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A great deal of attention is rightly focused on what happens to American relations with Taiwan and China under a second Trump presidency. But the Korean peninsula is potentially more volatile and therefore dangerous, partly because Russian leader Vladimir Putin is promising new military technology to Pyongyang. The Taiwan situation involved three primary players–Washington, Taipei […]…

The New York Times editorial department is continuing to propagate the wildest, dumbest drivel about U.S.-China relations. Are pandas really going to “save” humanity? https://lnkd.in/esRscMxc The author is a journalist who covers animals. Why does the Times continue to let opera singers and others with zero China knowledge take advantage of one of America’s most […]…

Wei Lingling of the Wall Street Journal (and a former OPC Foundation scholarship winner) and I have been wondering about the same thing–China’s incredibly brazen use of propaganda. Here’s her take: https://wsjchina.cmail19.com/t/d-e-ejdjrjk-driitdljhj-r/ I was particularly struck by this line of argumentation from China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi. “Should China and the United States keep to […]…

This is not some fringe theory. This is in the august pages of the New York Times. Its lead sentence pretty much says it all: “Covert Chinese accounts are masquerading online as American supporters of former President Donald J. Trump, promoting conspiracy theories, stoking domestic divisions and attacking President Biden ahead of the election in November…” […]…

The fact that TikTok launched a massive blitz among its 170 million American users to halt enactment of legislation emerging from the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party is proof that China has no qualms about seeking to influence American decision-making. TikTok actively misled its users by saying the legislation would prevent them […]…