News Analysis Even after reporting (some would say dubiously) strong 8.1 percent growth for 2021, Beijing knows that after last year’s power shortages and new waves of COVID-19, it will have to work hard to get even the minimum targeted 5 percent real growth in 2022. America’s movement toward monetary restraint will make the effort…
The Looming Threat of Chinese Spyware
Commentary One of the great lessons of the past two years has been that the events poised to change our lives often percolate far from public consciousness. Gain-of-function research on coronaviruses interested almost no part of the general public until it was far too late. Critical race theory took over our classrooms long before parents…
China’s Lack of Allies Is Hobbling Its Military
News Analysis The United States may be experiencing setbacks in Europe, trying to dissuade Russia from invading Ukraine and bullying other eastern European states, but it is enjoying exceptional success in strengthening its alliances in the Asia-Pacific. These efforts are clearly aimed at combating China’s increasingly bellicose behavior. First, Washington was able to craft a…
The Chinese Regime Continues to Fund the Murderous Generals in Burma
Commentary The actor Ashton Kutcher once said: “I don’t think opposites attract. I think like attracts like.” The only time we should be discussing opposites attract, he added, is when we’re “talking about magnetic poles.” One wonders what Kutcher, a man who knows a thing or two about China’s plans for world domination, would have…
US Should Provide Philippines With Ballistic Missiles to Defend Against China
January 17, 2022
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News Analysis Russia is making inroads against democracies and traditional U.S. allies like the Philippines, India, and Turkey, with its supply of cheap but unreliable defense exports. The latest export win for Moscow came on Jan. 14, when Philippine Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana communicated that Manila approved an acquisition of the BrahMos supersonic missile system…
Japan-Taiwan-US Trilateral Defense Against China’s Threats
News Analysis Japan now sees the defense of Taiwan as integral to the security of Japan and is intensifying its security engagement with Taiwan through its U.S. alliance. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Jan. 6 met with Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, Japanese Foreign Minister Hayashi Yoshimasa, and Japanese Defense Minister Kishi Nobuo to discuss…
What Happens If China Hits 5 Percent Growth?
News Analysis As China prepares for the muted Lunar New Year celebrations due to Omicron, it faces its largest challenges to economic growth. With 2022 the Communist Party version of an election year—a time when growth is typically boosted and credit loosened—China faces some of the deepest challenges to growth it has faced in some…
Beijing’s Choreography of the Winter Olympics Might Not Work
Commentary China has been carefully planning the XXIV Olympic Winter Games to showcase Chinese leadership on the world scene. Has the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) accounted for everything? CCP leader Xi Jinping and his underlings have invested a great deal of personal and national prestige in preparing what they hope will be a carefully choreographed…
Exiled Hongkongers Seek Help From an Unlikely Place—Interpol
Commentary Several high-profile Hongkongers—all former lawmakers and pro-democracy leaders—are now living in exile and seeking help from an unlikely place: Interpol. Why do I say unlikely place? Because Interpol has been accused of allowing dictatorships to abuse its system, without taking any real measures to punish them for doing so. These Hongkongers are placing considerable…
China’s Real Estate Crisis Sheds Light on More Debt Problems
News Analysis China’s real estate sector defaults are now spreading to other parts of the economy, with commercial paper and local government debts set to become the next crises. Shanghai Commercial Paper Exchange reported that companies controlled by real estate developers—Shimao Group Holdings, Kaisa Group Holdings, and Greenland Group—have been “consistently overdue” on commercial paper…
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