Tag: Chinese Communist Party

Kevin McCarthy Squares Up Against the ‘World’s Largest Bully’—China

Commentary The People’s Liberation Army flew 34 aircraft near Taiwan on Tuesday and Wednesday. Twenty of them crossed the “median line,” the de facto border running down the Taiwan Strait between China and Taiwan. The Chinese military also sent nine vessels near Taiwan, the island republic that Beijing claims as its own. Global Times, a…


LIVE NOW: House Armed Services Committee Holds Hearing on Pressing Threat of Chinese Communist Party

U.S. House of Representatives Armed Services Committee holds a hearing at 10 a.m. ET on Feb. 7 on “The Pressing Threat of the Chinese Communist Party to U.S. National Defense.” The committee will receive testimony from Ambassador Robert C. O’Brien, former national security advisor; Admiral Harry B. Harris Jr., USN (Ret.), former commander, U.S. Pacific Command; and Dr….


House Armed Services Committee Holds Hearing on Pressing Threat of Chinese Communist Party

U.S. House of Representatives Armed Services Committee holds a hearing at 10 a.m. ET on Feb. 7 on “The Pressing Threat of the Chinese Communist Party to U.S. National Defense.” The committee will receive testimony from Ambassador Robert C. O’Brien, former national security advisor; Admiral Harry B. Harris Jr., USN (Ret.), former commander, U.S. Pacific Command; and Dr….


CCP Competition Committee Leaders Blast Pentagon’s Response to Chinese Spy Balloon

The top Republican and Democrat on the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Competition Committee have issued a joint statement denouncing the Pentagon’s response to a Chinese spy balloon spotted over Montana. “The United States Government has detected and is tracking a high altitude surveillance balloon that is over the continental United States right now,” the Pentagon…


Houses China Panel Leaders Blast Pentagon’s Response to Chinese Spy Balloon

The top Republican and Democrat on the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Competition Committee have issued a joint statement denouncing the Pentagon’s response to a Chinese spy balloon spotted over Montana. “The United States Government has detected and is tracking a high altitude surveillance balloon that is over the continental United States right now,” the Pentagon…


Democrats Name Members for House Panel on ‘Weaponization’ of Government

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) on Wednesday named his appointments to the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government and other key panels. On Jan. 10, the Republican-controlled House voted to establish a select subcommittee to probe the “weaponization” of the government by federal law enforcement agencies under the Biden administration. The newly…


Federal Court Rejects Uyghur Group’s Lawsuit Against Ottawa Over Inaction on Beijing’s Abuses

A Federal Court has struck down an application from a Uyghur rights group that sought to sue the federal government over its lack of action on Beijing’s human rights atrocities against the Uyghur minority population in China. The petition also sought to gain formal recognition that China’s internment of its Uyghur population is an act of…


Crazy Optimism About China’s Economy

Originally published by Gatestone Institute Commentary China’s propagandists tell us the Chinese economy this year will “accelerate to 4.8 percent.” Foreign analysts are even more bullish. Goldman Sachs estimates growth of gross domestic product (GDP) of 5.5 percent. China’s National Health Commission announced the end of the Communist Party’s “dynamic zero-COVID” policy on Dec. 7. It did not take…


Protesters Concerned About Chinese Interference Gather Outside Organization Following Reported RCMP Probe

A group of protesters concerned about foreign interference on Jan. 27 gathered outside a B.C.-organization that according to reports was recently visited by RCMP national security officers. The Wenzhou Friendship Society (WFS), which often takes positions aligned with Beijing, was on Dec. 10 subject to a visit by  the RCMP, according to multiple reports. The RCMP hasn’t directly…


Public Safety Minister Won’t Say If Canada Will Ban a Chinese Company With Beijing Ties After RCMP Suspends Contract

After the RCMP suspended its contract with Sinclair Technologies Inc., a company with ties to Beijing and which is facing espionage-related charges in the United States, Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino wouldn’t say whether the federal government will ban future contracts with the firm. The parent company of Sinclair Technologies, Norsat International Inc., was acquired in 2017…