Category: International Relations

China’s Foreign Minister’s Manila Visit Won’t Improve Sino-Philippine Relations, Expert Says

As the strategic competition between the United States and China intensifies, the Philippines has become a key country in the geopolitics in Asia-Pacific. The Chinese regime’s Foreign Minister Qin Gang visited the Philippines recently in a bid to repair bilateral relations damaged by China’s aggression. However, an international observer believes Qin’s visit may be in…


Analysis: Uproar Over Chinese Envoy’s Denial of Former Soviet Nations’ Sovereignty

Lu Shaye, the Chinese ambassador to France, publicly stated in a televised interview that post-Soviet nations “have no effective status” in international law, which caused an uproar. China experts say his remarks probably represent the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) true opinions, unintentionally revealing the CCP’s discontent over the collapse of the Soviet Union more than…


Australia’s Northern Bases Receive $3.8 Billion Funding Boost to Prep for Potential Conflict

The Labor government has pledged $3.8 billion (US$2.5 billion) for upgrades to military bases across Australia’s north as part of a steady build-up to deal with potential conflict in the region. The announcement follows an earlier pledge in 2021 to upgrade four military training facilities in the Northern Territory. According to Defence Minister Richard Marles,…


FBI May Have Been Unaware of China’s Secret Police Stations: House Select Committee

The congressional committee tasked with overseeing the threat posed by China’s communist regime is demanding answers from the FBI, saying that the bureau may have been unaware of secret Chinese police stations on U.S. soil until public reporting broke the story. The House Select Committee on Strategic Competition with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) sent…


Chinese Money Launderers Are Central to Cartels’ Fentanyl Trade: Rep. McClain

China’s communist regime is overlooking massive money laundering schemes conducted by Chinese nationals to support cartels flooding the United States with lethal opioids. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) gives cover to money laundering schemes supporting the production of synthetic drugs that kill hundreds of thousands of Americans, according to testimony received during an April 26…


Research Raises Legal Concerns About Operations of Confucius Institutes in UK

The legality of Confucius Institutes in the UK was brought into question as research showed CI teachers were hired in a “highly discriminatory way” and are required to undermine free speech. The research, published on Tuesday by UK-China Transparency, a newly founded charity focusing on Sino-British ties, also said British Universities and the Home Office have been “systematically…


Rep. Comer Threatens to Subpoena State Department Over John Kerry’s Role Under Biden

House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) wrote to Secretary of State Antony Blinken, demanding he shed more light on what John Kerry has done as climate envoy or face a possible subpoena. “Envoy Kerry is engaging in activities that skirt congressional authority, threaten foreign policy under the guise of climate advocacy, and could undermine…


IN-DEPTH: China Is Subverting the UN; How Can the US Respond?

China’s manipulation of United Nations (U.N.) institutions, platforms, and practices for its foreign policy objectives in recent years has increasingly come into the spotlight. Experts have also been concerned that until the United States redraws its policy goals at the U.N. and asserts its leadership, China will increasingly violate, modify, and control it in its pursuit…


IN-DEPTH: Battle for the Heartland–How US Farmland is Quietly Falling Into Chinese Hands

The valleys give way to the prairies and the prairies give way to the badlands where fields of golden cinquefoils surrender to the might of towering plateaus of striated bedrock. The rugged openness of South Dakota presents the quintessential image of the American countryside, a pure distillation of the natural environment that captured the pioneers’…


US Open to ‘Negotiated Peace’ for Ukraine Following Xi-Zelenskyy Talk: White House

The United States may be open to a negotiated peace between Ukraine and Russia following a phone call between Ukraine’s president and China’s communist leadership about the ongoing invasion and the possibility of peace in Eastern Europe. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy accepted a call on April 26 with Chinese Communist Party (CCP) General Secretary Xi…