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Bradley Blankenship

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Bradley Blankenship is a Prague-based American journalist, columnist and political commentator. He has a syndicated column at CGTN and is a freelance reporter for international news agencies including Xinhua News Agency.

How one new member can complicate things for BRICS

Argentina’s upcoming presidential election highlights the international group’s primary challenge. The 15th BRICS Summit in South Africa has finally kicked off and a lot of...

Has Beijing subjugated Hong Kong to a point where young people don’t even want to vote?

Recent voter registration numbers have raised speculation that the city’s young residents are apathetic to their electoral system. Contrary to caricatured Western portrayals, Hong Kong’s...

Why Elon Musk rebranded Twitter to X

The billionaire’s bid to turn the social media platform into an everything app was a bold but foolhardy decision. Elon Musk, the billionaire and business...

The case against the lab-leak theory of COVID-19 is at its strongest

The real conspiracy is that bad actors want to manufacture consent for conflict with China. Last week saw another showdown in Congress surrounding the 'lab-leak...

Mark Zuckerberg’s attempts to make inroads in China are both sad and hilarious

The Meta CEO’s awkward relationship with Beijing is hitting another wall. Revenge, they say, is a dish best served cold. Well, China seems to be...

‘Normalization of Assad’ is objectively a positive thing for the world

Syria is being welcomed back into the international community, despite Western protests. Last week, Saudi Arabia invited Syria, long excluded from multilateral formats in West...

The New York ‘secret Chinese police station’ is a propaganda bogeyman

The US Department of Justice busted civil servants in Chinatown, accusing them of being Beijing’s dissident hunters. The US Department of Justice recently cracked down...

The Taiwan leader’s American visit will only invite chaos to her island

Tsai Ing-wen is hastening the demise of her dream of independence from China. Taiwan leader Tsai Ing-wen departed on Wednesday for a trip to Guatemala...

The US is killing its own tech dominance with xenophobic bills

Proposed property and education bans for Russians, Chinese, Iranians, North Koreans and illegal migrants could come back to bite America. A new bill introduced in...

US inmates could soon be trading their organs for freedom

A proposed bill in New England could see vulnerable convicts making decisions out of desperation. State legislatures around the United States are keenly watching the...

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