Tag: belt and road initiative

NSW Labor Remains Silent on Candidate’s Pro-Belt and Road Stance

New South Wales (NSW) Labor has yet to respond to an enquiry asking about a state-election candidate who has expressed pro-Belt and Road Initiative views, despite a state by-election due to occur on Feb. 12. The Epoch Times sent enquiries to NSW Labor and the state opposition leader this week asking for the Australian Labor…


China ‘Weaponizing’ Americans’ Personal Data: Expert

A cyber intelligence expert said China “is weaponizing [Americans’] personal information” through stolen data and artificial intelligence (AI) and called on the United States to take reciprocal action against the Chinese regime. “We see a weakening China, which is not what they are telling the world they are [economically],” said Bob Gourley, a cyber intelligence pioneer…


Laos to Target Chinese Tourists Under Green Zone Travel

Laos’ Information, Culture, and Tourism Ministry have outlined plans to reopen the country to domestic and foreign tourists in 2022 under the “Lao Travel Green Zone programme,” reported Vientiane Times on Dec. 8. Deputy Prime Minister Sonexay Siphandone said the government would focus its campaign to draw visitors from China and Korea, according to CCP mouthpiece Xinhua….


Victorian Leader Forging Ahead With China Ties, Despite Trade Strikes Against Australian Exporters

Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews paid several companies to attend a major trade show despite ongoing trade strikes by the Chinese regime against key Australian exporters. The event in question is the China International Import Export, headlined by Chinese leader Xi Jinping who, during his opening remarks, played up Beijing’s willingness to increase global trade. The…


US Trade Chief Urges New Laws Targeting China’s Overseas Steel Investment

U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai affirmed the need for updating U.S. trade laws to reinforce existing anti-dumping and anti-subsidy duties, coping with China’s steel-making overcapacity and export through subsidized investment in southeast Asia. “The tools that we have, we know how they can be effective and we know where the limitations are,” Tai told U.S….


Communist China’s Grand Strategy for a Small African Country

A recent military coup in West Africa has put the Republic of Guinea in the world’s spotlight. While this small country ranks among the world’s poorest, its abundant mineral wealth, including bauxite and iron ore, make it strategically important to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Guinea is only 94,981 square miles in size and is…


The Misnomer of Communist China’s Authoritarian Capitalism

Commentary The long-term goal of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is world economic dominance in all spheres: manufacturing, trade, control of natural resources, policy, legal, technology, and more. With economic dominance comes geopolitical and military dominance. That goal was set long before Xi Jinping came to power in 2012-2013. Xi’s grandiose plans, including the Belt…


Can China Replace the US in Afghanistan?

Commentary There is a school of thought that international relations is a zero-sum game: if you’re winning, then I’m losing. Nowhere is this more apropos than in the case of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan. According to this zero-sum argument, the “loser”—the United States—is obvious. But who is the winner? The Taliban, of course, but…


For Beijing, Taliban-Controlled Afghanistan Creates More Problems Than Benefits, Experts Say

The Chinese regime has more to lose than to gain with a Taliban-controlled Afghanistan as Beijing faces a tough task ahead fostering its relationship with the militant group, China experts warned recently. “I’m not sure that China is actually going to benefit because Beijing now has to do something that it’s never done before, which…


Amazon’s China Books Is the CCP’s ‘Cultural Highway to the Sea’

“Quotations from Chairman Mao Zedong,” commonly known as “The Little Red Book,” was translated into dozens of languages during the Cultural Revolution (1966 – 1976) and more than one billion copies were exported to other countries to brainwash the world. Today, half a century later, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is picking up this “red”…