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1. Economic freedom under threat globally

   Appeared in National Newswatch, September 10, 2020 Two troubling questions lurk behind the results of the Fraser Institute’s 2020 Economic Freedom of the World report, released Sept. 10. This year’s report is based on 2018 data (the most recent available) ...

2. China looks to douse freedom in Hong Kong

   The Communist Party of China (CPC) recently ordered large-scale arrests of dissidents and imposed a security law, which attacks Hong Kong’s Basic Law (effectively, a freedom-protecting constitution) by bypassing Hong Kong’s Legislative ...

3. Hong Kong—withstanding the attack

   Appeared in the New Delhi Times, October 7, 2019 Hong Kong remains in turmoil amid its most contentious political crisis since Hong Kong returned to Chinese rule more than two decades ago. Recently, the government used colonial-era emergency legislation ...

4. Hong Kong fights for rule of law—and more

   Appeared in the Svensk Tidskrift, September 13, 2019 Last week, Hong Kong chief executive Carrie Lam announced that her government will withdraw the bill that would undermine the rule of law by allowing extraditions to mainland China, which sparked three ...

5. China sets debt traps, threatens militarily

   China has already blocked 15 million of its citizens from train and airline travel. ...

6. China’s Orwellian ‘credit rating’ system measures behaviour of citizens

   Appeared in the Battlefords News-Optimist, November 13, 2015 Orwellian may be the most misused adjective in the language. Just about anything qualifies, from security cameras to law-and-order legislation to the bonus scheme for the Pan Am Games (really, ...

7. Nationalist and religious states aren’t interested in conversation

   Appeared in Business in Vancouver Perhaps we should be mourning the passing of the Soviet empire. With the eruption of ISIS in the Middle East and the ongoing autocracies in Russia and China, pause for a moment and think back to the last century and ...

8. Liberty in the crosshairs in Hong Kong

   Appeared in the National Post As pro-democracy demonstrations flare across Hong Kong, it continues to rank first in the world in economic freedom. Hong Kong has been at the top since 1970, according to the just-released Fraser Institute Economic Freedom ...

9. Will China squelch Hong Kong?

   Appeared in the Calgary Herald With the recent Russian-inspired tragedies in eastern Ukraine and the war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza, much of the world is understandably focused on those regions. But another continent, Asia, is worth watching, ...