Anne R. Pierce

Author: #AmericanForeignPolicy, American presidents and American society. #UChicago Ph.D. Passionate about #politicalfreedom #humanrights & #art #music #design.

[Department of State @StateDept]

SECRETARY RUBIO: "One of the things you'll find pretty consistently in every totalitarian system is that they want to control the ability of their citizens to communicate with one another."

[The Telegraph @Telegraph]

Russia is considering lowering the country’s working age to 12 and reopening Soviet child labour camps to solve the country's job crisis

🖇️ https://t.co/6uXSNubBCu

[#FreeJimmyLai @SupportJimmyLai]

History remembers the people who refused to stay silent. Jimmy is one of them.

He denounced Chinese communism, defended the rule of law, and gave Hong Kong a free press, knowing exactly what it would cost him.

"I believe that if I do the right thing, the strength will come." — Jimmy Lai

#FreeJimmyLai

[Rep. Don Bacon 🇺🇸✈️🏍️⭐️🎖️ @RepDonBacon]

🚨 The House just passed the Ukraine Support Act by a vote of 226-195 to provide military aid to Ukraine and impose tough sanctions on Russia.

[Rob Pierce @repierce123]

I wrote in @TheNatlInterest about how the U.S. should respond to Chinese illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing, which damages marine ecosystems, harms local economies, and, critically, provides Beijing with an asymmetric tool for coercive influence: https://t.co/FvXvLAHLjf

[Kareem Rifai 🌐 @KareemRifai]

Growing up in Hafez al-Assad's Syria, my mom woke up as a young girl to armed agents in her bedroom searching for banned books. She witnessed a massacre of protesters as the bullets lodged in her shutters. She was denied entry to graduate school because the secret police informed on her.

She left it all behind and came to the United States for freedom, to inarguably the greatest place on Earth (Metro-Detroit), and started her family. She was finally able to go to graduate school, start her own small business, and speak freely about politics for the first time in her life.

She spoke so freely that Bashar al-Assad put out an arrest warrant against her, thousands of miles away. But the Assads finally fell — and my mom won!

Happy Mother's Day!

[#FreeJimmyLai @SupportJimmyLai]

Jimmy Lai stood against the Chinese Communist Party when most of the world looked away.

He used his newspaper to expose its corruption. He marched in its streets. He refused to flee when the crackdown came. For that, the CCP locked him in solitary confinement and sentenced him to 20 years.

Jimmy Lai is one of the most consequential anti-communist voices of our time. On May 14, @POTUS meets with Xi Jinping.

📸 Liau Chung-ren / ZUMA Wire

#FreeJimmyLai

[Anne R. Pierce @AnneRPierce]

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[POLITICOEurope @POLITICOEurope]

EXCLUSIVE: The Netherlands is seeking to restart talks on using up to €210 billion in frozen Russian assets to help Ukraine keep defending itself next year.
https://t.co/HOlCnCvbu8

[Bill Gertz @BillGertz]

Chinese government hackers are prepositioning malware and access points inside critical US infrastructure to conduct cyber sabotage in a future crisis or conflict. Feds are warning companies to tighten network security now https://t.co/kDgtLSiIWU

[Terence Shen @Terenceshen]

President Trump, I hope you will keep in mind, when you meet with Xi Jinping in Beijing, that China remains the main patron of three major geopolitical threats in the world: Russia, Iran, and North Korea.

Russia invaded Ukraine and threatens Europe, Iran sponsors terrorism across the Middle East, and North Korea continues to threaten security in Northeast Asia through its nuclear ambitions.

Without China’s economic, diplomatic, and military support, much of which blatantly violates UN Security Council resolutions, none of them could sustain their current level of confrontation with the West.

Moreover, China is one of the world’s most serious human rights violators and continues to engage in aggressive espionage, technology and intellectual property theft, and influence operations targeting the United States and its allies.

As you meet with Xi in Beijing, many people who care about global peace, security, and freedom will be watching closely with both concern and hope. @POTUS @SecRubio @StateDeptSpox @CounselorDOS @DavidPerdueGA @USCC_GOV @USAsiaPacific @StateDRL

[BBC News (World) @BBCWorld]

Dozens killed in jihadist attacks on villages in central Mali https://t.co/vIcW1GAO3F

[Rep. Don Bacon 🇺🇸✈️🏍️⭐️🎖️ @RepDonBacon]

Here’s the Holodomor Memorial in Washington, DC. It remembers the 4 million Ukrainians who were purposefully starved to death by the Soviet Union’s leader Stalin and his henchmen.

[Charles Lister @Charles_Lister]

Assassin squads, identical IEDs, explosive-formed projectiles (EFPs), suicide drones & more.

For a year, #Hezbollah has trained & dispatched Syrian insurgent cells to #Syria to conduct attacks, but #Damascus has foiled almost all of them.

My latest -- https://t.co/rPm1d4xeY1

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

Today is the Day of Remembrance and Victory over Nazism. The day when all of Europe marks the end of the most terrible war of the 20th century. A war after which there should have been only genuine peace. That was the dream back then, when the guns of World War II began to fall silent.

That war turned our land into a battlefield of brutal fighting, abuse in occupied territory, and the mass destruction of people and life. The losses of the Ukrainian people were among the greatest in World War II. And the contribution of Ukrainians to the defeat of the Nazis was also among the greatest. Millions of Ukrainians, serving in various armies of the Anti-Hitler Coalition states, fought against Nazism. Millions of Ukrainians were among the victors, having done everything in their power to ensure that absolute evil was defeated.

Unfortunately, 81 years later, we are once again forced to stop evil – evil that is just as absolute. Evil that brings nothing but ruins and abuse. And evil based on a similar ideology of enmity. An updated version of Nazism, marked: made in Russia.

Today, such Russian aggression can and must be defeated by the united free world. And I am grateful to everyone who helps us defend life. I am grateful to everyone who is not allowing this Russian regime to dictate to the world what comes next. Defending people’s lives and the freedom of nations from Putin is an absolutely dignified way to honor the memory of those who did not allow Hitler to subjugate Europe and the world.

Eternal gratitude to all who fought against Nazism and liberated people! Blessed memory to all innocent victims of World War II! Glory to every defender of life! Glory to Ukraine!

[Markus Mattsson 🇺🇦🇫🇮 @markus_tm]

There are no words to describe this horror. Just a couple of years ago, I visited Kostiantynivka when it was still a lively frontline city.

russian warfare is about erasing what they cannot have. Imagine if this were your city.

[Anne R. Pierce @AnneRPierce]

This is good. I wrote articles showing devastating effect (crackdowns ensuing) of President Clinton then Sec State Clinton omitting #humanrights from agenda of their visits. Taking a stand rather than succumbing to the moral indifference/relativism of globalism makes a difference.

[Michael Ron Bowling @mrbcyber]

China is building large networks of compromised routers and IOT devices.

These covert networks are hard to detect and open up multiple possibilities for espionage and sabotage. Spying on individuals or institutions. Connecting to critical infrastructure for potential attacks.
https://t.co/sffVjLmy5T

[Neo @Realneo101]

DON’T LOOK AWAY.

The Islamic regime is planning to hang Saghar Gholami simply because she protested in the January uprising in Iran.

This girl is only 19.
Share her name before they kill her.

[POLITICOEurope @POLITICOEurope]

Beijing barred Tesla cars from its military zones and airports.

The EU should take inspiration from that, Czech MEP Markéta Gregorová said.

“If China is afraid that somebody is doing it to them, they are definitely doing it to us.”

#POLITICOAITech

[BBC News (World) @BBCWorld]

Russia ignores Ukraine's unilateral ceasefire and attacks kindergarten https://t.co/dB8FDRYk9H