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Is Putin Recruiting Edward Snowden Edward Snowden petitioned President Putin for over ten years to grant him Russian citizenship. Putin suddenly approved his petition. Only one thing explains him doing so. He wants to use Snowden as his poster boy to mobilize more Russians as cannon fodder in Ukraine. After all, Putin could point to this American’s… Read more.
China does not permit dual citizenship. But, like all authoritarian regimes, it is notorious for imposing rules on the masses which they allow the elites (e.g., like Putin’s oligarchs) to flout. And so it was that China permitted Eileen Gu to reap all the benefits of representing China at the Beijing 2022 Olympics without having… Read more.
China has spent much of the past five years jailing Hong Kongers for demanding democratic freedoms. The government considers such demands seditious challenges to its authoritarian rule. Mind you, those Hong Kongers were merely demanding freedoms China promised. This, as part of the infamous “one country, two systems policy” colonial Britain negotiated as a condition… Read more.
