Commentary In August, President Joe Biden signed into effect a bipartisan bill aimed at boosting U.S. competitiveness with China. Designed to create more chip factories, the bill received a great deal of praise—for a good reason. Dubbed the Chips and Science Act, it pledged tens of billions of dollars for U.S. companies producing computer chips….
In the United States’ Chip War With China, This European Country Must Choose Sides
Changing China’s COVID Policy Could Unleash Further Protests and Challenges for the CCP
Commentary Much has been made about the recent protests that rocked several major (and some minor) cities across China; protests mainly focused on the Chinese regime’s insistence on sticking to its outdated zero-COVID policy. Frustrations are running high, and Beijing’s abrupt shift toward loosening restrictions could spell further troubles on multiple fronts. There are likely…
Europe Tries to Triangulate Between US and China
December 13, 2022
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Commentary When it comes to China trade, part of Europe clearly sees an opportunity, but it is having trouble grasping it. Washington’s efforts to decouple American trade links from China have tempted some European commercial interests to fill the resulting gap. The Germans seem particularly eager to grasp the opportunity. But difficulties have arisen because…
How Vaping Harms the Brain—2 Million American Teens in Danger
Commentary As states like California crack down on vaping, it’s time to ask, what, if any, dangers are posed by vaping products? Fewer and fewer American teenagers are smoking cigarettes. Although this is cause for celebration, an increasing number of teenagers are vaping instead. As this short piece will demonstrate, vaping is incredibly dangerous. In…
Communist China’s Social Credit System Is Being Copied Everywhere
Commentary Chinese leader Xi Jinping is hell-bent on achieving a modern version of the surveillance state portrayed in George Orwell’s masterpiece “1984” that enables state control over business enterprises, the media, other institutions, and individuals through round-the-clock monitoring of the activities of Chinese citizens. The main component of Xi’s evolving surveillance state involves the evolutionary…
China’s Absurd National Investment Data
Commentary China’s fixed asset investment from January to October totaled 47.15 trillion yuan (about $6.78 trillion), a 5.8 percent year-on-year increase in the first 10 months of this year, according to a statement by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on Nov. 15. Furthermore, fixed asset investment from the private sector increased 1.6 percent from…
The LGBTQI+ Agenda: The Return of the ‘Ugly American’
Commentary As order in the world declines, the Biden administration has a full plate. In addition to meeting communist China’s global challenge to the United States, dealing with Russia for invading the Ukraine, fuel and food shortages, inflation, and presumably preserving the liberal international economic order, American foreign policy has a new and urgent priority…
Do Hong Kongers Truly Mourn Jiang Zemin?
Commentary China has been politically eventful in the last two weeks. A fire in Urumqi, Xinjiang sparked the nationwide white paper revolution protests; then less than a week later, former leader Jiang Zemin passed away. The communist Party made stability its major concern, kept Jiang’s funeral simple, and loosened the COVID-19 restrictions to pacify the angry…
Communist China Establishes Global Presence Through Local Police Overseas Stations
Commentary The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is engaged in a multipronged campaign to establish its power overseas, especially over the ever-growing Chinese diaspora. It started for real with the launch of Fox Hunt, a campaign to hunt down Party members, state functionaries, and those working in or with public entities, and it seems to have…
Ban TikTok Everywhere
Commentary It’s time to ban TikTok. The social media app is wildly popular with young adults and children but controlled by an authoritarian regime in China. Apple rates the platform for users ages 12-plus. Yet the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) uses the app’s secret algorithm to influence and track their opinions, messaging, keystrokes, and locations….
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