Commentary In recent years, Beijing has spent billions of dollars adding to its nuclear arsenal—not just more nuclear bombs and warheads, but also new missiles, transporters, silos, submarines, and bombers. But what is behind this buildup of China’s nuclear forces in terms of nuclear strategy and geopolitics? For decades, the Chinese were more or less…
Coming Out of the Two Sessions, the CCP Only Cares for One Thing—Itself
Commentary In early March, the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) “Two Sessions” began, during which time top officials of the CCP met to discuss policy. This year, as expected, Xi Jinping was anointed for a third term as Party chief. Concurrent with this self-aggrandizing pomp are the “sensitive days,” during which the regime’s stability maintenance agency…
TikTok in the Crosshairs of Congress
March 24, 2023
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Commentary Ask the average youth about what he watches on TikTok and he is most likely to mention funny videos of animals, pranks, dancing, experiments, and food. The top posts on TikTok get hundreds of millions of views. But ask an average member of the U.S. House of Representatives, though none are really average, and…
Kowtowing to the CCP: Former Taiwan President Ma Doing It Again
Commentary Ma Ying-jeou, a former Taiwan President and former Kuomintang Party (KMT) Chairman, has a long history of kowtowing to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). He plans to lead a KMT delegation to China with former aids and several dozen students. During the 12-day trip beginning on 27 March, he will visit five cities: Nanjing,…
Biden’s Mistaken Visit to Canada
Commentary President Joe Biden is scheduled to visit Canada on the eve of March 23, which will be the first U.S. presidential visit since President Barack Obama’s trip in 2016. Visits to Canada can be crowd-pleasers. On a trip in 2009, Obama made a surprise stop at an Ottawa bakery for a red maple-leaf cookie. Warm-hearted…
Beijing’s Leadership Announces Its Goals
Commentary Earlier this month, Beijing hosted a huge crowd of Chinese officials. They were there for the “Two Sessions” gathering, which included some 3,000 delegates of the National People’s Congress (NPC), the country’s nominal legislature, and an additional 2,000 members of the Chinese People’s Political Consultive Conference (CPPCC), and advisory body. Though primarily a rubber…
US Real-Time Intel Helps India Deal China a Defeat
Commentary In December 2022 I wrote a column titled “India and China Clash on the Roof of the World.” The Himalayan terrain and history where the incident that occurred Dec. 9, 2022, is obscure and complex. However, conflict between Asia’s two giants has global significance. The clash rated headlines throughout east Asia and the Pacific—headlines…
Treasury Holdings by China Is More an Economic Decision Than Political
March 22, 2023
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Commentary One of the recent news warnings about the status of the U.S. dollar was the continuing slash of U.S. Treasury securities holdings by mainland China. It’s latest holding in January was US$859.4 billion, a year-over-year drop of 17 percent compared with that of US$1,033.8 billion in January 2022. Seventeen percent is undoubtedly a significant…
Cory Morgan: Is the Jig Finally up for the ‘Upper Levels’ Who Ignored CSIS Warnings on CCP Interference?
March 20, 2023
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Commentary The trickle of information on Chinese Communist Party (CCP) interference in Canadian affairs has turned into a torrent. Current and former intelligence officials are coming out and reporting a pattern of government indifference to CCP interference in domestic affairs that spans back decades. Governments and political leaders have managed to ignore the problem with…
China Brokering Saudi-Iran Deal Sees Biden Losing the Middle East
March 20, 2023
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Commentary The Chinese Communist Party’s Middle East peace deal has implications for U.S. regional influence. On March 10th, Saudi Arabia and Iran announced that they would resume diplomatic relations in a deal brokered by China. Relations between the two countries have been broken since 2016 over a dispute regarding Riyadh’s execution of a Shi’ite Muslim…
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