By Kathleen Parker Columnist May 9, 2020 at 1:59 a.m. GMT+3 Thanks to a tendency to project our own values onto other countries, many Americans mistakenly assumed that China would become more like us as it embraced a free market. This assumption has guided U.S. policy through several administrations, despite growing evidence that China never had any such intention. Nothing says “reality check” like a deadly ...

The posters on the wall alongside the Qingdao Taekwang Shoes Co. factory — the side where the Uighur workers enter and exit, and live in dorms — feature Communist Party propaganda extolling “China dream” and “Uphold national spirit to unite and make all of China strong.” Another says: “All ethnicities are united as one family.” (Anna Fifield/The Washington Post) By Letters to the Editor  March 10, 2020 at 1 ...

The American inheritance and the American promise are both precious and precarious. If we don’t defend them vigorously, no one else will. In August 1784, when the American merchant vessel Empress of China finally docked in Canton (modern-day Guangzhou) after six months at sea, Captain John Green of Philadelphia and his crew found a civilization at its height. The Qianlong emperor ruled 10 percent of the wor ...

Staff move bio-waste containers past the entrance of the Wuhan Medical Treatment Center, where some infected with a new virus are being treated, in Wuhan, China, Jan. 22, 2020. Poor sanitation and cramped quarters could lead to an epidemic at internment camps in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), experts said Thursday, as state media confirmed the region’s first two cases of the new ...

BBC News One of the world's best-known rugby players has become the latest sports star to criticise China for its treatment of the Muslim Uighur population. In a Twitter post, Sonny Bill Williams also criticised others for choosing "economic benefits over humanity". Arsenal footballer Mesut Ozil recently spoke out on the issue. China has been accused of a "mass internment" of one million Muslims in the Xinj ...