ESSAY: ORWELLIAN INTRIGUE IS ALIVE AND THRIVING IN CHINA

You know things are getting rather Orwellian in Beijing when the Chinese Foreign Ministry appropriates sharp insights originally attributed to George Orwell—as channeled through Russian authoritarian Vladimir Putin, a freelance Russian cartoonist named Vitaly Podvitski and two American libertarians, namely Ron Paul, and his son Rand Paul, to disparage the US as an “Empire of Lies.”