Category: US-China relations

NATO Set to Call China a ‘Systemic Challenge’ in New Strategy

NATO will cite China as a concern in its new strategy brief that will be endorsed at the summit in Madrid, Spain, on June 29-30. This will be the first NATO strategy brief in a decade to cite the Chinese regime’s growing threat. However, NATO diplomats told Reuters that the United States and the United…


NATO Set to Call China a ‘Systemic Challenge’ in New Strategy: Report

NATO will cite China as a concern in its new strategy brief that will be endorsed at the summit in Madrid, Spain, on June 29-30. This will be the first NATO strategy brief in a decade to cite the Chinese regime’s growing threat. NATO diplomats told Reuters that the United States and the United Kingdom…


Biden Pledges to Combat Illegal Fisheries, China Prominent Violator

President Joe Biden signed a National Security Memorandum on June 27 “focused on illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing and associated labor abuses.” To combat illegal fisheries and harmful fishing practices globally, the United States will increase coordination with both domestic agencies and foreign countries. An Illegal Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) Fishing Action Alliance among the…


Biden Pledges to Combat Illegal Fisheries, China Cited as a Prominent Violator

President Joe Biden signed a National Security Memorandum on June 27 “focused on illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing and associated labor abuses.” To combat illegal fisheries and harmful fishing practices globally, the United States will increase coordination with both domestic agencies and foreign countries. An Illegal Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) Fishing Action Alliance among the…


Pentagon Moves to Wrest Rare Earths Control From China

News Analysis The battle for control of the global rare earths supply chain is heating up, with the U.S. Department of Defense investing in a new processing plant in a bid to challenge China’s chokehold over the critical minerals. The Pentagon has agreed to fund the entire $120 million cost of a heavy rare earths…


Ian Easton: The CCP’s ‘Reengineering of the World to Spread Totalitarianism, to Spread Communism’

The Chinese regime is in an all-out war against the United States. According to Ian Easton, it is an ideological war against the United States. However, that entails control from inside American society, dominating tech warfare, elite capture, and global infiltration. I speak with Ian Easton, senior director of the Project 2049 Institute, about his…


G-7 Unveils $600 Billion Global Infrastructure Plan to Counter China’s ‘Debt Trap’

The Group of Seven (G-7) nations plan to raise $600 billion over the next five years for a global infrastructure program that will serve as a “positive alternative” to models that sell “debt traps.” G-7 leaders from the United States, Canada, Germany, Italy, Japan, and the European Union unveiled the Partnership for Global Infrastructure and…


Chinese Diplomat Says China Is ‘Ready’ to Supply Aircraft Parts to Russia

A Chinese diplomat reportedly said that China is prepared to supply Russia with aircraft parts through “certain channels” that can bypass U.S. and European sanctions. “We are ready to supply components to Russia; we are organizing such cooperation,” Chinese Ambassador to Moscow Zhang Hanhui told Russian news agency TASS. “[Airlines] are currently addressing [it], they have…


US Indo–Pacific Chief Sees Largest Military Buildup in Chinese Army’s History

China’s army is undergoing the largest buildup in the Chinese regime’s history since World War II, according to Adm. John Aquilino, commander of the U.S. Indo–Pacific Command. Aquilino made the comment in a conversation hosted by the research institute the Foundation for Defense of Democracies on June 24 (pdf). The buildup encompasses all army domains and capabilities,…


PREMIERING 7:30 PM ET: [PREMIERING 7:30PM ET] Former Asst. Secretary of State David Stilwell: The China Diplomacy Trap, Dangerous Aerial Intercepts, and Xi Jinping’s COVID Paranoia

This episode will premiere on Saturday, June 25, at 7:30 p.m. ET.   “When we say war, the first thing Dave Stilwell thinks of is my F-16 with bombs, kinetics, killing people and breaking their things. … That’s not how the PRC thinks of war.” I sit down with retired Brigadier General David Stilwell. From 2011…