Commentary The Reuters headline said: “BlackRock expands footprint with wealth management in China.” It should have said: “Beijing Gets a Chokehold on BlackRock and Its CEO Larry Fink.” Reuters was reporting the superficial fact that the financial authorities of China gave permission last week to BlackRock (a major Wall Street Investment Fund) to operate a…
The Strategy Behind the CCP’s Global Spending Influence Operations
Commentary On May 28, President Joe Biden made a shocking note in his remarks to American service members at a Virginia military base, “We’re in a battle between democracies and autocracies.” He also said that Chinese leader Xi Jinping once told him that he “firmly believes that China, before the year [20]30, ’35, is going…
Cracks Are Forming in the Four Strategic Pillars of China–EU Relations
June 16, 2021
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Commentary The Comprehensive Strategic Partnership, the China–EU Comprehensive Agreement on Investment, the China-Central and Eastern Europe Cooperation Mechanism (17+1 mechanism), and the Belt and Road Initiative can be viewed as the four pillars that support China–EU relations. However, recent actions by member states of the EU have caused some cracks to form in all four…
NATO Got It Wrong: China is a Bigger Threat Than Russia
June 16, 2021
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Commentary NATO finally addressed China in a half-serious way. The U.S.-led alliance system described the country as a “challenge” in a communiqué. But NATO continues to plod along, way behind the curve. While NATO rightly recognizes Russia as an aggressive threat (the country did invade Ukraine in 2014, and is still there), history’s most powerful…
Arms Sales Could Aid China’s Atlantic Military Access Ambitions
Commentary American military leaders’ fears that China could gain military access to bases on the Atlantic Ocean are being stoked by its success in expanding military relationships via strategic arms sales. If China succeeds, it may force the United States to divert political and military attention away from defending U.S. friends and allies in Asia…
Why Xi Jinping Demanded the CCP to Soften Its Foreign Policy Aggression
Commentary China’s “wolf warriors” may have to start behaving. Xi Jinping recently delivered a speech to senior Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials, calling on them to create an image of a “credible, lovable and respectable China,” according to a report by state-run media Xinhua. Xi told the officials to get a “grip on their diplomatic…
The Biden Doctrine: A Bold Bet Against Global Dictators
June 15, 2021
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Commentary “We’re in a contest, not with China per se, but with autocrats and autocratic governments around the world as to whether democracies can compete with them in a rapidly changing 21st century,” President Joe Biden told the global public on June 13. Biden and the G7 are pumping a democracy-led international development initiative to…
The CCP Is Caught in a Dilemma in Downgrading Its Response to G-7 Summit
Commentary The Group of Seven (G-7) summit communiqué (pdf) issued on June 13 reveals a tough stance against the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), unsurprisingly on issues including the origin of COVID-19, human rights, Hong Kong autonomy, and security across the Taiwan Strait and in the Indo-Pacific region. It also mentions economic and trade issues and…
Beijing’s Plot Behind Its Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank
Commentary On May 28, in a speech delivered at Joint Base Langley-Eustis in Hampton, Virginia, President Joe Biden made startling remarks that the United States is “in a battle between democracies and autocracies,” and that Xi Jinping “firmly believes that China, before the year ‘30, ‘35, is going to own America.” Some may think Biden…
Eyes on China Grow Dimmer
Commentary New Zealand is now “uncomfortable” in the “Five Eyes” intelligence group, the Voice of America News reports, and has “expressed reluctance” to sign joint statements from partners United States, Britain, Australia, and Canada on human rights issues in China. Last year, New Zealand was absent from a Five Eyes joint statement on Hong Kong,…
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