Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen said on March 29 that “external pressure” from China will not stop her from engaging with world leaders after Beijing threatened retaliation if she met U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calf.). “External pressure will not hinder our determination to go to the world,” Tsai told reporters as she left for the United States….
Taiwan President Vows Not to Cave Under ‘External Pressure’ From China Over Trip to US
China Spent $240 Billion Bailing Out ‘Belt and Road’ Countries, Study Shows
China spent $240 billion in bailing out 22 participating countries of its Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) by the end of 2021, a new study shows. The study published on Tuesday by AidData, a research lab at William & Mary, a public university in Virginia, notes the significant scale of China’s cross-border rescue lending: it says…
US Envoy Says ‘Anti-Coercion Coalition’ Needed to Tackle China’s Economic Coercion
March 28, 2023
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The world’s leading economies should set up an “anti-coercion coalition” to combat Beijing’s persistent use of economic coercion to achieve its political goals, the U.S. ambassador of Japan said on March 27. U.S. envoy to Japan Rahm Emanuel said that collective action is needed to address instances where a country utilizes economic measures to penalize…
Amid Strained US Ties, China Finds Unlikely Friend in Utah
SALT LAKE CITY—China’s global campaign to win friends and influence policy has blossomed in a surprising place: Utah, a deeply religious and conservative state with few obvious ties to the world’s most powerful communist country. An investigation by The Associated Press has found that China and its U.S.-based advocates spent years building relationships with the…
House Advances Bill Calling for Strategy to Defend, Retain Control of Subsea Cables
March 27, 2023
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Among the challenges presented by the decade-long military modernization and expansion of China’s ruling Communist Party (CCP) is a “robust space program” potentially targeting more than 9,000 American-owned satellites orbiting the Earth. Space will be a battleground, Pentagon officials have repeatedly warned in Congressional hearings since February regarding President Joe Biden’s $863 billion Fiscal Year 2024…
WeChat: The CCP’s Ultimate Tool to Control Chinese Americans
March 27, 2023
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While the world is awakening to the threat of TikTok, WeChat is another Chinese social media platform that is infiltrating and monitoring a huge population of Chinese people overseas. Lydia Liu is a Chinese American who found herself becoming a victim of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) censorship through WeChat, a Chinese-owned social media video-sharing…
Empty Shipping Containers Pile Up in Chinese Ports as China’s Exports Continue to Decline
March 27, 2023
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Empty shipping containers used for export have been piling up in Shanghai, Ningbo, Guangdong, and other major Chinese ports since December, as China’s foreign trade continues to decline. The latest data from ContainerxChange, a global container trading platform, shows that in the sixth week of 2023 (February 5–11), the CAx (Container Availability Index) of Shanghai…
Czech Republic Sends Large Delegation to Taiwan to Deepen Relations
The Czech Republic sent a 150-member delegation to Taiwan on March 25, its largest-ever delegation to the self-ruled island, aiming to expand cooperation while expressing support for Taiwan’s democratic system. Marketa Pekarova Adamova, the speaker of the Czech parliament’s lower chamber, led the delegation and referred to Taiwan as a “close partner” of the Czech…
Reports About Closed COVID-19 Mass Quarantine Centers Attract International Attention
March 27, 2023
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The Chinese communist regime’s draconian “zero-COVID” policy has caused a substantial secondary disaster. Since the regime suddenly lifted all the COVID control measures in December 2022, the future of the mass quarantine centers that cost tens of billions of dollars to build has attracted wide attention. Satellite images show that many centralized quarantine facilities, known…
Taiwan Accuses China of Interfering in Relations With Argentina
March 27, 2023
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Taiwan wants inclusive ties with Argentina that would allow the Latin American country to engage with both Beijing and Taiwan, but the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has refused to allow this, a Taiwanese official said. Taiwanese Vice Foreign Minister Alexander Yui told Spanish news site Infobae on March 21 that Taiwan was unable to establish…
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