Category: US-China relations

Basketball Player Dwight Howard Apologizes to China for Referring to Taiwan as a Country

Basketball player Dwight Howard recently stepped into the middle of an international foreign policy controversy by referring to Taiwan as a “country,” drawing criticism from neighboring communist China. Howard starred in a commercial for Taiwan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, promoting Taiwan’s tourism industry. In the commercial, which was released Thursday, the basketball player said, “I’m…


Revised Spy Law Enables China to Arbitrarily Acquire IPs to Take Over US: Cyber Security Expert

A newly revised spy law enables China to arbitrarily acquire intellectual properties (IPs) to take over the United States, according to cyber security expert Casey Fleming. On April 26, the Chinese communist regime passed the new version of its anti-espionage law, which will take effect on July 1. The revision has expanded the definition of espionage,…


New York Parade Celebrates Falun Gong, Condemns Religious Persecution in China

NEW YORK—A blue-and-golden dragon, a float of fairies seated atop large lotus flowers, and a full Western marching band formed part of a contingent of thousands who marched through midtown Manhattan for a yearly celebration. The New York parade, with 5,000 attendees, marks one of the largest of its kind in the world to commemorate…


House China Panel Demands Info From TikTok on Data Collection, Censuring of Opinion

The House Select Committee on Strategic Competition between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) sent a letter on May 10 to the CEO of the social media video platform TikTok, in which the committee stated concerns about how the CCP can use the platform to spy on Americans and censor and block…


Chinese Companies Help CCP Manipulate Global Opinion on Social Media: Report

The Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) cyber influence campaigns against Western democracies on social media have become more frequent, sophisticated, and effective in recent years, according to a new report. More Chinese government agencies, such as Chinese company Qi An Xin, have been involved. Named “Gaming Public Opinion,” the report by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute…


IN-DEPTH: China Escalates Its Cyberwar Against the West

Over the past few decades, China has adopted a policy of information warfare against its global adversaries by leveraging its civilian cyber sector. This constitutes Beijing’s “people’s war” on the world inflicted by its civilian cyber militias, according to cybersecurity experts. The Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) civilian cyber sector includes individual cyberoperatives, private institutions, academia,…


Uyghur Advocate Calls for US to Boycott Chinese Goods, Uphold Human Rights

The United States should not trade off human rights in China for a so-called green revolution, according to Salih Hudayar, the prime minister of the East Turkistan government-in-exile. On April 28, a dozen Democrats joined Republicans on a resolution that would undo the Biden administration’s emergency move shielding some Chinese-made solar panels from tariffs. The resolution…


Bipartisan Bill Aims to Protect US Seaports from Chinese Surveillance, Intrusion

Two members of the United States House of Representatives, one a Republican and one a Democrat, continue the bipartisan effort in D.C. to apply increased vigilance and reduction in the use of technology, medicine, and other products produced in China, which is ruled by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), a regime and form of government…


New Zealand National Party Donor List Reveals Strong CCP Ties

Two overseas agents from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)’s state media have been revealed as two of the top donors of New Zealand’s major opposition party, and the country is lacking proper laws to make it illegal. The New Zealand Electoral Commission’s donation records—released in late April—reveal that the National Party’s 2022 donors include three high-level…


Beijing Ramps Up Repression of Faith, Labeling Believers as Carriers of ‘Thought Viruses’: US Religious Freedom Official

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has ramped up its repression of all walks of faith, while labeling believers as people “affected with thought viruses,” according to U.S. religious freedom officials. “Instead of making improvements in the Chinese government’s treatment of people of faith, people of belief, they have been ratcheting up and turning this regime…