

IMF Chief Warns of Growing Global Financial Instability
The IMF chief’s statements came over the weekend of the China Development Forum, a yearly conference that brings together CEOs from top western companies and members of the CCP.
The IMF chief’s statements came over the weekend of the China Development Forum, a yearly conference that brings together CEOs from top western companies and members of the CCP.
What is going on in the Mediterranean must be viewed through a much broader lens. Around the world, from southern Africa to South America, China is gaining control of an increasing number of ports.
Chinese analysts paint the 7.2% increase as a “reasonable and restrained boost amid military spending sprees by many other countries around the world.”
Beijing knows that it will pay little, if any, price for its meddling. Until this changes, and until countries like the United States and Germany combat this more effectively, then we should expect Chinese influence to grow, not diminish.
According to AfD foreign policy spokesman Petr Bystron, organizers of the conference “are not concerned with dialogue and the exchange of opinions. In times of war, voices of peace are shut out.”
Recent polls show that three-quarters of Taiwanese consider the current four-month term too short—a significant shift in opinion, since military service, inherited from Taiwan’s dictatorial years, has long been unpopular.
With another trial forthcoming and a life sentence hanging over his head, the 75-year-old Lai appears to have fallen victim to the Chinese Communist Party’s version of justice.
The violent protests we saw last weekend could mark a significant shift in the mood of what had previously been considered a largely compliant citizenry.
This latest incident confirms that with respect to non-statist ideology on its turf, the Chinese Communist Party prefers to maintain a vice-like grip.
Some people think things have only gotten worse since the 2018 agreement was signed. Vatican diplomacy defends it as a way to protect the Church’s presence in China, even if unsatisfactory.