Category: China

China’s Low-Price Car Promotion Fails to Spur Sales as Consumer Confidence Declines

News Analysis A low-price auto campaign initiated by Chinese car companies and local governments has been sweeping throughout China since the start of March, but auto sales continue to fall. Experts indicate that middle-class Chinese citizens, the mainstay of consumption, face heavy debts as they lose confidence in the economy. On March 6, Dongfeng Motor…


Samsung’s Operating Losses Impact South Korean Economy, Aims to Build New Chip Center

New Analysis Samsung, the pillar of South Korea’s economy, has seen its profit plunge in 2022 due to weak chip and smartphone demand. The company’s weak financial performance has impacted the overall South Korean economy. To reverse the weakening profitability, Samsung Electronics plans to invest 300 trillion won (about $227 billion) over the next 20 years…


US in ‘Civilizational Struggle’ With Communist China: Rubio

The United States is in a Cold War with China’s communist regime and must take immediate steps to counter the threat and defend itself, according to a new report. Decisive and sweeping action is necessary to prevent authoritarian revision to the world order from happening, according to “Winning the New Cold War: A Plan for…


China Seeking to Dominate Fourth Industrial Revolution: Expert

China is striving to dominate the Fourth Industrial revolution, according to David Goldman, Spengler columnist for Asia Times and PJ Media. Although the concept of a science, data, and technology-driven “Fourth Industrial Revolution” first stemmed from the World Economic Forum in 2015, it has since been adopted by the Chinese Communist Party. “From the mechanization…


How China Harnesses Private Tech Giants for Overseas Intelligence Use

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is tightening the reins on private high-tech giants by acquiring voting shares or using party branches within the companies as the military’s intelligence assistant. The move to exert greater control over private industries has the United States and EU on alert. On March 11, Belgium’s prime minister said the country…


Squats Keep You Healthy and Beautiful: Michelle Yeoh

Michelle Yeoh, a Chinese-Malaysian actress, won the Best Actress award at the 95th Academy Awards on March 12 for her lead role in “Everything Everywhere All at Once.” Yeoh is the first Asian actress to win the award. “For all the boys and girls who are watching tonight, this is a beacon of hope and possibility….


3 Young SJTU Professors Die of Illness

Three young professors at Shanghai Jiao Tong University have died in the past three months. They are Zhang Weiping, 51, deputy director of the National Key Laboratory of Micro/Nano machine Technology; Lai Xinmin, 58, director of the National Engineering Research Center for Automotive Power and Intelligent Contro; and Zhao Gang, 48, chief physician of gastrointestinal…


PREMIERING 7:30PM ET: David Matas on Exposing China’s Illicit Organ Trade: ‘The Problem Isn’t Too Little Evidence. It’s Too Much’

“We’ve been lying to ourselves so long, we don’t know the truth when we see it,” says international human rights lawyer David Matas. For nearly two decades now, he has been one of the leading researchers examining the evidence of the Chinese regime harvesting the organs of living Falun Gong practitioners. “The medical profession here…


Shadow of Colonial Past Hinders France in Limiting Growing Chinese and Russian Influence in Africa

France’s imminent reduction of troop levels in Africa has experts eyeing which major power will supplant Paris’s influence across the continent. The tongues started wagging after French President Emmanuel Macron announced earlier this month that his country harbors no desire to return to past policies of interfering in Africa. During his March 1–4 tour of the…


Wuhan’s Elderly Expose Chinese Authorities’ Retaliation Against Health Reform Protests

Elderly protestors in Wuhan, China have been threatened and harassed by the police there since Feb. 8, when tens of thousands of Wuhan’s retirees started huge protests against health reforms that cut their medical benefits by 70 percent. Hao Jiayi, a Wuhan resident who participated in the protests, has been subject to police suppression and…