Tag: China

The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) has appointed a big-time China hawk to its Board of Directors On November 4, the National Endowment for Democracy (NED)—a CIA offshoot that finances dissident media and political organizations in countries targeted by the U.S. for regime change—announced the appointment of John...
Shifting Power and Strategic Autonomy In global politics, perception shapes power, but China’s current strategy suggests more than perception management. Its refusal to yield to U.S. tariff pressure marks a deliberate assertion of strategic autonomy. When Washington initiated steep tariffs under the Trump administration, many countries...
After almost a year of an escalating trade war, U.S. President Donald Trump met with Chinese President Xi Jinping in South Korea last week...
From Toshiba to Huawei: America’s Long War on Superior Competitors For decades, the United States championed free markets and fair competition—until it no longer had the upper hand. Today, oligarchs like Peter Thiel—a key player in the U.S. security apparatus and founder of Palantir, the taxpayer-funded...

Xinjiang as It Really Is

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An on-the-ground account challenging Western propaganda Upon landing in Urumqi, the capital of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (commonly known as Xinjiang), it is evident that the Uyghurs, a Turkic-speaking Muslim minority, call this home. As I exited the airport arrivals hall, I noticed a restaurant sign reading “EGG BOMB.” The...
The founder of Tech Buzz China, Rui Ma, posted on X after a recent trip to China about her observations on energy there. “Energy is considered a solved problem...
As legislators across North America continue bashing the People’s Republic of China, some Canadians, including this author, were invited on a tour of three Chinese cities during the spring. During our time in China, we saw beautiful nature and technological innovation in Hangzhou, the peaceful coastline in Qingdao, and a...
Japan is gripped by an unprecedented political crisis that has been entirely obscured in the media around the globe. On July 24, the day after the Upper House elections, all the morning newspapers in Japan featured headlines screaming out that Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba had been pressured by his party,...
Why was Canada trying to take Uygurs who were deported from Thailand to China? A failed anti-Chinese government policy, triggering a later cost of nearly $1 million CAD, is the elephant in the room. British newspaper The Guardian reported that Canada and the United States had offered to take in...
In the summer of 2024, this author participated in a media tour of China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (XUAR), at the invitation of the State Information Council Office of the People’s Republic of China (PRC). And what was found? That despite the Western narrative of genocide, cultural repression and forced labor,...