Category: Thinking About China

The Correct Response to China in the Aftermath of the Afghanistan Debacle

Commentary Chinese “wolf warriors” and their sycophants in China’s state-run media have been crowing for weeks about the strategic defeat suffered by the United States in Afghanistan. During a telephone call on Aug. 16, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi claimed that the U.S. Secretary of State expressed hope that China would help in “stabilizing Afghanistan.” Here…


New German Government Is Alliance Opportunity Against the CCP

News Analysis Germany’s Angela Merkel is on the way out and a new government is coming—potentially the Greens, which takes a stronger stand against Beijing’s human rights abuses. A new coalition government is expected in Germany soon and the Greens might be taking the foreign policy portfolio. This is good and bad news for those…


China’s Energy Crisis: A CCP-Made Emergency

News Analysis Factories in China are being forced to shut down amid an energy crisis, as more than half of the provinces have imposed electricity-use restrictions. Forced reductions even apply to Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Guangdong provinces, which generate roughly one-third of the nation’s GDP. Local governments are enforcing shut-down rules in their attempt to meet…


The Fable of the Trans-Pacific Trade Pact

Commentary The story of trade in our world is an ongoing fable of successes and failures, even as the setups to facilitate it are usually invariably designed to bring happily prosperous outcomes. Like all fables, there are lessons to be learned. The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) began as an expansion of the Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership…


China’s Control Over ‘Algorithms’ Another Challenge for US Investors

Commentary Cue references of a “Matrix”-like dystopian future where Chinese citizens are trapped in a simulated reality managed by state-controlled computer algorithms. It’s not too far-fetched to imagine. The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC), the country’s cyberspace watchdog, announced recently that it would set up governance and rules to tighten its grip on algorithms companies…


China’s Control Over ‘Algorithms’

Commentary Cue references of a “Matrix”-like dystopian future where Chinese citizens are trapped in a simulated reality managed by state-controlled computer algorithms. It’s not too far-fetched to imagine. The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC), the country’s cyberspace watchdog, announced recently that it would set up governance and rules to tighten its grip on algorithms companies…


China’s Global Influence War: French Military Exposé

News Analysis Beijing’s global influence operations, including election interference, has been revealed by a new French military study. A new study of China’s global influence operations by France’s Ministry of Armed Forces demonstrates that Beijing is making a Machiavellian turn toward seeking to inspire fear in the world, rather than solicit its amour. In Beijing’s…


The Story of Evergrande’s Founder and What It Means for the Company’s Future

Commentary What would appear to be an American-dream, rags-to-riches story may not have a happy ending for the founder of Evergrande, China’s largest real-estate developer. After rating agency Fitch lowered the company’s rating to near default, the founder’s history of high-leverage business investments may have finally run the company dry. As the company appears to…


I Refuse to Work: China’s ‘Lying Flat’ Culture Comes to America

Commentary I speak from experience when I say the following: China is not a fun place to live. Constantly monitored, 24 hours a day and 7 days a week, citizens find themselves victims of a perverse social credit system. Like something quite literally out of the British TV series “Black Mirror,” innocent people are punished…


CCP Propaganda Focused on Overseas Chinese

News Analysis In a recent report on the China threat, the French Military School Strategic Research Institute (IRSEM) identified the Chinese regime’s three-pronged attack consisting of psychological warfare, public opinion warfare, and legal warfare. The attack is all part of a massive propaganda campaign focused on overseas Chinese. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) claims ownership…