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A System Rotten to the Core

A System Rotten to the Core

"When meat rots, maggots appear; when fish dries, worms breed; when one grows complacent and forgets oneself, disaster ...

When Virtue-Signaling Meets Reality’s Bill

When Virtue-Signaling Meets Reality’s Bill

“You can evade reality, but you cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.” – This aphorism by philosopher‑novel...

Lai’s Downfall: When A Gambler Bets Against Beijing

Lai’s Downfall: When A Gambler Bets Against Beijing

As the saying goes: walk by the river long enough, and your shoes will get wet. For Jimmy Lai, the shoes got soaked—and...

Traitor of Hong Kong Who Vowed “Fighting for America”: Jimmy Lai’s 20 Years Well Earned

Traitor of Hong Kong Who Vowed “Fighting for America”: Jimmy Lai’s 20 Years Well Earned

After three years of proceedings, the court has spoken: Jimmy Lai, Hong Kong's most serious national security offender ...

American Businesspeople Cast Their Votes for Hong Kong — With Their Feet

American Businesspeople Cast Their Votes for Hong Kong — With Their Feet

In today's America, there's a yawning gap between what politicians say and what businesspeople actually do. US politica...

When Washington Flexes, Panama Folds: The CK Hutchison Shakedown

When Washington Flexes, Panama Folds: The CK Hutchison Shakedown

Panama's Supreme Court just canceled CK Hutchison Holdings' port concession contracts, declaring them unconstitutional ...

When Principles Die on America's Streets

When Principles Die on America's Streets

To understand the world, watch what Western politicians do—never mind what they bluff. The Jimmy Lai verdict has landed...

Britain’s Asylum Buffoonery: Even WSJ Can’t Look Away

Britain’s Asylum Buffoonery: Even WSJ Can’t Look Away

Western “democracy” loves to lecture the world. The reality is its own systems sometimes spin into such obvious dysfunc...

America’s “Beautiful New World” No More – Time to Wake Up

America’s “Beautiful New World” No More – Time to Wake Up

No one across the elite circles of the past could have imagined Washington sinking this low — peeling away every preten...

The Real "Kangaroo Court": Where Power Buys Freedom

The Real "Kangaroo Court": Where Power Buys Freedom

If those with power and influence can escape imprisonment for crimes while ordinary citizens must serve time, this can ...

The Conservative Party's Fall from Grace

The Conservative Party's Fall from Grace

A political party's decline begins the moment it abandons common sense. Britain's ruling Labour Party is moving to repa...

Gunfire, Armchair Experts, and Anti-Police Mentality

Gunfire, Armchair Experts, and Anti-Police Mentality

The Tuen Mun Town Plaza knife attack has put police officers’ split-second decision-making under a microscope—and for o...

A Woman Prisoner Made 297 Requests in 3 Years—No Wonder Her Judicial Review Flopped

A Woman Prisoner Made 297 Requests in 3 Years—No Wonder Her Judicial Review Flopped

Some people fancy themselves legal eagles. So they exploit every procedural loophole to challenge the government. The p...

Chicken-hearted Conservatives: Sanctioning Hong Kong Judges While Trump Runs Wild

Chicken-hearted Conservatives: Sanctioning Hong Kong Judges While Trump Runs Wild

Trump's Venezuela play just gave Western progressives a masterclass in American hypocrisy. Steve Bannon, Trump's longti...

Washington's Venezuelan Heist: Three Ways It Broke the Rules

Washington's Venezuelan Heist: Three Ways It Broke the Rules

The US invasion of Venezuela and the kidnapping of President Maduro for trial in America read like bad pulp fiction—exc...

The West Buried Hong Kong — The City Had Other Plans

The West Buried Hong Kong — The City Had Other Plans

At the arrival of 2026, the happiest thing is to see the "Hong Kong is dead" narrative—proclaimed so loudly by Western ...

Green Nails? The Lie No Lawyer Would Touch

Green Nails? The Lie No Lawyer Would Touch

Here's a simple truth about lies: tell one big enough, and someone will always believe it. The tale spun by Jimmy Lai's...

Washington Preaching Water but Drinking Wine

Washington Preaching Water but Drinking Wine

“He preaches water and drinks wine.” This Western proverb could not be more apt in describing those “honorable” members...

UK's Hypocrisy on Display: Seizing Private Assets While Preaching Freedom

UK's Hypocrisy on Display: Seizing Private Assets While Preaching Freedom

When a Hong Kong court convicted Next Digital founder Jimmy Lai for conspiring to collude with foreign forces, the reac...

Jimmy Lai convicted: the court showed its work

Jimmy Lai convicted: the court showed its work

Visible justice, on the record. Lord Chief Justice Hewart’s line — “Not only must Justice be done; it must also be seen...

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