Tag: CCP

Democracy With Chinese Characteristics Debunked

News Analysis Beijing’s claim that China is a democracy according to the generally accepted definition is nonsense. In practice, China’s “whole-process people’s democracy” amounts to authoritarianism. Chinese state-run media are continuing the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) agitprop campaign aimed at denigrating the U.S.-led Democracy Summit, in which communist China was not invited, while uplifting China’s…


Sen. Blackburn Urges Commerce Department to Blacklist More Chinese Firms Over Xinjiang Repression

Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) has called on the U.S. Commerce Department to blacklist several Chinese firms that allegedly aid Beijing in its surveillance and repression of Uyghurs in Xinjiang. Blackburn, in a Dec. 15 letter to U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo, urged for the addition of firms in China connected to the Chinese Academy of…


China’s Influence Over US Universities Poses Existential Risks

Commentary The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is busy developing high-tech weaponry. By the end of the decade, China will have “disruptive” military technologies capable of wreaking widespread chaos. In other words, China is developing weapons that “will change the character of warfare.” Which begs the question: Why are U.S. universities helping China advance its military might? According…


The Risks of CCP China’s Digital Yuan Are Understated: Part I

Commentary This is the first of a two-part article articulating the risks of CCP China’s new digital yuan, the e-CNY.   Part I details the risks to people and businesses in CCP China. Part II addresses the geopolitical and geostrategic risks of the digital yuan to other nations and Western-style democracies.      GCHQ, the UK’s…


A New York Schoolgirl’s Christmas Wish: ‘Ask the Chinese Government to Release My Parents’

A 16-year-old Chinese girl, who is studying music in New York, hopes her one simple Christmas wish could be granted: the unconditional release of her parents who are detained in China for practicing Falun Gong. It has been more than a year since Grace Chen Fayuan, a talented erhu player, heard any news of what…


China’s Global Ambitions and Its African Port; Chinese Student Targeted at Purdue by CCP

A Chinese student at Purdue University was harassed by pro-CCP students. But the university is fighting back against Chinese Communist Party influence. This is raising an alert to campuses across the country to look at their own potential problems of infiltration from Beijing. The United States added 34 Chinese firms to a blacklist over human…


Beijing Steps Up Aggression as It Seeks to Lead ‘New World Order’

News Analysis The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) seeks to destroy the international system and rebuild it in its own image. To many Americans, that may sound far-fetched, but is precisely what CCP officials and strategy calls for. To international audiences, the CCP has repeatedly declared that its foreign policy goals are grounded in principles like…


The Consequences of Threat Deflation: Why Did the US Underestimate the Threat From China?

Commentary One of the most significant strategic questions of our time is why the United States underestimated for decades the threat from the Chinese regime. Underestimating the threat, or threat deflation, is a rare event in international politics where a great power consistently does not perceive the rise of peer competitive threat. During the Cold…


Wars and Rumors of Wars

Commentary Washington and Beijing are engaged in widely different information dominance wars to pursue their separate global strategies, but the outcomes are likely to be no less decisive than hot wars. How can we view these great trends with equanimity? Global competition is more subtle than just periods of formal warfare and informal warfare (peace)….


Hong Kong’s Slide Into Darkness

Commentary Hong Kong tastes the bitter fruit of China’s “whole-process people’s democracy.” The transition of Hong Kong’s democracy into a Chinese-run nightmare is painful to watch. The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) is in the midst of being completely absorbed into communist China’s political system—despite the promises made by Beijing in 1997 that the…