Category: Thinking About China

Will Congress Really Do Anything About the CCP Threat to the US?

Commentary The House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party is the brainchild of Speaker Kevin McCarthy. It sounds like a great start to the new Republican-led Congress for 2023. But a bit of circumspection is advisable and with good reason. All Bark, No Bite First, the…


China Looks to Boost Tech to Make Up Growth

Commentary Beijing is looking to resuscitate its technology sector growth in order to rescue its ailing economy. China’s more than two-year clampdown on its sprawling technology sector may finally be ending. And global investors have raced to snap up shares so far this year. The years-long campaign to rein in China’s internet platform companies is…


Undoing Zero-COVID Reveals the CCP’s Greatest Fear

Commentary The great fear of the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) that it will suffer the fate of the Soviet Union was on full display with the abrupt decision to abandon the country’s COVID-zero policy. The unrelenting policy, which had been strictly applied month after month for almost three years, was the personal…


China’s Electric Vehicles Could Destroy America

Commentary Since 2020, China’s electric vehicle makers have been on a streak. Other vehicle manufacturers are starting to look nervously in their rear-view mirrors, err … cameras, and in some cases, side-views. Some, like Volvo, are even looking at their stock and realizing that a Chinese competitor has already bought a controlling share. Is China’s…


Economic Impact of an Aging China

Commentary China’s population drop will coincide with an economic contraction. For the first time since 1961, the Chinese population is in decline. This year, India is climbing to the position of the world’s most populous country, relegating China to second place. With a smaller population and a slowing economy, China achieving its global ambition of surpassing…


Is the West Too Gullible When It Comes to China

Commentary The controversy over Prince Harry wearing a Nazi uniform to a party was repeated recently when a 40-year-old prominent Australian politician, Dominic Perrottet, revealed that he had worn a Nazi uniform to his 21st birthday party. A newspaper reader wondered if people would be so outraged if someone had worn a Mao uniform. A…


The US Needs Quantity and Quality for High Intensity Warfare

Commentary The Biden administration’s decision to provide M1 Abrams main battle tanks to Ukraine follows reports that U.S. support for Ukraine in its war with Russia could hinder America’s ability to fight a war with communist China. Since 2014, the United States has committed to sending Ukraine over $27 billion in military equipment and supplies….


Where Is the American Nuclear Breakout?

Commentary For 2023 this is the most crucial military question for the United States and the free world: when will the United States begin its nuclear breakout? Consider the awful irony of Oct. 6, 2022, when President Joe Biden casually quipped that Russian use of tactical nuclear weapons could escalate all the way to “Armageddon.” That…


Did China Make a Mistake by Ending COVID Restrictions?

Commentary Never forget that the New York Times kicked off disease panic in the United States in late February 2020, about a month after China had locked down Wuhan and violated its citizens’ rights to associate on a massive scale. Two weeks earlier, the World Health Organization sponsored a Western junket that was attended by…


The World Economic Forum and the Loss of Sovereignty

Commentary The World Economic Forum (WEF) 2023 was attended by the largest number of heads of state and global elites in history, pushing a globalist agenda. “A new governance model is crucial for our world. … Global governance has an unresolved problem: both our institutions and our leaders are no longer fit for their purpose,”…