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China Is Most Likely Spared from a Second Cultural Revolution | Zooming In China Last week, the Sixth Plenary Session of the 19th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China formally adopted the Party’s third historical resolution. It is a landmark document that the CCP is using to project the “great glories and victories” of China in the past and to come and most importantly, Xi Jinping is using it as a launchpad for his third term ...
Chris Balding: Should We Really Trust Chinese Data? | CLIP | American Thought Leaders Chris Balding describes the two types of data that exist in China: the publicly released fake data, and the real data which is sold on the black market. He says that falsification of data does not just come downward from the top of the CCP ranks, but that information censorship also occurs upward, with lower ranking officials not wanting to admit to failing ...
‘Temptation to strike first’: Rick Fisher on the dangers of China’s growing space ambitions In this special episode, we sat down with Rick Fisher, senior fellow at the International Assessment and Strategy Center. He talks about China’s growing space ambitions—from the Moon, to Mars, to asteroids. Fisher touched on China’s recent #HypersonicMissile test, saying, “If China saw advantage in hitting any other country first with a nuclear weapon, ...
CCP Influence in Congress Proposed protections in the House stalled by Democrats Anders Corr November 27, 2021 News Analysis U.S. congresspersons are finally pushing to remove the malign influence of foreign money in the American political system. Representative Lance Gooden (R-Texas) recently introduced legislation to require think tanks to disclose foreign money received, according to a statement by Representative ...
China’s Aggression Is Changing the Nature of Sovereignty Kiribati in the Pacific Islands is an object lesson Anders Corr November 26, 2021 News Analysis mp3 PDF Kiribati is dumping a 158,000-square-mile World Heritage marine reserve, the Pacific Islands Forum, and its friendship with Taiwan. Why? The archipelagic state is trading its sovereignty for Beijing’s fast cash. The sovereignty of Kiribati, ...