The Heritage Foundation recently published its annual ranking of the Index of Economic Freedom, putting Hong Kong’s economy as the freest in the world for the fifteenth year in a row. In contrast, China occupies the 100th place out of 169 countries, below Russia and Namibia. Hong Kong’s crucial role in China’s economic development since the […]
The recent controversy about a group of white American teenage boys wearing MAGA hats who seemed to be taunting a Native American elder touched a nerve in American political life. The three minute clip, taken at the March for Life rally on Washington, appeared to epitomise the antagonism between white Trump supporters — often depicted […]
When you look at developments in global health since the 1800s, it’s safe to say that the 21st century is not a bad time to be alive. Global life expectancy has more than doubled in the last 200 years, the number of deaths of children under five decreased by 58 per cent between 1990 and […]
