Category: Thinking About China

Will Chinese Premier’s Soft Tone Work on the United States?

Commentary On April 13, Xinhua, the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) mouthpiece, reported that Li Keqiang, the CCP’s premier, had a video conversation with U.S. business leaders and made a rare appearance using a soft tone, amidst an impasse between the Chinese regime and the United States. The CCP’s top brass has no choice but to…


Xi Jinping Back in Public, CCP Again Abuses the United States

Commentary On April 16, Chinese leader Xi Jinping finally appeared in the media and held a video meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, ending eight days of apparent invisibility. The last time Xi Jinping showed up was in a tree-planting event on April 8, but then he disappeared from public…


China’s Aerospace Design Relies on Foreign Software—a Humiliation to the CCP

Commentary The Chinese regime issued a notice on April 9, announcing a themed event for May called “Looking Back 100 Years: The Chinese Communist Party’s Leadership in Science and Technology.” The event aims to promote the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)’s propaganda of “the Party’s overall leadership and direction of science and technology.” However, it is significant that…


The CCP Wants to Attack Taiwan But Military Lacks Real Combat Experience

Commentary Recently, many conflict hotspots are suddenly heating up around the world. When it comes to international conflict hotspots, there have been essentially no big changes from the end of the last century to the present day. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict in the Middle East has now become the Israeli-Iranian conflict; volatility within Eastern Europe has…


As Adverse Reactions Grow, China’s Vaccine Diplomacy Should Raise International Alarm

China has been touting the success of its COVID-19 vaccines at home and abroad, luring a number of countries into purchasing Sinovac and Sinopharm, two front-runner Chinese vaccines. Moreover, whenever a foreign sale is made, Chinese authorities immediately cite it as proof of popularity and effectiveness in the propaganda it uses inside China. Such propaganda…


It’s Time for Americans to Stand Up Against China’s Technology Theft

Commentary Thirty years ago, the United States began to open its doors to China under the “constructive engagement” policy. The hope was to help liberalize China and steer it to be a “stable, open, and non-aggressive” world player, as former President Bill Clinton envisioned. At that time, China’s technology lagged behind the United States’. It…


China’s BeiDou Could Become a Global Nightmare

Commentary The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) calls the BeiDou satellite navigation system (BeiDou or BDS) a pillar of great power, a global espionage tool. It is suitable for use in various fields such as the military, transportation, communications, and urban surveillance. According to its website, “the BDS provides all-time, all-weather and high-accuracy positioning, navigation and…


How to Resolve Threat of the CCP’s One Belt One Road Initiative

Analysis Seven years have gone by since China started its One Belt One Road Initiative (BRI) in 2014. In 2013 Chinese leader Xi Jinping first introduced this transnational economic belt initiative, then known as the Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road. The BRI starts in mainland China, moves along the…


Ping Pong Diplomacy and the CCP’s Weaknesses

Commentary On April 10, Shanghai held an opening ceremony for a series of activities commemorating the 50th anniversary of ping-pong diplomacy, when the U.S. table tennis team visited Communist China for the first time in 1971. Due to the current stalemate in bilateral relations, this event came off as awkward. On the Chinese side, the…


Joe Biden’s Hidden Handler

In his March 25 White House press conference, Joe Biden said China’s goal of becoming the leading country in the world was “not going to happen on my watch.” Reporters seemed unaware that China had already made great strides in that direction on Biden’s watch, which began back in 2012. That year, as Steve Clemons…