Category: Thinking About China

Sanction Hong Kong Officials for Torturing Britons

Commentary According to the British government, between four and sixteen allegations of ”mistreatment and torture” against British nationals in Hong Kong occurred since December 2019. Before that, only a single case in 2017 had been recorded against a Briton. This alone merits an increase in Magnitsky human rights sanctions against Hong Kong officials, and their…


China Is Destroying America’s PPE Industry: Subsidies,Tariffs Would Protect It for the Next Emergency

Commentary China is destroying America’s fledgling personal protective equipment (PPE) industry. The industry, which produces American-made masks and gowns, is being driven out of business by China’s exports, priced below the cost of production even in China, according to an American manufacturing group. That aggressive international trade tactic, called dumping, is illegal per WTO rules…


China Is Destroying America’s PPE Industry: Subsidies, Tariffs Would Protect It for the Next Emergency

Commentary China is destroying America’s fledgling personal protective equipment (PPE) industry. The industry, which produces American-made masks and gowns, is being driven out of business by China’s exports, priced below the cost of production even in China, according to an American manufacturing group. That aggressive international trade tactic, called dumping, is illegal per WTO rules…


Wall Street Has Officially Thrown In Its Lot With Beijing

Commentary Despite tensions between Beijing and Washington ratcheting up over the last five years, Wall Street firms have steadily increased their business footprint in China while carefully navigating the political whirlwinds. But recent events involving the two of the most important firms on Wall Street signal that the industry is resolute in making China its…


‘Friends’ No More: China Censors Lady Gaga, BTS, Justin Bieber From Reunion Episode

Commentary “In China, the reunion episode of ‘Friends’ was all about grudges,” writes the brilliant Paul Mozur in the New York Times. “The problem wasn’t ‘Friends,’ but the friends of ‘Friends.’” Three Chinese video platforms streamed the reunion episode of “Friends” on May 27. But the latest episode of the 1990s American sitcom, beloved by…


Consumers Should Be Warned About China’s Rebranded Hikvision Cameras

Commentary A soldier, kneeling on a mountainside, tests a Hikvision drone-jamming rifle in March. Hikvision’s website carried a report, based on a joint study with weapons experts and commanders of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA), detailing how its technology could add functionality to China’s tanks, missiles, and artillery. According to surveillance technology experts IP Video…


China’s $70 Trillion Up for Grabs: A Risk to Democracy

Commentary Western banks are hungry for access to China’s household investable assets, which will exceed $70 trillion by 2030, according to Goldman Sachs. China’s households will reportedly allocate more than half that amount to mutual funds, securities, and wealth management products. In 2020 alone, China’s broader wealth market amounted to $18.9 trillion. According to China…


Is Europe Changing Its Strategy Toward China?

Commentary The answer might be yes—and no. The European Parliament’s May 20 resolution freezing any consideration of a long-awaited Comprehensive Agreement on Investment (CAI) with China, along with advocacy of a strengthened European Union screening regulations on foreign investment and increased cooperation with the United States on a Transatlantic Dialogue on China, certainly seemed to…


The CCP Monopoly Behind the Chinese Ultramarathon Tragedies

Commentary Twenty-one people running a mountain ultramarathon in northwestern China died after extreme weather conditions hit the high-altitude race, the Chinese communist regime announced on May 23. The 100-kilometer (62-mile) mountain race was being held on May 22 in the Yellow River Stone Forest tourist site of Baiyin city in Gansu Province, when it was…


Key Issues About China’s Demographics Overlooked

Commentary After China announced the results of its seventh national census, various criticisms immediately followed, mostly focusing on the serious distortion of facts. Falsification of statistical data is a systemic disease that has existed in China since the founding of the Chinese communist regime. Before the authorities implemented the one-child policy in 1980, which aroused…