On March 12, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov spoke with American bloggers Mario Nawfal, Larry C. Johnson and Andrew Napolitano in Moscow. When asked whether the U.S. administration’s efforts to normalize relations with Moscow are just to use Russia “cynically against the Chinese,” Lavrov rejected such possibility. He described Russia-China relations as long-term, stronger and…
Foreign bloggers who praise China rapidly gain popularity and millions of followers on Chinese social media platforms. VOA examined the facts and spoke with experts to shed light on the government’s efforts behind the phenomenon. “It is a long-standing tradition of the Chinese Communist Party to use foreigners to voice its propaganda for added credibility,”…
The United States may become the second country after Australia to ban China’s DeepSeek artificial intelligence on government devices. U.S. Representatives Josh Gottheimer and Darin LaHood introduced a bipartisan bill proposing the ban. In their letter to 47 U.S. governors and the mayor of Washington, the congressmen warned that DeepSeek could pose security risks to…
President Donald Trump’s efforts to dismantle the United States Agency for International Development, or USAID, have brought the agency’s global pandemic response efforts into the spotlight. That includes USAID’s role in funding research at China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology, or WIV, where the Central Intelligence Agency and others believe SARS‑CoV‑2, a strain of coronavirus that…
The Economic Freedom of the World 2024 Annual Report ranked Hong Kong as the freest global economy. The Fraser Institute, a Canada-based libertarian think tank produced the analysis “based on updated and revised data for 2021 and new data for 2022,” the first two years after China enacted controversial national security legislation in Hong Kong….