Commentary The Olympic Games aren’t over yet, but as far as Beijing’s hope for a boost in international standing, the Games are indeed finished. Hosting the Winter Olympics is not turning out to be quite the global reputation builder that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) had hoped or expected it to be. Treating athletes like…
Thug Charged With Hate Crime Against Falun Gong Allegedly Linked to Beijing
February 18, 2022
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News Analysis We all know about hate crimes, perpetrated by racists and bigots against, for example, ethnic and religious groups. They include anti-Asian hate, slurs against African Americans, and attacks on Jewish synagogues. But some hate crimes get less coverage in the mainstream press—those against adherents of Falun Gong, a spiritual meditation discipline. In the most recent…
Patterns in the Dust: What a Russian Invasion of Ukraine Would Tell Us About China
Commentary The imminent invasion of Ukraine is chaotic and scary, but paying attention to vital details like the composition and control of the attack can tell us something about China. The anticipated invasion of Ukraine by Russian forces could happen any day now. The fluid situation suggests too much chaos to the point that some…
How Long Will Starbucks Last in China?
February 17, 2022
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News Analysis Starbucks offers an “American lifestyle experience” for $4 a cup. But buying American brew—one of the only ways the Chinese can vote—is threatening the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). People’s Daily is the official newspaper of the CCP. If Xi Jinping wants an opinion published, it would appear there. So when People’s Daily publishes…
Trouble in Xi Jinping’s Communist Paradise?
Commentary It seems Chinese leader Xi Jinping is riding high in the saddle these days. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) allowed China to host the 2022 Winter Olympics in semi-arid and snowless Beijing. Is semi-arid too extreme a description for February in Beijing? Why would the Winter Olympics be hosted in a city that averages two-tenths…
Nathan Chen: An American Hero Despised by China
Commentary Who is the real China? Eileen Gu or the chained woman? These questions were recently asked by Li Yuan, a New York Times columnist. The answer is both. China is a country where millions of people live in abject poverty and are subjected to the most vilest of abuses. It’s also a country where,…
Beijing Tacitly Welcomes Media Spotlight on Russian Olympic Doping Case
February 17, 2022
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News Analysis Reporting of a positive drug test by Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva is welcome news to Chinese state media. The latter have been working hard to deflect from any reporting on human rights abuses taking place in the country. Dodging any questions that pertain to issues such as the treatment of Uyghurs, tennis player…
Beijing Pushes Policy Support for Real Estate Sector
Commentary As China’s real estate sector woes deepen hitting developers and local budgets, policy support is coming to their aid from Beijing. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has mobilized its so-called “national asset managers” to support its tottering real estate developers and avert a full-on property market collapse. The asset management companies, which include China…
Don’t Let the Bright Lights of the Olympics Blind You to the People Suffering in Its Shadows
Commentary While millions of people around the world were watching the opening ceremony of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, in the very same city the ceremony was taking place, Xu Yonghai was being put under house arrest at a motel. Xu is an elder at his house church, Beijing Holy Love Fellowship, and he has…
The Falklands, China, and Hypersonic Weapons
February 16, 2022
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News Analysis China used an Olympics summit with Argentina to remind the world that in this 40th anniversary year of the 1982 Argentine-British war over the Falklands, Beijing covets the islands and is continuing its decade-plus effort to engineer a new war over them that Argentina can win. But unlike 1982, when U.S. President Ronald…
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