Commentary Despite the obvious danger of espionage from Chinese telecommunications companies such as Huawei, the Global South is eagerly signing up for its e-government and cloud infrastructure services. Most of the 70 deals identified by a new Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) report are from countries in Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Latin America….
Most of Huawei’s 70 Deals Are in the Global South, but China’s Spying and Corruption Are Everywhere
NASA Director Nelson Was Correct to Criticize China
Commentary After days of mounting frustration with China’s refusal to account for its out-of-control 21-ton Long March-5 booster stage, newly-confirmed National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Director, the former astronaut and Senator Bill Nelson, called out the Chinese regime with some needed criticism. In a press release posted on the NASA webpage on May 8,…
Why the CCP Is Cracking Down on Alibaba While Sparing Tencent
Commentary The Chinese regime fined Alibaba $2.8 billion in April under anti-monopoly law, highlighting the regime’s comprehensive review of Chinese internet companies. However, Tencent was only fined $310,000 despite its comparable monopolistic influence in China. For a mega-corporation like Tencent, a fine of this size is equivalent to pennies. The CCP’s biggest grievance with Alibaba is its…
Chinese Regulators On Mission to Rule Over Technology Giants
Commentary Beijing has begun to rein in China’s technology companies, issuing fines and instructing firms to change their corporate structure due to anti-competitive behavior and other transgressions. But a common thread across recent regulatory actions against the technology sector, regardless of the allegations on the surface, is the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)’s desire to control…
New US Visa Denial of Chinese Student With Law Enforcement Link Is the Right Strategy
Commentary A student applicant from China, who was admitted to nearly 10 U.S. universities to study computer science, was denied a visa recently, according to the South China Morning Post (SCMP). The U.S. embassy in Beijing wrote a letter saying the student’s father’s employment with Chinese law enforcement, and the failure of China to accept…
New US Visa Denial of China’s Student With Law Enforcement Link Is the Right Strategy
Commentary A student applicant from China, who was admitted to nearly 10 U.S. universities to study computer science, was denied a visa recently, according to the South China Morning Post (SCMP). The U.S. embassy in Beijing wrote a letter saying the student’s father’s employment with Chinese law enforcement, and the failure of China to accept…
The Imprisoned Chinese Billionaires
In the early morning of Nov. 11, 2020, the police arrested a total of 28 executives of Dawu Group and its subsidiaries. Nearly all family members—his wife, two sons, and two daughters-in-law—were arrested. The group’s 28 subsidiaries were officially taken over, and almost all of the company’s assets were frozen.
China’s Arrest of 1,046 Imams Is a Misguided Assault on Religion
Commentary Since 2014, according to a new report released by the Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP) and Justice for All, China’s authorities have arrested at least 1,046 Muslim imams from its Xinjiang (East Turkistan) region. The arrests, according to an email from the UHRP, are “attempts by the Chinese government to cut off the transmission…
The Steady, Disturbing Modernization of the Chinese Military
Commentary There used to be a saying about the People’s Liberation Army (PLA), popular in the 1990s, that “it’s come a long ways, but it still has a long ways to go.” Putting the “it still has a long way to go” second basically belittled or dismissed whatever progress the PLA had made up until…
Why Has ‘Global Warming’ Disappeared?
Commentary After President Joe Biden entered the White House, he created a position that had never existed before in the history of the White House—”Climate Envoy,” and climate policy was elevated to a level of unprecedented importance by Biden and the forces behind him. Why is climate policy so important to the leftist politicians? In…
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