Category: US-China relations

GOP Lawmakers Sound Alarm Over Chinese Purchase of US Farmland Near Air Force Base

September 27, 2022
ChinafarmlandFufeng GroupGlobal ExpansionGrand ForksNational SecurityNorth DakotaPoliticsRepublicansSpecial TopicsThreat from Communist ChinaUSUS NewsUS-China relations
0 Comment

Fifty-one House Republicans have written three of the Biden administration’s top cabinet officials in alarm over efforts by a Chinese entity to acquire farmland near a North Dakota air force base. The transaction in question concerns Fufeng Group, the large producer of food additives in China with links to the Chinese Communist Party. Fufeng recently…

Read More

Meta Dismantles China-Based Covert Influence Operation Ahead of Midterm Elections

September 27, 2022
2022 Midterm ElectionsBusiness & MarketsChinaCompanieselectionsInfiltrating the WestinfluenceInternational RelationsMedia & Big TechmetaPoliticssocial controlSocial IssuesSpecial TopicsTech CompetitiontechnologyThreat from Communist ChinaUSUS-China relations
0 Comment

The parent company of Facebook and Instagram said on Sept. 27 that it disrupted a Chinese influence operation seeking to interfere in the upcoming U.S. midterm elections. Meta Platforms said that it had dismantled the China-based campaign, which targeted users in the United States with political content in an apparent effort to polarize voters. The…

Read More

Reagan-Era Official Reveals US Opened Door for China’s Exploitation

September 27, 2022
ChinaPolicies & ImpactsProject SocratesThreat from Communist ChinaUSUS-China relations
0 Comment

The shift in American technology development strategy paved the way for the rise of China in this area, according to Michael Sekora, founding director of the Socrates Project in the Reagan White House. “China has risen to a superpower faster than any country in the history of mankind. And it wasn’t that the U.S. conscientiously…

Read More

Former US Secretary of State Pompeo Exposes CCP’s Race-Based Lies About America

September 26, 2022
AMERICACCPChinaChina Human RightsChinese RegimeHudson InstituteMike PompeoMiles YuOscarsracisimUS-China relations
0 Comment

Former U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has explained the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) tactics to divide America using race in the second episode of his new online series. The series, “Evening Chats with Mike Pompeo: A Message to the Chinese People,” by the Hudson Institute’s China Center, went online with episode one on Sept….

Read More

CCP’s Official Diplomatic Statement Translation Can Be Misleading: Study

September 26, 2022
AmericasAustraliaChinaChina-Australia RelationsGreat Translation MovementInternationalInternational RelationsMFAMinistry of Foreign AffairsUS-China relationsUyghurWorldXi JinpingXinjiang
0 Comment

A new study shows that the official translation of communist China’s diplomatic statements may be sub-optimal and create misunderstandings, potentially leading to poor or even calamitous foreign policy responses. According to Corey Lee Bell, a project and research officer at the University of Technology Sydney’s Australia-China Relations Institute, The People’s Republic of China’s Ministry of…

Read More

Harris and Kishida Affirm ‘Ironclad Commitment’ to Counter CCP Aggression in Taiwan Strait

September 26, 2022
CCPChinaChinese Regimefumio kishidaGlobal ExpansionInternational RelationsJapanKamala HarrismilitaryPolicies & ImpactsSpecial TopicsTaiwanThreat from Communist ChinaUSUS NewsUS-China relations
0 Comment

U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris met with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida in Tokyo on Sept. 26. The two leaders affirmed their nations’ support for one another and condemned Chinese communist aggression in the Taiwan Strait. “The Vice President underscored that the U.S.-Japan Alliance is the cornerstone of peace and stability in the Indo-Pacific, and…

Read More

‘Illogical’ for Beijing to Compare Its Claim Over Taiwan to Hawaii-US Union: Historian

September 26, 2022
Asia & PacificChinaChinese RegimeGlobal ExpansionHawaii-USMiles YuSpecial TopicsTaiwanUSUS NewsUS-China relationsWorld
0 Comment

Miles Yu, director of the China Center at Hudson Institute, has said that it is “illogical” for Beijing to equate its communist takeover of Taiwan with the Hawaii’s historical union with its mainland because the Hawaiian people applied and voted to join the United States. His comments were in response to China’s Foreign Minister Wang…

Read More

‘Illogical’ for Beijing to Compare Its Claim to Taiwan to Hawaii–US Union: Historian

September 26, 2022
Asia & PacificChinaChinese RegimeGlobal ExpansionHawaii-USMiles YuSpecial TopicsTaiwanUSUS NewsUS-China relationsWorld
0 Comment

It’s “illogical” for the regime in Beijing to equate a possible communist takeover of Taiwan with Hawaii’s historical union with the United States because the Hawaiian people voted for U.S. statehood, according to Miles Yu, director of the China Center at Hudson Institute. Yu, an American historian who previously served as senior China policy and planning…

Read More

US Should Ramp up West Pacific Ties to Fend Off Beijing’s Expansionism, Report Says

September 25, 2022
AustraliaBusiness & MarketsChinaChina-Australia RelationsFreely Associated StatesGlobal ExpansionInternationalInternational RelationsMarshall IslandsMicronesiaNational SecurityPalauRepublic of the Marshall IslandsSouth PacificSpecial TopicsUSUS NewsUS-China relationsWorld
0 Comment

The United States needs to ramp up diplomatic ties with Freely Associated States (FAS)—Palau, the Marshall Islands, and Micronesia—to restrict Beijing’s expansionism in the Pacific region, according to a new report. The United States Institute for Peace said Beijing saw Pacific nations as a “low-investment, high-reward” opportunity. “China has not focused on the FAS in its…

Read More

Professor Pleads Guilty of Concealing Ties in China While Receiving Funds From NASA

September 25, 2022
ChinaChinese RegimeInfiltrating the Westproperty theftSpecial TopicsTech Competitionthousand talentsThreat from Communist ChinaUSUS NewsUS-China relations
0 Comment

Zhengdong Cheng, a Texas A&M professor and NASA researcher, pleaded guilty to charges related to lying about his connections to China. Cheng was arrested and charged with conspiracy, making false statements, and wire fraud in 2020. According to an FBI’s Twitter post on Sept. 23, Cheng pleaded guilty to lying to Texas A&M University (TAMU)…

Read More