U.S. calls on China to release Falun Gong Prisoners

(Source: Minghui.org)  After Beijing sentenced 11 local Falun Gong practitioners in mid-January, three weeks before the upcoming Winter Olympics, the U.S. State Department and other government officials, as well as human rights lawyers in Canada, condemned the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) for the wrongful convictions, and called on it to Continue Reading

Is a Russia and Ukraine war imminent?

By Mathieu Boulègue Research Fellow, Russia and Eurasia Programme Chatham House What does Russia want? Fundamentally, the Russian leadership wants to subdue Ukraine once and for all. Russia is seeking to transform Ukraine into part of a buffer zone with limited sovereignty – as explicitly made clear by Vladimir Putin – to protect Continue Reading