China

While most of the world has been focused on tensions between the United States and North Korea, another flash point is heating up on the India-China border.

July was not good for those yearning for religious freedom and other basic human rights inside the People’s Republic of China.

China plans to introduce rewards for parents to have a second child, after ending the one-child policy in 2015. Someone in Beijing must have realized industrial-scale social engineering has enormous unintended consequences.

At Davos on January 17, President Xi Jinping spoke of China’s determination to play a responsible role to “secure peace and reduce poverty.” Xi was applauded. Yet China abuses the fundamental human rights of its people, undermines international human rights institutions, and indeed subverts the very concept of individual human rights.

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