Category: CCP

Capitol Report (March 29): Former Trump Officials Facing Criminal Contempt Charges

President Joe Biden hosted Singapore’s prime minister at the White House. We’ll unpack their plans on Russia, the supply chain, and maintaining peace in the Indo-Pacific—an area that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is working to destabilize with military and economic coercion. An American architect’s mother was arrested in China for upholding her belief. And…


Majority of Americans Support Sanctions on China If It Aids Russia: Poll

Nearly 75 percent of likely voters polled believe that President Joe Biden should issue similar sanctions on the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) as he has on Russia, if the CCP chooses to provide aid to Russia. The poll follows allegations by the U.S. State Department that CCP leadership was mulling a request for economic and…


Shanghai Lockdown Stands to Exacerbate China’s Growing Economic, Social Problems: Expert

Some of the harshest lockdown measures imposed anywhere in the course of the entire COVID-19 pandemic have led office workers in Shanghai to take the extraordinary step of sleeping in their offices in order to avert disruptions to their companies’ workflow. Some staff will be working in rotating shifts. Personnel of brokers, exchanges, and asset…


Watchdog’s FOIA Finds NIH Deleted Info From Wuhan Lab on CCP Virus Genetic Sequencing

National Institutes of Health (NIH) documents obtained by a non-profit watchdog in a federal court suit reveal the agency deleted CCP Virus genetic sequencing information from the Wuhan Institute for Virology at the Chinese lab’s request. The Arlington, Va.-based Empower Oversight Whistleblowers and Researchers (EO) obtained as a result of a Freedom of Information Act…


NIH Deleted Info From Wuhan Lab on CCP Virus Genetic Sequencing, Watchdog’s FOIA Finds

National Institutes of Health (NIH) documents obtained by a nonprofit watchdog in a federal court suit reveal that the agency deleted CCP virus genetic sequencing information from the Wuhan Institute for Virology at the Chinese lab’s request. The Arlington, Virginia-based Empower Oversight Whistleblowers and Researchers (EO) obtained, as a result of a Freedom of Information…


The ‘Great Translation Movement’ Unveils CCP Domestic Propaganda, Faces Crackdown from Beijing

The Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) “Great Firewall” has long controlled public access to uncensored information on the internet and thus, opinion within China, imbuing its citizens with values that differ from the universal values. However, a new grassroots movement is pushing to unveil the CCP’s domestic propaganda to the Western world. A so-called “Great Translation…


Pompeo: US Should Label China as ‘Adversary’ Rather Than ‘Competitor’ in Recognition of Growing CCP Threats

The next U.S. national security strategy should focus on the challenges of curbing authoritarianism and formally recognize the sovereignty of Taiwan to deter Chinese communist aggression, according to former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. “Being in an ambiguous place is really, really dangerous,” Pompeo said during a March 28 interview with the Hudson Institute, a…


Beijing’s Failure to Take Credible Action Against Fentanyl Trade Requires New Strategy: Experts

Beijing’s response to U.S. requests in the course of a long campaign to stem the flow of fentanyl from labs in China to the cities and towns of America, where overdose deaths from opioids and other drugs now exceed 100,000 per year, has proven inadequate as the drug supply chain adapts to find new outlets….


COVID-Zero Policy Adds to Xi’s Re-Election Uncertainty

China’s harsh anti-COVID policy exacerbated the disunion in the Communist Party and intensified struggles among the party’s different factions, adding further uncertainty to leader Xi Jinping’s path of re-election at the upcoming twentieth party congress. Despite ever stringent zero-tolerance measures on virus transmission, the Chinese Communist regime is having a hard time maintaining its grip…


US Counterespionage Program Ended Despite Ongoing CCP Spying

News Analysis The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) poses the greatest espionage threat to the United States. Yet Chinese agents continue to obtain U.S. visas, and the Biden administration terminated the U.S. counterespionage program last month. A group of U.S. lawmakers has recently called on the Department of Justice (DOJ) to reinstate the China Initiative program…