Tobias Ellwood, chairman of the UK Defence Select Committee, has called for an inquiry after an investigation found that surveillance cameras from Chinese technology companies Hikvision and Dahua are still in use at British army bases, months after they should have been replaced over security concerns. In November 2022, the UK government banned the installation of…
UK Defence Committee Chair Calls for Inquiry After Chinese-Made Security Cameras Found at Army Bases
Xi Jinping Declares Victory Over Pandemic Ahead of the Two Sessions, Secured Military Obedience First
News Analysis After China’s military authorities ordered the armed forces to follow the command of Military Commission Chairman Xi Jinping in all operations, Xi declared “victory in the fight against the epidemic” at a meeting of the seven-member Politburo Standing Committee. In contrast, the last time Xi announced a victory against COVID in 2020, it…
Tories Pressing for Trudeau’s Top Adviser to Testify on Beijing Interference
The Conservative Party says it will make another attempt to have the prime minister’s chief of staff testify on Beijing foreign interference before a House of Commons committee, after the NDP helped the Liberals defeat two recent attempts. “It would be beyond outrageous if the Prime Minister of our country was made aware that one…
Republicans Alarmed by Beijing’s Efforts to Spread Propaganda on Western Outlets
Republican lawmakers are expressing alarm over Beijing’s persistent efforts to use Western outlets to spread its narratives, including claims that Washington had overreacted to a “wandering balloon” and damaged the bilateral relationship. In an op-ed recently published in the Washington Post, Xu Xueyuan, the chargé d’affaires at the Chinese regime’s embassy in Washington, repeated Beijing’s…
Republicans Sound Alarm on Beijing’s Efforts to Spread Propaganda in Western Outlets
Republican lawmakers are expressing alarm over Beijing’s persistent efforts to use Western outlets to spread its narratives, including claims that Washington had overreacted to a “wandering balloon” and damaged the bilateral relationship. In an op-ed recently published in the Washington Post, Xu Xueyuan, the chargé d’affaires at the Chinese regime’s embassy in Washington, repeated Beijing’s…
LIVE NOW: Where Are the Ships? Fighting a Pacific War Without American Sealift: A Hudson Institute Discussion
The U.S. maritime industry is too small to contribute enough to American military and economic security due to its shrinking size, while communist China’s maritime industry has been growing. America faces challenges. Rear Admiral Mark Buzby (U.S. Navy, ret.), former commander of the Navy’s Military Sealift Command and head of the Maritime Administration in the…
Where Are the Ships? Fighting a Pacific War Without American Sealift: A Hudson Institute Discussion
The U.S. maritime industry is too small to contribute enough to American military and economic security due to its shrinking size, while communist China’s maritime industry has been growing. America faces challenges. Rear Admiral Mark Buzby (U.S. Navy, ret.), former commander of the Navy’s Military Sealift Command and head of the Maritime Administration in the…
China Added to Its Money Supply in 2022
News Analysis China has reportedly added trillions of yuan to the money supply in 2022, the most in its history and equivalent to the combined amount from the United States, Japan, and the European Union. However, the move may have no way to boost the Chinese economy, given a sluggish trend in GDP and a…
Xi Jinping Has ‘Doubts’ Regarding Success of Taiwan Invasion: CIA Chief
William Burns, director of the CIA, claimed that Beijing is doubtful whether its potential invasion of Taiwan would be successful, with the ongoing Russia–Ukraine conflict strengthening such concerns. In an interview with CBS on Sunday, Burns was asked whether China would commit to an outright invasion or seek to slowly strangle Taiwan’s democracy. “I think our…
Cross-Partisan Calls Mount for Public Inquiry Into Chinese Election Interference
Cross-partisan calls are growing for the Liberal government to call a public inquiry to investigate allegations of election interference in Canada’s 2019 and 2021 federal elections by the Chinese government, despite Prime Minister Justin Trudeau having already ruled it out. “Some form of non-partisan deep look has to happen here,” said Gerald Butts, Trudeau’s former principal secretary and…
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