Category: Thinking About China

The Subliminal Forms of Threat and Intimidation in the CCP’s Bilateral Dialogues

Commentary How interesting it is to see the contempt Beijing has for the Biden administration’s China policy of competition, cooperation, and confrontation when necessary. Recently, a number of CCP (Chinese Communist Party) spokespersons have expressed harsh criticism and veiled threats toward the United States through so-called diplomatic dialogue. Apparently, the CCP suspects that Biden’s China…


Taiwan Looms Large in China-Japan Ties

Commentary The “Taiwan factor” has been mostly overlooked in understanding Sino-Japanese ties despite its significance. Beijing has stated the “question of Taiwan involves the political foundation of Sino-Japanese relations.” However, the Taiwan issue has taken center stage with the recent release of the Japanese Defense White Paper that makes special mention of Taiwan in the…


China’s Communists Demand Concessions From Washington While Committing Thievery

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) turned the Tianjin talks on July 26 into Alaska talks Version 2. The CCP’s foreign minister Wang Yi blatantly made three demands on the U.S., which he claimed to be the “bottom lines” that the regime “firmly upholds”. These demands are: firstly, “the United States must not challenge, slander or…


China and US: Will Cyberwar Lead to All Out War?

Commentary Will the recent Beijing-backed cyber-attacks directed at the United States result in war? This is the very question the American economist David P. Goldman recently asked. It’s an important, even existential, question to ask, and a very difficult one to answer. Last month, however, President Joe Biden warned that the recent cyberattacks, which included the hacking…


China Is Using Amazon to Destroy Democracy

Commentary China is using Amazon to destroy American, European, Indian, and Japanese businesses, which are the foundation of free-market democracy on a global scale. Amazon’s founder, Jeff Bezos, is making a short-sighted fortune in the process. He is one of the world’s richest men at $193 billion. But as Jack Ma’s recent disappearance in China…


Foreign Alibi Armory Disguised China’s Long March Into Night

Commentary Last year, Joe Biden’s comment that the Chinese “aren’t bad folks” and “not competition for us” created something of a stir, even among supporters of the Delaware Democrat. Some may be unaware that prominent Americans and Europeans have been overly kind to the Chinese communist regime for decades, as Paul Hollander chronicled in “Political…


DiDi, China, and the Data War

Commentary Welcome to the newest frontier in the struggle between the United States and China for geopolitical dominance: the struggle for control of the strategic commodity of the future, data. The latest casualty in this battle is Didi, the Chinese Uber, UBER +2.8 percent, lookalike with 377 million annual active users and 13 million annual active drivers. Its agony began…


China Coup: The Great Fall of Beijing

Commentary Xi Jinping is a modern-day tyrant. A number of world leaders would love nothing more than to see the leader of China removed from office. For that to happen, a coup is necessary. According to Roger Garside, a man who spent years working as a diplomat in China, the days of the one-party dictatorship…


China’s $1.1 Trillion Tech Crackdown Reveals an Existential Threat

Commentary Six Chinese technology stocks lost $1.1 trillion worth of market value since they peaked in February, more than a 40 percent drop, according to the Wall Street Journal. U.S. institutional investors, with over $2.3 trillion in the country, are rightly concerned. Many are slowly trying to unwind their positions, without causing the market to…


US Should Get Tougher on China’s Attacks Against Falun Gong

Commentary Between July 16 and July 20, thousands of yellow-clad Falun Gong supporters took to the streets in Washington, New York, San Francisco, London, and elsewhere in their distinctively choreographed annual protest rallies against China’s relentless, decades-long human rights abuses. At the Washington, D.C., event, a Hudson Institute expert on religious freedom rightly alleged that China was perpetrating a…