Commentary In Xinjiang, located in western China, the Chinese Communist Party is aggressively working to eradicate the faith and culture of the Uyghurs and other predominantly Muslim ethnic minority communities. On March 10, U.S. Senator Marco Rubio provided a written statement for a U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom hearing entitled, “A Religious Minority Enslaved: Addressing the…
Why Xi Jinping Is Continuing to Centralize Power
Commentary During China’s top political annual meetings, the weeklong “Two Sessions” that concluded on March 11, Chinese leader Xi Jinping made new moves to centralize power, sparking widespread concern at home and abroad. Why does Xi continue to centralize power and how does he do it? What will be the result? Let’s explore this issue….
How Chinese Communist Media Spin the Open Clash at the US-China Talks
Commentary There was no doubt that the U.S.-China talks, which began on March 18, would be very difficult despite the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) Ministry of Foreign Affairs, repeatedly calling it a “high-level strategic dialogue.” However, as soon as the talks began, the Chinese Foreign Ministry immediately changed its tone from dialogue to confrontation. At…
US Falls Into 4 Traps Set by the CCP in US-China Talks
Commentary Anchorage, the largest city in Alaska, recorded a temperature as low as -18 degrees Celsius (nearly zero degrees Fahrenheit) in the early morning. A two-day high-level talk between the United States and China has just ended in this frigid place. The high pitch of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) “wolf warriors” howl and the…
Opinion: US Falls Into 4 Traps Set by the CCP in US-China Talks
Commentary Anchorage, the largest city in Alaska, recorded a temperature as low as -18 degrees Celsius (nearly zero degrees Fahrenheit) in the early morning. A two-day high-level talk between the United States and China has just ended in this frigid place. The high pitch of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) “wolf warriors” howl and the…
The Plight of Chinese Military Veterans Highlights Xi Jinping’s Political Dilemma
Commentary On Jan. 1, China’s first Veterans Protection Law came into effect, 72 years after the Communist Party seized power in the country. But can the current plight of Chinese veterans be reversed by this law? The number of retired military personnel has reached 57 million in China as of 2018, according to the Ministry…
The Possibility of a War in the Taiwan Strait Should Not Be Overlooked
Commentary China military expert Oriana Skylar Mastro told the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission in a video conference on Feb. 18 that Chinese military leaders have told her personally that Beijing will force reunification with Taiwan in a year or two. Mastro stated that “the U.S. failure to build robust coalitions to counter Chinese…
A Chinese Doctor’s Suicide Draws Attention to Forced Organ Harvesting in China
Commentary In the early hours of Feb. 26, Dr. Zang Yunjin, a liver transplant specialist, committed suicide. His death may have been connected to his alleged involvement with the mass harvesting of organs from Falun Gong adherents. Sources say that Zang had jumped off a building, according to an article published by Chinese media Medical…
A Chinese Doctor’s Suicide Casts Light on Forced Organ Harvesting in China
Commentary In the early hours of Feb. 26, Dr. Zang Yunjin, a liver transplant specialist, committed suicide. His death may have been connected to his alleged involvement with the mass harvesting of organs from Falun Gong adherents. Sources say that Zang had jumped off a building, according to an article published by Chinese media Medical…
Silence for Hong Kong
Commentary On Jan. 7 in the early morning, Hong Kong National Security Department dispatched more than 1,000 police to raid multiple homes and offices, and arrested 53 Hong Kong pan-democratic political activists. In March, the Hong Kong Department of Justice prosecuted 47 of them, accusing them of subverting state power, a charge based on the…
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