Commentary In the early spring of 2020, the United States began locking down citizens and businesses—such as restaurants, nightclubs, hairdressers, movies, and gyms—killing off entire sectors. As economic activity ground to a near halt, the government applied band-aid solutions in the form of economic stimulus that would temporarily and partially mitigate the negative impact on…
Biden Appoints Alleged ‘CCP-Loving’ Donor
May 3, 2022
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News Analysis President Joe Biden just appointed a major donor, Dominic Ng, as a representative from the United States to the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Business Advisory Council. The only apparent problems with this appointment are what appears to be a compromise of Biden and Ng’s ethics. Ng donated over $135,000 to Democratic causes in…
The GOP Establishment Versus America First Republicans: Part 1
Commentary The current conventional wisdom is that the Republicans will win control of the U.S. Congress in November. Many news and opinion pieces are focused on the declining favorability polls of President Joe Biden and the Democrat Party in general. However, there is a major story-within-the-story: the struggle for control of the Republican Party between…
Solomon Islands: Going After Chinese ‘Juice’
Commentary The Americans went to the Solomon Islands almost two weeks ago. It was a high-power delegation that included Biden’s National Security Council Indo-Pacific “Asia Czar” Kurt Campbell, the State Department’s Asia-Pacific head Daniel Kritenbrink, and senior officials from USAID and USINDOPACOM. But there was an air of desperation to it all—given that the Solomon…
Beijing Revives Its Coup Against the King of Eswatini
Commentary The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has used the Russia-Ukraine war as a cover to undertake new initiatives in the Indo-Pacific. Still, it has also used the distraction to revive its plan to overthrow the government of Eswatini in Southern Africa. The elements began coming together again in late April 2022. Beijing is once again…
Beijing Increases Blame Campaign Against NATO for Russia-Ukraine Conflict
May 1, 2022
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News Analysis Beijing doesn’t just want to upend the U.S. system—it wants to replace it. China’s strategy for challenging the U.S.-led international order largely proceeds according to two separate yet interrelated prongs. First, Beijing expounds on the failures of Washington’s foreign policy, pointing to its consequences and castigating its interventionist principles. Second, Beijing simultaneously presents…
The Great Translation Movement in Historical Perspective
While Putin’s invasion of Ukraine has seen economic repercussions around the world, from supply chain disruption and to shortages in daily goods like cooking oil and tomatoes in Europe, the impact in China is more ideological. Not only does the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) act contrary to the world by supporting Russia’s “military action”…
China Lockdown Cuts Supplies
April 30, 2022
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News Analysis China’s COVID lockdowns are grinding the country’s manufacturing to a halt and alarming global business leaders who depend on the country for parts and manufacturing. The CEO of Mercedes Benz, Ola Kallenius, told Bloomberg on April 29 that “new lockdowns in China, in Shanghai but also in other places in China affects the business…
Global Security With Chinese Characteristics
Commentary Chinese leader Xi Jinping presses his case for world leadership through a “global security initiative.” But flowery words mask the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) real intentions. Another day, another communist Chinese grand initiative. The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), Made in China 2025, Digital Silk Road (and “Digital China”), Polar Silk Road, etc. This…
China’s Rise and Inflation’s Fall From 1982 Until COVID
April 29, 2022
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Commentary My tour of China with Australian journalists in 1981 concluded with a tour of the Shenzhen Free Trade Zone—which at that stage was little more than a mass of concrete being laid by the Australian company CSR. If we saw China’s past in Shanghai, with the ludicrous decision of its economic boss—when he “followed…
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