Commentary The U.S. government is issuing new warnings to business against operating supply chains that reach into Xinjiang (East Turkestan), China, where there is ongoing forced labor and genocide, as well as warnings for investors in Hong Kong, where national security laws from Beijing are criminalizing even verbal resistance to China’s growing power. The warnings…
Corporations and Free Values
July 14, 2021
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Commentary The Biden administration has recently added 23 Chinese companies to its “Entities List” which bars U.S. companies from dealing with them because of their involvement in human rights violations. This is in addition to several Chinese polysilicon producers who were added to the list last week. By this action, the Biden team is demonstrating…
China Can’t Win at Soccer With Money Alone
Commentary On July 11, Italy defeated England to become European champions. According to the most recent FIFA rankings, the Italians, along with the likes of France, Belgium, Argentina, and aforementioned England, are among the best teams in the world. The best team in Asia is Japan, which occupies position No. 28. China, meanwhile, sits in…
With China, India Means Business
Commentary On the 86th birthday of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi set a new precedent by making a first-ever public announcement by tweeting: “Spoke on phone to His Holiness the @DalaiLama to convey greetings on his 86th birthday. We wish him a long and healthy life.” In reciprocation, the Tibetan…
Are the Chinese People Slaves?
Commentary To some readers, I’m sure, the title of the article appears to be intentionally provocative, little more than clickbait. However, when an individual becomes the possession of another, they become a slave. When one thinks of slavery in China, one inevitably thinks of Xinjiang, where literal prisoners have been tortured and raped for years. What…
Covering for Dr. Xiangguo Qiu: ‘Nothing to Steal’ From Canada’s National Microbiology Lab?
July 13, 2021
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Commentary Dr. Xiangguo Qiu and her husband Keding Cheng have not been seen publicly since February 2020, six months after they were stripped of their security clearances at Canada’s National Microbiology Laboratory (NML) in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Former colleagues are now speaking out on Dr. Qui’s behalf, as the mystery points to “larger issues” at the…
Biden Administration Should Call China a Regime
Commentary The Biden administration apparently can’t say the words “China” and “regime” in the same sentence. The U.S. government used to call China a “regime,” at least during the Trump presidency, and back in the 1950s. China calls that “Cold War thinking,” as if it were a bad thing when facing a genocidal regime trying…
The IMF’s Message to the World: We Are All China Now
Commentary The Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP’s) decision to ban bitcoin should have surprised absolutely no one. Imagine if turkeys ruled the world. Would anyone be surprised if they decided to ban Thanksgiving dinner? Of course not. As a decentralized, digital asset, Bitcoin posed a direct threat to Beijing’s own digital currency, the e-CNY. In reality, Bitcoin is much more than…
China’s Sprint to Nuclear Parity, or Superiority?
Commentary In a February 2021 article for the U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings, United States Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM) Commander Admiral Charles Richard wrote, “China’s nuclear weapons stockpile is expected to double (if not triple or quadruple) over the next decade.” Then during a June 2 forum of the Air Force Association Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies, U.S….
Why China Could Not Sell Their Fighter Jets Overseas
Commentary My friend and noted aerospace industry expert Richard Aboulafia recently commented on the inability of the Chinese to sell their fighter jets overseas: “This feeble sales record has nothing to do with the aircraft themselves. China has made great strides in improving its state-owned aerospace technology base, particularly in the military realm. China makes…
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