In May, the White House ordered America’s intelligence agencies to deliver a report on COVID-19’s origins within 90 days. And when the inconclusive findings came out last month, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) accelerated its big lie of the pandemic: that the virus originated not in Wuhan, but at the U.S. Army base at Fort Detrick, Maryland.
[Subscription Required] The surrender of Afghanistan to the Taliban is the result of an extreme case of collective amnesia and self-delusion that continues to undermine the international response to the unfolding catastrophe there. Motivated by the desire to justify that surrender and rationalise the humiliating retreat from Kabul, western military and political leaders have forgotten who it was we fought in Afghanistan and Pakistan for two decades.
The new Texas torment, a law that lets citizens sue anyone they suspect of performing, aiding or abetting a woman or girl’s abortion after six weeks of pregnancy, is a strange notion in a state that claims to worship personal freedom.
Twenty years after the horrific attacks on New York and Washington, it’s clear that the biggest changes of our time were not ideological or geopolitical, but technological. They were also the hardest to foresee.
Twenty years ago this morning, we woke up to two collapsed and smouldering towers where 2,606 American and foreign national citizens, firefighters, police officers and rescue workers lay entombed in the wreckage. Among the rubble at the Pentagon lay 125 military and civilian personnel who were killed in that terrorist attack.
The section describes how the Chinese Communist Party employs its foreign infrastructure and development program to further its strategic interests abroad and in international institutions.
