Category: US-China relations

Wave of Employee Turnover Hits China’s IT Industry

China’s IT industry has seen a wave of resignations and layoffs since last year, affecting the Chinese communist regime’s online censorship. Former employees believe political reasons and economic factors are behind the wave of employee turnover. Liu Jiang (pseudonym), a former employee of ByteDance, which is the parent company of TikTok, told The Epoch Times…


McCarthy Calls for Intelligence Briefing on Chinese Spy Balloon

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) requested a “Gang of Eight” classified briefing on Feb. 2, after the Pentagon announced that it had been tracking a suspected Chinese spy balloon floating over the United States. The “Gang of Eight” refers to the four congressional leaders from the House and Senate and the chairs and ranking members…


McCarthy Asks for Intelligence Briefing on Chinese Spy Balloon Amid Bipartisan Uproar

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) requested a “Gang of Eight” classified briefing on Feb. 2, after the Pentagon announced that it had been tracking a suspected Chinese spy balloon floating over the United States. The “Gang of Eight” refers to the four congressional leaders from the House and Senate and the chairs and ranking members…


Canada Monitoring ‘Potential Second Incident’ Linked to Suspected Chinese Spy Balloon Flagged by US

Canada announced on Thursday it is coordinating with the United States to track a spy balloon high above the earth and that it was also monitoring a “potential second incident.” Canada’s Department of National Defence announced that the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD)—a combined organization of the United States and Canada—is actively tracking a “high-altitude surveillance…


Pentagon Tracking Suspected Chinese Spy Balloon Over Northern US

The U.S. military is currently tracking a suspected Chinese spy balloon over Montana, according to multiple reports. “The United States Government has detected and is tracking a high altitude surveillance balloon that is over the continental United States right now,” said Pentagon Press Secretary Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder in a statement. The high-altitude surveillance balloon…


Secret CCP Overseas Police Station in NYC Shutdown After Reported FBI Raid

A covert overseas police station run by the Chinese regime in New York City has been shuttered following a reported raid by the FBI. “The FBI has confirmed that the ‘overseas police station’ in New York linked to Fuzhou has closed,” a State Department spokesperson said in an email to the Epoch Times. “We continue…


Secret CCP Overseas Police Station in NYC Closed After Reported FBI Raid

A covert overseas police station run by the Chinese regime in New York City has been shuttered following a reported raid by the FBI. “The FBI has confirmed that the ‘overseas police station’ in New York linked to Fuzhou has closed,” a State Department spokesperson said in an email to The Epoch Times. “We continue…


Communist China Seeks to ‘Replace’ US as World Tech Leader: Rep. Rodgers

Communist China is seeking to replace the United States as the world’s economic and technological leader, according to one Congresswoman. Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.) said the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) was aiming to undermine and eventually displace the United States as a world power, during a Feb. 1 hearing of the Innovation, Data, and…


Dutch, Japanese Curbs on Chip Equipment to China May Not Be Tough Enough: Industry Group

A chip industry group is warning that if U.S. allies do not adopt curbs on semiconductor manufacturing equipment to China that are comparable to U.S. controls, they will not be effective. The warning came after news of an agreement by the Netherlands and Japan to curb chipmaking exports to China to align with rules the…


US Firms Investing Billions in China’s AI Sector: Report

U.S. companies were involved in at least 37 percent of the total investment transactions in China’s artificial intelligence (AI) sector between 2015 and 2021, according to a new report. The report (pdf), published by the Georgetown University Center for Security and Emerging Technology, found that $40.2 billion in investment transactions into Chinese AI companies had…