Category: Special Topics

FBI Launched Inquiry Into NIH Funding of Wuhan Lab, Emails Show

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) launched an inquiry into the National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding of bat research in the Wuhan Institute of Virology, newly released emails show. The interest from the top U.S. intelligence agency adds to the international scrutiny on the Wuhan facility, which houses one of China’s highest-level biosecurity labs…


China is America’s ‘Most Lethal, Dangerous Adversary’: Former Defense Secretary

China’s communist government is the greatest foreign threat facing the United States, according to former defense secretary Mark Esper, who also said that the regime should be considered an adversary. “Today, I would describe [China] as our adversary,” Esper said during a July 14 talk at the Brookings Institution, a Washington-based think tank. “To me,…


China Advances Its Biowarfare Program Through Infiltration of US Virus Labs: Retired US Army Colonel

Chinese scientists, with military links, infiltrate American virology research institutions and feed the research results to the Chinese military to benefit China’s development of biological weapons, said retired U.S. Army Reserve colonel Lawrence Sellin, Ph.D. In China, there is no difference between military and civilian research, and in 2016 the Chinese regime even mandated the…


House GOP Lawmakers Launch Investigation Into TikTok’s Data Sharing Practice in China

Two senior GOP House lawmakers are probing popular Chinese video-sharing app TikTok over concerns that its non-public user data could be accessed by its China-based parent company ByteDance, which has ties to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). “TikTok has gone on record numerous times claiming that they do not share Americans’ user data with the…


Japan’s Defense Against ‘Paramount’ Leader Xi; Legal Expert: USAGM Nominee’s China Ties

Japan is on the road to amending its constitution amid China’s military threat. We discuss how the Chinese regime’s leadership is pushing Japan to do so, with Taiwan as the focus. While Chinese leader Xi Jinping wants to become the paramount leader, he needs credible achievements. A new so-called People’s View says they will keep…


Chinese Researchers Develop New AI Tech to Screen ‘Loyalty’ of Communist Party Members

News Analysis Chinese researchers recently developed artificial intelligence technology that can gauge Chinese officials’ loyalty to the ruling Communist Party. The technology could be a tool for Beijing’s anti-corruption campaign to monitor further and purge “corrupt” Party members, indicating the regime’s growing fear of losing its legitimacy and power. More than 4.7 million officials at all…


US Military Cannot Fulfill National Defense Strategy Due to Force Cuts: Experts

The U.S. military is not able to fully realize the demands of the National Defense Strategy due to years of force cuts and a failure to modernize its arsenal, according to experts. “There’s a huge gap between what the national defense strategy requires that the Navy, the Air Force, the Army, and the Marine Corps…


US Military Can’t Fulfill National Defense Strategy Because of Force Cuts: Experts

The U.S. military isn’t able to fully realize the demands of the National Defense Strategy because of years of force cuts and a failure to modernize its arsenal, according to experts. “There’s a huge gap between what the national defense strategy requires that the Navy, the Air Force, the Army, and the Marine Corps [provide]…


US Must Pivot Toward Latin America to Counter China

Commentary Leftists are gobbling up the governments of Latin America as countries drift into China’s orbit. On June 19, leftist and former guerilla Gustavo Petro won the presidential election in Colombia, calling attention to an increasing leftist shift across the Americas. This parallels increasing engagement with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), posing a threat to…


Shanghai Isolates Residents for Being in a WeChat Group with COVID-19 Cases

China’s fear of COVID-19 reached new heights when the city of Shanghai put members of a WeChat group into home quarantine for at least seven days amid a recent COVID-19 outbreak. The city of 26 million reported 74 locally transmitted COVID-19 cases from July 3 to July 6 that were related to a karaoke bar…