Category: China-US News

Beijing Tells Biden Administration to Play by CCP’s Rules

China’s top diplomat Yang Jiechi warned the Biden administration not to cross Beijing’s “red line” in a half-hour speech on the evening of Feb. 1. “The United States should stop interference in the affairs of Hong Kong, Tibet, and Xinjiang,” Yang said, calling the issues regarding the three regions China’s “internal affairs.” He made the…


Secretary of State Blinken Says US Should Allow in Hong Kong Refugees Fleeing Beijing’s Repression

Secretary of State Antony Blinken said he thinks the United States should provide refuge for Hongkongers fleeing the Chinese regime’s widening suppression of the city’s freedoms. “We’ve seen China act egregiously to undermine the very commitments it made during the handover of Hong Kong … from Britain,” Blinken said in an interview with MSNBC aired on…


Hundreds of Twitter Accounts Linked to China Sowed Discord Around US Election

A sophisticated social media operation believed to be linked to China’s communist regime played a key role in spreading disinformation, sowing discord, and amplifying calls for violence during and after the November election, a report from Cardiff University has found. The Crime and Security Research Institute (CSRI), an interdisciplinary unit at Cardiff University whose research…


US Senator Criticizes WHO for Supporting Beijing’s COVID-19 Propaganda

U.S. Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) criticized the World Health Organization (WHO) on Jan. 31 after the health body’s investigators visited a Chinese propaganda exhibition on Saturday. The WHO team is currently in Wuhan city, the epicenter of the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus outbreak last year, investigating the origins of the pandemic. The CCP virus…


Popular Fertility App Sued Over Allegedly Sharing Personal Data with Chinese Firms

A popular fertility app has been sued for allegedly sending personal data to Chinese analytics firms without users’ consent. Premom, a digital ovulation tracker owned by Illinois-based company Easy Healthcare, came under scrutiny last year when a privacy watchdog group found that the app on Android devices was sharing data about the user without permission,…


US Military Slams Chinese Flights Over South China Sea But Says They Posed No Threat

The U.S. military said on Jan. 29 that Chinese military flights in the past week in the South China Sea fit a pattern of destabilizing and aggressive behavior by Beijing but posed no threat to a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier strike group in the region. “The Theodore Roosevelt Carrier Strike Group closely monitored all People’s…


GOP Senators Urge Commerce Nominee to Commit to Countering Beijing’s 5G Ambitions

Three Republican senators known for their hawkish stance on China are calling on President Joe Biden’s Commerce Department nominee to clarify if there are any circumstances under which she would remove China’s telecoms equipment giant Huawei from a trade blacklist that the Trump administration placed it on due to concerns about national security. Sens. Marco Rubio…


White House Says US-China Trade Deal Among Issues in Broad Review

WASHINGTON—The Biden administration will review all national security measures put in place by former President Donald Trump, including the U.S.-China Phase 1 trade deal signed in January 2020, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said on Friday. Asked if President Joe Biden viewed the deal as still in effect, she told a White House briefing:…


Virginia County Passes Resolution Condemning Forced Organ Harvesting in China

A Virginia county on Jan. 27 unanimously adopted a resolution condemning forced organ harvesting from prisoners of conscience in China, particularly from adherents of the spiritual group Falun Gong. While “there has been little media coverage of this problem,” dozens of residents in the state’s Frederick County have come forward to voice concerns, the resolution…


Beijing Again Suggests US to Blame for Pandemic as WHO Probes Virus Origins

A year after the CCP Virus outbreak in China’s Wuhan city seeded a global pandemic, Beijing has redoubled its efforts to spread unfounded theories that the virus originated in the United States. The disinformation offensive propelled by Chinese diplomats and state media came as a World Health Organization (WHO) team arrived in the country to…