Category: Thinking About China

China and US Battle for the Moon and Stars

Commentary The terrestrial arms race has morphed into Space Wars as China and the United States race to control the moon, satellite orbits, and Mars. “[China] is the only country with both the intent to reshape the international order and increasingly the economic, diplomatic, military and technological power to achieve that objective,” Lt. Gen. Nina…


Ending the Chinese Regime’s Corruption of Our Politics

Commentary The Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) intelligence operations against the West are well known. Washington Times journalist Bill Gertz’s reporting on the penetration of U.S. nuclear laboratories led to the loss of U.S. nuclear secrets with disastrous consequences for the national security of the United States. That China had access to crown jewels of the…


Gamers Beware: The CCP Is Coming for You

Commentary Tencent Holdings and NetEase Inc.—both Chinese mega-tech companies deeply involved in gaming design and distribution—were hit hard over the last year and a half. Arbitrary rule in Beijing, decoupling, and a downturn in tech stocks walloped them, along with other Chinese companies that lost trillions of dollars from market selloffs. But now big China…


China Lifts Veil on Ambitions for Hegemony in Space

Commentary The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) does not broadcast its ambitions to achieve hegemony in space in order to enforce its ambitions for hegemony on Earth. Still, it has turned the chairman and Party secretary of its leading space contractor, the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC), into a major spokesman for gradually revealing…


The East-West Wage Gap Is Closing

Commentary One of China’s great economic advantages is going away. Relatively low-cost, reliable labor has been a mainstay of China’s economic engine for decades. Manufacturers from Europe and North America for years rushed investments into China to produce their products at a lower cost than they could domestically, first simple, cheaper items and later more…


South Koreans Want an Independent Nuclear Deterrent

Commentary The U.S. nuclear umbrella in Asia is failing. North Korea on Jan. 1 announced plans to “exponentially increase” its nuclear arsenal, including small-yield tactical nuclear weapons for the targeting of South Korea and intercontinental ballistic missile production for the targeting of the United States. The rogue country is walking its talk. On Jan. 1, it…


Brazil’s ‘J6’ Means More Patriot Persecution Incoming

Commentary Less than three days after U.S. President Joe Biden gave a speech commemorating the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riots as the worst attack on democracy in the history of mankind, socialist convicted felon and new president of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, has set the tone for his impending crackdown on political opposition….


Why Local Election Results in Taiwan Have Implications for America

Commentary Taiwan has been one of America’s key allies in deterring Communist China’s power expansion since the end of World War II. But the failure of the ruling pro-independence party in recent local elections showed that even with U.S. political and military backing, the Taiwanese people’s concerns over a potential Chinese military invasion may have…


Southern Border Crisis: Drugs, Human Trafficking, and Cartels

Commentary An estimated 20 million Americans are addicted to drugs. Fentanyl alone accounted for two-thirds of the 110,236 overdose deaths and killed over 73,000 Americans in 2021 alone. Fentanyl is now the main narcotic Mexican cartels are smuggling into the United States. The flow of illegal drugs through the southern border is the largest security threat…


Does Beijing Have Designs on Siberia?

Commentary Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin met virtually on Dec. 30, touting the usual and expected bilateral economic and political engagement, cooperation, and development. But increasingly, one gets the sense that the marriage between Beijing and Moscow is one of convenience and necessity, not friendship. And Xi, the Chinese Communist Party chairman, may slowly be…