Tag: Communism

They tasted freedom, and the Berlin Wall came down

Washington Examiner · November 9, 2019 12:00 am

Los Angeles Lakers' LeBron James, right, is defended by Los Angeles Clippers' Kawhi Leonard during the first half of an NBA basketball game Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2019, in Los Angeles.

Chinese state TV declines to air NBA season opening games after Hong Kong controversy

Ellie Bufkin · October 23, 2019 2:10 pm

Demonstrators hold up signs in support of Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey during a rally at the Southorn Playground in Hong Kong, Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2019.

The companies we keep

Mikhael Smits · October 21, 2019 2:35 pm

Beltway Confidential

Democratic debate featured a question about Ellen but nothing on China’s domination of corporate America

Becket Adams · October 16, 2019 3:08 pm

Los Angeles Lakers forward LeBron James sits on the bench during the first half of a preseason NBA basketball game against the Golden State Warriors, Monday, Oct. 14, 2019, in Los Angeles.

Beltway Confidential

King James bends the knee to China

Becket Adams · October 15, 2019 2:44 pm

A child holds up two Chinese national flags as she watches a preseason NBA basketball game between the Brooklyn Nets and Los Angeles Lakers at the Mercedes Benz Arena in Shanghai, China, Thursday, Oct. 10, 2019.

Beltway Confidential

American populism and corporate America’s subservience to China cannot coexist

Becket Adams · October 11, 2019 7:07 pm

President Donald Trump speaks to members of the media on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 10, 2019, before boarding Marine One for a short trip to Andrews Air Force Base, Md., and then on to Minneapolis, for a campaign rally. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Beltway Confidential

Trump has little room to criticize the NBA for China panders

Becket Adams · October 11, 2019 2:42 am

Brooklyn Nets' Theo Pinson, left, drives against Los Angeles Lakers' Danny Green near a Chinese national flag during a preseason NBA basketball game at the Mercedes Benz Arena in Shanghai, China, Thursday, Oct. 10, 2019. In response to the NBA defending Daryl Morey's freedom of speech, Chinese officials took it away from the Los Angeles Lakers and Brooklyn Nets. All of the usual media sessions surrounding the Lakers-Nets preseason game in Shanghai on Thursday â including a scheduled news conference from NBA Commissioner Adam Silver and postgame news conferences with the teams â were canceled. It was the latest salvo in the rift between the league and China stemming from a since-deleted tweet posted last week by Morey, the general manager of the Houston Rockets.

Beltway Confidential

The China-NBA debacle is doing an amazing job of flushing out fake social justice warriors

Becket Adams · October 10, 2019 8:42 pm

Cantley, QuÃ©bec, Canada - March 12, 2008 (iStock/Valerie Loiseleux)

Beltway Confidential

ESPN warns staff against disparaging Chinese communism

Becket Adams · October 9, 2019 3:05 am

Golden State Warriors head coach Steve Kerr smiles while talking to an official during the first half of a preseason NBA basketball game between the Warriors and the Los Angeles Lakers in San Francisco, Saturday, Oct. 5, 2019. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

Beltway Confidential

Chicken Kerr: The NBA coach is outspoken, unless China's flagrant human rights abuses are involved

Becket Adams · October 8, 2019 3:37 pm

A student dressed in black gather on the University Mall at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) during a class boycott rally in Hong Kong, China, on Monday, Sept. 2, 2019.

Driver beaten bloody after taxi plows into protesters in Hong Kong

Ellie Bufkin · October 6, 2019 6:35 pm

Chinese military vehicles carrying DF-17 roll during a parade to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the founding of Communist China in Beijing, Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2019.

Beltway Confidential

Do not congratulate: 70 years of communist rule in China is nothing to celebrate

Becket Adams · October 2, 2019 12:53 pm