Category: Thinking About China

US Security Alliances in Asia Get Stronger

Commentary It seems that China has been able to accomplish something that 70 years of U.S. diplomacy could never achieve: push Japan and South Korea closer toward something like a strategic partnership. Earlier this month, South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol flew to Tokyo to meet with his Japanese counterpart, Prime Minster Fumio Kishida—the first official…


Scholars Predict CCP to Force Childbirth to Resolve Aging Population Crisis After Faking Data Since 1990s

Commentary In 2023, after the Beijing government announced its population reduction for the first time in history, it attracted global attention due to the crisis of its aging population. Lian Yizheng, a professor of economics and a senior media professional in Hong Kong, recently shared in an exclusive interview with The Epoch Times his thoughts…


Xi Jinping’s Guiding Light

Commentary When Chinese leader Xi Jinping speaks, observers around the world listen for clues about what to expect from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in the coming months and years. Sifting through the Xi-speak associated with the “Two Sessions” requires ignoring all the fluff and cliches that are routinely echoed by the state-run Chinese media,…


Century-Old Law Leaves US Government in Losing Position Against CCP’s Propaganda War

Commentary In 2021, the Department of Justice (DOJ) demanded that the Chinese language Sing Tao News Corporation register as a foreign agent. But the efforts from the U.S. government have done little to stop the media group from helping the Chinese regime’s propaganda efforts in the United States. Sing Tao Daily is the oldest and…


From Culture Shock to Biting the Feeding Hand

Last week I talked about the horrific experience of using the public toilet at the Ming Tombs in Beijing back in my school days. This culture shock is still vivid in my mind thirty years later. However, this was not my first China shock. My first was in 1978, during a family trip to Guangzhou…


Bond Traders Blind-Sided in China

Commentary China’s regulators are putting its $21 trillion bond market at risk. The ham-fisted regime is not only centralizing financial power and reshuffling financial regulatory personnel but is also banning the best brokers and data aggregators from selling real-time price data. Screens where China’s bond prices appeared went blank on Wednesday. Managers at the China…


Chinese Cities Stumble Under Heavy Debt Burdens

Commentary Debt weighs heavily today in China. Past articles in this space have described the origins of some of this debt, and the ill effects it has had—and will have—on China’s economy. A look at what is happening in many Chinese cities makes that burden clearer still: In some places, the weight of servicing these…


Biden Administration Supports Global Tax That Favors China

Commentary America is scraping the financial bottom of a debt crisis while overloaded with high taxes and navigating between the shoals of inflation and the sandbars of recession. President Joe Biden’s administration, meanwhile, wants to have all the pros without acknowledging any of the cons—by taxing more, spending more, growing the debt and, inscrutably, inventing…


CCP Doing Nothing to Stop Drug-Precursor Sales to the US

Commentary Roughly 90 percent of fentanyl deaths in the United States can be traced back to China, with Mexican drug cartels turning Chinese precursor materials into finished products. However, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is doing nothing to stop the sale of Chinese chemicals to the cartels. “At the very top of this lethal food…


The People’s Republic of Chains

Commentary The following essay is an excerpt adapted from Yeonmi Park’s new book, “While Time Remains: A North Korean Defector’s Search for Freedom in America” (Threshold, Simon & Schuster). The Chinese economic growth miracle of the last two decades is, without a doubt, one of the most impressive and consequential developments in modern international history. Nicknamed…