Category: Thinking About China

Xi Jinping Tones Down Aggressive Rhetoric During Meeting With European Leaders

Commentary Xi Jinping held a video summit with French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel on July 5. Chinese official media focused on the EU-China investment agreement and claimed that Macron and Merkel are in favor of ratifying the deal, but such support wasn’t mentioned in the statements issued by France and Germany….


The CCP Is Still Fooling Around With Its Economic Lies

Commentary The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has relied on a series of economic lies to sway many people’s perceptions of the current situation. In this article, we look at some of the biggest lies and present the true picture behind those lies. The First Economic Lie: Development Is the Absolute Principle In the past decades,…


Key Biden Allies Serve in National Committee on US-China Relations, Group Works Closely With CCP Front Groups

Commentary “Top Biden Allies Worked for Group With Close Ties to Chinese Communist Party (CCP),” headlines a July 5 report in the Washington Free Beacon. The Biden allies include Jacob Lew, a former Secretary of the Treasury, and Kurt Campbell, an official of the National Security Council (NSC), an arm of the White House. Campbell…


Didi: A Tale of Deceit and Disrespect

Commentary China’s largest ride-hailing service is currently being investigated by Chinese regulators. The accusations against Didi involve the illegal collection of users’ data. The app is no longer available for download in China. Shares in Didi have plunged by 20 percent. The Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP’s) announcement came just days after Didi made its much-publicized Wall Street…


Flood Report Not Allowed Amid Party Celebration

On July 1, Chinese leader Xi Jinping repeated his old slogan again on the Tower of Tiananmen Square in Beijing: “This country is its people; the people are the country.” Ironically, people across China are suffering from floods, but none of the top leaders of the Chinese communist regime even bother to visit any of…


To Compete With China, Does the US Need a Digital Dollar?

Commentary As the U.S. dollar continues to lose its purchasing power, there are legitimate fears that its days as the global reserve currency are coming to an end. Although it is still very much the international currency of choice, the dollar, like all currencies, must move with the times. You see, the future of money…


How the CCP Has Unleashed Its ‘Three Secret Weapons’ on the United States

Commentary The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has taken advantage of economic globalization and information globalization to launch a large-scale covert war against the United States. In this process, the CCP applied Mao Zedong’s “three secret weapons” (united front, armed struggle, and Party building) to the United States, with the goal of strengthening itself while destroying…


How the CCP Has Unleashed Its ‘3 Secret Weapons’ on the US

Commentary The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has taken advantage of economic globalization and information globalization to launch a large-scale covert war against the United States. In this process, the CCP applied Mao Zedong’s “three secret weapons” (united front, armed struggle, and Party building) to the United States, with the goal of strengthening itself while destroying…


China and Singapore: A Marriage Made in Despotic Heaven

Commentary In a recent article for The National Interest, the Singaporean Diplomat Kishore Mahbubani discusses the threat–or more specifically, the non-threat–posed by China. According to the author, the communist nation “is not a threat to American security.” Mahbubani wonders why “an amazing number of Americans, even thoughtful, well-informed Americans, believe that China is on a mission to…


Does China Control the UK?

Commentary On May 22, history was made, when the UK Carrier Strike Group embarked on its first-ever mission. With “nine ships, 32 aircraft, and 3,700 personnel,” as Seapower magazine reported, this was the “largest concentration of maritime and air power to leave the U.K. in a generation.” In an op-ed for The Wall Street Journal, James Marson and Max Colchester…