By Cao Siqi in Zhoushan, Zhejiang August 25, 2024
Editor's Note: Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, Chinese president, and chairman of the Central Military Commission, stressed that the environment concerns the well-being of people in all countries. During his many inspections, Xi has always emphasized the importance of ecosystems,...more
Editor's Note: Chinese President Xi Jinping highly values efforts to preserve cultural and natural treasures and renew their glamour in the new era. Xi, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, has called for further efforts in...more
Editor's Note: "Cognitive Warfare" has become a new form of confrontation between states, and a new security threat. With new technological means, it sets agendas and spreads disinformation, to change people's perceptions and thus alter their self-identity. Launching cognitive warfare against China is an important means for Western...more
Editor's Note: Former UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter (Ritter)'s home in New York was raided by the FBI as part of a federal investigation on August 7 over allegations he is an unregistered foreign agent. Ritter, also a former US Marine Corps intelligence officer, has been a critic...more
Chinese semiconductor company Advanced Micro-Fabrication Equipment Inc. China (AMEC) announced on Friday that it has formally filed a lawsuit with a US court, suing the US Department of Defense (DOD) for its decision to include the company on the list of so-called "Chinese military companies" (CMC). AMEC asked...more
The South China Morning Post recently paid attention to the "Luban Workshop," a vocational education and training network that China is establishing in cooperation with many African and Asian countries, saying that it benefits the local people and boosts China's influence. This is not the first time that...more
American political elite's rhetoric about China is increasingly incendiary. A bipartisan consensus has emerged that frames China as a "threat" to the US and its global status. A millenarian frame activates a war-like posture, in which politicians seek to out-muscle each other on who's the "toughest on China."...more
The US is confronting a political system facing a crisis of legitimacy. A major component of the crisis is structural and inherent to US governance. Politicians in the US do not succeed in politics because of their service to the people. They are first selected by a tiny...more
In order to contain China, the US must maintain military and economic primacy over China. Nevertheless, its ability to do this has come into question in recent years due to the continual rise and growing strength of China, and the demonstrated growing weakness of the US itself. Among...more
The restrictions on US technology exports to China are encountering mounting opposition due to the growing financial losses of American companies and the burgeoning independent innovation capabilities of Chinese companies, ultimately ruling out the possibility of the US being able to force allies into alignment on further export...more
Editor's Note: As the Chinese economy, along with the entire global economy, faces considerable challenges in recent years, some Western officials and media outlets have stepped up their long-standing smear campaign against the world's second-largest economy. They cherry-pick information and even distort facts to hype various specious narratives such...more
The Resolution of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China(CPC) on Further Deepening Reform Comprehensively to Advance Chinese Modernization, published on July 21, says that China must remain committed to the basic state policy of opening to the outside world and continuing to promote reforms through...more
While the US policy of reshoring manufacturing has made progress, prioritizing the promotion of the US manufacturing industry completely over economic efficiency will inevitably pose challenges and uncertainties to the sustainability of its return. A Financial Times investigation revealed on Monday that $84 billion of the US manufacturing...more
The surge in new-energy vehicle (NEV) production is sweeping across China, particularly in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. This city cluster in South China is one of China's most dynamic and open economic regions. "From a steel plate to a completed vehicle rolling off the production line,...more
Editor's Note: Leonard Peltier, the 79-year-old Indigenous activist who has spent nearly 50 years in prison for the 1975 murders of two FBI agents but has long maintained his innocence, was denied parole in early July, according to the CNN. Many are concerned that the ruling means that...more