across the Pacific that President Obama...

  • Opinion:Ahead of Copenhagen, US, China, India Promise Carbon Cut

    By Natural Resources Defense Council November 30, 2009

    By Frances Beinecke While I was gathering with my family this Thanksgiving holiday, I was grateful for the news out of Washington and Beijing, affirming that the leaders of the United States and China will bring important commitments to the UN climate change summit in Copenhagen. When he...

  • Opinion:Obama's Nuclear Dream Could Endanger America

    By Heritage Foundation January 05, 2010

    By Baker Spring According to a January 4 report in the Los Angeles Times , President Obama’s plan for nuclear disarmament is meeting opposition from the Department of Defense. Specifically, the Department of Defense believes that President Obama’s plan jeopardizes U.S.

  • News:Amnesty Calls for N. Korea to Release U.S. Journalists

    By Amnesty International June 10, 2009

    On Tuesday, we heard from T. Kumar about what U.S. journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee face in their 12 year sentence in a North Korean labor camp. They got the maximum sentence of 10 years of hard labor for hostile acts and an additional two years for illegal entry, according to analysts. But...

  • Opinion:Cap-and-Trade Could Save Environment, But Kill U.S. Economy

    By The Cato Institute June 24, 2009

    Despite indications that much of President Obama's agenda is meeting intra-party skepticism all over Capitol Hill, there is one policy nexus where congressional leaders are still doggedly determined to move the country left: energy and the environment . Speaker Pelosi will reportedly allow a...

  • News:Obama Won't Meet With Dalai Lama Yet; The Right Move?

    By Opposing Views Staff October 06, 2009

    WASHINGTON --- The Dalai Lama arrived in Washington, D.C. Monday for a weeklong visit, his schedule packed with awards ceremonies, lectures and meetings with such high-profile politicians as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Sen. John McCain. But the highest profile politician of them all is...

  • Opinion:White House Communications Director Anita Dunn Praises Mao

    By Family Research Council October 19, 2009

    President Obama's White House Director of Communications, Anita Dunn, is trying to say her graduation speech praising the late Chinese communist dictator Mao Zedong was all "tongue in cheek." Really? Judge for yourself: She says in the clip that the communist leader, the worst...

  • Opinion:Key Countries Agree to Copenhagen Accord

    By Natural Resources Defense Council December 20, 2009

    By Jake Schmidt In the late morning hours Saturday in Copenhagen, the overwhelming majority of countries adopted a new framework for addressing global warming . This new agreement -- called the Copenhagen Accord (available here ) -- was hammered out by 28 of the world’s key countries. These...

  • Opinion:As Debt Piles Up, Can the U.S. Econony Survive?

    By The Cato Institute May 22, 2009

    by Doug Bandow The administration’s presumption that America can borrow its way to prosperity has taken a couple of big hits over the last couple days. First, just as the Third World debt crisis destroyed the belief among international bankers that countries don’t go bankrupt, so is the...

  • News:3 Chinese Christians Sentenced for Illegal Proselytizing

    By Christian News Wire June 10, 2009

    Shu Wenxiang, Tang Houyong and Xie Zhenqi, three Christians sentenced to one year of re- education through labor, in Zhoukou, Henan, have been suffering greatly along with their families since their arrests more than six months ago. The three Christian men were first arrested on December 3, 2008...

  • Video:Sarah Palin in Hong Kong; 1st Post-Resignation Appearance

    By Opposing Views Editorial Staff September 23, 2009

    Former vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin, criticized for her lack of foreign policy experience, emerged in Asia on Wednesday to share her views from "Main Street U.S.A." with a group of high-flying global investors. More from the Associated Press:

  • Video:Obama's Half Brother Writes About Their Abusive Father

    By Opposing Views Editorial Staff November 04, 2009

    President Obama's half brother has broken his media silence to discuss his new novel -- the semi-autobiographical story of an abusive parent patterned on their late father, Barack Obama, Sr. The Associated Press has more:

  • Video:Obama in China, Pushes for Freedom and More Open Internet

    By Opposing Views Editorial Staff November 16, 2009

    Pressing for freedoms on China's own turf, President Obama said Monday that individual expression is not an American ideal but a universal right that should be available to all. More from the Associated Press:

  • News:600,000 Drop Side Cribs Recalled, Can Suffocate Infants

    By Opposing Views Editorial Staff November 23, 2009

    WASHINGTON – The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), in cooperation with Delta Enterprise Corp., of New York, N.Y., is announcing the voluntary recall today of about 600,000 drop side cribs. The crib’s drop side can detach when the spring peg is not engaged, which can cause an...

  • Opinion:Outrage Over Mao Zedong Ornament on White House Christmas Tree

    By Christian News Wire December 24, 2009

    WASHINGTON -- The Christian Defense Coalition and Generation Life are outraged that an ornament of a man who crushed human and religious rights, trampled on freedom and oversaw the deaths of 50,000,000 of his own people would be honored by a display on the White House Christmas tree during this...

  • Video:China Defies International Pleas, Executes British Drug Smuggler

    By Opposing Views Editorial Staff December 29, 2009

    China has defied international criticism to execute a convicted British drug smuggler. Akmal Shaikh was executed by lethal injection despite pleas for clemency from relatives and questions being raised about his mental health . More from the Associated Press: