News Analysis Australia discovered Huawei’s cyber spying in about 2012 and informed the United States, according to a new Bloomberg News investigation. The Aussie discovery started a long process of investigating and finding Huawei hacks in other countries. The result: a too-quiet information campaign against the company’s attempts to monopolize the world’s wireless networks, from…
Chinese Tech Giant Huawei Attacked Aussie and US Networks in 2012
December 20, 2021
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Hong Kong’s Slide Into Darkness
Commentary Hong Kong tastes the bitter fruit of China’s “whole-process people’s democracy.” The transition of Hong Kong’s democracy into a Chinese-run nightmare is painful to watch. The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) is in the midst of being completely absorbed into communist China’s political system—despite the promises made by Beijing in 1997 that the…
China’s Chip Sector Meets Headwinds While CCP Is Mistrustful of Executives From Taiwan
December 19, 2021
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News Analysis The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) would not have likely secured its self-reliance in chipmaking without support from Taiwanese professionals, amid U.S.–China tech tensions. However, the recent exit of three influential Taiwanese executives from China’s largest chipmaker or its board of directors highlights a reality—that Beijing does not trust them and deems them as…
Joining the WTO Gave the CCP 20 Years of Development, but Has the West Been Fooled?
Commentary This year, 2021, marks the 20th since China became a member of the World Trade Organization (WTO). There have been a large number of publications either commemorating or reassessing the Chinese regime’s participation in the WTO. The Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP’s) propaganda mouthpiece People’s Daily published an article on Dec. 11, boasting that the…
Danger Ahead: Problems in US Civil-Military Relations
Commentary U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin has expressed concern over the loss of trust and confidence of the American people in the military. While the causes are multiple, a major one is the ideological upheaval between the ideologies of liberalism and progressivism. A major consequence of this is the departure of many officers from…
Evergrande’s Default No ‘Lehman Moment’ for China’s State-Controlled Economy
December 17, 2021
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After months of speculation, two major Chinese residential real estate developers have defaulted on their bond payments. In December, Evergrande and Kaisa failed to pay interest due on $1.6 billion worth of U.S. dollar-denominated bonds in aggregate. Evergrande was the highest-profile, as the Shenzhen-based developer had for months tried to raise cash to pay down…
The IOC’s Reputation Goes Downhill With Beijing Winter Olympics
Commentary Is the International Olympic Committee (IOC) a puppet, like the World Health Organization (WHO), that’s been bought and paid for by Beijing? That would appear to be the case. But how could that be? The IOC’s Foundational Principles After all, the Olympic Charter’s foundational values demand “respect for universal ethical principles.” This primary objective…
Will Taiwan Defend Itself From a Chinese Attack?
Commentary At last week’s global Summit on Democracy, Washington managed to offend both Taipei and Beijing in a rare instance of unity between the two. Of course, the reasons for the unity of criticism were quite different. Beijing views Taiwan as a renegade province of the homeland and not as an independent, democratic country. It…
The Real Reason China Wants Tibet
Commentary As I write this, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is committing cultural genocide in Tibet. Chinese leader Xi Jinping has demanded a “new modern socialist” Tibet, as well as the “sinicization” of the Tibetan people. To ensure mass compliance, the CCP has implemented a string of new policies in the supposedly autonomous region. In Tibet,…
Defense Diplomacy: Beijing’s New Weapon for Expanding Its Influence in Latin America
December 16, 2021
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News Analysis Defense diplomacy is Beijing’s stealthy move to expand its soft power through arms sales and military education—for both autocratic states and democratic allies of the United States—in the Americas. The Chinese regime is giving arms, loans, and investment to Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), in exchange for mineral resources and political allegiance….
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