Commentary Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga and U.S. President Joseph Biden met in Washington on April 16, and both sides declared the meeting a success. The official joint statement issued afterwards was comprehensive and unusually pointed to one particular topic: China. Suga and Biden stated their serious concerns over Chinese activities in the East China…
How Far Can China-US Climate Cooperation Go?
Commentary The U.S. President’s special envoy for climate change, John Kerry, ended his trip in Shanghai. The international community is concerned about the outcome of the China-U.S. cooperation on climate issues, especially whether the U.S. government will be fooled by the Chinese regime. Xi Jinping Doesn’t Care About Climate Issues Kerry visited several countries, including…
Xi Jinping’s Speech Shows Ambition but No Confidence
Commentary On April 20, Xi Jinping released a video speech at the Boao Forum for Asia 2021 entitled, “Pulling Together Through Adversity and Toward a Shared Future for All”; it didn’t outline any plans or concepts of global governance, instead only focused on confrontation with the United States. This manifesto, full of Chinese Communist Party…
China and Russia–the New Axis Powers?
Commentary Are China and Russia conspiring powers, the way Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia were conspiring together against Poland before the former invaded the latter in World War II? History Repeating Itself? Before we go further, a caveat is in order. It’s often said that history repeats itself, or at times, tends to rhyme. But…
Why Is Alibaba ‘Full of Gratitude’ for Record $2.8 Billion Fine Imposed by Beijing?
Commentary China’s Alibaba Group found itself under the spotlight following a record antitrust fine slapped on the tech giant, yet it openly expressed its gratitude to the Chinese regime. On April 10, the world’s biggest e-commerce company was fined 18.2 billion yuan ($2.8 billion) by Chinese regulators for anti-competitive tactics, as the ruling Chinese Communist…
Xi Jinping Plays a Good Hand of Cards Poorly Through Major Miscalculations
April 20, 2021
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Robert Louis Stevenson, a 19th-century Scottish novelist, said, “Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.” Xi Jinping, the top Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leader, has just done the opposite. In recent years, Xi has made misjudgments on a series of major issues, resulting in him turning…
The CDC’s ‘Medical CIA’ Failed America on the Pandemic
The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) deploys the Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) to protect the nation against epidemics. In the throes of a pandemic, Americans have good cause to regard the vaunted “medical CIA” as a failure. As Diana Robeletto Scalera of the CDC Foundation explains, the EIS “works day and night domestically…
China-US Diplomacy Turns Aggressive
Commentary In the past half-century, China-U.S. diplomatic relations shifted from ping-pong to a more aggressive form of contact sport. Fifty years ago, on April 10, 1971, the U.S. table tennis team became the first group of Americans to set foot in China for a friendly match. This move led to the visit of then-President Richard…
CCP’s Jealousy Over Japanese Prime Minister Meeting US President First
Commentary On April 14, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)’s Xinhua News Agency reported that Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga would visit the United States from April 15–18, becoming the first foreign head of state to meet face-to-face with President Biden since he took office in January; the words were full of jealousy. In early January,…
What Provoked the Downfall of Yet Another Corrupt CCP Senior Official?
Commentary On April 12, Shi Wenqing, former vice chairman of the Standing Committee of Jiangxi Provincial People’s Congress (SCJPPC), was arrested on suspicion of accepting bribes, according to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) media. What actually provoked Shi’s downfall? Shi served in the National People’s Congress, the Inner Mongolia region, and the provinces of Jilin…
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