Category: Xi Jinping

PREMIERING NOW: Gordon Chang on Virus Explosion in China, Xi Jinping Losing Control, and CCP Gearing Up for War

Is Omicron the COVID-19 variant spreading in China? Or is it something else? And what does the explosion of the virus—and the associated real death toll in China—mean for Chinese leader Xi Jinping, the author of China’s draconian “zero-COVID” policies? We sit down again with China analyst Gordon Chang to discuss the complicated realities the…


Gordon Chang on Virus Explosion in China, Xi Jinping Losing Control, and CCP Gearing Up for War

Is Omicron the COVID-19 variant spreading in China? Or is it something else? And what does the explosion of the virus—and the associated real death toll in China—mean for Chinese leader Xi Jinping, the author of China’s draconian “zero-COVID” policies? We sit down again with China analyst Gordon Chang to discuss the complicated realities the…


PREMIERING 1/7 at 7:30PM ET: Gordon Chang on Virus Explosion in China, Xi Jinping Losing Control, and CCP Gearing Up for War

Is Omicron the COVID-19 variant spreading in China? Or is it something else? And what does the explosion of the virus—and the associated real death toll in China—mean for Chinese leader Xi Jinping, the author of China’s draconian “zero-COVID” policies? We sit down again with China analyst Gordon Chang to discuss the complicated realities the…


The Undoing of the Unscientific Zero-COVID Policy in China

Commentary Communist China has been reeling due to the relaxation of its three-year-long zero-COVID policy, with as many as 250 million infected Chinese last month. That number includes an incredible 37 million who were infected on Dec. 20 alone. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) implemented its zero-COVID policy in an attempt to contain the SARS-CoV-2 virus…


Putin and Xi Hold Talks Against Mounting Crisis in the Backdrop

Russian President Vladimir Putin said he expects his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping to pay a state visit early next year in a show of solidarity as the two grapple with mounting tensions that leave them increasingly isolated on the world stage. Speaking at a video conference with Xi, Putin described the two countries’ ties as…


Rest of the World Will Pay the Price for China’s Abrupt Removal of International Travel Restrictions: Author

After widespread protests against the lockdowns in November, the Chinese regime abruptly walked back its stringent Zero-COVID policy in early December. Without prior notice or the disclosure of steps for a gradual withdrawal of the policy, the change was made. Since then, COVID has ravaged China’s vast population, which was unprepared for the sudden change…


Does New COVID Surge or COVID Propaganda Pose Greater Risk?

For three years, the CCP’s pandemic propaganda shaped Western responses to COVID. Now after Beijing ends its zero-covid policies come reports of massive infections and deaths. What’s really happening inside China and will the Party’s deadly disinformation again push Western democracies into totalitarian measures? In this hard-hitting new episode of Over the Target, Brendon Fallon…


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…


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…


Saudi Arabia Gets Closer to China While Moving Away From US: Gregory Copley

With the growing closeness between China and Saudi Arabia, the U.S. sees the deterioration in its relationship with the Gulf country, according to Gregory Copley, President of the International Strategic Studies Association. “It is the most significant setback which the United States and the West has seen since perhaps the middle of the Cold War…