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• New variants of Chinese stealth fighters break cover

  By chankaiyee2 on October 30, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  Two new variants of China’s stealth fighters have broken cover in the past three days, including China’s next carrier-based fighter, hinted at during a recent air show. Photos and videos taken outside the Chengdu Aircraft factory in its namesake city… Read More ›

• G-20 Still Deadlocked as China Won’t Budge on Climate Goals

  By China News on October 29, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  Negotiations ahead of the Group of 20 summit in Rome dragged into Friday, stuck on energy and climate issues. Some countries singled out China, saying it is refusing to beef up commitments to limit temperature increases and digging in over… Read More ›

• China has started making the same mistakes as the Soviets

  By China News on October 28, 2021 • ( 1 )

  

  It’s boom time for historical analogies in America’s China policy. Beijing’s test of an orbital weapon has been compared to a “Sputnik moment” by Joint Chiefs Chairman Mark Milley among others.  Analysts, including me, have argued about whether the U.S. and China… Read More ›

• US, China sparring over Taiwan heats up anew

  By China News on October 27, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  The United States and China are stepping up their war of words over Taiwan in a long-simmering dispute that has significant implications for the power dynamic in the Indo-Pacific and beyond. Amid a surge in Chinese military activity near the… Read More ›

• China’s latest J-11 derivative uses same technology As J-20 stealth jet; claims to be better dogfighter than Russian SU-35

  By chankaiyee2 on October 26, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  China’s J-11D fighter jet, often called the Chinese version of the Russian Su-35, is reportedly using the same technology as that of the J-20. Interestingly, this aircraft was once known to be competing with the fifth-generation stealth warplane for funding…. Read More ›

• Cadence Column: Asia, October 25, 2021

  By Pacific Daily Times on October 25, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  Taiwan was thrust into a position without being asked. In 1971, the United Nations removed the Taipei-seated government known today as “Taiwan” and switched to recognizing the Beijing-based government known as “China”. The Taiwanese were elbowed out of the global… Read More ›

• China’s trade practices come under fire

  By China News on October 24, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  China’s trade policies have come under strong criticism during a review at the World Trade Organization (WTO). The US accused China of “skewing the playing field” by using “unfair trade practices” such as preferential treatment for state businesses. Meanwhile Australia… Read More ›

• China’s economy weakens, then gets even worse and now there’s a global shipping crisis. What’s next?

  By uwe.roland.gross on October 23, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  The world is waking up to the fact that maybe being dependent upon China for its goods is not such a good idea. In 2019 at about the same time the US was closing on the trade deals with China,… Read More ›

• U.S. needs nuclear spacecraft to compete with China, NASA official tells Congress

  By China News on October 22, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  A NASA official told Congress on Wednesday that the United States needs more nuclear spacecrafts in order to compete with China. “Strategic competitors including China are aggressively investing in a wide range of space technologies, including nuclear power and propulsion,”… Read More ›

• China shows off drones recycled from Soviet-era fighter jets

  By China News on October 21, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  China has for the first time showed off retired 1950s era fighter jets that have been converted to unmanned drones, with satellite photos of two of its east coast bases near Taiwan showing a large number of the jets on… Read More ›

• China’s propaganda machine is intensifying its ‘people’s war’ to catch American spies

  By chankaiyee2 on October 20, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  “Let’s fight a ‘people’s war’ against the spies, so that they cannot move a single step and have no place to hide!” That was the rallying cry of a Chinese military newspaper on social media over the weekend, as Beijing… Read More ›

• China’s blackouts break power cutoff pledge

  By uwe.roland.gross on October 19, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  As China struggles to control the latest surge of power shortages, the government seems to be hoping that the public will have short memories for how it has dealt with similar problems in the past. After months of downplaying the… Read More ›

• Cadence Column: Asia, October 18, 2021

  By Pacific Daily Times on October 19, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  According to Chinese and US claims, China has a high-orbit, hypersonic missile that can hit a target within 24 miles. And, that’s why China is the new boss of the world and everyone else should hate America. The end. But,… Read More ›

• China ‘making its nuclear submarines harder to detect’

  By chankaiyee2 on October 18, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  China is upgrading its nuclear missile-equipped submarines to make them harder for rival powers such as the US to detect, reports suggest. The People’s Liberation Army Navy has redesigned its type 094 submarines to make them quieter, The South China… Read More ›

• Could China’s economy collapse?

  By China News on October 17, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  For almost half a century, Chinese officials have overseen one of the greatest economic transformations in human history. The country has gone from collectivized farms and famine to world-leading tech companies and gleaming megacities connected by superfast trains. More than… Read More ›

• China’s economic crisis is much bigger than expected – its property market, the largest in the world, is collapsing

  By uwe.roland.gross on October 16, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  The situation in China is much worse than originally thought.  The largest property market in the world is set to collapse and the ramifications will impact the entire world.  We’ve been discussing China’s economic issues for years.  Recently this was… Read More ›

• UN must condemn forced organ harvesting in China

  By China News on October 15, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  Doctors, lawyers, and politicians from three continents called on the international community to ensure an end to China’s practice of forced organ harvesting during the first half of the World Summit on Combating and Preventing Forced Organ Harvesting. Doctors Against… Read More ›

• China says its J-31 is superior to F-35, and will be new carrier-borne fighter jet

  By chankaiyee2 on October 14, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  Dwnews.com describes the J-31 in its report “曝歼31配新型导弹高清照　被指将终结美军空中优势[图]” as China’s new carrier-borne fighter jet for China’s Type 003 aircraft carrier. The speculation is based on the J-31’s Chief Designer Sun Cong’s recent comment on social media that China will make… Read More ›

• The reason for the discussion on the Tobin tax in China

  By albertobor on October 13, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  Tax every major financial transaction for social equity by a fraction and allocate the funds to redistribution initiatives. The Tobin tax is the shattered dream of the anti-globalist left, even if its history is slightly more complex. Formulated in 1972… Read More ›

• Is another Cultural Revolution underway in China?

  By China News on October 12, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  Chinese President Xi Jinping is cracking down on several sectors of Chinese society, including technology and entertainment. This has some Beijing watchers worried a new version of Chairman Mao Zedong’s Cultural Revolution is underway. Here’s everything you need to know…. Read More ›

• Cadence Column: Asia, October 11, 2021

  By Pacific Daily Times on October 11, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  Biden is creating a special center within CIA for China. Xi Jinping is irate. Biden knows China almost as well as Trump. He met with Chinese officials as Vice President. While Trump played a “good cop” routine on China, Biden… Read More ›

• The curious case of Pakistan, China, TTP and BRI

  By sandyinsights on October 10, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  On 1st October Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan broke all hell loose when on the Turkish government-run TV channel, TRT World, he disclosed that the Pakistani government is in secret talks with Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), facilitated by the Afghan Taliban…. Read More ›

• China’s electronic warfare aircraft J-16D spotted near Taiwan; experts say India border could be next

  By chankaiyee2 on October 9, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  China is rapidly acquiring new military technologies and weapons as it tries to dominate the Indo-Pacific region, especially the South China Sea which it considers as its backyard. The J-16D electronic warfare aircraft (EWA) is one such platform that stood… Read More ›

• Instead of confronting China’s rise, we must manage its decline

  By China News on October 8, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  Nations, like people, have reputations, and in both cases there can be gaps between the rep and the reality. China is known as the sage of nations, strategically patient, thinking in terms of centuries while the West flits about like… Read More ›

• Future of War: Latest Chinese Drones

  By sandyinsights on October 7, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  All kind of unmanned vehicles are the future of war. My first YouTube video on Chinese drones and their capabilities. Chinese propaganda of their capabilities should always be taken with a pinch of salt.  Like, share & subscribe. Also follow… Read More ›

• Thousands of people being ‘disappeared’ in China for criticising the Communist Party or being too rich and powerful

  By China News on October 6, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  Thousands of people have been snatched from their homes and off the street by Chinese authorities as part of a secretive and sinister program to ‘disappear’ those who fall foul of the regime. It doesn’t matter how rich and powerful… Read More ›

• ‘We’ll meet you in the sky’: Chinese air force commander challenges US military

  By China News on October 5, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  As China flexed its most advanced stealth fighter jets fitted with home-grown engines at the nation’s biggest air show, a Chinese commander responded to an American challenge with an invitation to the US military to meet the PLA “in the… Read More ›

• Cadence Column: Asia, October 4, 2021

  By Pacific Daily Times on October 4, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  This weekend saw yet another step-up in Chinese aggression—over 90 incursions in three days. While the world asks, “WTF!?” Taiwan rallies international support based on its IC chip industry. Taiwan supplies a good portion of the world’s semiconductors. If China… Read More ›

• Tumbling Evergrande, caged tech giants: China much desperate, more dangerous

  By sandyinsights on October 3, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  An ancient Chinese stratagem advises military leaders: “Loot a burning house.” The trick is easy and self-explanatory — attack when your opponent is most vulnerable. China has given, this and many other hideous ancient wisdom, paramount importance in the quest for… Read More ›

• The end of China’s rise

  By China News on October 2, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  The prevailing consensus, in Washington and overseas, is that China is surging past the United States. “If we don’t get moving,” President Joe Biden has said, “they’re going to eat our lunch.” Countries everywhere are preparing, in the words of… Read More ›

• Chinese loans leave developing countries with $385 billion in hidden debts

  By China News on October 1, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  China’s Belt and Road Initiative has caused dozens of lower- and middle-income countries to accumulate $385 billion in “hidden debts” to Beijing, a new study has claimed.  AidData, an international development research lab based at Virginia’s College of William &… Read More ›

• China’s Belt and Road plans losing momentum as opposition and debt mount

  By China News on September 30, 2021 • ( 1 )

  

  China’s vast Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is in danger of losing momentum as opposition in targeted countries rises and debts mount, paving the way for rival schemes to squeeze Beijing out, a new study showed on Wednesday. President Xi… Read More ›

• China’s Xi Jinping a danger to American business

  By China News on September 29, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  China’s rapid changes will impact many American businesses. Companies in the states import many products from China, and China is the third-largest market for U.S. exports. Financial investments also flow in both directions between the two countries. Changes in the… Read More ›

• China’s weak, counterproductive, hostage-taking diplomacy

  By China News on September 28, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  Last Friday, Meng Wanzhou, 49, Huawei’s chief finance officer and the daughter of the founder, agreed to a deferred prosecution agreement with the U.S. Department of Justice in which, according to the Associated Press, she “accepted responsibility for misrepresenting the… Read More ›

• Cadence Column: Asia, September 27, 2021

  By Pacific Daily Times on September 27, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  The Huawei heir apparent and CFO, Meng, walked. She confessed, then flew home. China immediately released the two Canadians both named Michael, which China had previously said were not detained in any connection to Meng; but they were both released… Read More ›

• China is decoupling from the world, not the other way around

  By China News on September 27, 2021 • ( 1 )

  

  Eighteen months ago, international manufacturers were considering the impact Covid-19 would have on their concentrated manufacturing processes and supply chain integrity. In particular, companies that depended heavily on manufacturing in China, the early epicentre of the pandemic, started to move… Read More ›

• Business groups are divided as China seeks self-reliance

  By China News on September 26, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  China’s push for self-sufficiency in a wide range of industries is dividing foreign companies, with some welcoming it as another chance to invest there while others worry that it will cause risks to the country’s trading partners and its own… Read More ›

• Chinese Arctic incursion spooks US lawmakers

  By chankaiyee2 on September 25, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  China is using the Arctic and seas only miles away from Alaska as a staging area to undermine U.S. national security, top lawmakers and experts say. Newly released images reveal a fleet of Chinese warships conducting operations in American waters… Read More ›

• China declares all cryptocurrency transactions illegal

  By China News on September 25, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  China intensified its crackdown on cryptocurrency on Friday, declaring all financial transactions involving cryptocurrencies illegal and issuing a nationwide ban on cryptocurrency mining, the power-hungry process in which vast computer networks compete for newly created crypto tokens. Bitcoin, the world’s… Read More ›

• China plans tax crackdown on richest entertainers, including online influencers

  By uwe.roland.gross on September 24, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  China is set to conduct regular tax investigations into top entertainers including online influencers, promising serious punishment for offenders amid a deepening crackdown on the entertainment industry and lucrative culture of fandom. High-income celebrities who self-report offences by the end… Read More ›

• Xi Jinping’s effort to return to socialism

  By China News on September 23, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  For decades life in China had evolved around its home-grown version of let-it-rip capitalism. Despite being technically a “communist” country, the government had put its faith in trickle-down economics, believing that allowing some people to become extremely rich would benefit… Read More ›

• China is financing infrastructure projects around the world – many could harm nature and indigenous communities

  By uwe.roland.gross on September 22, 2021 • ( 1 )

  

  China is shaping the future of economic development through its Belt and Road Initiative, an ambitious multi-billion-dollar international push to better connect itself to the rest of the world through trade and infrastructure. Through this venture, China is providing over… Read More ›

• China’s military has an Achilles’ heel: Low troop morale

  By China News on September 21, 2021 • ( 1 )

  

  The Chinese Communist Party has unintentionally revealed weaknesses of the country’s military. One indication came with the building of facilities for launching new intercontinental ballistic missiles in an inland desert region. The other was a series of further attempts to… Read More ›

• Cadence Column: Asia, September 20, 2021

  By Pacific Daily Times on September 20, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  China steps up expansion via Hong Kong elections. Seven editors are banned from Wikipedia on concerns of not acting in good faith and with relation to China. The US sails through the Taiwan Straight again, this time a destroyer. Taiwan… Read More ›

• China adds powerful new ship to maritime patrol fleet

  By uwe.roland.gross on September 20, 2021 • ( 1 )

  

  China has added a new powerful ship to its fleet of maritime patrol vessels in the South China Sea, state media has reported. The 5,560-ton Hai Xun 03 was launched on Tuesday and will become the largest ocean patrol ship… Read More ›

• A lesson in political economy on investments in China

  By albertobor on September 19, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  Paul Krugman, the eminent Nobel laureate in economics, recalls how companies are different from nations and their reasons. Business managers have different perspectives. It is economists – not managers – who place the question of foreign trade, the balance of… Read More ›

• Are China’s climate promises just a load of hot air? (Yes!)

  By uwe.roland.gross on September 18, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  China is prepared to hold its cooperation on climate issues hostage to Western concessions elsewhere. Few cities in China represent the country’s addiction to coal more than Tianjin, where Alok Sharma travelled this week to talk about cooperation on climate… Read More ›

• The vanishing allure of doing business in China

  By China News on September 17, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  It is nothing new for foreign firms to endure shakedowns by the Chinese Communist Party. As far back as revolutionary times, Chairman Mao’s victorious troops did not directly confiscate foreign-owned assets as their Bolshevik forerunners had done in Russia. Instead,… Read More ›

• Wikipedia blames pro-China infiltration for bans

  By China News on September 16, 2021 • ( 1 )

  

  Wikipedia has suffered an “infiltration” that sought to advance the aims of China, the US non-profit organisation that owns the volunteer-edited encyclopaedia has said. The Wikimedia Foundation told BBC News the infiltration had threatened the “very foundations of Wikipedia”. The… Read More ›

• Diaries of former Mao aide spark custody battle over unofficial history of China

  By China News on September 15, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  Today, “Li materials” are the subject of a legal battle between Stanford University and Mr. Li’s widow in Beijing. This is a battle for custody of an unofficial history of China. In millions of handwritten Chinese characters, Mr. Li documents… Read More ›

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