VILNIUS, Lithuania—A Chinese state-owned maker of security-screening equipment should be blocked from supplying equipment for Lithuania’s three international airports over national security concerns, the Lithuanian government said Friday. Beijing-based Nuctech last year won a bid to install baggage scanners at airports in Vilnius, Kaunas, and Palanga, government spokeswoman Rasa Jakilaitiene said. No deal has been […]

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) on Thursday called on his fellow Senate colleagues to oppose President Joe Biden’s choice to lead the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Alejandro Mayorkas, over his “disregard for the rule of law and embrace of China.” As Mayorkas heads for final Senate confirmation, Cruz on Twitter shared a letter (pdf) on Twitter […]

Commentary On cue, White House press secretary Jen Psaki has signaled that President Joe Biden’s administration isn’t prepared to seriously confront the complex and immediate threat communist China poses to American security and world peace. Earlier this month, incoming secretary of state Antony Blinken acknowledged that communist China presents a formidable problem and added former […]

More than 20 Republican House lawmakers have sent a joint letter to the White House, calling on President Joe Biden to prioritize cooperation with U.S. allies on emerging technologies in order to confront threats posed by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). These technologies include artificial intelligence, quantum computing, semiconductor chips, and 5G communications. Beijing has […]

The federal government learned that China had blocked a COVID-19 vaccine shipment meant for clinical trials in Canada, after a collaboration plan between the two countries was just announced, new documents reveal. On May 12, 2020, the National Research Council of Canada (NRC) announced plans to work with CanSino Biologics Inc., a Chinese company with […]

Australian Treasurer Josh Frydenberg said on Wednesday that the actions of the Chinese regime do not match the words of its leader, Xi Jinping, who told the World Economic Forum that large nations should not bully small ones. “Well we agree with that sentiment, that big nations should not bully small ones but there seems to […]

LAUNCESTON, Australia—China is paying a heavy toll for its efforts to punish Australia by banning or restricting certain commodity imports, while conversely, Australia seems so far to have avoided any serious financial ramifications. Coal is the highest-profile Chinese target in the Australia row. Beijing effectively all but banned imports from Australia as part of its […]

A heated debate erupted over President Joe Biden’s choice of UN ambassador. The disagreement stems from a speech the nominee gave at a Chinese Communist Party-backed Confucius Institute. America’s power grid could be at risk, after Biden suspended an order that aimed to protect it. The Biden administration denounces using terms like “China virus” and […]

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Jan. 27 called on the Biden administration to continue building a “whole-of-government” approach to countering the Chinese regime. McConnell, speaking on the Senate floor, implored the new government to build upon the Trump administration’s tough-on-China approach, a posture that has bipartisan support. The Trump administration “helped bring about […]

A group of tech experts is calling for “some degree of bifurcation” between the U.S. and Chinese tech sectors, according to a report obtained by Axios. The report, titled “Asymmetric Competition: A Strategy for China & Technology,” was authored by a group of 15 tech industry executives, investors, and China experts, known as China Strategy […]

The Chinese Patent Office (CPO) published patent applications of newly developed technologies to detect Uyghurs. The research and the patent applications are sponsored by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC). The CPO published a patent application (with application number CN201711408669, filed with the CPO on Dec. 22, 2017) titled “A kind of new […]

Following a highly contested election, our nation needs to find unity as tensions remain high and divisions run deep. We suggest Americans can find unity by coming together to oppose an enemy who has for decades sought our nation’s destruction, and by renewing the tradition that has helped to shape and guide our nation. At […]

Commentary As a number of commentators who have generally praised the conciliatory tone of President Joe Biden’s inaugural address have remarked, there were some inconsistencies in the espoused goals. Most alarming was his promise of the pursuit of unity, while decrying the existence within the United States of a large number of racists and various […]

WASHINGTON—Less than a week after the economic gut punch of Keystone XL, Canada is bracing for more bad news from the White House. President Joe Biden is expected to sign an executive order today that would establish a new Buy American regime to ensure U.S. workers and companies reap the benefits of government spending. “Federal […]

News Analysis For four years, former President Donald Trump’s administration broke with previous U.S. governments to confront the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) head-on, pushing back against its malign actions aimed at remodeling the world to its own brand of techno-totalitarianism. The administration recognized the vastness of the Chinese regime’s infiltration campaign that has left virtually […]

Top Republican lawmakers are calling on the Biden administration to take forceful measures against the Chinese regime, after Beijing slapped sanctions on former Trump administration officials, including former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. The sanctions were announced on Jan. 20, the same day that President Joe Biden was sworn into office. A Chinese foreign ministry […]

Commentary President Joe Biden’s nominee for secretary of state, Antony Blinken, agrees that former President Donald Trump’s administration got communist China right. During his Jan. 19 Senate confirmation hearing, Blinken told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee: “President Trump was right in taking a tougher approach to China. I disagree very much with the way that […]

WASHINGTON—The United States struck a deal with Ecuador to refinance its China debt, as part of an effort to counter Beijing’s growing influence in Latin America. The U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) signed a framework agreement with the government of Ecuador on Jan. 14 to refinance its preexisting debt to China and support the […]

As President Joe Biden was sworn in to office, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) imposed sanctions on former Trump administration officials, including former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and former national security adviser Robert O’Brien, in response to their tough-on-China policies. The announcement came a day after Pompeo declared the CCP’s repression of Uyghur Muslims […]

Global Affairs Canada drew public concern last year over plans to purchase security equipment from a Chinese state-owned company. A recent review found that the department does not usually consult security experts prior to procurement. In July 2020, the federal government awarded Nuctech, a Chinese state-owned firm, a $6.8 million contract to install X-ray machines […]

In the stock market, how do you know what the smart money is doing and the dumb money? We talk to Lance Roberts at Real Investment Advice. Bill Gates owns more farmland than anyone else in the country. Is now a good time to invest? The Trump administration lands a heavy blow on China’s Huawei—halting […]

President Donald Trump on Jan. 15 directed federal agencies to look at ways to reduce purchases of goods and services from China, in a bid to guard against espionage risks posed by the regime. Trump instructed departments and agencies to conduct a review and propose “regulatory and policy changes, including potential executive actions” to “minimize” […]

Commentary President Donald Trump’s two greatest foreign policy accomplishments both involve departures from outmoded paradigms that had, for decades, enraptured bipartisan neoliberal elites: unprecedented Arab-Israeli rapprochement in the Middle East and an assertive China containment strategy in the Asia-Pacific. On the former front, Trump boldly departed from the misbegotten “inside-out” conflict resolution approach, which elevated […]

Commentary With President Donald Trump set to leave office on Jan. 20, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is wasting no time in picking up where it left off before Trump came to power and spoiled its expansion plans into Europe. Huawei, a Chinese regime-owned 5G vendor, has been linked to cyberattacks, sanction violations, the theft […]

STOCKHOLM—A Swedish court has dismissed an appeal by Huawei against its exclusion from the country’s 5G network roll out, paving the way for the 5G spectrum auction scheduled for next week to proceed as planned. The Chinese telecom group had earlier this month appealed against a decision by the Administrative Court of Appeal that allowed […]

The U.S. Department of Defense on Jan. 14 added nine Chinese companies to a growing list of companies with ties to the Chinese military. Among the nine companies were cellphone maker Xiaomi, semiconductor equipment maker Advanced Micro-Fabrication Equipment (AMEC), chip designer GOWIN Semiconductor, state-owned China National Aviation Holding, and aircraft manufacturer Commercial Aircraft Corporation of […]

The Chinese Embassy in Britain made repeated attempts to pressure a prominent human rights advocate to stop criticising the Communist regime, it has been revealed. Benedict Rogers, co-founder and deputy chair of the Conservative Party Human Rights Commission, told The Epoch Times’ “American Thought Leaders” program about his own “very small experience” of the Chinese […]

A professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has been accused of failing to disclose his work for groups connected to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) while he was accepting grant money from U.S. agencies, the Justice Department said on Jan. 14. Gang Chen, 56, was charged in a criminal complaint with making false statements […]

Conservative immigration critic Raquel Dancho has lashed out over the government’s decision to grant travel exemptions to Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou’s family to visit her in Vancouver, when Canadians are being told to avoid all non-essential travel. “This is an insult to the millions of Canadians who were told by this government not to visit […]

In China, we are seeing forced televised confessions, a mass surveillance state, the killing of Falun Gong practitioners for their organs, and what many are calling a genocide of the Uyghur people. Eighty-three global brands, including major U.S. companies, are tied to Uyghur forced labor in China. Over in Hong Kong, 53 pro-democracy activists, lawmakers, […]