Earlier this week, the Washington Free Beacon reported that the University of Pennsylvania accepted a $3 million donation from a shell company in Hong Kong, owned by Shanghai businessman Xu Xeuqing, who has close business ties with the Chinese Communist Party…
“China’s pattern of misconduct is well known. For decades, they have ripped off the United States like no one has ever done before,” claimed President Trump in a Rose Garden address in late May. U.S. Attorney General William Barr was similarly critical in a…
The Chinese government has invalidated Hong Kong’s primary elections after massive turnout spurred pro-democracy candidates to likely win control of Hong Kong’s city council in September. This weekend’s primary was the first election since the implementation of the controversial national…
The European Commission, the executive branch of the European Union, proposed on Wednesday to grant itself expanded regulatory powers that would allow it to intervene in potentially destabilizing takeovers of European companies by foreign state-backed investors. The continuing fallout of…
The video communications company Zoom has come under scrutiny after suspending the account of a human rights activist upon request of the Chinese government. On June 7, Zoom disabled the account of Zhou Fengsuo, founder of Humanitarian China, just days…
Three more noteworthy developments occurred across the Pacific this past week. No fireworks yet, but it seems like China is setting up as many powder kegs as it can. America is of course busy dealing with its own home front,…
In order to “transform the international order to align with CCP interests and ideology,” the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has launched a well-coordinated campaign to achieve dominance in the world. Its measures include military buildup and expansion, bribing politicians from…
The two biggest events in the world today are the U.S.–China trade war and the current coronavirus pandemic. Both are related to a single country: China. If a single country can adversely affect the U.S. and the world on such…
The coronavirus pandemic, which emerged in China in December 2019, shows no signs of abating. As of March 12, the World Health Organization reported 124,518 confirmed cases globally, with 80,980 of these in China, resulting in 4,607 deaths to date…
