What Xi’s Europe Tour Says About the CCP’s Goals and Woes
Xi Jinping cannot be said to have returned a “winner” from his trip to Europe given the lack of substantive diplomatic agreements and the continued impasse over the West’s concerns with the PRC’s export of excess capacity and support of Russia.
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The ‘Taiwan Card’ and its Role in US-China Relations
◎ From Beijing’s perspective, virtually anything the United States does with Taiwan amounts to playing that particular “card.”
Geopolitics Watch: The CCP is Hijacking the ‘New Cold War’ Narrative
◎ In hijacking the new Cold War narrative, the CCP has resorted to old tropes and mixed in new disinformation
Geopolitics Watch: Kim’s Outreach to Trump Bodes Well for North Korea Denuclearization
◎ Kim’s latest gestures are a positive omen of further advancement in the denuclearization process.
Trump Must Set ‘America Firm’ Course with China to Protect Taiwan and US Interests
◎ China scholars and policy practitioners increasingly are accepting a painful and long-denied reality: four decades of Western engagement have failed to induce critical changes in the domestic and foreign policies of the Chinese Communist Party.
Geopolitics Watch: PRC ‘Taiwan Invasion’ Propaganda Backfires
◎ China could see its international standing diminish as America and Taiwan draw closer and take firmer action to counter the CCP’s Taiwan strategy.
Geopolitics Watch: US Affirms Existential Nature of the CCP Threat
◎ The U.S. recognizes that the China threat is everywhere and existential, and has made addressing the issue the top priority.
China’s Wealth Lures Nations to Shun Taiwan, Ignore Persecutions
◎ The People’s Republic of China has successfully defied the international order and is relentlessly remaking it in its own mold.
Geopolitics Watch: The CCP’s Propaganda War on Trump’s China Policy
◎ We have observed that CCP propaganda assets have been spreading targeted propaganda narratives to influential individuals and organizations in the U.S. in recent months.
Geopolitics Watch: The Coming Ideological Turn in US Policy on China
◎ The CCP is mortally afraid of ideological confrontation with the U.S. because such confrontation could lead to its collapse.