Tag: Xi Jinping

Anti-CCP Activist Drew Pavlou Facing Court Over Protesting Against Xi Jinpin

Australian human rights activist Drew Pavlou is facing a court hearing over his protest against Chinese leader Xi Jinping last year. Pavlou, a vocal critic of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), was arrested by New South Wales (NSW) police at an anti-CCP rally in Eastwood, a Chinese community in northwest Sydney, in May 2022 and…


Anti-CCP Activist Drew Pavlou Facing Court Over Protesting Against Xi Jinping

Australian human rights activist Drew Pavlou is facing a court hearing over his protest against Chinese leader Xi Jinping last year. Pavlou, a vocal critic of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), was arrested by New South Wales (NSW) police at an anti-CCP rally in Eastwood, a Chinese community in northwest Sydney, in May 2022 and…


China’s Economic Prospects Worsen

Commentary Three Chinese tech companies on Feb. 21 lost $33 billion of value in U.S. stock trading. Alibaba Group, JD.com, and PDD Holdings are finding it harder to expand internationally, and so turned to cutthroat competition with each other for domestic markets that will likely demolish their prices and profits. While within the last few…


Blinken Says Beijing ‘Almost Certainly’ Provided Russia With Dual-Use Aid

The Chinese regime likely gave the green light to allow Chinese firms to provide “dual-use” support to Russia for its military aggression in Ukraine, according to Secretary of State Antony Blinken. “There has been some non-lethal dual-use type support coming from quote/unquote ‘Chinese companies’ that almost certainly was approved by the state, because there’s really…


GOP Lawmakers React to Chinese Rebuke of US Response to Spy Balloon

Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas), the new chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, has said he would give a “very stern warning” to China’s Foreign Minister over its rebuke of the United States’ handling of a Chinese spy balloon that flew across the country in early February. “I would send a very stern warning to…


Mass Demise of Communist Elite in COVID Outbreak Adds to Xi Jinping’s Power Crisis

News Analysis Heading into 2023, Xi Jinping is grappling with one of the most pressing ruling crises from the out-of-control COVID-19 outbreak, while the recent collective deaths of officials and elites have triggered more dissatisfaction with his policies among the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) higher echelons. In early December last year, without sufficient medical preparation…


What the Spy Balloon Incident Says About Our Chances of War With China

For years, U.S. political and corporate elites have warned about conflict with an empowered communist China. As it happens, it’s the same ruling class that has most to lose by holding Beijing accountable for its constant provocations. No matter what the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) does—from bringing down U.S. planes and lying about COVID to…


Pompeo: Xi Wants World Dominance and Is a Greater Threat Than Putin

Former U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo warned Chinese leader Xi Jinping intends to reign the world and that he poses a bigger threat than Russian President Vladimir Putin. “He wants to own you. … He wants hegemonic intent across the world with his Marxist-Leninist vision and Chinese economic and political dominance in every corner…


China’s Xi Is at a Breaking Point—Will He Resist or Surrender?

Commentary Russia’s foreign ministry recently announced that Chinese leader Xi Jinping will visit Russia in the spring and possibly in February, but the Chinese side has not confirmed. On Dec. 30 last year, when Russian President Vladimir Putin and Xi held a video call, Putin extended an invitation to Xi, and Russian media reported on…


Undoing Zero-COVID Reveals the CCP’s Greatest Fear

Commentary The great fear of the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) that it will suffer the fate of the Soviet Union was on full display with the abrupt decision to abandon the country’s COVID-zero policy. The unrelenting policy, which had been strictly applied month after month for almost three years, was the personal…