News Analysis China’s debt-ridden local governments have resorted to unconventional revenue sources as tax and land sale revenues dwindle amid the economic slump. Central authorities have tapped law enforcement to raise revenues, such as fining or confiscating
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has issued two more executive orders targeting Chinese Communist Party (CCP) influence in his state, after announcing an initial order on Nov. 18 aimed at protecting local dissidents from the Chinese regime’s harassment. Abbott signed
News Analysis Amid the threatening spectre of tariffs and trade tensions after Donald Trump’s re-election, Ontario Premier Doug Ford says all premiers are aligned in calling for Mexico to be kicked out of the Canada-U.S. free trade deal because it functions
British lawmakers and human rights advocates have criticized Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer after he declined to issue a public condemnation of Hong Kong’s sentences of pro-democracy activists at the G20 summit in Rio de Janeiro on Tuesday. Starmer also