Former secretary of state Henry Kissinger met with Chinese leader Xi Jinping and Defense Minister Li Shangfu in Beijing last week amid heightened tensions between the United States and China. The 100-year-old Kissinger is revered in China for having engineered the opening of relations between the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and Washington under former president…
Shangri-La Should Not Become Mere Talkfest on CCP Threat
June 11, 2023
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Commentary I was reminded that Shangri-La is a fictional utopian paradise valley in Tibet as I read the remarks of the Chinese defence minister to the Singaporean security conference held in the hotel named after the mythical land. In his speech on “China’s New Security Initiative,” Li Shangfu emphasised “a new path to security featuring…
Shangri-La Should Not Be a Mere Talkfest on the CCP Threat
June 11, 2023
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Commentary I was reminded that Shangri-La is a fictional utopian paradise valley in Tibet as I read the remarks of the Chinese defence minister to the Singaporean security conference held in the hotel named after the mythical land. In his speech on “China’s New Security Initiative,” Li Shangfu emphasised “a new path to security featuring…
As US and China Spar, Western CEOs ‘Love the CCP’
June 6, 2023
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Commentary At an annual security conference in Singapore on June 4, China’s defense minister accused the United States of being a hegemonic power. Given all the trouble Washington is experiencing over Taiwan and Ukraine, clearly, we are not. U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin was also at the conference. He sat at the same dinner…
US Not Considering Lifting Sanctions on China’s Defense Minister: Official
May 23, 2023
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The United States has no intentions of lifting the sanctions imposed on Chinese Defense Minister Li Shangfu, a State Department spokesperson said on May 22. The spokesperson’s comments seem to retract those made by President Joe Biden during the G-7 leaders’ summit in Japan on May 21, when he said the idea of easing Li’s…
Chinese Defense Minister to Visit Russia for Talks With Military Leaders
April 15, 2023
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China’s defense chief will visit Russia on Sunday for talks with Russian military leaders, the Chinese Defense Ministry said on Friday, as the two allies seek to bolster their military alliance on the heels of Russia’s ongoing war in Ukraine. Chinese Defense Minister Li Shangfu will embark on a four-day visit to Moscow at the…
China Promotes US-Sanctioned Aerospace Engineer to Top Defense Post
China appointed Li Shangfu as its new defense minister, making the general targeted by U.S. sanctions the face of the communist regime’s growing military. China’s rubber-stamp legislature, the National People’s Congress (NPC), formally confirmed Li’s appointment as the Minister of National Defense and a state councilor on Sunday. The 65-year-old aerospace engineer succeeds Wei Fenghe,…
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