Tag: Global Expansion

PREMIERING 7:30PM ET: The TikTok Trojan Horse and China’s Long Arm of Artificial Intelligence: Geoffrey Cain

This episode will premiere on Thursday, Sept. 29, at 7:30 p.m. ET.  In this episode of American Thought Leaders, I sit down with Geoffrey Cain, an award-winning journalist, technologist, and author of “The Perfect Police State: An Undercover Odyssey into China’s Terrifying Surveillance Dystopia of the Future.” “Everybody was constantly being watched by an artificial…


China’s Belt and Road Investment Is Losing Steam

News Analysis The Chinese economy is flagging while Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) countries deal with debt and inflation. In the first half of 2022, China’s overall BRI investment slowed, with zero money flowing into Russia. Launched in 2013, the BRI (also known as “One Belt, One Road”) is Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s plan to expand…


GOP Lawmakers Sound Alarm Over Chinese Purchase of US Farmland Near Air Force Base

Fifty-one House Republicans have written three of the Biden administration’s top cabinet officials in alarm over efforts by a Chinese entity to acquire farmland near a North Dakota air force base. The transaction in question concerns Fufeng Group, the large producer of food additives in China with links to the Chinese Communist Party. Fufeng recently…


Harris and Kishida Affirm ‘Ironclad Commitment’ to Counter CCP Aggression in Taiwan Strait

U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris met with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida in Tokyo on Sept. 26. The two leaders affirmed their nations’ support for one another and condemned Chinese communist aggression in the Taiwan Strait. “The Vice President underscored that the U.S.-Japan Alliance is the cornerstone of peace and stability in the Indo-Pacific, and…


‘Illogical’ for Beijing to Compare Its Claim Over Taiwan to Hawaii-US Union: Historian

Miles Yu, director of the China Center at Hudson Institute, has said that it is “illogical” for Beijing to equate its communist takeover of Taiwan with the Hawaii’s historical union with its mainland because the Hawaiian people applied and voted to join the United States. His comments were in response to China’s Foreign Minister Wang…


‘Illogical’ for Beijing to Compare Its Claim to Taiwan to Hawaii–US Union: Historian

It’s “illogical” for the regime in Beijing to equate a possible communist takeover of Taiwan with Hawaii’s historical union with the United States because the Hawaiian people voted for U.S. statehood, according to Miles Yu, director of the China Center at Hudson Institute. Yu, an American historian who previously served as senior China policy and planning…


Solomons ‘Unfairly Targeted’ Since Recognizing China Over Taiwan: Sogavare in UN Speech

The prime minister of the Solomon Islands complained on Friday that his country had been subjected to “a barrage of unwarranted and misplaced criticisms, misinformation, and intimidation” since preferencing diplomatic relations with China over Taiwan in 2019. In an address to the United Nations General Assembly in New York, Manasseh Damukana Sogavare said the Solomons had been…


US Should Ramp up West Pacific Ties to Fend Off Beijing’s Expansionism, Report Says

The United States needs to ramp up diplomatic ties with Freely Associated States (FAS)—Palau, the Marshall Islands, and Micronesia—to restrict Beijing’s expansionism in the Pacific region, according to a new report. The United States Institute for Peace said Beijing saw Pacific nations as a “low-investment, high-reward” opportunity. “China has not focused on the FAS in its…


China’s Military Shares Key Weakness With Russia: Report

China’s military shares a similar weakness to that of Russia’s armed forces which may hamper its efforts to conquer Taiwan should the regime move forward with an invasion, according to a new report. The report (pdf), published by the National Defense University Press earlier this month, analyzed the biographies of more than 300 senior officers…


Blinken Calls for ‘Peace and Stability’ with Taiwan in Meet with CCP Counterpart

Senior diplomats from the United States and China met Sep. 23 on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York City. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi shook hands but did not respond to questions from the media as they sat down for talks. Blinken told…