Category: US-China relations

US and Australia Need to Rethink Approach to Pacific Engagement: New Fijian Prime Minister

New Fijian Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka has called on Australia and the United States to rethink their approaches to the strategic partnership with the Pacific country. In an interview with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Rabuka said he thought that Australia and the United States had an antiquated way of approaching diplomatic ties and engagement with Fiji….


State-Led Forced Organ Harvesting in China Amounts to Crime of Genocide: Experts

As compelling evidence points to the Chinese regime’s practice of live organ harvesting on prisoners of conscience, a group of experts concludes that the regime intends to eradicate Falun Gong adherents. Falun Gong, also known as Falun Dafa, is a spiritual discipline consisting of meditative exercises and moral teachings. It grew in popularity during the…


China’s Claims About Breaking Quantum Encryption ‘Should Make Us Uncomfortable’: Expert

A group of Chinese scientists is claiming that it has developed a means of breaking public encryption using quantum computing. In a paper published online in late December, 24 Chinese researchers claimed that they had developed a means of using quantum computing to break the RSA public encryption system which is commonly used in the…


‘Everybody Is Alarmed’ by Joint China-Russia Military Drills in Indo-Pacific: Ex-Marine

Russia and China completed joint naval drills in the East China Sea from Dec. 21-27, 2022. Russian President Vladimir Putin told Chinese leader Xi Jinping during their call on Dec. 30 that Moscow seeks to strengthen military ties with Beijing. These developments followed the joint air exercise that included nuclear-capable bombers flying over the Sea of…


China Again Stages Combat Drills Around Taiwan: Over 50 Warplanes, 4 Naval Vessels Involved

Taiwan strongly condemned military combat drills held by China on Monday, the second such drills around the democratically-governed island in less than a month. Taiwan’s Defense Ministry said it had detected 57 Chinese aircraft and four naval vessels around Taiwan at 6 a.m. local time on Sunday, with 28 of those aircraft entering Taiwan’s air defense…


Communist Influence in NYC Highlighted by China Official’s NYE Appearance

The appearance of a Chinese government official at a New Year’s Eve event in Times Square has raised questions regarding how connected the local government is to agents of China’s communist regime. The “Hong Kong Rocks!” event, organized by the Times Square Alliance and celebrated in Times Square this New Year’s Eve, gave pride of…


Communist Influence in NYC Highlighted by Chinese Official’s NYE Appearance

The appearance of a Chinese government official at a New Year’s Eve event in Times Square has raised questions regarding how connected the local government is to agents of China’s communist regime. The “Hong Kong Rocks!” event, organized by the Times Square Alliance and celebrated in Times Square this New Year’s Eve, gave pride of…


China Needs to Know the Economic Consequences If It Invades Taiwan: Former NATO Chief

The former head of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) urged countries to show China the economic consequences it will face if it invades Taiwan. Western countries need to make it clear that China would face “severe economic consequences” if it moves against the independent republic of Taiwan, said former NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen during…


PREMIERING 7:30PM ET: Gordon Chang on Virus Explosion in China, Xi Jinping Losing Control, and CCP Gearing Up for War

Is Omicron the COVID-19 variant spreading in China? Or is it something else? And what does the explosion of the virus—and the associated real death toll in China—mean for Chinese leader Xi Jinping, the author of China’s draconian “zero-COVID” policies? We sit down again with China analyst Gordon Chang to discuss the complicated realities the…


PREMIERING NOW: Gordon Chang on Virus Explosion in China, Xi Jinping Losing Control, and CCP Gearing Up for War

Is Omicron the COVID-19 variant spreading in China? Or is it something else? And what does the explosion of the virus—and the associated real death toll in China—mean for Chinese leader Xi Jinping, the author of China’s draconian “zero-COVID” policies? We sit down again with China analyst Gordon Chang to discuss the complicated realities the…