Category: US-China relations

Senate Intel Leaders Seek to Enhance Administration’s Tools to Stop Flow of US Tech to China’s Military

Two senators are pressing the Biden administration to expand the authorities of the Treasury and Commerce Departments in order to prevent China’s communist regime from benefiting from U.S. innovation and investments. On Feb. 21, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Chair Mark Warner (D-Va.) and Vice Chair Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) penned an open letter to Treasury Secretary…


Lawmakers Seek to Enhance Treasury and Commerce Departments Against China’s Wrongdoing

Two senators are pressing the Biden administration to expand the authorities of the Treasury and Commerce Departments in order to prevent China’s communist regime from benefiting from U.S. innovation and investments. On Feb. 21, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Chair Mark Warner (D-Va.) and Vice Chair Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) penned an open letter to Treasury Secretary…


China Sends Top Diplomat to Russia Ahead of Ukraine War Anniversary

Communist China is sending its top diplomat to Russia ahead of the anniversary of the invasion of Ukraine and amid mounting fears that the Chinese regime will provide Russia with weapons for its war. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is sending Wang Yi, director of the regime’s Foreign Affairs Commission, to Moscow, where it is…


DeSantis Reacts to Biden’s Ukraine Visit, Warns ‘Proxy War’ with China in Ukraine

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis weighed in on President Joe Biden’s unannounced visit to Ukraine on Feb. 20, criticizing the President’s “blank check” promise to the European nation and noting that the communist regime in China is greater threat to the values that the United States and its global allies uphold at this time. DeSantis was…


US Official Calls for Sanctions Over Death of Chinese Journalist

A U.S. official is calling for the Biden administration to sanction perpetrators after a Chinese journalist died in jail for adhering to his faith. The man, Pang Xun, died from torture at 30 years old in December, a little more than a year after his arrest for his belief in the spiritual discipline Falun Gong. His…


US Official Calls for Sanctions on China Over Death of Jailed Journalist

A U.S. official is calling for the Biden administration to sanction perpetrators after a Chinese journalist died in jail for adhering to his faith. The man, Pang Xun, died from torture at 30 years old in December, a little more than a year after his arrest for his belief in the spiritual discipline Falun Gong. His…


Lawmakers Hope New House China Panel Will Find Bipartisan Solutions

Lawmakers are hoping the bipartisan support for creating the House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) will translate into solutions that a majority of Americans and the rest of the world will support. Last month, the House voted 365–65 in favor of forming the new…


GOP Lawmakers React to Chinese Rebuke of US Response to Spy Balloon

Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas), the new chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, has said he would give a “very stern warning” to China’s Foreign Minister over its rebuke of the United States’ handling of a Chinese spy balloon that flew across the country in early February. “I would send a very stern warning to…


Rights Advocates Calling for US Not to Trade Off Human Rights in China for Green Revolutions

Human rights advocates attending the International Religious Freedom Summit in Washington in early February have called on the United States not to trade off human rights in China for its own green revolutions. Between 2010 and 2020, China’s share of global polysilicon production increased from 26 percent to 82 percent, according to a 2021 report…


Thousands of Chinese Chip Companies Go Bankrupt in 2022 Following US Sanctions

As many as 5,746 Chinese chip companies were deregistered in 2022, much higher than the previous year. Experts believe U.S. sanctions and China’s economic downturn have caused mass bankruptcies and that it would be difficult for China’s chip industry to recover. Chinese media Titanium Media App reported on Feb. 16 that according to Chinese data…