Category: Thinking About China

Japan’s Aso Rightly Supports Defense of Taiwan Against China Invasion

Commentary On July 5, Japan’s Deputy Prime Minister was reported as saying that “If a major incident happened [involving Taiwan], it would not be strange at all if it touches on a situation that threatens [Japan’s] survival.” Kyodo news agency reports him as saying, “If that is the case, then Japan and the US must…


Beijing Demands Absolute Loyalty as the CCP Celebrates Its Centenary

News Analysis Amid the 100th anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), state-run media recently called on 70 million CCP members to remain loyal to the Party and rehashed the historical struggle of the Party by pointing out traitors such as former senior CCP leaders Wang Ming and Zhang Guotao. It’s believed that this is…


CCP’s Threat to Attack Taiwan Is Merely Propaganda: Experts

News Analysis At the July 1st ceremony marking the centenary of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP’s) founding, leader Xi Jinping delivered a speech in which he mentioned the issue of Taiwan, again demonstrating the CCP’s intention to take over the self-ruled island by force. Naval and Merchant Ships, a CCP military magazine, published an article on…


Cancel China’s Purchase of UK Computer Chip Fab

Commentary China is about to acquire ownership of Britain’s largest computer chip design and manufacturing facility (known as a “fab”) for the low price of $87 million this week, according to CNBC sources. As is typical in such deals, Beijing seeks control over the fab, and as much of its technology as possible, through gradualism…


Timeline of China’s COVID Vaccine Development Raises Serious Concerns

Commentary Ever since the CCP virus began spreading in China around the fall of 2019, its vaccine development was once ahead of the rest of the world. However, as one analyzes the timeline of the R&D process of Chinese-made vaccines, a series of anomalies occur, prompting the international community to question the origin of COVID-19. Moreover, the…


China’s Commercial Airliner Ambitions: Dream or Nightmare?

Commentary Last month, the United States and Europe approved a halt in their 17-year trade dispute over subsidies to Boeing and Airbus. Furthermore, both sides agreed to “collaborate on addressing non-market practices of third parties that may harm their respective large civil aircraft industries.” This means China. China is trying hard to break into the…


China’s ‘Billionaires’ Are Fake

Commentary Alibaba’s Jack Ma and Joseph Tsai apparently can’t afford their own private jets. They had to borrow money from Credit Suisse to get them, despite each having cashed out over $5 billion in stock since 2017. Where’s all that cash gone? Is it even real? Do they keep it in banks for which they…


A Glimmer of Hope in China: The ‘Lying Flat’ Counterculture

Commentary After an anti-China stabbing of a Hong Kong policeman late on July 1, the 100th anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), and the 24th anniversary of the handover of Hong Kong to China, Hongkongers and the world are in need of a little positive energy. The stabbing caused debate between nonviolence and violence…


Japan Is Changing Its Approach to Defense (And to China)

Commentary A few weeks ago, Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga met with American President Joe Biden at the White House. It was Biden’s first meeting with another national leader, and it was no accident that he chose Japan. Both men saw it as a way to send Beijing a message. And their joint message was…


American CCP Apologists Call China’s Class Enemies ‘Mutant Social Growths’

Commentary “The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is about to turn 100 but Xi will be the real star,” headlined a June 30 CNN report. Large parts of the celebration, wrote author Ben Westcott, “will focus on Xi, arguably the country’s most powerful leader since Mao, and his vision for the country.” In addition, “the party’s…