Category: Thinking About China

China’s E-Commerce Is a Hazard to America

Commentary Even as security concerns mount over TikTok, Americans are downloading another app from China at record speeds. The e-commerce app, called Temu, is for online shopping. It competes directly with Amazon, which it seeks to undercut by selling stuff at much lower prices. Lenovo wireless earbuds, for example, can be bought for as little…


The Administrative Procedures Act Is Underutilized

Commentary President Joe Biden signed 77 executive orders in 2021 and 27 this year. He has also signed out 77 total presidential memoranda and dozens of presidential determinations and administrative orders to date. Executive orders are official presidential directives that generally have the force of law. They are intended to direct actions within federal agencies…


A Major Victory in a Small Country: Cyprus Shows Europe the Way Forward in Dealing With China

Commentary The holidays came early to Europe, with a gift for the rule of law and human rights protections offered not by some red-dressed, bearded man but rather by a court in Cyprus. On Dec. 23, the court, which has been processing the first-ever extradition request from the Chinese regime since it ratified an extradition…


America’s Civil-Military Problem

Commentary In the bustle of the Christmas season, three events likely escaped attention. The first was the U.S. Military Academy’s (West Point) decision to remove a portrait and bust of Gen. Robert E. Lee, a superintendent of West Point before the Civil War. West Point made the decision based on Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin’s…


The Existential Threat From Communist China: Insights From a Former FBI Crisis Officer

Commentary The threat from communist China is real. A quick look at The U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission’s (USCC) annual report to Congress confirms this. The agency has identified various threats to the country, including the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) ever-evolving cyberwarfare and espionage campaigns. The report emphasizes the CCP’s desire to become a…


China Trolls the World

Commentary And then just like that, COVID controls are gone in China. So far as we can tell, it has all come to an end, without explanation and of course without apology. For almost 3 years now, China has faced random and draconian lockdowns and testing requirements, complete with extreme quarantines, all based on the…


US Tech Restrictions Curb China’s Military Ambitions

Commentary With the threat of U.S.-China military conflict looming, it is critical for the United States to cut off the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) from the technology the Chinese regime needs to conduct next-generation warfare. “The government’s prioritization of issues like climate change and woke gender ideologies over core national security interests gives Beijing reason…


The Enduring Promise of Christmas

Commentary The first Christmas was celebrated with humility, gratitude, and heavenly exultation as the promised Savior of the World was born. That promise is unbreakable. Christmas 2022 is here, but do we still respect and acknowledge it the way we did, say, 20, 30, or even 50 years ago? Most of us know the answer…


The US Will Spend Another $1.7 Trillion, With Little Democratic Accountability

Commentary Our politicians are spending more than they have, again (and again and again). It’s a mounting danger to the U.S. economy, upon which U.S. national security relies. The fiscal blame for the latest $1.7 trillion “omnibus” spending bill, which passed the Senate on Dec. 22 before the Dec. 23 deadline, mostly points toward Democrats….


Xi Jinping’s Little Helpers in Western Media

Commentary According to a popular legend in many countries, “Santa Claus” lives year-round at the North Pole with his “little helpers” (elves) who toil the year away in Santa’s workshop building toys that Santa delivers to all the good girls and boys around the world, using his reindeer-powered sleigh on Christmas Eve night. In the spirit…