News Analysis China’s tech sector is becoming uninvestable for a host of reasons, not least that the Beijing regime hates capitalism. It’s a communist country and its leader, Xi Jinping, appears to be a true believer and on track to be emperor for life. CNBC’s “Mad Money” celebrity investor, Jim Cramer, put it in about these…
China Tech Crackdown Makes Beijing Loyalists Uncomfortable
January 7, 2022
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More Than Oil: China Expands Its Influence in the Middle East
News Analysis As the world’s largest energy importer, the Middle East engages with China through infrastructure investment and trade, as well as nuclear development, in exchange for oil and international political support. Over the past decade the United States has shifted its focus away from the Middle East, concentrating more on China. Ironically, this has…
Corrupt CCP Officials Lose Avenue to Stash Ill-Gotten Gains After Swiss Banking Secrecy Ends
January 6, 2022
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News Analysis The Swiss Federal Tax Administration (FTA) has almost completed its transfer of offshore customer information to hundreds of countries and territories, signifying that Switzerland—the world’s largest offshore financial center—has abandoned its three-centuries-old system of keeping bank customer’s information secret, and ending its use as a safe haven for the illegal funds of terrorists…
China’s Fighter Jet Sale to Pakistan: More to Come?
News Analysis It appears that China has finally broken its drought when it comes to exporting fighter jets. In December of last year, the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) announced that it would soon acquire 25 Chinese-made J-10C combat aircraft. These fighters could be deployed as early as March. This purchase was a long time coming….
Clarity on Beijing’s 2020 ‘Accomplishments’
News Analysis Chinese state-run media forgot a few things in their back-slapping about China’s accomplishments in 2020. Chinese communist propaganda organs (state-run media) never sleep. The agitprop follows consistent contrived narratives and is relentless—with never a bad word about the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) failures or CCP-induced problems. Everything is focused on furthering the CCP’s…
Chinese ‘Peacekeeping’ in the Middle East, North Africa Expands Beijing’s Security Footprint
News Analysis China’s growing ties with the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) extends to military cooperation, arms sales, missiles, nuclear, and surveillance technology. Meanwhile, peacekeeping and counterterrorism missions have become an excuse to deploy Chinese troops and weapons to the region. “We will deepen China-Arab military cooperation and exchange. We will strengthen exchange of…
Kremlinology 101: Tools for Understanding Secretive China
Commentary China remains closed off, but a careful examination of history and available sources tells us a great deal. Communist regimes remain secretive about their behavior, which requires analysts to glean insights and clues based on the little bit of public information available. This skill is called Kremlinology. It was developed by scholars who had to…
China’s Stellar Double Standard
Commentary For the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), hypocrisy flows like water off a duck. The CCP’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) builds multiple naval air missile bases in the South China Sea, threatening sea lanes vital to global commerce, but claims it’s the U.S. Navy freedom of navigation exercises that “threaten the peace.” The Chinese regime…
China Seems Never to Have Left Its Old Development Model
News Analysis Off and on over the years, people—in the West and in China—have speculated how that country’s fast-developing economy will remake the world’s trading and economic system. During this time, it has also become popular to speculate about when and how China’s yuan will supplant the dollar as the world’s reserve currency. Official statements…
Beijing Is Shutting Down Hong Kong’s Last Free Media
News Analysis The Fragrant Harbor’s last truly free media are falling one after another under the pressure of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Hong Kong police raided Stand News on Dec. 29. The leveling of the outlet, and the “voluntary” closure of Citizen News on Jan. 3, are two more nails in the coffin of…
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