International Relationship

By Anita Komuves BUDAPEST (Reuters) -The liberal opposition mayor of Budapest announced on Wednesday he would rename streets in the Hungarian capital near a planned campus of a Chinese university to commemorate alleged human rights abuses by Beijing. One street will be named after the Dalai...

Conservative Leader Erin O'Toole is demanding the Public Health Agency of Canada release documents that detail the relationship between Canada's National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg and the Wuhan Institute of Virology — an ill-fated partnership that resulted in two scientists being...

China has sought to exert control over foreign politicians, academics, media, and other institutions in an attempt to grow its geopolitical position, the committee heard

Noted China expert Roger Garside stated on Monday that the Communist regime of China is “outwardly strong, but inwardly weak” during a discussion on the potential for regime change and democracy in China hosted by the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. Garside, a British former...

TOPLINE Japan’s Asahi Shimbun, widely regarded as the most respected newspaper in the country, called for the Tokyo Olympics to be cancelled in an editorial published Wednesday, as the pandemic continues to rage there, and public opinion has turned away from the games. KEY FACTS The pandemic...

United States activists say religious liberty is a deepening fault line in international affairs, as Chinese and Russian officials align to repudiate Western condemnation of their human rights abuses. "The religious factor is increasingly becoming a serious foreign policy weapon,” Russian...

Johnnie Moore, a member of the US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), is prohibited from entering mainland China or Hong Kong and Macau. China said on Wednesday it had blocked an American Evangelical leader and businessman and his family from visiting following the US...

A state-backed Chinese newspaper paid more than $1.6 million for advertising in Western media outlets with a presence in the United States over the last six months, according to disclosure forms filed Tuesday. The cash China Daily forked over included $272,000 to The Los Angeles Times;...

“Is it sound,” asks Diet member Haruko Arimura, that “a cultural center of a country ruled exclusively by the Communist Party” be strategically placed in 14 Japanese universities? Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga’s administration is turning a scrutinizing eye to the Confucius Institutes set up...