Category: Analysis

Countering Chinese Communist Party Propaganda

Commentary The Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) propaganda campaign is well-funded and highly coordinated. It’s time for some coordinated pushback from unexpected quarters. An increasing number of Americans and others are becoming aware of the highly-coordinated propaganda campaign being waged by the CCP against America and the world. The campaign is multi-pronged, including pronouncements by Chinese…


China’s Belt and Road: Unfinished Projects and Huge Debt

News Analysis China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is a “debt trap” and “data trap,” warned British MI6 chief, Richard Moore. Eight years in, the BRI is littered with half-built bridges, unfinished projects, overbudget railways, roads to nowhere, lots of debt, and angry people. “The ancient silk routes embody the spirit of peace and cooperation,…


South Korean Tech Giants Face Choice Between US and China: Expert

News Analysis A major South Korean chip producer is planning to take cutting-edge equipment to a plant in China. The United States has pointed out that this is a military risk; and one expert says that it is crucial for Korean companies to move their production to the United States over China due to its…


China’s New Surveillance

News Analysis Provincial authorities in China’s province of Henan are deadly serious about watching you. They recently requested bids for a nearly million-dollar surveillance system that specifically tracks foreigners, including journalists, students, and migrant women illegally seeking work in the country—they are “suspicious people” according to Henan authorities. The system is likely operational now, and…


Head of NIAID-Funded Galveston Lab Relayed Lab Leak Concerns to Head of Wuhan Institute at Onset of Pandemic

News Analysis In early February 2020, as Dr. Anthony Fauci and a small circle of collaborating scientists were in the process of establishing the Natural Origin narrative about COVID-19 that would pervade the media, the man who had personally trained staff at China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology—and was the director of one of our nation’s…


China’s Quantum Ambition Meets US Counterblow

Last week, the U.S. Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) added eight technology entities based in China to its trade blacklist for engaging in activities contrary to national security. The move was enacted to prevent the diversion of U.S. technologies to China’s military advancement, Secretary of Commerce Gina M. Raimondo said in a…


China Refuses to Cooperate With US and Allies on Oil

News Analysis President Joe Biden recently reached out to Chinese leader Xi Jinping, asking him to join with U.S. allies in releasing oil reserves, in order to fill a shortage, bring down prices, and challenge OPEC’s influence on the global economy. So far, Xi has refused. Oil demand slumped during the lockdowns of 2020, but…


Powell Faces Much Tougher Challenges in His Second Term

Commentary Pity Federal Reserve Chair Jay Powell. He faces a vastly different economic tableau in what will be his second term than he did for most of his first term. The policy options to fulfill the Fed’s dual mandates—maintaining price stability and full employment—are more at odds now than they have been at any time…


Chinese Internet Troll’s Business Is Patriotism

News Analysis Online videos by Sima Nan, a Chinese internet troll, have recently earned an estimated commercial value of $3 million and attracted more than 7.5 million viewers. Between Nov. 7 and 21, his seven consecutive videos brought a lot of traffic and huge commercial success. The cyberspace watchdog Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) recently…


Ship Data Interruption Hints at China’s Military Doctrine

China’s recent interference with ship-data broadcasts might provide a clue to Chinese military strategy, and give a preview of the opening moments of a future attack on Taiwan. In late October, international ship tracking services noticed a sudden decrease in ship data from Chinese ground stations. These land-based stations receive the Automatic Identification System (AIS)…