Opinion

Opinion 04/21/22, 23:35

According to a national security expert, the U.S. leadership should not underestimate China’s intention to rapidly expand its strategic and nuclear arsenal. On April 19, Peter Pry, director of the U.S. Nuclear Strategy Forum at the Center for Security Policy, told the “China Insider” programm’s host that the Chinese Communist Party ...

Opinion 04/20/22, 22:21

According to a survey result released on April 19, 84% of Hong Kong residents are open to leaving the city for other countries. Bartra Wealth Advisors ("Bartra") conducted the study in March, a Hong Kong-based immigration advisory service. It gathered input from 500 people aged 18 and over. The results show that ...

Opinion 04/19/22, 23:32

Last week, the U.S.–China Economic and Security Review Commission, an agency set up to monitor and investigate national security, trade, and economic issues between the two countries, held a hearing to discuss China's unfair trade practices. Clyde Prestowitz, founder and president of the Economic Strategy Institute, a Washington-based think tank, said ...

News 04/18/22, 23:25

Yang Hai is a Minhang District People's Congress representative. On April 15, he publicly boycotted the state's mass testing plan. Yang Hai wrote that since March 13, all residents of the Pingyang Liucun community had undergone 13 nucleic acid tests and nine antigen tests. He noticed that the more they ...

Opinion 04/16/22, 22:38

Czech's Foreign Minister Jan Lipavský said in an interview with POLITICO on April 13 that the EU "understands that Taiwan is bullied by China." He called for democracies to offer as much help as possible to Taiwan and recognize the nation as a democracy. The Foreign Minister pointed out that, besides ...

Opinion 04/16/22, 22:24

In an interview with NTD News on Wednesday, April 13, Colonel Mills said, "But I'm also concerned about this again. This is a component of a worldwide struggle. Chinese Communist Party, Putin wants to replace America. And they either do it peacefully or otherwise." Former U.S. Army Colonel John Mills ...

Opinion 04/16/22, 22:11

As the Daily Mail reported, in a speech at the Georgia Institute of Technology on Thursday, April 14, CIA Director William Burns said, "Xi Jinping's China is our greatest challenge, in many ways the most profound test the CIA has ever faced." The CIA Director also said China is a "formidable ...

News 04/16/22, 19:49

China’s strict "Zero COVID" policy is testing not only Shanghai residents’ patience but also foreign businesses operating in the country. Trade groups have voiced their distress. In a letter dated April 8, the European Chamber of Commerce in China asked Beijing to revise its “old toolbox” in fighting the pandemic, saying ...

Tech 04/15/22, 01:11

In an interview with CNN on April 13, the administrator of the Twitter account named The Great Translation Movement said that its purpose was to expose Beijing's pro-Russian and nationalistic content on its heavily censored online social platforms. The Twitter account's administrator, who demanded anonymity for security concerns, said, "We want ...

Opinion 04/12/22, 23:26

Bloomberg reported on April 12 that Sri Lankan ambassador Palitha Kohona felt very confident about 2.5 billion dollar credit support from China to help his nation get through the spiraling economic crisis. Sri Lanka's top diplomat said he had received reassurances last week from the Chinese government that procedures for loans ...

News 04/11/22, 23:42

Shanghai has been hard hit with rising COVID cases and growing public complaints about food and medicine shortages. One of the city's top officials recently received criticism from its residents for failing to deal with the outbreak. On April 9, Shanghai Vice Mayor Zong Ming publicly admitted at a briefing on ...

Opinion 04/11/22, 23:40

China Eastern Airlines flight MU5735 crashed into a hillside close to Wuzhou city, Guangxi province, on March 21, killing all 132 people on board. There are many unanswered questions about the cause. Wang Lizhen is an aircraft manufacturing engineer who has worked in the Chinese aviation industry for more than 20 ...

Opinion 04/07/22, 00:09

According to Lowy Institute’s survey, more Indonesians have become less in favor of China compared to 10 years ago, with 60% approving that Indonesia should join other nations in hampering China’s power, a 10-point growth. (Graph 1) The independent Australian think-tank gathered opinions from 2021 and compared them to another survey ...

Opinion 04/05/22, 01:42

According to a poll results reported by the media outlet Foreign Policy on March 31, a majority of U.S. experts believed that the China-Taiwan conflict would not break out. The survey, conducted by the Teaching, Research, and International Policy (TRIP) program of the William & Mary Institute for Global Studies, gathered ...

Opinion 03/30/22, 22:17

German Finance Minister Christian Lindner, on Tuesday, March 29, made clear that China’s economic influence on Germany is not worth welcoming. According to Bloomberg, Lindner said, “We have to recognize that we have an enormous risk. China doesn’t respect our social model, our understanding of liberality, our recognition of international law.” He ...

Opinion 03/24/22, 22:45

After a video call between US President Joe Biden and Chinese leader Xi Jinping last week, the US State Department issued a statement early this week. In the statement, Washington said it would crack down on transnational repression of Chinese officials and restrict visas for some Chinese officials. Secretary of State ...

Insights 03/23/22, 07:30

Switzerland has recently announced to freeze the assets of the Russian government and oligarchs in Swiss banks as a sanctioned act against the Russian attack on Ukraine. Li Zhengkuan, a writer who covers China's affairs, said that Switzerland's move could make the Beijing government tremble with fear. Switzerland could react the ...

Opinion 03/22/22, 13:18

Money laundering allegations have been publicly linked to Joe Biden's administration, a political writer said. Peter Schweizer believes the president should also be implicated during investigations into whether his son, Hunter Biden, concealed the origins of illegally obtained foreign funds. The author of "Red-Handed: How American Elites Get Rich Helping China Win" ...

Opinion 03/21/22, 01:26

Deputy director of the Russian Institute of World Economy and International Relations, Milovidov, said that foreign companies that have suspended operations in Russia are likely to return to Russia before the summer, especially those that can be easily replaced. Milovidov noted that he could not yet specify which companies would return. ...

Opinion 03/21/22, 01:09

CNBC reported on March 17 that China's trade surplus could plummet to 238 billion dollars this year, just 35% of last year's 676 billion dollar surplus due to the impact of the Russia and Ukraine war. Julian Evans-Pritchard, Senior Economist at research firm Capital Economics, said, "The Russia-Ukraine war will soon ...