Category: US-China relations

Former Fox VP Blasts China Metaverse: CCP ‘Is Not Our Friend’

A former Fox News executive has condemned the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) efforts to steal American technologies and warned that the regime seeks to use the metaverse to further its authoritarian control of society. Former Fox News Executive Vice President John Moody said that the United States and the CCP are in a bitter race…


PREMIERING 7:30PM ET: The TikTok Trojan Horse and China’s Long Arm of Artificial Intelligence: Geoffrey Cain

This episode will premiere on Thursday, Sept. 29, at 7:30 p.m. ET.  In this episode of American Thought Leaders, I sit down with Geoffrey Cain, an award-winning journalist, technologist, and author of “The Perfect Police State: An Undercover Odyssey into China’s Terrifying Surveillance Dystopia of the Future.” “Everybody was constantly being watched by an artificial…


US Vice President Harris Condemns ‘Disturbing’ Chinese Actions

YOKOSUKA, Japan—U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris condemned on Wednesday “disturbing” actions by China in the Pacific while pledging to deepen “unofficial ties” with Taiwan, days after the U.S. administration pledged its forces would defend the island. Harris made her remarks on the deck on the USS Howard destroyer during a visit to the largest overseas…


Lawmakers Push Biden to Order Screening of American Investments in China

A bipartisan group of U.S. House and Senate lawmakers urged President Joe Biden to issue an executive order to increase the screening of investments by American companies in foreign adversaries, particularly China. An executive order controlling American investment abroad would “safeguard our national security and supply chain resiliency on outbound investments to foreign adversaries,” eight…


Lawmakers Push Biden to Order Screening of US Investments in China

A bipartisan group of U.S. House and Senate lawmakers urged President Joe Biden to issue an executive order to increase the screening of investments by U.S. companies in foreign adversaries, particularly China. An executive order controlling U.S. investment abroad would “safeguard our national security and supply chain resiliency on outbound investments to foreign adversaries,” eight…


China Could Use ‘Usurious’ Loans to Hurt America and Its Partners: Former Energy Department Official

China could use its unconventional debt practices as an exercise of power against America and its partners, according to Bart Marcois, former U.S. deputy assistant secretary for policy and international affairs in the Department of Energy. “Let’s imagine that China increases its threats to Taiwan, for example. Let’s imagine that it actually attacks Taiwan. Any…


US Must Strengthen Ties With Freely Associated States to Counter China in Indo-Pacific: Report

The three Freely Associated States in the Pacific Islands region with whom the United States holds special economic and defense relationships are important for countering China’s increasing footprint in the region, according to a recent report by the United States Institute of Peace (USIP), a federally-funded think tank. Amidst this increasing power rivalry with China, the…


DOJ Finds Former Army Reservist Guilty of Spying for China

A federal jury in Chicago convicted a Chinese national and former army reservist acting within the United States as an illegal agent of the Chinese regime. Ji Chaoqun, 31, was found guilty on three counts of spy-related charges, including acting as an unregistered foreign agent of China and making a material false statement to the…


Former Army Reservist Convicted of Charges Related to Spying for China

A federal jury in Chicago convicted a Chinese national and former army reservist acting within the United States as an illegal agent of the Chinese regime. Ji Chaoqun, 31, was found guilty on three counts, including acting as an unregistered foreign agent of China and making a material false statement to the U.S. Army, according…


‘Blind Engagement’ With China Must End, Says Pompeo During Taiwan Visit

The United States should bolster ties with democratic Taiwan and pursue “strategic decoupling” with China’s communist regime after decades of “naive engagement,” according to former U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. “China’s aggressive conduct, diplomatically, militarily, economically … have changed this region. And it brought those who prefer peace and commerce even more closely together,”…