Category: Analysis

China Incites Anti-US Sentiment After Public Spat at Alaska Meeting

Commentary After the U.S.-China high-level talks concluded on March 19 in Alaska, Chinese authorities immediately mobilized China’s state-run media to distort facts about the clash at the meeting and incite anti-U.S. sentiment in China. The two-day meeting in Anchorage was the first high-level talks between Beijing and the Biden administration. The U.S. delegation was headed…


Burma Becomes New Front for US-China Confrontation as CCP Seeks to Regain Influence: Expert

Commentary Daisuke Kondo, a China expert in Japan, recently wrote an article about how Burma is as important to the United States and China as Taiwan is to these two powers. According to Kondo, the situation in Burma now deserves even more attention as Beijing is trying to regain the influence it lost on Burma…


Can the New US Administration Break Free From the Dual Forces of China and North Korea?

Commentary The recent visit to South Korea by U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin during the Quad “2+2” Security Dialogue brought up the issue of the North Korean nuclear threat. Whether the new U.S. administration will return to the game manipulated by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) more than…


US Falls Into 4 Traps Set by the CCP in US-China Talks

Commentary Anchorage, the largest city in Alaska, recorded a temperature as low as -18 degrees Celsius (nearly zero degrees Fahrenheit) in the early morning. A two-day high-level talk between the United States and China has just ended in this frigid place. The high pitch of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) “wolf warriors” howl and the…


Opinion: US Falls Into 4 Traps Set by the CCP in US-China Talks

Commentary Anchorage, the largest city in Alaska, recorded a temperature as low as -18 degrees Celsius (nearly zero degrees Fahrenheit) in the early morning. A two-day high-level talk between the United States and China has just ended in this frigid place. The high pitch of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) “wolf warriors” howl and the…


How California Is Embracing Mandatory Racial-Injustice Study for All of Its 1.7 Million High Schoolers

California has struggled for five years to create a politically palatable “ethnic studies” curriculum that would teach high schoolers how systemic racism, predatory capitalism, heteropatriarchy and other “structures of oppression” are foundational to American society. Now, after more than 82,000 public comments, and four major rewrites, the state Board of Education is expected to approve…


Here’s How Cuomo Used Undercounted Nursing Home Deaths to Mislead the Public

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and his top lieutenants cited a report altered by his top aides to paint a false narrative of his handling of the COVID-19 outbreak in nursing homes in comparison to other states. The New York State Department of Health knew that nearly 10,000 nursing home residents had died of COVID-19…


Chinese American Parents View Critical Race Theory As New Version of the Chinese Exclusion Act

Commentary A state-wide survey of California’s K-12 education revealed that nearly 90 percent of respondents are dissatisfied with the current public education in the state, and over 80 percent don’t want ethnic studies to be a high school graduation requirement. Californians for Equal Rights, a nonprofit organization that opposes racial and gender preferences in government…


Is Orange County’s Record-Setting Housing Market Here to Stay?

Commentary The Orange County residential property market is the hottest on record, even surpassing the go-go days of 2006. The expected market time for a property is 26 days—the lowest level since tracking began in 2004, real estate broker Stephen Thomas reported in his most recent Orange County property report. In other words, in comparing…


Why Biden’s New Dawn of Net-Zero Is Looking Like a Dark Day for Labor

Last Labor Day, candidate Joe Biden made an impassioned pitch to leaders and members of the AFL-CIO, America’s largest labor federation. Stressing that “the great American middle class was built by unions,” he jabbed his finger in the air for emphasis as he promised, “I’m going to be the strongest labor president you have ever…