Commentary Hong Kong staged a ridiculous Election Committee farce on Sept. 19. The hope for a direct election of the city’s chief executive is gone. Communist China’s rubber stamp legislature mechanism has been imported in Hong Kong as a “patriots-only” electoral system. Looking at Hong Kong, the world should know what to expect if the…
China’s Xi Walks Political Tightrope as Evergrande, Property Market Totters
Commentary Some clarity emerged from the China Evergrande saga as the embattled real estate developer triaged its finances by electing to forego paying offshore bondholders in favor of conserving cash to pay Chinese customers and stakeholders. After weeks of customer protests, credit downgrades, and rumors of default, Evergrande elected to pay onshore bondholders and was…
Universal Studios Beijing Opens Amid Concerns Over China Influencing Western Entertainment
September 27, 2021
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News Analysis Universal Studios inaugurated a resort in Beijing on Sept. 20, after a two-decade wait, amid concerns over the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) influence on the Western entertainment industry. The CCP aims to create a positive image of itself by influencing Hollywood through large investments and the potential of entering, or being restricted from,…
Sanction the CCP for Forced Organ Harvesting
September 26, 2021
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Analysis The World Summit on Combating and Preventing Forced Organ Harvesting covers the means to stop this atrocity, including a universal declaration, economic sanctions against the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), and bans on international training of transplant surgeons from China. Organizers of the summit, held between Sept. 17 and Sept. 26, called upon the legal profession…
Will China’s Real Estate Crash Trash the Global Economy?
September 26, 2021
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Commentary Is China’s real estate-based economy on the brink of collapse? A big part of it just might be, if not all of it. Evergrande, China’s second largest real estate developer and the world’s most indebted property developer, is in danger of defaulting on loan service payments. Much of the debt is held by Chinese…
Huawei Executive Meng Was a Loser in Trudeau’s Election Gamble
Commentary Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau wasn’t the only loser in his gamble to call an early election. Meng Wanzhou, the Huawei CFO who was spinning her wheels in Canada since her 2018 arrest at the behest of the U.S. Justice Department, is also a loser, and a bigger one. Unlike Trudeau, whose status as…
Australia’s ‘China Plus’ Strategy Angers Beijing
Commentary Australia may have managed to anger the Chinese regime even further with an extensive presentation by its treasurer, which showed that China’s economic war on Australia has largely failed. To make matters worse, the loss in trade with China has largely been compensated by expanded trade with other markets. And perhaps worst of all,…
Beijing Silences Global Media on China’s Forced Organ Harvesting
September 25, 2021
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Analysis The World Summit on Combating and Preventing Forced Organ Harvesting is highlighting media silence on one of the greatest atrocities of our time: a billion-dollar forced organ harvesting industry in China. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has used its gatekeeper role over the immense economic power of China, and its political influence campaigns abroad, to…
The Chinese Regime Aims to Influence and Control All Human Endeavors
September 25, 2021
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Analysis Since 2013, the Chinese communists under the leadership of Xi Jinping have been diligently pursuing two strategic initiatives focused on building a worldwide colonial empire and restoring China to world leadership: the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI, also known as “One Belt, One Road”) and Made in China 2025. In the wake of the…
China’s Mercantilist Threat to Southeast Asia
Commentary A number of Southeast Asian states are being bullied. The mercantilist threat posed by the Chinese regime can’t be emphasized enough. This is an uncontroversial point to make. However, Christian Bachheimer, a researcher with an interest in “unpacking, exploring and expanding the traditional concept of hedging in international relations as applied to Indonesia and Asean,” begs to differ….
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