A massive Italian Tax Police investigation unveiled a 15-billion-euro money laundering operation involving Italian mafia, Colombian drug barons, and Putin’s oligarchs.
Chinese Communist Party
Burning Effigies: China Threatens American Academic Miles Yu
A Cultural-Revolution-style statue vilifies a scholar who has mightily upset the Communist Party.
China’s New Directives on Law Schools: They Should Teach that Separation of Powers Is Wrong
A document by the Central Committee published on February 26 orders law schools to oppose “constitutionalism” and other Western democratic fallacies.
“The Most Important Feature of Chinese Communism is Atheism”
The popular TV series “The Knockout” is mobilized by the CCP for a new campaign against religion.
Wang Yi’s Visit to Italy: A Missed Opportunity
The present Italian leadership expressed the intention to walk out of the 2019 Belt and Road agreement signed by the previous government. So far, it has not happened.
Xi Jinping Launches His “Non-Western” Model of Modernization
As “a new form of human civilization. Chinese-style modernization breaks the myth of ‘modernization=Westernization’” and offers a (non-democratic) model to the world, Xi said.
Qu’ran Burns in Sweden: China Protests—Hypocritically
China’s protest against the burning of the Qu’ran in Stockholm is just propaganda. The CCP offends Islam daily in much worse ways in the Uyghur homeland.
Hu Xinyu’s Body “Found”: When the Cure is Worse than the Disease
The police says the 15-yer-old student committed suicide. But the story the authorities tell fuels the scandal rather than suppressing it.
Ngaba Prefecture, Sichuan: Massive Re-Education to Prevent Tibetan Self-Immolations
In the “world capital of self-immolation,” the CCP wrongly believes that more repression and “patriotic education” may solve the problem.
“Socialist Spiritual Civilization”: The Great Comeback of an Old CCP Concept
A notion launched by Deng Xiaoping, promoted by Jiang Zemin, and much less emphasized in later years, is now revamped by Xi Jinping through his latest book.