Category: Thinking About China

Reservoir Discharge Without Warning in China: Another Communist Trait

Commentary Since May, heavy rains and floods have hit China. The regime’s official data showed that, in May alone, 89 rivers were flooded above warning levels and 3.7 million people were affected in 18 provinces, including Hunan, Jiangxi, Zhejiang, Fujian, Guangdong, and Guangxi, The Epoch Times reported in June. Residents have complained that the floods…


Espionage Is a Fundamental Engine Behind China’s Economic Growth

News Analysis The Chinese economy has benefited from decades of purposeful economic espionage focused on acquiring Western technology, intellectual property, and general economic know-how. Communist China’s long-term economic strategy is aimed at replacing the U.S.-dominated post-World War II order, which was established by the United Nations and the Bretton Woods international monetary framework, with an…


The US-China Confrontation: Perception Is Power

Commentary The Chinese Communist Party (CCP), in the delicate throes of a major internal party power competition, has begun throwing everything into a bid to blunt an outright expression of anti-Beijing hostility from the U.S. Biden administration. It is succeeding. This, for Beijing, is the payoff for having supported the collapse of the Trump administration,…


US Tariffs and Trade Restrictions Biting the Chinese Economy

News Analysis Former President Donald Trump’s tariffs and sanctions had the Chinese economy on the ropes. The new administration is enforcing these tariffs and restrictions. In the first 10 months in office, the Biden administration has banned imports of some materials from Xinjiang and sanctioned Beijing over human rights abuses in the region, supported NATO…


Defeat the CCP Before Strengthening the UN

Commentary A British conservative advocates increased investigatory power for the United Nation’s WHO to defeat the next pandemic, but fails to account for Beijing’s growing influence over the U.N. itself. Tom Tugendhat, a Conservative Party member of the British parliament and who is normally tough on authoritarianism, is advocating more power for the World Health…


Religious Freedom in China Is a CCP Myth

Commentary Religious expression is tightly managed by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in order to propagate socialist policies in support of state objectives. The agitprop in communist China’s state-run media never stops, but sometimes the lies are beyond the absurd. This is especially true as it relates to the discussion of religion—or, rather, its suppression….


Can a Weakening EU Really Challenge China?

Commentary The European Union recently announced the launch of “Global Gateway,” a bold project designed to compete with China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). I use the word bold intentionally. After all, the effects of China’s BRI (also known as “One Belt, One Road”)—a global infrastructure expansion strategy adopted by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)…


Commentary “The island’s…

Commentary “The island’s society must be warned that they better not believe the ‘rock solid’ promise of the U.S. because Washington will never fight to the death with the Chinese mainland for the island’s secession,” the Chinese Communist Party’s Global Times proclaimed on Oct. 14, referring to Taiwan. The words, contained in an editorial, reflects the Party’s propaganda…


‘War Is Real’: Defend Taiwan or Give It the Bomb

Commentary “The island’s society must be warned that they better not believe the ‘rock solid’ promise of the U.S. because Washington will never fight to the death with the Chinese mainland for the island’s secession,” the Chinese Communist Party’s Global Times proclaimed on Oct. 14, referring to Taiwan. The words, contained in an editorial, reflects the Party’s propaganda…


What’s Behind Beijing’s Latest Round of Bank Regulations

Commentary Beijing is tightening governance around banks and insurance companies to bar large shareholders from having excessive influence and engaging in unfair dealings. China wants to rein in financial sector risk and corporate governance. Many of these affiliated deals generated losses or bad debts for banks. But there are other layers to this new round…