Commentary Chinese leader Xi Jinping and his fellow communists know how to leverage Chinese xenophobia to distract rising discontent among the Chinese people. With a nod to lucky No. 3 in Chinese numerology, Beijing frequently plays three cards in its geopolitical card game to focus on long-standing foreign adversaries (enemies) to distract the masses from…
China’s COVID Narrative Was a Lie From the Beginning
Commentary Beijing’s policies and actions during the COVID-19 pandemic have received insufficient scrutiny, particularly considering revelations and policy reversals over the past several months. In the face of rising evidence to the contrary, the Chinese regime has adamantly maintained for three years that the zoonotic theory is the only true basis for the virus outbreak….
Bangladesh Poised to Overtake China as EU’s Largest Garment Exporter
China has seen a large number of clothing orders canceled by international buyers in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and the U.S.-China trade war, with many of these orders having been transferred to Bangladesh, the world’s second-largest garment processing exporter. Ahsan H. Mansur, executive director of the Bangladesh Policy Institute, said that Bangladesh is expected…
More Chinese Communist Lies Exposed
February 15, 2023
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Commentary Information warfare is part of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) strategy to “win without fighting”: to influence and convince adversary decision-makers, foreign leaders, and others of China’s peaceful intentions despite the reality of the obverse. Information warfare facilitates the achievement of the CCP’s objectives (frequently achieved at the expense of others) through well-coordinated media,…
China Wastes Billions Building Makeshift Hospitals Nationwide, Most Abandoned or Unfinished
Since the outbreak of COVID-19 three years ago, Beijing has ordered the construction of countless makeshift hospitals nationwide, some costing as much as 10,000 yuan (about $1,500) per square meter. Those facilities were primarily used to quarantine mild to asymptomatic COVID-positive patients. However, when Beijing abruptly ended its Zero-COVID policy last December, makeshift hospitals nationwide…
China’s Tragedy of Errors: Pandemic Redux
Commentary When communist China unleashed the COVID-19 virus on the rest of the world in the winter of 2020, it knew what it was doing. Wuhan, a major industrial city of 11 million people and the capital of Hubei Province, was ground zero for the pandemic. In a level-four laboratory used by the communist Chinese…
China Local Government Debts Grow Faster Than GDP
January 18, 2023
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The latest data from China shows considerable local government debts have grown faster than GDP. Given the opacity of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) official data, it is likely that local government debt is much worse than reported. China’s frequent COVID-19 outbreaks in 2022 have led to production stagnation and economic recession. Pillar industries such as…
900 Million COVID Infections in China—Is This a Sign of the Next ‘Great Leap Forward’?
January 16, 2023
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Commentary Two months after Chinese leader Xi Jinping secured his third term at the 20th National Congress in October last year, he abruptly abandoned his “zero-COVID” policy. This U-turn shocked many, but perhaps only some people noticed that Xi made similar policy changes in two other key areas: the economy and foreign affairs. If we…
How China Changed its Zero-COVID Policy to a ‘Zero Non-COVID’ Policy
Commentary “Zero non-COVID” is the name that people in China are calling the regime’s new pandemic management policy. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has aggressively pushed the whole country towards an all-COVID-positive state. China’s annual rubber-stamp legislature is usually in session during the month of March. It is widely expected that the coming session will…
Does New COVID Surge or COVID Propaganda Pose Greater Risk?
December 28, 2022
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For three years, the CCP’s pandemic propaganda shaped Western responses to COVID. Now after Beijing ends its zero-covid policies come reports of massive infections and deaths. What’s really happening inside China and will the Party’s deadly disinformation again push Western democracies into totalitarian measures? In this hard-hitting new episode of Over the Target, Brendon Fallon…
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