News Analysis Chinatown and a police station in the Solomon Islands’ capital city of Honiara were partially burned down during protests that started on Nov. 24. Many locals are unhappy with Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare’s 2019 turn away from Taiwan and toward Beijing (known locally as “The Switch”), not to mention poverty, preferences given to…
China’s Influence in Solomon Islands Causes Riot
December 3, 2021
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Communist China Declared War on the US Long Ago: Part 3
December 2, 2021
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News Analysis Incredibly, many Americans and others still believe Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s propaganda about “shared futures,” “whole democracy,” and “Chinese benevolence.” So far—and thanks to relentless coordinated propaganda by Chinese diplomats and state-run Chinese media—the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has not completely lost control of the COVID-19 narrative, including success in delinking the virus…
Behind the Arrest of Macau’s ‘Junket Mogul’: Focus on Money Laundering
News Analysis Alvin Chau Cheok-wa, the head of Macau’s biggest casino junket operator Suncity Group, was arrested last week along with 10 others for allegedly running illegal cross-border gambling and a money-laundering syndicate. Junket operators are outfits that bring in high rollers to play at casinos. According to Macau police, all of the arrested have…
China’s Data Play
December 2, 2021
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News Analysis Beijing is quietly overhauling how Chinese firms handle data and these changes are likely to have global implications. The management of how firms handle data has historically drawn little interest. But with the advent of internet connected devices that can track or measure virtually every movement, governments have taken an increasing interest in…
Worse Than Japan: China Unable to Deal With Aging Crisis
News Analysis In order to save itself from the aging crisis, China needs to increase the number of young workers or increase the education and productivity of its current workers. Either policy would be very costly and could take decades to pay off. In 2016, faced with an aging population and a dwindling workforce, the…
Abysmal Black Friday Numbers a Sign of Things to Come?
News commentary Are the days of Black Friday producing black eyes coming to an end? New data from Sensormatic Solutions revealed that traffic at retail stores on this year’s Black Friday tumbled 28.3 percent compared to the same time in 2019. But foot traffic at brick-and-mortar establishments was up 47.5 percent from last year when many…
The China Link Between Hunter Biden and Corruption in Uganda
December 1, 2021
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News Analysis Do you hear that sound? It’s the swoosh of air that China’s debt trap makes on its way to slamming shut, this time on Uganda’s international airport nearest its capital city, Kampala. Uganda’s gradual loss of sovereignty to Beijing has uncomfortable parallels to what the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) apparently attempted to do…
Communist China Declared War on the US Long Ago: Part 2
News Analysis The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is partial to the number three for cultural and superstitious reasons. As it turns out, that would appear to apply to Xi Jinping, too, as noted in part one of this three-part series. A few of his “campaign of threes” have included: Three major economic initiatives. The historic third…
China’s Aging Crisis Is the Final Blow to Its Economy
December 1, 2021
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News Analysis China’s aging crisis may be the final blow to an embattled economy—already plagued by a debt crisis, real estate bubble, and sluggish growth. China’s GDP growth is expected to drop to about 5 percent this year, as opposed to the 10 percent of previous decades. Some experts believe that next year, growth may…
China’s ‘Historical Resolutions’ Solidify Communist Leaders’ Authorities
Commentary There are many documents in the history of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), but there are only a few so-called “historical resolutions.” That tells the significance of these documents. The passage of these historical resolutions indicates two major turning points within the CCP—one in 1981 and the other in 2021. The 1981 historical resolution…
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