US-China

China 09/22/22, 16:46

According to Reuters, the U.S. government will expand restrictions on U.S. shipments of semiconductors for artificial intelligence and chipmaking tools to China.  The U.S Department of Commerce plans to release new regulations based on letters that communicated to three American firms, including KLA Corp., Lam Research Corp., and Applied Materials Inc. The ...

China 09/22/22, 16:45

A Wall Street tycoon who used to advocate investing in China has recently confessed that he misjudged the world’s second largest economy. Stephen Roach is former chairman of Morgan Stanley Asia and chief economist at Morgan Stanley. According to the Liberty Times, Roach has been an optimist who never retreated from the ...

Weapon/Army 09/21/22, 16:20

In an interview published by CBS, U.S. President Joe Biden said that the U.S. would defend Taiwan against "an unprecedented attack." Furthermore, the commander of the U.S. Seventh Fleet, Karl Thomas, affirmed that the international community would also intervene in the event of a possible attack. In addition, the U.S. ...

Corruption 09/20/22, 17:20

Larry Fink, CEO of BlackRock, the world's largest money management company, said: "Markets don't like uncertainty. Market likes actually totalitarian governments where you have an understanding of what's out there..."  So it's no surprise that China's best-known tech companies decided to list on American Exchanges, where investor demand always outstrips stock ...

Human Rights 09/20/22, 13:54

The CCP extends its control networks on Chinese citizens around the world through different means. At least 54 overseas Chinese police service stations were discovered operating independently and generally without contact with the authorities of the country in which they were operating. Its functions, according to the official version, is to perform ...

Weapon/Army 09/19/22, 16:25

Several China-Taiwan experts and analysts are saying that Xi Jinping's military remains a threat to the island nation, despite all the warnings from Taiwan's allies of a possible counterattack on China. The Pentagon's report published in 2021 (Military and Security Developments Involving the People's Republic of China) revealed that the People's ...

Economy 09/19/22, 15:48

Mainland China's semiconductor industry not only failed to surpass Taiwan, but also had a serious wave of bankruptcy due to the "zero-COVID" policy. According to statistics, in the first eight months of this year, up to 3,470 chip manufacturing companies in China closed and the number of bankruptcies reached a ...

Social problem 09/19/22, 15:39

On September 14, the U.S. Senate Homeland Security Committee held hearings with top executives from social networking companies Meta, Twitter, YouTube, and TikTok on the impact of their services on national security issues. In this framework, lawmakers saw the Platform Accountability and Transparency Act (PATA) bill as a potential remedy to the ...

Insights 09/18/22, 05:34

For some years now, the United States and China have been engaged in a fierce trade war through which both seek to legitimize their economic power and make it clear to the world who is the world's greatest power. Yet, curiously, the flow of Chinese capital to the United States, ...

Russia 09/17/22, 18:13

Since the COVID pandemic broke out in early 2020, Xi Jinping has not been abroad for more than two years, but recently he suddenly attended the Shanghai Cooperation Summit (SCO). The trip coincides with the upcoming 20th National Congress of Deputies. For Xi, the 20th National Congress and re-election is ...

Weapon/Army 09/17/22, 15:30

A recently released report points to weaknesses in the Chinese military, known as the People's Liberation Army (PLA), that directly affect all levels of leadership within the Chinese armed forces. Joel Wuthnow, the author of the U.S. National Defense University report, researched more than 300 senior Chinese officers between 2015 and ...

Insights 09/16/22, 18:31

As the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China approaches, the distribution of power and staffing of the authorities affects the political situation in China, the international situation, and the Taiwan Strait. The public opinion focuses on Xi Jinping, who is expected to continue centralizing China's supreme leadership ...

Weapon/Army 09/16/22, 16:01

Over the past few years, many consistent reports claim that Chinese companies linked to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) have collected DNA from millions of people in China and abroad. Now, a renowned U.S. cybersecurity expert claims that these companies can create digital replicas of Americans, which poses a considerable ...

Tech 09/15/22, 18:57

The Chinese Communist Party's harassment of Taiwan takes many forms.  Over the past month, about 30 drones have entered Taiwanese airspace and flown over two small islands off Taiwan's southern coast. On September 12, the Taiwanese military announced that a suspected Chinese drone entered restricted waters around Cao Yu's Kinmen island. The ...

Insights 09/15/22, 18:54

Usually, housing bubble bursts are followed by defaults and financial crises. Foreign capital is fleeing China, and the country's national currency is on the verge of catastrophic collapse. Economic and monetary data point to a financial crisis in China right before the 20th Party Congress. Chinese currency in danger of collapsing A ...

Media 09/15/22, 16:58

This Tuesday, Sept. 13, Peiter Zatko testified before a Senate Committee as part of a complaint he filed warning about Twitter's security failures. In his testimony, Zatko said Twitter's security precautions were so deficient that if an intelligence agency had not infiltrated the company, "most likely it's not doing its job." "I ...