Category: US-China relations

China to Remain US Adversary After Xi Secures Third Term in Power: Author

As Chinese leader Xi Jinping looks set to secure a third five-year term as CCP leader during the party’s 20th National Congress in October, the following period will see more competition and confrontation between the United States and China, according to China expert and author James Gorrie. “I don’t see great cooperation … I don’t…


Taiwan Expands ‘First Strike’ Definition, Will Retaliate Against CCP Air Incursion

Taiwan will expand its definition of a first strike for the purposes of determining whether to militarily retaliate against Chinese aggression, according to a top defense official. The government of Taiwan will now consider significant incursions into its airspace by Chinese aircraft and drones to constitute a first strike in the same manner as a…


Election Software CEO Arrested Over Data Theft, Storing Data on Servers in China

The head of Konnech Corporation, a Michigan-based software company, was arrested Tuesday for allegedly stealing and storing personal data of Los Angeles County election workers on servers in China. Konnech’s CEO Eugene Yu, 51, was arrested on charges of stealing “the personal identifying information” of LA County election workers, according to the LA County District…


Washington Gave $28M to Chinese Entities for Joint Research Since 2015: Report

Recently released findings show U.S. government agencies sent over $28 million in taxpayers’ dollars “directly to Chinese entities” for joint research over a five-year period ending 2021. From fiscal years 2015 through 2021, “the CDC [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention], NIH [National Institutes of Health], and DOD [Department of Defense] provided 22 awards totaling…


Fauci Defends Funding Group That’s Collaborated With Wuhan Facility at Center of Lab Leak Theory

Anthony Fauci, the head of National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), defended his agency’s decision of awarding millions of dollars to an organization that has funded risky virus research in Wuhan. The New York-based nonprofit, EcoHealth Alliance, received roughly $3 million in grants from the NIAID in late September, the largest annual amount…


Fauci Defends Funding of EcoHealth, Dismisses Lab Leak Theory

Anthony Fauci, the head of National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), defended his agency’s decision of awarding millions of dollars to an organization that has funded risky virus research in Wuhan. The New York-based nonprofit, EcoHealth Alliance, received roughly $3 million in grants from the NIAID in late September, the largest annual amount…


US Defense and Intelligence Must Prepare for ‘Contested Operational Environment’: Experts

Intelligence experts have warned that the United States’ defense and intelligence apparatus will need to relearn how to operate in contested environments as it transitions away from counter-terrorism and moves toward competition between great powers. The Department of Defense and U.S. intelligence agencies will need to rapidly focus on combating threats from state actors that fall…


GOP Lawmakers Raise Alarm About Critical Minerals From China Being Tainted by Forced Labor

Two Texas Republican lawmakers are expressing concerns that critical minerals tainted by forced labor in China could be imported into the United States. Rep. Michael McCaul, ranking member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and Rep. August Pfluger, ranking member of the Homeland Security subcommittee on intelligence and counterterrorism, outlined their concerns in a Sept….


LIVE: CCP Opens Police Departments in the US; COVID-19 Vaccine Autopsy Reports Hidden From Public

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is opening police departments outside of China, including in New York. These offices are allegedly meant to monitor Chinese citizens living abroad and are the latest chapter in operations from the regime to export its persecutions of dissidents. Meanwhile, reports on autopsies on people who died after getting COVID-19 vaccines…


CCP Opens Police Departments in the US; COVID-19 Vaccine Autopsy Reports Hidden From Public

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is opening police departments outside of China, including in New York. These offices are allegedly meant to monitor Chinese citizens living abroad and are the latest chapter in operations from the regime to export its persecutions of dissidents. Meanwhile, reports on autopsies on people who died after getting COVID-19 vaccines…