Category: Thinking About China

Snickers Taste of Blood? It’s in Bed With the 2022 Beijing Olympics

Commentary The Snickers confectionary division of the Mars food group is the only U.S. company with a direct Beijing sponsorship deal for the 2022 Winter Olympics. Snickers failed to adjust after the United States, along with parliaments in the UK, Canada, and the Netherlands, called for an end to genocide in China against the Uyghurs….


CCP Journal Reveals Xi’s Judgment, ‘Time and Momentum’ on Beijing’s Side

Commentary On April 30, the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) official bi-monthly journal, Qiushi (which translates to Seeking the Truth), published Xi Jinping’s speech on China’s development blueprint, delivered at a seminar for high-ranking officials on Jan. 11, 2021; his current views revealed in the article shed light on why the CCP has taken an all-out confrontational stance…


Pompeo Sees Through ‘CCP Logic’ From Biden’s Climate Summit

Commentary U.S. President Joe Biden invited 40 world leaders to attend a two-day virtual climate summit last month. On April 22, the first day the climate summit kicked-off, Bill Hemmer, the co-anchor of the Fox News Channel’s “American’s Newsroom,” interviewed former U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. He asked Pompeo about the meaning behind Chinese…


China’s Annual Boao Economic Forum: The CCP Is a World Leader In Political Posturing  

On April 20, the Boao Forum for Asia wrapped up in China’s beautiful Hainan Island. Boao is the name of the town where the forum is held every year. It was canceled last year due to the pandemic, so this year is the first Boao Forum in two years. Although only two years have passed,…


Philippine Foreign Secretary Is a Hero for Talking Tough to Xi Jinping

Commentary On May 3, the Philippine Foreign Secretary, Teddy Locsin, told China to “GET THE F*** OUT.” He was referring not only to the Philippines’ exclusive economic zone (EEZ), including its fishing grounds in the South China Sea, but to what he claimed was an attempt to make the Philippines into “a Chinese province.” Since…


Chinese Aircraft Carrier’s Weakness Revealed In Fatal Crash of J-15

Commentary On April 26, Xinhua, the mouthpiece of the communist regime, published an article to commemorate a Chinese carrier-based J-15 fighter jet pilot, who died in an accident as a result of his jet’s electronic control system malfunctioning during a landing; the article inadvertently revealed the weakness of the carrier’s combat capabilities. There have always…


Opinion: WaPo Elides China’s Military Threat, Then Offers No Solution

Commentary On May 1, the Editorial Board of The Washington Post finally, at first glance, somewhat-kind-of recognized a military threat emanating from Beijing. The Board cooly noted a “series of incremental escalations by Chinese forces in the Taiwan Strait and South China Sea,” that are “substantially advancing a strategy for establishing its dominance in East…


China’s Ban on Australian Exports Requires a Unified Response by Allies, Especially the US and Canada

Commentary Allies really shouldn’t throw each other under the bus when it comes to China. Just the opposite. China banned Australian coal exports in October, and over the next five months, those exports dropped from over 3 million tons per month, to zero. American coal producers lifted some of those sales, with quantities sold increasing…


Biden Finally Acknowledges the Armenian Genocide and Ignores Communist Mass Murder in China and Cambodia

Commentary “Each year on this day,” reads an April 24 statement from the Biden White House, “we remember the lives of all those who died in the Ottoman-era Armenian genocide and recommit ourselves to preventing such an atrocity from ever again occurring.” Readers might wonder who the White House means by “we.” Each year Joe…


Biden Made Some Good Points on China but He Needs to Get Much Tougher

Commentary “We’re in a competition with China and other countries to win the 21st century,” President Biden told a joint session of Congress on April 28. The speech was panned by a jaundiced writer in the New York Times as oversimplified. But he got that wrong. Democracy is in an existential competition, if not conflict,…