Thinking About China

Commentary The failure to build democracy in Afghanistan, and the resulting withdrawal of U.S. forces, is causing concern in Europe about how much the continent can rely on its long-time ...

Commentary Chinese leader Xi Jinping looks increasingly like the anti-Deng Xiaoping. Xi would no doubt object to such ...

Commentary Beijing's economic coercion is facing pushback from other countries. Recently, Lithuania refused to cave under pressure amid ...

Commentary The Chinese regime is using video games, the virtual equivalent of opium, to spread powerful, carefully crafted ...

Editor's note: Part 1 examines how the Chinese regime uses American mainstream media to wage its propaganda battle abroad. ...

Commentary The long-term goal of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is world economic dominance in all spheres: manufacturing, ...

Commentary The “Red Guard logic” behind the deliberate destruction by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) of much of ...

Commentary The fall of Kabul to the Taliban on Aug. 15 was a shock to the world, as ...

Commentary There is a school of thought that international relations is a zero-sum game: if you’re winning, then ...

Commentary In China, bitcoin is all but dead; in countries decimated by war and poverty, however, the king ...

Analysis To win over the hearts and minds abroad and at home, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) uses ...

Commentary Sing Tao, Beijing's most influential propaganda outlet in the overseas Chinese communities, has been required by the ...

Commentary To make new forays into the Indian Ocean, the Chinese regime has found an alternate route in ...

Commentary Xi Jinping, the General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), said on Aug. 28 that “[We] should ...

Commentary China is now the world’s largest manufacturing producer, the largest exporter, and the second largest economy. And ...

Commentary The U.S. Intelligence Community (IC) “remains divided on the most likely origin of COVID-19,” according to an unclassified ...

Commentary As the Chinese regime holds the unvaccinated accountable, who will hold the regime accountable for the pandemic? After ...

Commentary The foreign policy of the Chinese regime assumes that the current ruling power in a country is ...

Commentary Iran presents the ideal conditions for the Chinese regime to execute its proven takeover strategy that has ...

Commentary Two years ago today, the Hong Kong Police Force—if one can still call them that—ran riot in ...

Commentary On Aug. 28, the Wall Street Journal, that bastion of American capitalism, gave the Chinese Communist Party ...

Commentary China is the world’s biggest perpetrator of transnational repression globally, according to a new Freedom House report. ...

Commentary Have you ever fallen prey to progression bias? Although the phenomenon is most often applied to romantic relationships, it ...

Commentary Xi Jinping’s ascension to supreme power in China has resulted in a number of ChiCom (Chinese Communist) ...

Commentary An unclassified U.S. intelligence report summarized for the public on Aug. 27 makes clear that the first ...

Commentary Finally, there is increasing clarity around how the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) intends to regulate its giant ...

Commentary Billionaire investor George Soros is no stranger to controversy. He has a history of openly criticizing a number ...