A planned trip to the independent and separate country of Taiwan by America’s least-favorite octogenarian, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, is sparking fears that China will take retaliatory measures, such as closing the Taiwan Strait. President Joe Biden said that the…
The Rise of China, Inc.: How the Chinese Communist Party Transformed China into a Giant Corporation By Shaomin Li (Cambridge University Press, 346 pages, $30) The symbiotic relationship between China’s government and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) enables China to…
The pandemic has been wreaking havoc in China, not due to the virus but due to the Chinese government’s policies. Shanghai has been locked down since March 28, and people are scrambling for food and other vital supplies on a…
On January 11, 2022, Sante Fe, New Mexico, Archbishop John C. Wester issued a pastoral letter calling for the abolition of nuclear weapons, and held a press conference announcing the letter which is entitled “Living in the Light of Christ’s…
In early November, the Chinese (PRC) tennis star Peng Shuai wrote on her blog that she had been aggressed in 2018 by a Communist Party boss and vice-premier, Zhang Gaoli, who made her his concubine. The blog post, on the…
El Monte, CA Since my first investigative piece on China’s commercial and intelligence operations in March 1995[1], I had published a half-dozen magazine-length articles in The American Spectator that exposed China’s U.S. networks. Some of these involved Chinese intelligence operations…
The Biden administration’s early rhetoric on China, unsurprisingly, mimics the Obama approach of engagement and competition. In a speech at the State Department on February 4, the president said, “We’ll confront China’s economic abuses; counter its aggressive, coercive action; to…
January 29, 1981. It was a mere nine days after President Ronald Reagan’s inauguration as president, and this day would bring his first presidential press conference. Safe to say what Reagan said shocked the assembled media of the day. In…
During the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s, the Communist Party of China (CCP) deployed the weapon of compelled self-abasement to devastating effect. In the practice, rendered in English as the “Struggle Session,” enemies of the party, real or imagined, were…
