Category: Xi Jinping

Holding China to Climate Change Promises Seeing a Dead End? Biden Admin’s Hope for a Change

Climate change is one of the biggest issues on the world stage. Yet China is allowed to continue as the top polluter. Is the world doing enough to fight climate change if China’s not required to do much until 2030? Its repeated failure to meet climate change goals is met with only appeasement from the…


Chinese Leader Xi Defends Beijing’s Actions in South China Sea Amid Heightened Regional Aggression

Chinese leader Xi Jinping said at a recent summit that China will not “bully” smaller countries, amid growing scrutiny over its escalated military activities in the South China Sea and the Taiwan Strait. Xi made the claim during a virtual summit on Nov. 22 between China and leaders of the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian…


US and Taiwan to Hold Second Round of Economic Dialogue Next Week

WASHINGTON—The United States and Taiwan next week will hold a second session of an economic dialogue launched last year in the face of increasing pressure on the island from China, the State Department said on Friday. The announcement comes days after a virtual meeting between U.S. President Joe Biden and Chinese leader Xi Jinping. After…


Biden-Xi Summit Shows Communist China’s Weakness

Commentary President Joe Biden met with Chinese leader Xi Jinping at a virtual summit on Nov. 15. Most analysts think Beijing has the upper hand and Washington is weak. But the Chinese regime has severe underlying problems, based on three different models that can be used to assess the relationship between both countries and their…


Monitor and Restrict American Investment in China: Commission

A commission of security and economic experts convened by Congress set forth a series of recommendations on Wednesday regarding the relationship with China, as bilateral trade returns to pre-trade-war levels and U.S. investments in the communist-controlled nation are on the rise. The annual report (pdf) from the influential U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission called…


Biden Silent on Fentanyl Scourge During Summit With Xi

Commentary Fentanyl overdoses in the United States are at epidemic levels. Why did President Joe Biden give Chinese leader Xi Jinping a pass on the subject during “frank discussions” at the virtual summit on Nov. 15? Biden and Xi spent three-and-a-half hours discussing various issues, but one might have expected that the topic of fentanyl…


Is This the End of Communist China’s ‘Integration’ into the World? What Happened to Peng Shuai?

The Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) first historic resolution in 1945 cemented Mao Zedong as the Party’s undisputed leader; it followed a three-year, brutal campaign of purging his political adversaries. The CCP’s second historic resolution in 1981 came two years after the launch of China’s “economic reform and opening up,” under Deng Xiaoping. Unlike the previous…


Live Q&A Webinar: Will China’s Economic Crisis Impact the World?

As Chinese real estate developer Evergrande hovers on the edge of collapse, questions are swirling about whether the fallout would cripple the Chinese economy, or spill over into the West to trigger a global financial crisis. Chinese leader Xi Jinping has also initiated a wave of clampdowns targeting everything from private tutoring to e-commerce to…


Asian Shares Slip After Biden-Xi Talks, Global Shares Mixed

Global shares were tangled on Nov. 17 yet Asian shares failed to see market-boosting news following virtual talks between U.S. President Joe Biden and Chinese leader Xi Jinping. At a three-hour meeting on Nov. 15, the two leaders dialed down some of the heat in Sino-U.S. tensions, though both sides held to entrenched positions on…


Republican Lawmakers Slam Biden for Not Taking Tough Stance During Summit With Xi

President Joe Biden has received mixed responses from Congress over his virtual meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping, with several Republican lawmakers calling the president out for not pressing Xi on Beijing’s various aggressions. Biden and Xi on Nov. 15 talked for about three and a half hours in their first-ever virtual summit, focusing on…