Tag: Xi Jinping

Beijing’s Saber-Rattling Masks China’s Big Problems

Commentary Chinese leader Xi Jinping and his fellow communists know how to leverage Chinese xenophobia to distract rising discontent among the Chinese people. With a nod to lucky No. 3 in Chinese numerology, Beijing frequently plays three cards in its geopolitical card game to focus on long-standing foreign adversaries (enemies) to distract the masses from…


CCP Tightens Control Over Chinese Economy

Commentary The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) intensifies control over the economy with a new vice premier and new supervisory bodies. Under Xi Jinping, the CCP has continuously tightened its grip on the economy, including finance and banking. Now, newly-appointed Vice Premier He Lifeng and several new party-led bodies will ensure the country’s financial system aligns…


China Has a Serious Youth Unemployment Problem

Commentary For years the world stood in awe at the number of science and engineering degrees earned at Chinese universities. Now it seems China cannot find meaningful work for these graduates. Youth unemployment has gone off the charts. Matters are so severe that it threatens the economy’s growth potential, even the social contract between the…


The CCP Cannot Be Trusted

Commentary The communist Chinese are full of advice. After all, Xi Jinping aspires to become the world’s hegemon and probably believes and expects others to rightfully do what he and his fellow communist apparatchiks preach—no matter the consequences. That was the approach that Mao Zedong used: dream up a crackpot economic, social, or political policy…


China Sets Up Mechanism to Monitor Its Spies Amid Domestic and International Turmoils

Chinese Ministry of State Security, the regime’s intelligence apparatus, is under more stringent supervision, while the communist regime fears loss of control of its ever-present secret agents. The regime’s spy chief published a commentary in early June, demanding loyalty to the CCP and prioritizing the monitoring of China’s spies by setting up a new monitoring…


Putin’s Desperation and Russia’s Disintegration

Commentary Vladimir Putin is desperate, which is good and bad. The bad—the really bad—is that cornered animals tend to lash out. In Putin’s case, that could include the use of tactical nuclear weapons or a “stray” artillery shell hitting Europe’s largest nuclear power plant in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine. Either act would escalate the war and might…


Something Major Is Happening in China; FBI Folds Under Threat of Contempt

Chinese Communist Party leader Xi Jinping gave a serious warning during a meeting on May 30 with the top leaders of China’s security forces. He said they need to prepare for “worst case scenarios,” and said the coming times will be “perilous.” Meanwhile, the FBI has folded to threats of being held in contempt of…


[LIVE NOW] Something Major Is Happening in China; FBI Folds Under Threat of Contempt

Chinese Communist Party leader Xi Jinping gave a serious warning during a meeting on May 30 with the top leaders of China’s security forces. He said they need to prepare for “worst case scenarios,” and said the coming times will be “perilous.” Meanwhile, the FBI has folded to threats of being held in contempt of…


[LIVE 10AM ET] Something Major Is Happening in China; FBI Folds Under Threat of Contempt

Chinese Communist Party leader Xi Jinping gave a serious warning during a meeting on May 30 with the top leaders of China’s security forces. He said they need to prepare for “worst case scenarios,” and said the coming times will be “perilous.” Meanwhile, the FBI has folded to threats of being held in contempt of…


CCP’s Youth League Clique Declines in Political Influence

Beijing appointed the 52-year-old A Dong, a Hui ethnic cadre, as the first ethnic minority to head the Communist Youth League of China (CYL). The CYL Central Committee, also known as the “CYL Clique,” was once viewed as a cradle for senior and politically influential cadres in the Party. Since Xi Jinping, a princeling, succeeded…