Tag: Chinese military

US Expansion of Chinese Company Blacklist Aims to ‘Purge the Red Assets’: Expert

The United States is gearing up to uproot “red assets,” said an analyst after Washington moved to ban Americans from investing in dozens of Chinese military firms. Two days earlier, President Joe Biden signed an executive order blacklisting 59 Chinese defense and surveillance technology firms. The ban expands on a Trump-era order, which covered a…


Chinese Company Hikvision Confirms It’s Controlled by China’s Military Industrial Complex

The world’s largest video surveillance company Hikvision is currently listed as a threat to U.S. national security. The company’s newly released annual report shows that a Chinese military industrial group is its controller. In the past two years, Hikvision has been blacklisted by Washington authorities because of its relationship with Chinese military and the security…


The Past and Present of the Chinese Communist Party’s Bellicosity

Commentary In the past two months, the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) military threats to neighboring countries and maritime confrontation with the U.S. military entered a new stage, a more dangerous stage, as the Sino-U.S. Cold War and naval exercises aimed at intimidating each other continued to escalate. Is the CCP’s belligerence a temporary misjudgment, or…


China Closes Military Related Self-Media Accounts to Prevent Security Leaks

Chinese authorities recently shut down a number of social media accounts belonging to self-media enthusiasts who focus on the military. Analysts believe Beijing is trying to prevent national security leaks amid escalating tensions in the Indo-Pacific. China’s popular military forum “Super Base Camp” announced it will permanently close four sections discussing military equipment on March…


The Chinese Regime is Ready to Attack Taiwan

Commentary The Chinese regime’s recent activities in the vicinity of the Taiwan Strait have greatly increased and its internal activities signal that they are prepared for an attack on Taiwan. On March 23, U.S. Adm. John Aquilino said during a hearing over his nomination to become commander of the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command (INDOPACOM) that the CCP could attack Taiwan…


The Plight of Chinese Military Veterans Highlights Xi Jinping’s Political Dilemma

Commentary On Jan. 1, China’s first Veterans Protection Law came into effect, 72 years after the Communist Party seized power in the country. But can the current plight of Chinese veterans be reversed by this law? The number of retired military personnel has reached 57 million in China as of 2018, according to the Ministry…


The Possibility of a War in the Taiwan Strait Should Not Be Overlooked

Commentary China military expert Oriana Skylar Mastro told the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission in a video conference on Feb. 18 that Chinese military leaders have told her personally that Beijing will force reunification with Taiwan in a year or two. Mastro stated that “the U.S. failure to build robust coalitions to counter Chinese…


EU Banking Regulator Hit by Suspected Chinese Hackers

The European Banking Authority (EBA) is the latest victim of a large-scale cyber-hacking attack connected to the Chinese regime against Microsoft’s email and calendar server. Early last week, Microsoft announced via a blog post that Hafnium, a state-sponsored hacking group operating from China, exploited flaws in its Exchange Server software. Three versions of the software…


Biden’s ‘Smarter Approach’ to China Crashes Into the Reality of Chinese Aggression

Commentary In a Nov. 16, 2020 New York Times article, Ana Swanson used numerous interviews with unnamed sources advising Joe Biden to sum up his “smarter approach” to China: “He [Biden] and his advisers view many of Mr. Trump’s measures, which were aimed at severing ties between the Chinese and American economies, as clumsy, costly…


Taiwan Showcases New Military Aircraft to Thwart Chinese Aggression

Chinese warplanes frequently intruded into Taiwan’s southwest air defense identification zone (ADIZ) in January. In response to such provocation, Taiwan invited the media to a military drill that showcased the latest aircraft technology, demonstrating its ability to defend the democratic self-ruled island from Chinese aggression. Beijing views Taiwan as part of its territory and has…