Category: Thinking About China

China’s State-Owned Enterprises Will Buy Russian Assets

March 21, 2022
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News Analysis China’s state-owned enterprises (SEOs) are coming to Russia’s rescue. Beijing is pressuring SOEs to purchase goods from Russian companies and to make investments into Russian enterprises. As sanctions take hold against Russia, companies in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Europe have been dumping Russian assets. China views this as a buying…

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The CCP’s Struggle With Western Liberalism

March 21, 2022
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Commentary The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is closely watching the difficulty Russia is having in Ukraine and is taking notes. And much is notable in Ukraine. The Ukrainian Effect Many expected that a Russian victory over Ukraine would have taken just a few days. Certainly, it was not expected that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky—a former…

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Why Chinese Companies Are Delisting in America

March 21, 2022
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Commentary Chinese firms are delisting from American exchanges at an increasing pace. It is a complete reversal of a trajectory that up until recently saw China-based firms flocking to list their shares in the United States, Hong Kong, and elsewhere, both to raise their global profiles and to enlarge their sources of funding. The new…

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The Ukrainian War Will Be the End of Russia: Beijing Should Not Be Allowed to Profit

March 20, 2022
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Commentary History will show that the Ukrainian war marked the beginning of the end of the Russian state. Over the last two decades, Vladimir Putin and his cronies, a criminal conspiracy masquerading as the Russian government, have looted the Russian economy, destroyed the Russian middle class and have plunged millions of pensioners into poverty. For…

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The Xi-Biden Call: What Needs to Be Said When a Gangster Is on the Line

March 20, 2022
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Commentary Francis Ford Coppola’s “The Godfather” has many lessons to teach us about international politics and the U.S. position in the world. There is a scene where the Don, played by Marlon Brando, and his consigliere, played by Robert Duvall, are discussing the meeting they just had with New York’s five mafia families. The Don…

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Volkswagen Panders to China

March 19, 2022
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News Analysis Volkswagen (VW) doesn’t seem to care much about China’s support of Russia during its Ukraine invasion. Neither, apparently, is the German company showing exceeding concern about the genocide in Xinjiang (where it has a factory that employs about 650 people). VW is not quite committed to an increase of its manufacturing in the…

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2030: The Year China Runs the World?

March 18, 2022
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Commentary In “2030: How Today’s Biggest Trends Will Collide and Reshape the Future of Everything,” the author Mauro F. Guillén argues that breakthroughs “occur not when someone works within the established paradigm but when assumptions are abandoned, rules are ignored, and creativity runs amok.” The Chinese Communist Party (CCP), not known for working within established…

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China Downgrades ‘Common Prosperity’

March 18, 2022
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News Analysis A few months ago, Chinese leader Xi Jinping touted “common prosperity.” But in recent weeks, Beijing has barely mentioned it and instead began referring to a modified version of the policy, called “third distribution.” “Common prosperity” is broadly believed to be a method of “killing the rich to help the poor,” which means…

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China, Russian Oil, and the Iran Nuclear Deal

March 18, 2022
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News Analysis In violation of U.S. sanctions, China has been purchasing Iranian oil. Now, the United States may lift the sanctions on Iran to replace oil lost from Russia, in which case China will have cheap oil from Russia. The United States is leading a collaborative effort among its allies to cut off Russia’s gas…

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Hong Kong Watch and Its Co-founder Threatened by Hong Kong Police

March 18, 2022
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Commentary Just over a week ago, the Hong Kong Police and National Security Law threatened a foreign national, living outside Hong Kong, and a foreign-registered charity, based in London, with a fine of US$13,000 and anything between a year and life imprisonment, if they did not take down their website—run out of the United Kingdom—within…

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