Thinking About China

Commentary The Chinese Communist Party (CCP)’s 13th Five-Year Plan concludes this year. For the first time, quantum communications was part of the plan, and it was even listed as the ...

Commentary The U.S. vice presidential debate on Oct. 7 was broadcast in China. State-run media censored sensitive issues ...

Commentary Real estate giant Evergrande Group allegedly wrote a letter to the Chinese government, pleading for support. The ...

Commentary On Oct. 1, as the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) was celebrating the 71st anniversary of its takeover ...

Commentary The history of China repeats itself time and again. Long periods of division lead to unity, while ...

Commentary The eyes of the world are squarely on the upcoming U.S. election in November. And none more ...

Commentary Later this month, the Chinese Communist Party will hold its Fifth Plenary Session of the Central Committee ...

Commentary The suppression of Muslim Uyghurs in China’s farwestern region of Xinjiang by the Chinese regime has once ...

Commentary At a time when China is in desperate need of solutions to many internal and external challenges, ...

Commentary After U.S. President Donald Trump was admitted to the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center to be ...

Commentary The Trump administration has been curbing market access for certain Chinese companies associated with the Chinese Communist ...

Commentary It was reported late on Oct. 1 that President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump had ...

Commentary The year 2020 was supposed to see the end of poverty in China, the year that concluded ...

Commentary President Donald Trump has committed the United States to returning U.S. astronauts to the moon by 2024, ...

Commentary At a press conference held by China’s State Council Information Office on Sept. 16, Bai Chunli, the ...

Commentary With U.S.-China relations at their lowest point in decades, some are questioning the wisdom of a potential ...

Commentary The arrogant and domineering Chinese Communist Party (CCP) cannot tolerate differences of opinion. In its eyes, independent ...

Commentary Influential real estate developer Ren Zhiqiang was sentenced to 18 years in prison for graft on Sept. ...

Commentary Western media recently reported that China’s largest chipmaker, Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC), may suffer trade sanctions ...

Commentary According to Chinese media reports, on Sept. 19, Chinese Vice Premier Liu He took an inspection tour ...

Commentary At the General Debate of the 75th Session of the United Nations General Assembly via videoconference, Chinese ...

Commentary On Sept. 15, the General Office of the Chinese Communist Party’s Central Committee issued a set of ...

Commentary China is facing a food shortage crisis. On Sept. 7, during the CIFTIS (China International Fair for ...

Commentary The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has achieved an unprecedented reach into American life, and the extent of ...

Commentary Chinese officials held a symposium on Sept. 9 to commemorate Yang Baibing (1920–2013), the commander-in-chief of China’s People’s ...

Commentary With China lagging on semiconductor manufacturing capabilities, local governments have stepped up chip production under Chinese leader ...

Commentary Taiwanese ophthalmologist Jo-Hsuan Wu and her team received a reply on Aug. 24 from the editorial office ...