Category: Thinking About China

Acquiescence to China’s Demands Is a Precursor for Diplomatic Talks

Commentary Seemingly everyone wants the United States and China to “talk” these days, for one reason or another. For starters, the long-time China engagement crowd in the United States wants to continue pursuing the misguided policies that jump-started the Chinese mercantilism and subsequent belligerence that plagues the world in exchange for receiving crumbs from the…


WHO Pandemic Treaty Is a Threat to Liberty

Commentary Critics of a proposed pandemic treaty say it would cede U.S. autonomy to the China-led World Health Organization (WHO). Mainstream media say it would not. Since February 2022, WHO members have been working on a pandemic response accord that would exist under the Constitution of the World Health Organization. The draft accord will be…


Beyond Assessing the Chinese Military: Seeking Answers to the China Threat Question

Commentary Having conducted over 2,000 aerial incursions into Taiwan’s air defense identification zone (ADIZ) since August 2000 and two simulated air-sea strikes on Taiwan and now Japan this year, Chinese leader Xi Jinping has clearly signaled his aggressive intentions. It is time to take his threats seriously and prepare accordingly. The key is to make…


As US and China Spar, Western CEOs ‘Love the CCP’

Commentary At an annual security conference in Singapore on June 4, China’s defense minister accused the United States of being a hegemonic power. Given all the trouble Washington is experiencing over Taiwan and Ukraine, clearly, we are not. U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin was also at the conference. He sat at the same dinner…


Japan at the G-7 Gets Its Way on China

Commentary A few weeks ago, a column in this space described Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s hopes for the G-7 meetings in Hiroshima. He wanted those powerful economies—Canada, France, Germany, Italy, his own Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States—to counter Beijing’s unfair and often bullying trade practices. He seems to have got what…


Communist China’s Cyber Attacks Must Be Declared Acts of War

Commentary We have been fools. We will continue to be fooled until our politicians fight communist China’s unrestricted cyber warfare against the United States with more than hot air. The latest evidence of such warfare is a newly published Microsoft report documenting the breathtaking scope of this particular form of communist Chinese aggression. According to…


China’s Ambition to Acquire VTOL Aircraft 

Commentary The Chinese military’s ambition to acquire and build vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) combat aircraft dates back to the early 1970s. After 40 years of espionage and indigenous development, China’s Chengdu Aircraft Corporation (CAC) may have a fighter program to fulfill that ambition. In the 1970s, Britain carried out a lengthy public policy debate…


The Chinese Regime Is Committing Muslim Genocide, Biden and Islamic States Must Act

Commentary The Biden administration’s efforts to sustain a dialogue with Beijing must be questioned in light of the Chinese regime’s gross and consistent human rights violations against its own people. While the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) consistently violates human rights and has done so since it came to power in 1949, the intense focus on…


Xi’s ‘Bitterness’ for China

Commentary China’s economy is in the doldrums, and youth unemployment is at an all-time high. Over 20 percent of 16-to-24-year-olds seeking jobs cannot find work. In a throwback to the disastrous Cultural Revolution of the 1960s and 1970s, Xi Jinping is now telling college graduates to “eat bitterness.” He recently congratulated agriculture students for “seeking…


China’s CCP: World’s Most Dangerous Transnational Criminal Organization

Originally published by Gatestone Institute Commentary China’s regime is trafficking illegal drugs, protected wildlife, and humans. It is laundering cash and participating in ransomware attacks. It steals intellectual property. The ruling group, as a matter of state policy, murders people for their organs. The Chinese state is not only a dangerous international actor, it is also a common criminal. Perhaps we should say it…