Category: Thinking About China

From Cultural to Educational Desert

Commentary Educational cleansing became rampant after the Hong Kong National Security Law was passed in 2020. The release of the Education Bureau (EDB)’s Guidelines on Teachers’ Professional Conduct (Guidelines) last week means another spell on teachers, who will only be obedient and act as mouthpieces of the regime in the future. We all know that…


Turn Your Eyes Away

Commentary How long will mainstream media ignore massive protests in China, Brazil, Iran, and Holland against political oppression and state-sponsored election interference in the United States? If millions of pro-democracy protesters in China call for the end of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) but is largely ignored by the U.S. leadership, has an injustice really…


Debunking White House Statement on Biden Admin’s Achievements

Commentary Since President Joe Biden has taken office, his administration has claimed some significant achievements. In fact, the White House issued a document touting Biden’s accomplishments despite high gas prices, high inflation, rising crime, unemployment, and record government debt. According to the White House, one of Biden’s successes was lowering the costs of families’ everyday…


As This Latin American Country Falls Apart, China Looks on Anxiously

Commentary On first inspection, Peru and China, 11,000 miles apart, appear to have very little in common. However, the two countries share a very close history. As the academic Justina Hwang has noted, in the space of 25 years, between 1849 and 1874, more than 100,000 unskilled workers, many of them from China, arrived in…


US Supports a Stronger Japanese Military to Deter China

Commentary Japan is finally stepping up its defenses against China. Tokyo’s new national security strategy includes an increase in the defense budget from 1 percent of GDP to 2 percent. That will bring Japan into third position globally regarding military spending, behind the United States and China. The United States supports Japan’s tougher strategy. The U.S….


US-China Tech Decoupling Underway

Commentary On Dec. 12, Beijing filed a WTO complaint against the United States, protesting the U.S.-China chip ban. China’s minister of commerce said he brought the case to the World Trade Organization to defend China’s “legitimate rights and interests.” Apart from U.S. restrictions on the sale of chips, the Chinese tech sector is trending downward due to…


Is China Preparing for War?

Commentary Each year, I have the pleasure of interviewing hundreds of applicants to the programs of an educational institute, of which I am the Academic Dean. In those interviews, I ask questions that motivate prospective students, mostly aged 15 to 18 years, to share opinions that they care deeply about but feel unable to discuss…


What’s Our Government Hiding?

Commentary 2022 is about to end, and still no answer to the question: What caused the virus that’s killed 1,096,000 Americans so far? The Washington Post asks, “What is China hiding?” The more answerable question is what is our own government hiding? House Republicans are promising that when they assume the majority in January, they…


Human Rights Situation in Hong Kong Under CCP Rule

Commentary By the time this article is out, Christmas is just around the corner. If you live in communist Hong Kong, you feel like you are suffocating. These days, I still wake up with a heavy heart. I had a meaningful hedge fund career, and being a columnist in the finance and political sphere of…


US-China Trade Has Turned Down Sharply

Commentary Washington has made no secret of its desire to decouple the U.S. economy from China trade—if not completely, then certainly significantly. Recent data shows that the process is proceeding pretty much as Washington wants. Flows of Chinese goods to the United States have fallen sharply. Of course, the decline in trade is not entirely…