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The U.S. Department of State recently issued a travel advisory, warning Americans to reconsider going to China, Hong Kong, and Macau. The State Department classifies mainland China and Macau as travel advisory “Level 3,” recommending…

United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken concluded his two-day trip to Beijing. Based on post-meeting readouts and reports, there was little breakthrough. Beijing took full advantage of the opportunity to humiliate Blinken and the…

President Joe Biden announced at the G7 summit in Japan last month that he was open to détente with Beijing and “the beginning of a thaw very soon.” Since then, the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) rhetoric and actions suggest…

Americans often wonder why they should care or what the consequences would be if China replaced the United States as the world’s most powerful nation. Surprisingly, a clear answer to this question can be found in the ongoing saga of…

TikTok announced the platform will be celebrating Earth Day with the removal of “climate change denial videos” without defining “climate change denial.” TikTok announced Wednesday the company will roll out the policy this week with users…

The trove of recently leaked intelligence documents related to the Ukraine war should prompt Americans to start asking tough questions about our involvement in that conflict, which one of the documents, a Feb. 23 overview of fighting in…

At the opening of its annual People’s Congress last Sunday, the Chinese government announced a 7.2 percent increase in its military budget, bringing China’s total military spending this year to $224 billion. China’s actual…

A Protest Song Has Emerged in China — It’s the Communist Anthem Yaxue Cao, March 5, 2023 Shanghai, 1973. Photo: Bruno Barbey The first time I heard The Internationale sung in China as a protest song was when Shanghai went into lockdown…

Should you welcome China’s dictator Xi Jinping to co-parent your children? In an essay in The New York Times, Heather Kaye, an American who spent 16 years in China, says, “Yes.” But for someone born and raised in China like I was,…

2022: Remember the Light the Young Have Shown Us Jiang Xue, January 3, 2023 In Beijing, at least 11 young people have been detained in connection with the “Blank Paper” (白纸抗议) protests, of whom two are confirmed to be journalists, another…