Commentary Communism is, in many ways, a cult, and a dangerous one at that. In China, to this day, the cult of Mao still carries significant weight. Across the country, young people are still drawn to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), a vicious cult led by Xi Jinping. Meanwhile in America, wokeism has formed into…
China and US Corporate Hypocrisy
Commentary The U.S. Business Roundtable, the Chamber of Commerce, the American Farm Bureau, the Semiconductor Association, and several other major U.S. business groups have just asked that President Biden reduce U.S. tariffs on imports from China and negotiate a new trade deal with Beijing. These groups explain that they are making this request because the…
As Chinese Regime Cracks Down on Big Tech, Big Tech Cracks Down on American People
Commentary The Big Five—Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, and Microsoft—essentially control America. In the United States, the pandemic resulted in the permanent closure of 200,000 businesses. People lost their jobs, their livelihoods, and too many lost their lives. But the pandemic didn’t affect Big Tech. In fact, rather perversely, it seems to have helped. Amazon just released its first quarterly…
The US-China Talks Highlight Four Facts
The U.S.-China talks in China’s Tianjin concluded with no specific outcomes over divergent values. However, the accusatory statements and wolf-warrior tactics revealed the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) true intentions and concerns. Early this year, the CCP leader Xi Jinping claimed that “time and momentum are on China’s side.” He also made judgments that “the East…
We Need Tougher Trade War Against China’s Expanding Tech
Commentary Despite increased tariffs and technology export controls on China that the prior administration instituted, and that continue under the Biden administration, China outmaneuvered the United States by expanding technology exports to Europe, according to a new study. China keeps its trade levels high through predatory practices, and by diverting exports to low-tariff markets. The…
Anything Can Happen Now in Hong Kong: Life Under Tyranny
Commentary As we all know by now, the extreme makeover of Hong Kong superimposed by Beijing has almost reached completion: whether it be in the education, social, political, economic, or electoral process, just to name a few. Over the last two years, the complete clampdown on Hong Kong has been more than surreal. Beijing has…
Mark Zuckerberg, China, and Facebook’s Brave New World
August 4, 2021
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Commentary Back in 2014, as tech journalist Cate Cadell noted at the time, a 30-year-old Mark Zuckerberg “sent the internet into a frenzy” after agreeing to do a Q&A in Chinese at an event hosted by Tsinghua University. The performance, added Cadell, “drew mixed reviews.” Some were quick to praise Zuckerberg’s “persistence.” Others, meanwhile, were determined to pick apart…
The Complex Power Hierarchy Behind China’s Internal Spy Chief
News Analysis Surveillance, intimidation, and manipulation act as the grease for the gears that drive all communist systems. Whether it was the regimes of the past, or the leading communist country of our modern day, the systems all share these characteristics. For communist leaders to control those below them, they are fully dependent on whoever…
Samoa Is Right to Cancel Chinese Port
Commentary Samoa has canceled a $100 million port that China planned to build by loaning the cash-strapped nation. This is an about-turn for Samoa, which is rightly asserting independence and financial discipline when it comes to China’s opaque development loans. On July 30, Reuters published an exclusive interview with Samoa’s new prime minister, Fiame Naomi…
The Next Pandemic: Not a Question of If, but a Question of When
Commentary According to the Global Times, the Chinese regime’s mouthpiece of choice, a flight from Russia is to blame for the most recent outbreak in China. On July 20, after cleaning down the cabin, nine employees at Nanjing’s Lukou International Airport tested positive for the Delta variant. Fast forward two weeks and the virus has reached six different…
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