https://pjmedia.com/author/claudia-rosett/feedPJ Media is a leading news site covering culture, politics, faith, homeland security, and more. Our reporters and columnists provide original, in-depth analysis from a variety of perspectives.en-usWed, 22 Apr 2026 02:08:28 -0400<![CDATA[It&#8217;s quite bad enough that with Communist China carrying out a live-fire rehearsal for a military blockade and seizure of Taiwan, President Biden and his team chose to postpone a long-scheduled test of America&#8217;s Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile. Worse is the White House rationale for the delay, which suggests an administration so lost in fantasy that we ought to commandeer a spaceship and send out a search party.]]>Fri, 05 Aug 2022 16:51:53 -0400<![CDATA[Claudia Rosett]]>https://pjmedia.com/claudia-rosett/2022/08/05/the-biden-doctrine-of-icbm-test-launch-cancellations-n1618687<![CDATA[Vladimir Putin&#8217;s invasion of Ukraine has been giving the world a crash course in Kremlin techniques of propaganda, misinformation, disinformation, and misdirection &#8212; for anyone not already well aware. We have heard plenty about this in recent weeks, not least from the Biden administration, which has been declassifying and releasing to the press information on what they&#8217;ve called Russia&#8217;s playbook.]]>Sun, 27 Feb 2022 13:38:07 -0500<![CDATA[Claudia Rosett]]><![CDATA[Conservatism]]><![CDATA[Russia]]>https://pjmedia.com/claudia-rosett/2022/02/27/why-did-russias-un-ambassador-mention-a-dirty-bomb-n1562275<![CDATA[It’s not as if the U.S. and its NATO allies have failed to react to Vladimir Putin’s amplifying threats and current onslaught against Ukraine. We’ve seen months of frantic U.S.-led diplomacy, European visits to the Kremlin, speeches in Munich, additional U.S. troops dispatched to reinforce NATO, UN Security Council meetings and new sanctions on top of old sanctions.]]>Sat, 26 Feb 2022 16:35:02 -0500<![CDATA[Claudia Rosett]]><![CDATA[Russia]]>https://pjmedia.com/claudia-rosett/2022/02/26/ukraine-in-the-colosseum-n1562140<![CDATA[President Biden just delivered a speech on Afghanistan so rife with misdirection and mendacity that it&#8217;s hard to know where to start. But from the welter of Orwellian Newspeak, let&#8217;s pluck a line in which we find Biden praising himself for his handling of Afghanistan. Biden told us : &#8220;This is about America leading the world, and all our allies have agreed with that.&#8221;]]>Fri, 20 Aug 2021 19:54:13 -0400<![CDATA[Claudia Rosett]]><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]>https://pjmedia.com/claudia-rosett/2021/08/20/joe-biden-leading-the-world-off-a-cliff-n1471414<![CDATA[If you want to understand what China&#8217;s Communist Party, wannabe boss-of-the-world, envisions for us all &#8212; just look today to the grim transformation of Hong Kong&#8217;s Victoria Park.]]>Fri, 04 Jun 2021 21:15:10 -0400<![CDATA[Claudia Rosett]]><![CDATA[China]]>https://pjmedia.com/claudia-rosett/2021/06/04/xi-jinpings-tiananmen-vision-for-us-all-n1452120<![CDATA[Weighing in from Hong Kong on the U.S. election, the South China Morning Post reports that according to a former U.S. ambassador to Beijing, China &#8220;would probably prefer a Joe Biden presidency.&#8221; That&#8217;s almost certainly true, but for reasons far more alarming than those given by the former U.S. diplomat quoted in the article &#8212; Max Baucus, who served as President Obama&#8217;s envoy to Beijing from 2014-2017, and is now an adviser to Biden&#8217;s presidential campaign.]]>Mon, 02 Nov 2020 20:43:49 -0500<![CDATA[Claudia Rosett]]><![CDATA[China]]><![CDATA[Joe Biden]]>https://pjmedia.com/claudia-rosett/2020/11/02/why-chinas-communists-would-prefer-biden-n1116439<![CDATA[China&#8217;s top communist, President Xi Jinping, aspires to dominate the world order &#8212; and if you want a preview, take a look at China&#8217;s assault on the rights and freedoms of Hong Kong. You don&#8217;t even need to start as far afield as Hong Kong itself. Xi&#8217;s Hong Kong flunkies, in their zeal to obliterate the territory&#8217;s democracy movement, are now targeting Hong Kong democracy advocates not only at home, but abroad, in places such as London and Washington. On Friday, according to Reuters, Chinese state television reported that &#8220;Hong Kong authorities had issued arrest warrants for six pro-democracy activists who fled the city and are suspected of violating a national security law that came into effect on June 30.&#8221;]]>Sat, 01 Aug 2020 01:13:07 -0400<![CDATA[Claudia Rosett]]><![CDATA[China]]><![CDATA[Democracy]]><![CDATA[hong kong]]>https://pjmedia.com/claudia-rosett/2020/08/01/we-are-all-hong-kongers-now-n738723<![CDATA[Not since the eve of the 1989 Tiananmen slaughter have we seen China&#8217;s communist regime more clearly girding to demolish a vibrant democracy movement. Thirty-one years ago, China&#8217;s Communist Party shut down democracy protesters in Beijing by shooting them in the streets. This time the CCP&#8217;s target is the former British colony of Hong Kong, where protesters turned out in huge numbers last year to defend the rights and freedoms that China promised them for at least 50 years after the 1997 British handover. Now, while the world grapples with the China-spawned coronavirus pandemic, China is preparing a national security law that would override Hong Kong&#8217;s semi-autonomous system. Under this law, as previewed by China&#8217;s authorities, Beijing could criminalize any activity in Hong Kong it deems a threat, and send mainland security operatives into Hong Kong as enforcers. Hong Kongers have richly demonstrated that they are a freedom-loving people, unlikely to bow down en masse and obey. The stage is set for a nightmare showdown.]]>Sun, 24 May 2020 10:44:17 -0400<![CDATA[Claudia Rosett]]><![CDATA[China]]><![CDATA[hong kong]]>https://pjmedia.com/claudia-rosett/2020/05/24/hong-kong-coronavirus-and-the-specter-of-tiananmen-n416983<![CDATA[President Trump made precisely the right call in suspending U.S. funding to the World Health Organization, pending a review of its role in &#8220;severely mismanaging and covering up the coronavirus.&#8221; Trump is doing an important service not only to America, but to the world, with his demands that the WHO clean up its abysmal and misleading act, and stop kowtowing to China.]]>Wed, 15 Apr 2020 23:04:04 -0400<![CDATA[Claudia Rosett]]>https://pjmedia.com/claudia-rosett/2020/04/15/now-is-exactly-the-time-to-investigate-the-whos-catastrophic-public-failures-and-internal-rot-n384197<![CDATA[We could all use some encouragement right now, most of us hunkered down, washing our hands, full of foreboding, and wondering just how long this strange new coronavirus out of China will upend our lives and one way or another imperil us all. Since January, I&#8217;ve been following the news of its spread, from the terror at the source in Wuhan to at least 141 other countries as I write this, including America, and the misery now engulfing the worst new hot spot, Europe. This pandemic has brought forth heroes &#8212; the Chinese netizens braving the Communist Party&#8217;s censors and lies, the dedicated doctors working themselves to exhaustion and in some cases succumbing to the virus themselves. But even these stories of inspiring people have been grim.]]>Sat, 14 Mar 2020 20:53:29 -0400<![CDATA[Claudia Rosett]]>https://pjmedia.com/claudia-rosett/2020/03/14/an-uplifting-moment-in-the-time-of-coronavirus-n378737<![CDATA[The CDC is America&#8217;s lead agency for expertise and guidance on the Wuhan virus, so the CDC web site is where you&#8217;d look for up-to-the-minute data on this outbreak, right? Umm, nope, don&#8217;t even think about it. As confirmed case numbers nation-wide soared over the weekend, the numbers posted Friday on the CDC web site didn&#8217;t budge: 164 total cases, 11 deaths. No change. In CDC-world, the virus took a break over the weekend. Meantime, in the real world, the far more timely and accurate online dashboard provided by Johns Hopkins was reporting on the soaring case numbers for this virus, which by Sunday afternoon had topped 500 (more than triple the CDC&#8217;s number) and 21 deaths (almost double the CDC figure).]]>Sun, 08 Mar 2020 20:27:59 -0400<![CDATA[Claudia Rosett]]>https://pjmedia.com/claudia-rosett/2020/03/08/cdcs-lowball-numbers-for-wuhan-virus-n378735<![CDATA[Having brought us the global breakout of a killer coronavirus, China&#8217;s Communist Party dictatorship is now fostering the insinuation that this virus originated not in China, but in America. Mind you, China&#8217;s President Xi Jinping and his CCP flunkies have not so far adopted this Orwellian lie as the official line. But there&#8217;s a growing blame-America stench now wafting from China&#8217;s state propaganda mills. American authorities need to pay close attention, and do everything in their power to push back, as China&#8217;s commissars begin bioengineering a narrative to blame this contagion on others.]]>Mon, 02 Mar 2020 17:52:05 -0500<![CDATA[Claudia Rosett]]>https://pjmedia.com/claudia-rosett/2020/03/02/is-china-aiming-to-blame-america-for-the-virus-n378734<![CDATA[Surely China&#8217;s Communist Party henchmen have enough on their hands, as they hustle to disappear outspoken bloggers, kick out Wall Street Journal reporters, and repurpose parts of the CCP&#8217;s vast machinery of surveillance and coercion to police President Xi Jinping&#8217;s &#8220;People&#8217;s War&#8221; on the deadly new coronavirus &#8212; which achieved ruinous breakout in Wuhan early last month, while China&#8217;s authorities were busy detaining and silencing the honest local doctors who tried to sound a warning. But when it comes to ramping up repression, there&#8217;s always time for more. On Friday, China&#8217;s satrap administration in Hong Kong arrested one of the city&#8217;s longtime leading advocates of democracy, 71-year-old newspaper owner Jimmy Lai.]]>Fri, 28 Feb 2020 22:32:14 -0500<![CDATA[Claudia Rosett]]>https://pjmedia.com/claudia-rosett/2020/02/28/jimmy-lais-warning-about-china-n378733<![CDATA[HONG KONG &#8212; As this Thanksgiving Day dawned in America, thousands of people in Hong Kong &#8212; 13 time zones ahead of New York &#8212; were holding a mid-evening rally to thank America for supporting the territory&#8217;s massive democracy movement. Some came carrying American flags, many held up signs printed with American flags and the words, &#8220;Thank You.&#8221; They packed a huge plaza near the waterfront, spilled out onto the sidewalks and the ramps of a nearby parking garage, and stood on tiptoe at the edge of the crowd to watch speakers and singers on an open-air stage celebrate their cause of freedom and democracy.]]>Thu, 28 Nov 2019 21:13:58 -0500<![CDATA[Claudia Rosett]]>https://pjmedia.com/claudia-rosett/2019/11/28/hong-kongers-give-thanks-to-america-n189403<![CDATA[HONG KONG — Since massive protests for freedom, justice and democracy erupted here almost six months ago, China&#8217;s puppet chief executive for Hong Kong, Carrie Lam, has been trying to impose &#8220;calm&#8221; and &#8220;order&#8221; by way of threats, force, emergency laws, tear gas, water cannon, bullets and more than 5,000 arrests. Call it the Communist China method. It hasn&#8217;t worked for her.]]>Mon, 25 Nov 2019 19:24:58 -0500<![CDATA[Claudia Rosett]]>https://pjmedia.com/claudia-rosett/2019/11/25/hong-kongs-finest-hour-n189400<![CDATA[HONG KONG &#8212;  Further inflaming public outrage in this freedom-loving city, Chief Executive Carrie Lam just invoked emergency powers to impose a law banning the use of masks &#8212; or any kind of facial covering &#8212; at public meetings and processions. Protesters here have been relying on masks to protect themselves against the copious use of tear gas by police, and also to hide their identities from a government that has been increasingly criminalizing even peaceful forms of dissent.]]>Fri, 04 Oct 2019 06:36:31 -0400<![CDATA[Claudia Rosett]]>https://pjmedia.com/claudia-rosett/2019/10/04/fueling-hong-kongs-fury-n189397<![CDATA[HONG KONG &#8212; If you spend any time right now in this great city that is yearning and protesting for freedom and democracy, there is a song you will hear almost everywhere. Introduced just a few weeks ago, it is the work of an anonymous Hong Kong composer, with crowd-sourced lyrics: a solemn but uplifting anthem, titled &#8220;Glory to Hong Kong.&#8221;]]>Mon, 30 Sep 2019 16:14:27 -0400<![CDATA[Claudia Rosett]]>https://pjmedia.com/claudia-rosett/2019/09/30/glory-to-hong-kong-n189394<![CDATA[HONG KONG &#8212;  Undaunted by Chinese troops drilling just across the border and Beijing&#8217;s threats about perishing by fire, Hong Kong&#8217;s protesters on Sunday amplified their calls for freedom and democracy. They held a huge rally in which hundreds of thousands spilled peacefully over the cramped boundaries set by police. Some protesters brought their children. Everyone sweltered under the subtropical summer sun, then got soaked in a torrential cloudburst. Most of the protesters then carried on for hours more in the lingering rain, umbrellas deployed and feet wet, calling for &#8220;Free Hong Kong&#8221; and &#8220;Democracy now!&#8221;]]>Mon, 19 Aug 2019 10:29:00 -0400<![CDATA[Claudia Rosett]]><![CDATA[2019]]><![CDATA[hong kong]]><![CDATA[Protests]]>https://pjmedia.com/claudia-rosett/2019/08/19/its-all-for-our-kids-hong-kongs-protesters-double-down-on-demands-for-freedom-n189389<![CDATA[HONG KONG &#8212; &#8220;Fight for freedom! Stand with Hong Kong!&#8221; This was the chant echoing through the arrival hall of Hong Kong&#8217;s international airport on Tuesday, as thousands of protesters beseeched arriving passengers &#8212; and the world &#8212; for help in their struggle against China&#8217;s encroaching tyranny.]]>Wed, 14 Aug 2019 09:42:18 -0400<![CDATA[Claudia Rosett]]><![CDATA[2019]]><![CDATA[China]]><![CDATA[hong kong]]>https://pjmedia.com/claudia-rosett/2019/08/14/stand-with-hong-kong-where-is-the-free-worlds-reaganesque-response-n189385<![CDATA[In Hong Kong&#8217;s huge protest over a proposed law that would allow extradition from the territory to mainland China, there is far more at stake than &#8220;confidence&#8221; in the integrity of Hong Kong&#8217;s legal system, or the health of Hong Kong&#8217;s economy &#8212; important though those both are. The real showdown going on in Hong Kong has long been between despotism and democracy, between tyranny and the Free World. And whether we, the free people of America, and our allies, choose to think of it this way or not, the reality is that the showdown now taking place in Hong Kong will shape our future as well.]]>Wed, 12 Jun 2019 20:42:35 -0400<![CDATA[Claudia Rosett]]>https://pjmedia.com/claudia-rosett/2019/06/12/the-sky-high-stakes-in-hong-kong-n189382