Category: Thinking About China

Chinese Aircraft Carrier Reveals the CCP’s Ambitions and Pitfalls in Controlling the South China Sea

Commentary Japan’s Defense Ministry announced on April 4 that the Chinese aircraft carrier Liaoning had crossed the Miyako Strait. The next day, China’s state-run media outlets Xinhua News and Global Times released information on the cross-sea exercise led by the People’s Liberation Army Navy. It is uncommon for the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to release information about aircraft…


Biden’s ‘Great Leap Forward’ Will Encounter an Impassable Barrier

Commentary Joe Biden assumed a gentle image in his 40-year plus political career. However, within the first three months as U.S. President, he has proposed an expensive and revolutionary plan. He not only issued nearly 60 executive orders to realize the many dreams the Democrats have had for years, such as gender diversity, legalization of…


Ericsson’s Backing Huawei Shows How Companies Become ‘Hostages’ to the CCP

Commentary Telecommunication giant, Ericsson, did not enjoy the benefits of a ban of its rival, Huawei, in Sweden, instead, it has been asking its government to reconsider the ban; analysis suggested the profits gained from the Chinese market left the company susceptible to coercion by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). As the United States and…


Religious Liberty and US Foreign Policy: No Longer the Guiding Principle?

Commentary Reproduced from Bitter Winter: A magazine on religious liberty and human rights in China On March 30, US Secretary of State, Anthony Blinken, announced what some saw as a fundamental change in American foreign policy. The US, Blinken said presenting the Department of State’s 45th annual report on human rights in the world, will “repudiate the unbalanced…


The Trouble With Chinese Infrastructure

Commentary Last year, presidential candidate Joe Biden told reporters he would bar Chinese companies from building critical infrastructure in the United States. The Delaware Democrat and his press corps seemed unaware that Chinese companies were already building critical infrastructure in America. Consider, for example, the new span of the Bay Bridge from San Francisco to…


Opinion: On China’s Memorial Day, Let’s Remember Those Killed for Their Faith

Commentary China’s Qingming festival (Tomb-Sweeping Day or Chinese Memorial Day) falls on April 4 this year. It is the day that Chinese people visit the gravesites of their ancestors and loved ones. To commemorate this special occasion, my son and I drove more than 60 miles to his mother’s grave. She was brutally persecuted 11…


On China’s Memorial Day, Let’s Remember Those Killed for Their Faith

Commentary China’s Qingming festival (Tomb-Sweeping Day or Chinese Memorial Day) fell on April 4 this year. It is the day that Chinese people visit the gravesites of their ancestors and loved ones. To commemorate this special occasion, my son and I drove more than 60 miles to his mother’s grave. She was brutally persecuted 11…


CCP Instigating New Round of Wolf Warrior Diplomacy Ahead of 100th Anniversary

Commentary Celebrating the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) on July 1 is a major political event for Xi Jinping and the Chinese communist regime. To add momentum, the regime’s “wolf warrior” diplomacy has come in handy. Wolf warrior diplomacy is a more aggressive, confrontational approach Chinese diplomats use to…


10 Foreign Investment Traps in China

Commentary International companies often encounter various traps when investing in China, and many have suffered from a total loss of personnel and money. Yu Youjun, the former executive vice-governor of Hunan Province, described the phenomenon of Chinese officials attracting foreign investors into China. Yu was quoted as saying, “You are the boss, he’ll do whatever…


‘Partner’ or ‘Systemic Rival’: EU Finds Itself at a Crossroads on Its China Policy

Commentary The EU’s policy toward China is at a historic crossroads, and at times, swinging from side to side and contradicting itself, as revealed by the important events that have occurred recently. On March 25, Biden attended the EU summit—the first time since 2009 that a U.S. president had joined talks with the EU’s 27…