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…
Xi Calls on China’s Top National Security Officials to Prepare for ‘Worst Case Scenarios’
Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leader Xi Jinping on May 30 told his top national security officials to be ready for “worst case scenarios” and “stormy seas”. Xi was addressing officials attending the first National Security Commission meeting since the CCP’s 20th National Congress last year, according to state-run Xinhua. As commission chairman, Xi said they must…
Xi Calls on China’s Top National Security Officials to Prepare for ‘Worse Case Scenarios’
Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leader Xi Jinping on May 30 told his top national security officials to be ready for “worst case scenarios” and “stormy seas”. Xi was addressing officials attending the first National Security Commission meeting since the CCP’s 20th National Congress last year, according to state-run Xinhua. As commission chairman, Xi said they must…
Taiwan Today Is Eerily Similar to the Sudetenland in 1938
Commentary Over the past several years, the People’s Liberation Army Navy has been saber-rattling in the Taiwan Strait, East China Sea, and South China Sea. Chinese warships were conducting “intensive combat exercises,” as noted by Newsweek, and, more recently, practicing what long-time China watchers James Fanell and Bradley Thayer referred to in The Washington Times on…
China’s Xi Is Not Getting What He Wants
Commentary China featured large in a recent article carried by the prestigious The Atlantic magazine. In those pages, China experts from the American Enterprise Institute, Dan Blumenthal and Derek Scissors, dissected the change Xi Jinping has wrought in the country’s economic objectives since he took office in 2013. All his predecessors, from Deng Xiaoping to…
IN-DEPTH: The CCP Fears US Containment—Is This What Washington is Doing?
When Rep. Mike Gallagher defended his title of “fastest man in Congress” for the sixth straight year in May, he wasn’t exactly in a celebratory mood. Winning the 3-mile race with a respectable 20 minutes 3 seconds, the Wisconsin congressman found himself turning his mind to post-Cold War America. “On paper, this was a victory….
The G-7 Is a Burr in Xi Jinping’s Saddle
Commentary The communist Chinese pour cold water on the actions and pronouncements of any international body that excludes China from participation. This is particularly true of intergovernmental organizations that can greatly affect the world economy, as the so-called Group of Seven is meant to do under the leadership of the United States. Since Xi Jinping…
China’s Xi Holds Central Asia Summit, Attempting to Challenge G-7: Analysts
China hosted a Central Asia Summit in its historic city of Xi’an on May 18 and 19, one day before this year’s Group of Seven (G-7) Summit in Japan’s Hiroshima from May 19 to 21. The Chinese leader Xi Jinping met with heads of state from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan in one-on-one meetings,…
Chinese Regime Fines Talk Show Firm $2 Million for Mocking Chinese Military
China’s communist regime fined a mainland Chinese talk show company around $2 million and suspended its performances indefinitely this week after a comedian was reported by audience members for mocking China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) and the regime’s military slogan. Observers pointed out that it’s becoming harder for talk show hosts and comedians to survive…
Senior Official at CCP’s State-Owned Assets Watchdog Under Probe
Luo Yulin, a former senior member of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) state-owned assets watchdog, is under probe, according to an official notice published on May 17. Luo was a deputy ministerial-level official of the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission (or “State-owned Assets Commission”), and is suspected of “serious violations of discipline and law.”…
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