RESEARCH
Geopolitics Watch: Why the CCP Might Think That the US Has Gone ‘Nuclear’ with Human Rights
◎ We believe that the CCP is suspecting that the U.S. has decided to use the Falun Gong issue against the PRC.
Risk Watch: The CCP’s Trade War and Economic Growth Rhetoric Betray Hidden Risks
◎ Whenever the CCP admits to something, the reality is usually much worse than what is admitted.
The World is Taking a Stand Against China, Freedom’s Enemy
◎ Since the time of Mao Zedong, it has been in the Chinese Communist DNA to treat the West as its ultimate enemy, engagement or no engagement.
Geopolitics Watch: America’s Human Rights Moves and the CCP’s Fears
◎ The CCP is especially vulnerable to attacks on its human rights record.
Politics Watch: The ‘Dead’ Hong Kong Extradition Bill and the CCP Factional Struggle
◎ We believe that the CCP is only making a tactical retreat in Hong Kong.
China is Not an Enemy of the US and the World. But the CCP is.
◎ We offer seven points of response to an open letter on U.S. policy on China by a hundred U.S. scholars, former diplomats and military officials, and business leaders.
Politics Watch: Analyzing the Hong Kong Legislature Break-in
◎ There are several questionable details about the legislature break-in incident.
Hong Kong and Taiwan Preview China’s Future
◎ Now it is time for Beijing to advance its thinking and face reality.
Geopolitics Watch: Trump-Kim DMZ Meeting Opens Door for N. Korea Denuke Resolution
◎ The Trump-Kim DMZ meeting somewhat cancels out China’s diplomatic effort in Pyongyang before the G20 summit in Osaka.
Politics Watch: G20 ‘Loser’ Xi Faces Increased Political Risks at Home
◎ Unless Xi resolves factional politics at home, China and the U.S. will find it very hard to get a trade deal.
Politics Watch: CCP ‘Self-reform,’ Global Times on CCTV, and the Factional Struggle
◎ Xi is reasserting his paramount authority in the face of political pushback.
‘Red China’ Redux: Pariah Among Nations, Enemy of its People
◎ The CCP’s aggression extended beyond populations within China and along its borders.
Geopolitics Watch: Early Analysis on the Trump-Xi G20 Meeting in Osaka
◎ Should current trends hold, the Trump-Xi meeting at the G20 will likely do little to prevent an escalation of the Sino-U.S. “new cold war.”
Risk Watch: The Sino-US ‘Battle of Waterloo’ is Approaching
◎ A Sino-U.S. cold war is unavoidable and will be a zero-sum competition.
As Hong Kong Stands Up to China, US Should Do the Right Thing — This Time
◎ President Trump, still addressing the consequences of the earlier unconsummated events, faces a new situation as the people of Hong Kong defy Beijing’s further erosion of their guaranteed rights of limited self-government.