Xi Jinping: With Unlimited Power Comes Unlimited Challenge
Commentary Xi Jinping has amassed a greater concentration of power than Mao Zedong, and has greater power to suppress domestic and foreign opponents than any Chinese leader in history. And…
SCO Expansion Extends CCP Diplomatic and Military Reach
Commentary The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) is expanding by absorbing pariah states, such as Iran, Burma (also known as Myanmar), and Belarus, while increasing the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) military…
China Increases Its Use of Exit Bans
Commentary Xi Jinping has two big problems as a student of economics. One, he and his government seem to have no idea of what motivates people to invest and take…
The Long Road to Confronting China’s War on Religion, Part II
Commentary Falun Gong emerged in China in 1992, a time of a spiritual renewal in a land still under Communist rule, but one recovering from the horrors of Mao Zedong’s…
Biden Administration’s Immigration Policy Pleases Beijing
Commentary Since January 2021, the Biden administration’s policy actions have undermined U.S. national security vis-à-vis China, including plans to reduce Navy ships and aircraft, shrink the Army to fewer than…
Hong Kong Youngsters: A Generation of Little Pinks in the Making?
Commentary On April 21, the Hong Kong Diploma of Secondary Education examination (Hong Kong’s university admission examination) began, starting with English Language. As Hong Kong has gone “from chaos to…
The Long Road to Confronting China’s War on Religion, Part I
Commentary In 2016, when Chinese leader Xi Jinping delivered a speech calling for the “Sinicization of religion” in a nation of one billion, he was espousing a century-old impulse among…
China Is Becoming a Black Box Under New CCP Rules
Commentary A slew of new policies, coupled with vastly changed behavior, is cutting the world off from vital information about what is happening in China, our ability to understand the…
English Key to Integrating Taiwanese and US Military Cooperation
Commentary The Taiwan government’s desire for greater integration with the U.S. military is supported by its goal of making the country bilingual by 2030. Taiwan’s President, Tsai Ing-wen told ex-U.S.…
China Ties Weigh on US Brands
Commentary The pressure is on for the biggest U.S. brands, including Apple, Nike, Adidas, and Disney. On May 2, two leading congressmen demanded that the fashion brands confirm that their…
Taiwan Is Also Decoupling From China
Commentary America’s recent moves to decouple its economy from China seem to have found a mirror in Taiwan. It is not that Taipei’s official policy has embraced Washington’s increasingly hostile…
A Few Key Questions About Japan’s Defense
Commentary What’s motivating Japan and Prime Minister Kishida? The People’s Republic of China (PRC). Xi Jinping has succeeded in getting Japan to take its defense seriously—something the Americans never had…
The CCP Harms Itself With the Persecution of Falun Gong
Commentary On April 25, Falun Gong practitioners mark the 24th anniversary of their peaceful protest against repression in China. On that day in 1999, approximately 10,000 practitioners of the spiritual…
China Daily’s Hypocritical Lecture on US Human Rights Problems
Commentary China’s state-run media attacks on the United States are the essence of hypocrisy. China’s General Administration of Press and Publication (GAPP) regulates and administers state-run print, news, and internet…
Don’t Worry Too Much About the Bomb
Commentary With daily news about Russian attacks on Ukraine and the building threat of similar strikes by communist China on Taiwan—any of which could escalate to conventional, tactical nuclear, or…
Russia’s Role in the Sudan Conflict
Commentary Russian oligarch Yevgeny Prigozhin of the infamous Wagner mercenary group also owns a U.S.-sanctioned company called Meroe Gold. This company extracts gold from Sudan, supporting Russian President Vladimir Putin’s war…
Tibetan Police Mass-Collect DNA and Lawmakers Say US Firm Is Helping
News Analysis Legendary actor and humanitarian Richard Gere recently made a splash during a visit to Capitol Hill. Sporting a floppy, now pure-white mane of hair, the 73-year-old Gere flashed…
Is the CCP’s Rule Permanent?
Commentary The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) styled itself a mythical phoenix in a 1959 propaganda poster. The phoenix rises from a sheaf of wheat to govern China, depicted as a…
AUKUS Is Developing Operational Vitality, but Faces Strategic Challenges
Commentary AUKUS, the nascent Australia-United Kingdom-United States of America strategic pact, continues to show considerable pace and development at an operational level but increasing division and dysfunction at a strategic…
North Korea’s ‘DF-41’ Intercontinental Ballistic Missile
Commentary After having warned of its development for seven years and revealed its transporter erector launcher (TEL) in a Feb. 8 parade, on April 13 for the first time, North…