Category: Special Topics

Biden Administration Releases National Arctic Strategy to Counter China and Russia

The Biden administration unveiled its national strategy for the Arctic on Oct. 7, underscoring a growing competition with China and Russia in the region. It is the first national strategy for the Arctic to be published since 2013, though several departments across the government including Homeland Security and the U.S. Army have published their own…


Biden Administration Releases National Arctic Strategy to Counter China, Russia

The Biden administration unveiled its national strategy for the Arctic on Oct. 7, underscoring a growing competition with China and Russia in the region. It’s the first national strategy for the region to be published since 2013, although several departments across the U.S. government, including the Department of Homeland Security and the Army, have published…


Chinese Police Overseas NY Outpost Can Be Tool for Sabotage in US: Expert

A report emerged in September that said Chinese authorities have opened 110 police service centers outside of mainland China—including one in New York City—that repatriate Chinese people using coercion, according to a security policy expert, but which also may be used for sabotage or espionage. Frank Gaffney, the executive chairman at the Washington-based Center for…


Biden Admin Unveils Tough Restrictions on Semiconductor Exports to China

The Biden administration unveiled sweeping new export controls Oct. 7, in an effort to hamstring the military modernization of an increasingly hostile China. Among the new export rules is a measure that will cut communist China off from certain semiconductor chips that are made with U.S. technologies, regardless of whether the chips were manufactured in…


Falun Gong Adherents in Canada See Spike in Harassment as Key CCP Meeting Nears

Beijing is reportedly ramping up harassment and persecution campaigns against dissidents at home and abroad ahead of the communist regime’s national meeting, with members of a Chinese spiritual practice and other dissidents in Canada saying they are experiencing increased assault, harassment, and intimidation. Toronto-area resident Jeff Lee, a spokesperson for Falun Gong, a persecuted group in…


Cook Island PM Credits Success of US-Pacific Summit to Recognition of US Absence in the Pacific

Recognition of the U.S.’s absence in the Pacific region was one of the reasons why the U.S.-Pacific Summit succeeded, Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown has said. This follows the endorsement of the joint partnership declaration by 14 Pacific Island states that would see the U.S. increase its diplomatic presence in the pacific region as…


HHS Probed EcoHealth Over Alleged ‘Major Fraud’ Against US, Emails Show

The Department of Health and Human Services’ watchdog had briefly probed EcoHealth Alliance, a New York non profit that has collaborated with the Wuhan Institute of Virology, over alleged “major fraud against the United States,” newly released emails show. The four-month-long probe, which opened in September 2020, centered around an allegation that “the COVID 19…


Chinese Police Reportedly Lock Down Tourists in Airport With Machine Guns Amid Snap Shut in Yunnan Province

Footage of Chinese police holding machine guns at the airport of Xishuangbanna (Banna) prefecture to stop tourists from boarding their planes has gone viral in China and overseas. Tourists were trapped in the airport after the local authorities of Banna suddenly locked down the city of Jinghong on Oct. 4. They chanted “We want to…


UN Votes Down Debate on Uyghurs After CCP Lobbying

The United Nations rejected a move to debate China’s ongoing human rights abuses—a rare move that could signal U.S. influence abroad is waning. Leaders from the United States, United Kingdom, and Canada called for a debate on the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) suppression of the Uyghurs and other minorities in Xinjiang after a U.N. report…


PLA’s New Leadership Appointments to Focus on the Taiwan Strait and Loyalty: Experts

In the 20th rubber-stamp legislature to be held in China on Oct. 16, the regime will recompose its military leadership to focus on regional military coercion in the Taiwan Strait and loyalty said China experts. Xi Jinping, the head of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), increased his control over the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) through…