Commentary Foreign firms doing business in China should be aware of the costs of transacting with a totalitarian regime that controls everything in society and can easily bend any company to its will. Heads of U.S. corporations don’t dare to criticize the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) even in private settings. They know Big Brother is always…
Ship Data Interruption Hints at China’s Military Doctrine
China’s recent interference with ship-data broadcasts might provide a clue to Chinese military strategy, and give a preview of the opening moments of a future attack on Taiwan. In late October, international ship tracking services noticed a sudden decrease in ship data from Chinese ground stations. These land-based stations receive the Automatic Identification System (AIS)…
China’s Influence in Solomon Islands Causes Riot
December 3, 2021
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News Analysis Chinatown and a police station in the Solomon Islands’ capital city of Honiara were partially burned down during protests that started on Nov. 24. Many locals are unhappy with Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare’s 2019 turn away from Taiwan and toward Beijing (known locally as “The Switch”), not to mention poverty, preferences given to…
Dimon’s CCP Walk Back an All Too Familiar Reality
December 3, 2021
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Commentary JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Simon said out loud what many business leaders know, but are afraid to say. At a late November industry conference in Boston, Dimon said “I’ll make a bet that we last longer [than the CCP.]” He continued by joking that “I can’t say that in China. They are probably listening…
Strategic Ambiguity and Clarity: The Proper Way to Protect Taiwan
Commentary The current debate over America’s strategic ambiguity misses the best parts of both clarity and ambiguity. U.S. strategy should change to adopt them. The debate over the proper U.S. strategy toward Taiwan remains in the news. The current conventional wisdom is that the United States must counter communist China’s aggression by being more clear…
Communist China Declared War on the US Long Ago: Part 3
December 2, 2021
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News Analysis Incredibly, many Americans and others still believe Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s propaganda about “shared futures,” “whole democracy,” and “Chinese benevolence.” So far—and thanks to relentless coordinated propaganda by Chinese diplomats and state-run Chinese media—the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has not completely lost control of the COVID-19 narrative, including success in delinking the virus…
Behind the Arrest of Macau’s ‘Junket Mogul’: Focus on Money Laundering
News Analysis Alvin Chau Cheok-wa, the head of Macau’s biggest casino junket operator Suncity Group, was arrested last week along with 10 others for allegedly running illegal cross-border gambling and a money-laundering syndicate. Junket operators are outfits that bring in high rollers to play at casinos. According to Macau police, all of the arrested have…
China’s Data Play
December 2, 2021
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News Analysis Beijing is quietly overhauling how Chinese firms handle data and these changes are likely to have global implications. The management of how firms handle data has historically drawn little interest. But with the advent of internet connected devices that can track or measure virtually every movement, governments have taken an increasing interest in…
The Rise of China: Is Henry Kissinger to Blame?
Commentary Henry Kissinger spoke about the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), as well as the threat it poses to Taiwan, in an interview with CNN’s Fareed Zakaria on Nov. 22. Asked if he expected China to invade Taiwan, the politician, diplomat, and geopolitical consultant said “no”—at least not for now. “I don’t expect an all-out attack on Taiwan in,…
The Moral Imperative to End China’s Regime
Commentary “We do business in 100 countries,” said Jamie Dimon to Fox News Channel’s Maria Bartiromo in early August. “And we do, we do it under the laws of those lands and under the law of America as they apply.” “Foreign policy is set by the American government, not set by JPMorgan,” Dimon, the chairman and CEO…
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