Communist Party of China
The Twitter/Tesla/SpaceX boss’s business dealings with the Chinese Communist Party could threaten free speech, privacy, national security, and U.S. foreign policy goals.
The new film about China’s persecution of a minority—in this case, the Falun Gong—is an “enraged exposé of China’s fondness for propagandistic deception and murderous oppression.”
The FBI says the Chinese government tapped a retired state agent to dig up—or manufacture—a scandal that would take down an activist running for Congress on Long Island.
The International Olympic Committee has a history of enabling authoritarianism (see: the Nazis), and covering for China amid the Peng Shuai scandal is only the latest example.
Beijing has removed a post by tennis star Peng Shuai accusing former Vice Premier Zhang Gaoli of sexually assaulting her before coercing her to continue a relationship with him.
In the coming year, Xi will intertwine foreign and domestic crises, even at the risk of potentially serious flareups with Washington over Taiwan.
Ex-Blackwater chief Erik Prince admits to chatting with the Steve Bannon pal, but says that’s where it ended.