Category: China

US Real-Time Intel Helps India Deal China a Defeat

Commentary In December 2022 I wrote a column titled “India and China Clash on the Roof of the World.” The Himalayan terrain and history where the incident that occurred Dec. 9, 2022, is obscure and complex. However, conflict between Asia’s two giants has global significance. The clash rated headlines throughout east Asia and the Pacific—headlines…


White House, Experts Rebuke Sino-Russia Statement on Ukraine War

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese leader Xi Jinping are facing criticism over their reference to the U.N. Charter in their joint remarks on the Ukraine war, following their two-day talks in Moscow that ended on Tuesday. Xi arrived in Moscow on March 20, a trip that China’s state-run media had billed as a “peace…


PREMIERING at 10AM ET: Troubled US Bank’s Ties to China Raise More Red Flags

The Silicon Valley Bank’s (SVB) bad management may have set off a nationwide financial crisis. The Biden administration has pledged to protect depositors’ money. But among SVB’s customers are firms affiliated with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). So why are American taxpayers footing the bill to make Beijing whole? In the premiere of the new…


PREMIERING NOW: Troubled US Bank’s Ties to China Raise More Red Flags

The Silicon Valley Bank’s (SVB) bad management may have set off a nationwide financial crisis. The Biden administration has pledged to protect depositors’ money. But among SVB’s customers are firms affiliated with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). So why are American taxpayers footing the bill to make Beijing whole? In the premiere of the new…


Troubled US Bank’s Ties to China Raise More Red Flags

The Silicon Valley Bank’s (SVB) bad management may have set off a nationwide financial crisis. The Biden administration has pledged to protect depositors’ money. But among SVB’s customers are firms affiliated with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). So why are American taxpayers footing the bill to make Beijing whole? In the premiere of the new…


Treasury Holdings by China Is More an Economic Decision Than Political

Commentary One of the recent news warnings about the status of the U.S. dollar was the continuing slash of U.S. Treasury securities holdings by mainland China. It’s latest holding in January was US$859.4 billion, a year-over-year drop of 17 percent compared with that of US$1,033.8 billion in January 2022. Seventeen percent is undoubtedly a significant…


Former US Marine Arrested in Australia for Training Chinese Military Pilots

A former U.S. Marine Corps pilot was arrested in Australia after having been “lured” there by Australia’s security agency, his lawyer said on Monday, after an extradition hearing in court in Sydney. Daniel Duggan, 54, is facing extradition to the United States for allegedly training Chinese military pilots on how to land aircraft on aircraft…


McCarthy Urges Senate to Form China Committee

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calf.) on March 21 suggested the Democrat-controlled Senate should create its own China-focused committee, not unlike the select China committee that the Republican-controlled House inaugurated this session. “I would hope that the Senate would create a similar committee,” he said. McCarthy made the comments alongside his colleagues Rep. Burgess Owens (R-Utah…


Taiwan President to Visit US but No Word on House Speaker Meeting

TAIPEI/WASHINGTON—Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen will make sensitive stopovers in the United States on her way to and from Central America that China’s foreign ministry condemned on Tuesday, but Taipei would not confirm a meeting with U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy. Taiwanese presidents routinely pass through the United States while visiting diplomatic allies in Latin America,…


PREMIERING at Mar. 22 10AM ET: Troubled US Bank’s Ties to China Raise More Red Flags

The Silicon Valley Bank’s (SVB) bad management may have set off a nationwide financial crisis. The Biden administration has pledged to protect depositors’ money. But among SVB’s customers are firms affiliated with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). So why are American taxpayers footing the bill to make Beijing whole? In the premiere of the new…