Commentary Originally published by Gatestone Institute China just substantially reduced a three-day no-fly zone it had declared northeast of Taiwan. The zone, originally scheduled to run from the 16th to the 18th of this month, was scaled back to just 27 minutes on the 16th. China’s Maritime Safety Administration said the closure was due to “aerospace activities.”…
How China Made Russia Its Junior Partner
Commentary When Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin met in March, it was to firm up a new Sino-Russian strategic partnership crafted last year. Yet there is always a hierarchy in every alliance, and it is increasingly apparent that Russia is the junior partner in this relationship. It wasn’t always so. From the founding of communist…
Winner Takes All: The US-China Race to AI Mastery
Commentary The AI-powered ChatGPT is intensifying the competition between the United States and China for artificial intelligence dominance. The stakes couldn’t be higher. For the sake of clarity, ChatGPT is the AI-driven tool that can create documents, reports, and other content with just a question or a few key words. It was created by OpenAI,…
China Clearly Has Chosen Growth Over Climate
Commentary As with many other nations these days, a tension exists in China between climate and pollution considerations on the one hand and the desire for economic growth on the other. Though Beijing has assured the international community any number of times that it sincerely aims to decrease pollution and cut back on emissions of…
China’s Forced Organ Harvesting Must Be Stopped
April 14, 2023
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Commentary On March 27, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Stop Forced Organ Harvesting Act of 2023 with overwhelming bipartisan support. The bill, authored by Representative Chris Smith, targets the Chinese Communist Party’s state sponsored forced organ harvesting by imposing sanctions or severe criminal penalties on individuals who fund, sponsor, or facilitate this inhumane…
Is a Digital Dollar Coming?
April 14, 2023
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Commentary A hullabaloo over a digital dollar first emerged in 2019 when the People’s Bank of China (PBOC) launched its digital yuan. Speculation arose that unless the United States responded in kind, China’s yuan would soon surpass the dollar as the world’s premier reserve currency. The speculation was pointless. There is much more to a…
Russia’s and China’s Failing Arms Exports
Commentary Every year, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) releases its annual report on the global arms trade. It is a short document (just 12 pages) but a worthwhile read. In particular, it is chockablock with useful data on international arms transfers. In the first place, for example, the volume of overall arms exports…
How the Prestige and Trust Deficit Impacts the Strategic Equation
Commentary Every major nation-state faces an existential threat in terms of economic viability, partly because the global strategic climate of distrust no longer favors high debt levels. This is not, in hard terms, because economic viability and (therefore) long-term security are no longer achievable, but because the factors of prestige and trust that empower and…
Is South Korea Asia’s Canary in the Coal Mine?
April 12, 2023
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Commentary The expression used in the title conveys a sense of foreboding and early warning of trouble. It comes from the time before electronic sensory equipment when coal miners used these fragile birds to warn them of the presence of deadly methane gas in the mine shaft. If the bird collapsed, the miners had an…
Burmese Junta Gives PLA Foothold in the Bay of Bengal
April 12, 2023
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Commentary New Delhi has confronted the Burma government over Indian satellite images of Chinese workers constructing a listening post and extending an airstrip on the Coco Islands in the Bay of Bengal. Burma (also known as Myanmar) has denied Chinese involvement, but Indian officials are concerned that the facility will enable the People’s Liberation Army…
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