Category: Thinking About China

How Influential Sports Organizations Enable the Chinese Regime to Commit Crimes Against Humanity

Commentary Right now, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is busy recruiting an “army of western social media influencers, each with hundreds of thousands of followers on TikTok, Instagram or Twitch,” all in an effort “to spread positive stories about China” throughout the Winter Olympics, according to The Guardian. The CCP, we’re told, “has hired western…


How to Counter Beijing’s Relentless Propaganda Campaign

News Analysis Chinese communist propaganda must be countered in a coordinated fashion on all fronts. “Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth,” said Albert Einstein. The ultimate goal of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is to convince Chinese citizens—and as many foreigners as possible—to blindly believe every pronouncement by the top leadership…


Consequences of a Chinese Invasion of Taiwan

Commentary  This is the second part of a two-part series designed to look at the likely war between the Chinese regime and Taiwan, which could happen in 2022. Read part I here. What Would Defeat Do? Anything less than a quick capture of the entire island would look like defeat for the Chinese regime. A long…


Big Business Still in China

News Analysis Despite a growing outcry in democracies over the threat to human rights and international stability from China, and Beijing’s genocide against Uyghurs and other religious groups, major Western corporations continue to do business in the country, including with the military and police. Some of that business could be in violation of a new…


Time for Serious Counter-Propaganda Operations Against Communist China

News Analysis Countering Chinese communist propaganda is an imperative for the United States and others. This is part I of a two-part series about countering Chinese communist propaganda in a concerted fashion. This part discusses the basic propaganda apparatus, purposes, and methods of Chinese Communist Party (CCP) propaganda. Part II will discuss countering CCP propaganda…


The Kremlin Bets That US Sanctions Will Hurt Europe Worse Than Russia

News Analysis While the United States continues to prepare a robust sanctions regime in the event of a Russian invasion of Eastern Ukraine, Moscow announced on Feb. 2 that gas agreements will be a central focus of the upcoming meeting between Chinese leader Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin. This strategic move reaffirms the Sino-Russian…


Is China Trying to Cheat Its Way to Olympic Glory?

Commentary The United States’ ice hockey team will face off against China on Feb. 10. On closer inspection, though, they will be facing off against a team called China but composed primarily of Westerners. What’s going on here? How can this be? Isn’t China supposed to have some of the toughest immigration policies on the planet? Perhaps, just perhaps, China—more specifically,…


The Silent Olympics: Beijing Restricts Free Speech

News Analysis In addition to being subjected to constant surveillance, attendees of the Winter Olympics have been warned by the Chinese regime not to speak out on any sensitive topics such as human rights issues. “How did we get to a point where we granted hosting rights to a nation where you can’t use your…


US Investment Firm Issues Challenge to China’s Legal System

Commentary We’re about to find out just how “free” China’s financial markets really are. As the restructuring saga around real estate developer China Evergrande continues to drag out, recent developments could escalate into a financial standoff previously never before seen in China’s capital markets. A U.S. distressed credit fund—which owns a piece of Evergrande’s defaulted…


The Biden Family’s Alleged $31 Million of China-Linked Business

News Analysis In an era of superpower competition with Russia and even more so China, there is nothing more important than the integrity of politics in America’s capital city. Why? Because America is currently the only country in the world capable of defending democracy globally from the totalitarian threats emanating from Beijing and Moscow. Yet…