Category: CCP

Chinese Weaponized Corruption Is a National Security Threat

Commentary In November 2018, at the direction of then-President Donald Trump, the U.S. Department of Justice, the FBI, and other federal security and economic agencies launched the China Initiative to halt the massive transfer of American information and technology to China and counter Chinese spying in American businesses, research institutions, and universities. In late February…


CCP Aid: A Domination Strategy

News Analysis As part of its global domination strategy, China has become one of the world’s largest lenders to the least developed nations, charging higher interest rates and demanding collateral in the form of ports, airports, minerals, and revenue streams. Foreign aid accounts for 1 percent of the $4.05 trillion U.S. federal budget, with half…


Japan and EU Leaders Announce Digital Partnership Amid Chinese Aggression

Leaders from Japan and the EU announced a new digital partnership April 12, following a summit in which they discussed how to jointly contend with rising authoritarianism amid Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, nuclear sabre rattling from North Korea, and increased aggression from China’s communist regime. Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida met with European Council President…


3 Highly Censored Words That Can Get You Arrested in Communist China—Here’s Why

Truthfulness, compassion, and tolerance (or in Chinese, zhen 真 shan 善 ren 忍), sound like the ideal principles for the world to follow, but in communist China, uttering those three words together stands to have you arrested. The ancient meditation and self-improvement system of Falun Gong (also known as Falun Dafa) is a meditation practice based…


‘Acute’ Threat of Chinese Invasion of Taiwan ‘Between Now and 2030’: US Intelligence Chief

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is rapidly developing the military capabilities required to launch an invasion of Taiwan, which does not yet have sufficient training and forces to repel such an attack, according to testimony received by the Senate Armed Services Committee during a May 10 hearing on worldwide threats. “China has focused on studying…


Settlement Reached Over Chinese-Perpetrated OPM Hack

Parties involved in a class-action lawsuit over the 2015 Office of Personnel Management (OPM) breach announced in court filings on May 6 that they have reached a $63 million settlement in the matter. Plaintiffs, including the National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU) and American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), sued OPM in July 2015 after the…


The CCP’s Criminal Intent Revealed

Commentary While Russia’s war in Ukraine rages, China’s Xi Jinping is watching with interest—especially to the canceling of Russian access to Moscow’s own foreign investments, including hard currencies, which it thought it could use to backstop the invasion. China, too, invested in foreign assets, including $3.2 trillion in foreign reserves that it has tried to…


US Needs to Decouple From China to Counter Its Unrestricted Warfare: Robert Spalding

The Chinese communist regime uses the tools of information and finance to advance its political warfare operations in the United States, according to China expert Robert Spalding. “China seeks to achieve political outcomes, but they do so using financial and economic relationships and the internet, to slowly erode any popular support within a free society…


Pandemic Lessons Learned: Deadly Lockdowns

For over a month now, since April 5, 2022, Shanghai—a city of 26 million people best known as a financial and trade hub of East Asia for more than a century—has been in total lockdown. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has told its citizens that the mass COVID testing and near-total lockdown are necessary to…


Biden Strategy Pushing US Nuclear Deterrence ‘Beyond Its Usefulness’: Experts

The Biden administration’s nuclear policies and budget are too ambiguous or otherwise wide reaching to provide the type of conflict deterrence that is expected of them, according to several experts. “How are you going to contain Russia and China?” said Harlan Ullman, a senior advisor at the Atlantic Council, a Washington-based think tank. “The policy…