Thinking About China

Commentary The short term economic impact from the rapidly spreading coronavirus that has infected nearly 600 and killed 18 could reduce China’s GDP by 1-2 percent, if it is similar ...

Commentary The deadly virus originating out of the central Chinese city of Wuhan is making headlines, and well ...

Commentary Do you remember SARS? Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) was so contagious, a SARS-afflicted man on an ...

Commentary Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) investing standards—also called “sustainable investing” and “socially responsible investing”—have taken on greater ...

Commentary A confluence of major events and poor decisions over the past several years have put the Chinese ...

Commentary The 19-month U.S.–China trade dispute has led to a realignment of global supply chain and exacerbated China's ...

Commentary TAIPEI, Taiwan—Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen may not owe her entire record-breaking landslide reelection victory to Hong Kong’s ...

Commentary TAIPEI, TAIWAN—The longer I listened to the half-dozen Hong Kong democracy demonstrators describing their lives and goals, ...

Commentary A new survey released by the Washington, D.C. nonprofit Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation shows that more ...

Commentary On Feb. 1, new and onerous restrictions on churches, temples, shrines, and all forms of organized religious ...

Commentary The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) hates the free flow of information and the expression of ideas. China’s ...

Commentary As has been noted by many observers, the economic, financial, ethnic, and civil unrest challenges that China ...

Commentary With the passage of the USMCA in the House, who is the world’s biggest loser?  That’s easy. ...

Commentary “A wounded bear (or panda, in this instance),” the old saying goes, “is more dangerous than a ...

Commentary Is the “phase one” of the trade deal a new beginning in relations between Washington and Beijing? ...

Commentary The United States and China both announced on Dec. 13 that the two countries had reached a ...

Commentary The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has surprised the international community by playing fast and loose in U.S.-China ...

Commentary I recently wrote about an emerging Cold War between the United States and China. The truth is ...

Commentary Too often, history and experience open our eyes to one set of facts and yet leave us ...

Commentary In February 1947, U.S. President Harry Truman decided to aid the Greek government in its fight against ...

Commentary People in the Western world cheered and celebrated when communism collapsed in Eastern Europe between 1989 and ...

Commentary With President Trump in London to discuss the future of NATO, the future of the Eurozone itself ...

Commentary There’s a 30-page bill sitting on President Donald Trump’s desk in the Oval Office, awaiting his signature. ...

Commentary As the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has demonstrated throughout the Hong Kong pro-democracy protests, the suppression of ...

Commentary In late October, Vice President Mike Pence argued that China’s influence has had a corrosive effect on ...

Since Nov. 19, 2004, when The Epoch Times began publishing its seminal editorial series, over 300 million Chinese ...

Commentary Reports of mainland Chinese students being evacuated from Hong Kong and of Chinese troops in the streets ...