China recently tested a nuclear-capable hypersonic delivery vehicle, although they deny it. Gen. Mark Milley, America’s top military officer, called the test “very concerning” (see story here). There are several things the Pentagon doesn’t like about these weapons in our adve[...]
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October 25th, 2021 - 8:34 pm § in China, Foreign Affairs
China will freeze in the dark before it buys Australian coal again
China has an energy crisis. To be more specific, China has a coal shortage. Australia has lots of coal, but China doesn’t want it, even though its lights are going out. Beijing is throwing a hissy fit. A year ago, it blocked imports of Aussie coal because “after Canberra backed a call fo[...]
October 17th, 2021 - 9:35 pm § in China, Foreign Affairs
A glimpse of life under China’s inept and corrupt communist system
The 55-year-old impoverished Chinese man who lived with his frail 89-year-old mother in this house couldn’t keep his roof on when the windstorm came, and then couldn’t get it back from his wealthy neighbor. Local authorities had previously given him permission to build a new house on his[...]
Status report: Will China invade Taiwan?
Following a weekend when Beijing flew dozens of sorties into Taiwan airspace, and a Chinese exile blew the whistle on Chinese government kidnappings and torture of Uighurs, President Biden said “he has spoken to Chinese President Xi Jinping about Taiwan and they agreed to abide by the Taiwan a[...]
China’s jet fighter incursions into Taiwan airspace keep escalating
“China sent 38 warplanes into the skies around Taiwan on Friday, the highest number of Chinese military aircraft to breach the island’s Air Defense Identification Zone in a single day since Taipei began publicly reporting such activities last year,” CNN reported on Friday night, Oc[...]
Biden is all about China
In Washington, “everything comes down to China.” At least, that’s how CNN sees it. (Read article here.) After describing how Biden’s administration justifies nearly all its domestic policies on a “need to strengthen the country to better compete with China,” CNN p[...]
Afghan debacle increases risk of war between U.S. and China
A couple days ago I wrote (here), “I’m concerned about a couple of things. One is whether our withdrawal from Afghanistan will be interpreted in Beijing as a lack of resolve and embolden China’s dictator to attack Taiwan.” I wasn’t imagining things. And it didn’t take lon[...]
China wants to dictate our foreign policy, too
U.S.-China relations have been called “tense” and “stalemated.” That they are. After calling U.S. policy “misguided” and “dangerous,” a Chinese envoy told reporters the “fundamental reason” for tensions is America’s positions on issue[...]
Are China’s Covid-19 vaccines no good?
CNBC is raising an alarm about China’s Covid-19 vaccines. Five of the six countries “with both high vaccination rates and high rates of Covid-19 infection … rely on vaccines made in China,” CNBC said in an article published here on Wednesday, July 7, 2021. CNBC said it ident[...]
Will China’s emperor start a war?
“Xi Jinping is a man on a mission,” the influential Washington D.C.-based Foreign Affairs magazine says. Much of his focus is on domestic issues such as eliminating corruption, political rivals, and internal dissent. But he’s also picking fights with other countries, “especia[...]