Commentary The establishment of a new China Committee by the House in the U.S. Congress is being widely seen as the first victory of the Republican Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy. But most people have failed to realize that this committee should have been established a long time ago. The new committee is called…

Commentary Will the recent Beijing-backed cyber-attacks directed at the United States result in war? This is the very question the American economist David P. Goldman recently asked. It’s an important, even existential, question to ask, and a very difficult one to answer. Last month, however, President Joe Biden warned that the recent cyberattacks, which included the hacking…

Commentary On June 1, U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Vice Premier Liu He held an introductory virtual meeting. After the two parties issued brief statements, the Chinese state-run media claimed that China-U.S. economic and trade relations would accelerate. The CCP mouthpiece claims that the U.S. government is unlikely to…

Commentary On May 19, the U.S. State Department announced that the United States would waive sanctions on the Nord Stream 2 project. The statement noted that although the United States will continue to oppose this project, believing that it will weaken European energy security and that of Ukraine and Eastern Europe, the exemption of sanctions…