Category: Thinking About China

Opinion: 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,…


A Few Words With Secret Agents Who Stalked Hong Kong Epoch Times Reporter

Commentary Zhen Liang, also known as Sarah, is an Epoch Times Hong Kong edition reporter who was stalked by a suspected CCP (Chinese Communist Party) secret agent on her way to an interview on April 26. Realizing the man had been following her, Liang asked him, “Are you a reporter from Ta Kung Pao?” The…


Opinion: A Few Words With Secret Agents Who Stalked Hong Kong Epoch Times Reporter

Commentary Zhen Liang, also known as Sarah, is an Epoch Times Hong Kong edition reporter who was stalked by a suspected CCP (Chinese Communist Party) secret agent on her way to an interview on April 26. Realizing the man had been following her, Liang asked him, “Are you a reporter from Ta Kung Pao?” The…


Why Did Xi Jinping Purge Jack Ma?

Commentary Jack Ma, now China’s fourth-richest man and the former CEO of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba, criticized China’s financial system policies at the Bund Summit 2020 in October. Since then, his enterprises have become the target of Xi Jinping. At first, the listing plan for Ant Group, an affiliate company of Alibaba, was halted on Nov. 3….


The CCP’s History of Attacking Dissenters in Hong Kong, New York

Commentary In the early morning hours of April 12, Hong Kong New Era Printing Factory Limited, a printing facility of The Epoch Times Hong Kong edition, was attacked by four intruders who are allegedly linked to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). They smashed the printing equipment and computers with sledgehammers, and the damage forced The…


Expected Smuggling Conviction of Military Tech Exporter Indicates Need for Disentangling From China

Commentary Chinese national Qin Shuren was placed under arrest in 2018 at his home in a Boston suburb. He will likely plead guilty to felony charges in federal court on April 28 for allegedly procuring over $100,000 worth of U.S. marine technology for export to a Chinese military research institute. Mr. Qin is expected to…


Beijing Continues Its Wolf Warrior Strategy While Commemorating Ping-Pong Diplomacy

Commentary Another event was held to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the ping-pong diplomacy. On the one hand, the Chinese regime’s top leaders use ping-pong diplomacy to foster China-U.S. ties. On the other hand, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) also uses wolf warrior diplomacy to defeat the United States. In 1971, China and the United…


A Glimpse of China’s Ownership in US

Commentary China is more involved in your life than you might think. Sure, who doesn’t like fried rice? Who doesn’t own a thing “Made in China?” However, the kind of involvement I am talking about runs deeper than that. Precisely speaking, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is becoming increasingly involved in the everyday lives of…


Chinese City Inadvertently Exposes CCP’s Deceptive Pandemic Control

Commentary The world will never know the true number of infections and deaths caused by the CCP virus in mainland China. Chinese authorities and state media have continued to downplay the recent resurgence of COVID-19 outbreaks in various regions across the country. However, a city in the southern province of Yunnan provides a glimpse into…


The 5 Things the Chinese Regime Fears Most

Commentary On April 16, the Hong Kong court officially sentenced key pro-democracy activists who were convicted last month. Most of their sentences are around a year to 18 months in prison. The “crime” for which the people were found guilty was illegal assembly without permission for a large-scale protest in August 2019 that was attended…