Category: hegemony

REPLAY: Xi’s ‘Global Governance’ Gambit: How the CCP Resets the World for Its Hegemony—A Webinar by CPDC

In a webinar held on April 20 by the Committee on the Present Danger: China (CPDC), panelists discussed Beijing’s influence in international organizations, as well as its role in subverting U.S. sovereignty and building a new world order with Chinese Communist Party (CCP) characteristics. The panelists include Pam Pryor, senior bureau official for International Organizational Affairs—a…


Beijing Increases Blame Campaign Against NATO for Russia-Ukraine Conflict

News Analysis Beijing doesn’t just want to upend the U.S. system—it wants to replace it. China’s strategy for challenging the U.S.-led international order largely proceeds according to two separate yet interrelated prongs. First, Beijing expounds on the failures of Washington’s foreign policy, pointing to its consequences and castigating its interventionist principles. Second, Beijing simultaneously presents…


Suing Big Tech to Stop Its Web Ad Dominance—Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Big Tech Censorship

“This is a country about ideas. People had differing ideas … They didn’t always agree on the ideas. We’d have … vigorous debates. But ideas were never cut out,” says Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, concerned by Big Tech’s expanding control of information and censorship of conservative voices. Texas is one of many states suing…


Beijing Continues Its Wolf Warrior Strategy While Commemorating Ping-Pong Diplomacy

Commentary Another event was held to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the ping-pong diplomacy. On the one hand, the Chinese regime’s top leaders use ping-pong diplomacy to foster China-U.S. ties. On the other hand, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) also uses wolf warrior diplomacy to defeat the United States. In 1971, China and the United…


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…


Conservative Ethnogenesis

Commentary Ethnogenesis is the process by which numerous individuals who share an ethnic trait come to understand themselves as a distinct group, people whose common attributes mark them as having a separate standing and experience. The term is now commonly applied to any social group with a marked commonality, not just an ethnic one. It’s a…