Commentary When China decides to enter into a new undertaking, it rarely holds back. It has built the world’s largest high-speed rail network, the world’s fastest supercomputer, and the world’s largest hydroelectric dam. Beijing’s ongoing “Made in China 2025” initiative is a ten-year plan to make the country the global leader in such fields as…
Microchips: China’s Weakest Link?
July 17, 2021
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China’s One-Two Punch
Commentary In boxing there’s something called a one-two punch. You might deflect or evade the “one” but if you forget about the “two” you could end up face down on the mat. So it is with the Chinese regime. Most of the attention is on how to take on the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) and…
Falling Fertility Rates: Is China Doomed?
Commentary According to a recent article by Michael Schumann, a contributor to The Atlantic, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) lacks a long-term strategy. With falling fertility rates, the Party is facing an existential crisis. Furthermore, Party members have no idea how to combat it. “The country is getting old, and quickly,” writes Schuman, and the…
China’s New Emissions-Trading Scheme Has 3 Big Loopholes: Fix Them With an International Tariff
Commentary China is about to launch the world’s biggest emissions trading scheme, because China is the world’s biggest polluter. And, the scheme has three big, huge, truck-sized loopholes that will advantage China’s biggest pollution emitters. First, there will be no absolute caps on China’s emissions as in other trading programs. Second, the fine on Chinese…
Is Inner Mongolia the Next Setback in China’s Attempt at Extra-territorial Policing?
Commentary Mere weeks ago, the Swedish migration board decided to put the deportation to China of an Inner Mongolian human rights defender on hold. They also ordered a new hearing to take an in-depth look into recent developments in Inner Mongolia and the wave of mass detentions and increased repression in the “autonomous” region since…
Academic Research Questions Beijing’s Propaganda on the Economy’s State of Development
Commentary New academic research questions Beijing’s claims about how advanced China’s economy really is. Contrary to Beijing’s characterization of an economy that has reached parity with, even surpassed the U.S. economy, the authors of this book-length study, entitled “The Power of Creative Destruction” and written by Philippe Aghion, Celine Antonin, and Simon Bunel, determine that…
The Key Difference Between Chinese Propaganda and American Propaganda
Commentary We become slaves the moment we hand the keys to the definition of reality entirely over to someone else—B.W. Powe When you think of North Korea, what words come to mind? Famine. Terror. Misery. What about propaganda? This year marks the 10th anniversary of Kim Jong-il’s death, a man who led a very busy life….
Will China Attack the United States?
Commentary On July 11, shortly after the United States added 23 Chinese entities to an economic blacklist, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) responded with an inflammatory statement. The Party, we’re told, “resolutely opposes” the “unreasonable suppression” of Chinese companies. The irony of the CCP, very much the masters of “unreasonable suppression,” releasing such a statement is as…
The CCP’s Theft of Technology Is the True Cause of Deterioration of US-China Relations
Commentary Two years ago, U.S.-China relations started to deteriorate significantly. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has always blamed former President Donald Trump for the deterioration, especially on topics such as the cold war and U.S.-China friendship. There is one issue, however, that the CCP has never mentioned: the dispute over China stealing U.S. technology secrets….
Lawn Order, Chinese Style
Commentary California is home to nearly 40 million people and the supply of water does not always meet demand, particularly in times of drought. A recent newspaper article offered the solution of snitching on one’s neighbors. On July 9, the Sacramento Bee published an article headlined, “Is your neighbor wasting water? Snitching on them may…
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