Commentary Can mass indoctrination save Xi Jinping? Times of turmoil and transition are always unstable and unpredictable; the mood of the “crowd” becomes critical and mercurial. The narrowness of the power base around a leader makes the ruler vulnerable and, of necessity, paranoid. Even trustworthy factions and supporters are not trusted. Neither is the loyalty…

Originally published by Gatestone Institute Commentary There is now a Chinese invasion of the U.S. homeland. “The jungle is filled with Chinese marching to America,” said war correspondent Michael Yon to Gatestone. Chinese migrants are entering the United States on foot at the southern border. Almost all are desperate, seeking a better life for themselves…

Commentary China’s spy base in Cuba may be a violation of the Monroe Doctrine. “We are deeply disturbed by reports that Havana and Beijing are working together to target the United States and our people,” wrote Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Mark Warner (D-Va.) and Vice Chairman Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) in a recent statement regarding the…

Commentary Over the past several years, the People’s Liberation Army Navy has been saber-rattling in the Taiwan Strait, East China Sea, and South China Sea. Chinese warships were conducting “intensive combat exercises,” as noted by Newsweek, and, more recently, practicing what long-time China watchers James Fanell and Bradley Thayer referred to in The Washington Times on…

A Chinese fighter jet aggressively intercepted a U.S. aircraft earlier in the month, risking the lives of its crew and escalating tensions between the two nations. A J-16 fighter pilot “performed an unnecessarily aggressive maneuver” against a U.S. RC-135 reconnaissance plane on May 26, according to a statement released by United States Indo-Pacific Command (INDOPACOM)…

Commentary In the early 2010s, China started building a constellation of artificial islands in the Spratly Islands. At the time, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leadership promised not to militarize these islands. That turned out to be a lie, and several islands were subsequently constructed with airstrips and harbors capable of accepting military aircraft and…

China’s communist regime fined a mainland Chinese talk show company around $2 million and suspended its performances indefinitely this week after a comedian was reported by audience members for mocking China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) and the regime’s military slogan. Observers pointed out that it’s becoming harder for talk show hosts and comedians to survive…

Commentary When Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin met in March, it was to firm up a new Sino-Russian strategic partnership crafted last year. Yet there is always a hierarchy in every alliance, and it is increasingly apparent that Russia is the junior partner in this relationship. It wasn’t always so. From the founding of communist…

Commentary New Delhi has confronted the Burma government over Indian satellite images of Chinese workers constructing a listening post and extending an airstrip on the Coco Islands in the Bay of Bengal. Burma (also known as Myanmar) has denied Chinese involvement, but Indian officials are concerned that the facility will enable the People’s Liberation Army…

China appointed Li Shangfu as its new defense minister, making the general targeted by U.S. sanctions the face of the communist regime’s growing military. China’s rubber-stamp legislature, the National People’s Congress (NPC), formally confirmed Li’s appointment as the Minister of National Defense and a state councilor on Sunday. The 65-year-old aerospace engineer succeeds Wei Fenghe,…