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    Senate Needs To Keep Its Eye on the China Challenge, Not Political Spending Priorities

    It has been a few months in coming, but the U.S. Senate is about to debate comprehensive legislation on how to respond to China. It’s a welcome development – as long as it’s really about strategic competition, and not a package of mostly unrelated government giveaways. Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) offered no assurances this…
    Walter Lohman
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    American Conservatives Renew Push Against China’s ‘Developing Country’ Status at World Bank

    A group of conservative U.S. senators has introduced legislation that would prevent China from continuing to exploit its “developing country” status at the World Bank to access super low interest rate loans that are funded in part by American taxpayers—even as China continues its huge and aggressive debt-trap diplomacy “One Belt, One Road” development lending…
    James M. Roberts
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    No, NASA Shouldn’t Get in Bed With China’s Space Program

    The International Space Station is getting a new neighbor. The People’s Republic of China launched the Tianhe (Heavenly Harmony) module of its new space station on April 28. This module will serve as the core habitation area of the space station, which will be joined by several other modules for experiments and scientific activities. The…
    Dean Cheng
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    Why China Will Remain a Challenge Whether Its Economic Reform Policies Succeed or Fail

    A former deputy managing director of the International Monetary Fund recently warned that China would face huge structural problems in its economy as Beijing falls back on its old playbook to try to grow its economy. We can’t disagree with this timely, candid assessment by former IMF senior economist Zhu Min. “In 2021, structural reform…
    Anthony B. Kim
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    Why Biden’s China Strategy Is Destined for Failure

    The U.S. relationship with China under the Biden administration is off to a rocky start if the first high-level meeting between the two nations is any indicator. President Joe Biden, who cast himself as someone who would smooth relationships with foreign adversaries, can’t have been happy to see the American delegation embarrassed by the Chinese during a recent summit in…
    Tim Murtaugh
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    Chinese-Made Drones in US Are Spying on Us. Congress Must Put an End to This.

    It’s a basic concept of national security: Don’t invite a hostile nation to imbed its gifts into the innermost sanctums of your society. That was true long before the Trojans wheeled the Greek’s gift of a horse into the city of Troy some 3,000 years ago, and it is no less true today. Still, like…
    Charlotte Y. Santomero
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    US Far Left, Chinese Communist Party Are Ideological Kissing Cousins

    Don’t be surprised when China’s leaders talk down to top Biden administration officials, whether at a meeting last month in Alaska or elsewhere, going out of their way to cast the United States as a racist den of inequity. That is, after all, how our elites and educators describe the country to our students constantly….
    Mike Gonzalez
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    China Continues to Show Its Contempt for US

    Last week in Anchorage, Alaska, Chinese diplomats dressed down Secretary of State Antony Blinken and national security adviser Jake Sullivan. Both seem stunned by the broadsides. Not since newly elected President John Kennedy was humiliated at the Vienna summit in June 1961 by USSR strongman Nikita Khrushchev have American diplomats been so roughly manhandled by…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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    China Threat Looms Large for Biden Administration, Freshman Senator Says

    Sen. Bill Hagerty, a freshman Republican from Tennessee, is a businessman who served as U.S. ambassador to Japan during the Trump administration. Hagerty joins “The Daily Signal Podcast” to describe how former President Donald Trump stood up to China. He also predicts what’s in store for the U.S.-China relationship under President Joe Biden. “China has…
    Rachel del Guidice
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    Rep. Ralph Norman Says China Paramount Threat

    Rep. Ralph Norman, R-S.C., says that China will only continue to be a growing threat as President Joe Biden’s administration continues. With regard to what China has “done to this country with the coronavirus, there’s no repercussions under this administration … to hold them accountable,” Norman says. What is the proper framework to combat China?  Norman joins…
    Rachel del Guidice
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    Transparency Still Needed for China’s Influence on US Universities

    The way President Joe Biden handles U.S. relations with China will be closely watched and judged.   In the early going, the president seems to want to stay on a course framed by the recognition that we are once more in an era of great-power competition. For that, the Biden team should be praised. However, it’s what the…
    James Carafano
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    In Disappointing Debut by Biden, G-7 Barely Mentions Bad Actor China

    President Joe Biden spoke to a hastily thrown together virtual meeting of the Group of Seven last week.  Given the short duration of Friday’s summit and its lack of any real substance, it seemed to have been organized for the sole purpose of giving the new president a platform from which to proclaim to the…
    James M. Roberts
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    How China Would Benefit From a Key Change to International Monetary Fund Policies

    Rep. French Hill, R-Ark., recently wrote an op-ed for The Wall Street Journal on House Democrats’ efforts to require the International Monetary Fund to issue special drawing rights to all member countries. What is the agenda and goal here? “All the Third World countries that [China has] loaned money to over the last 10 years…
    Rachel del Guidice
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    China’s War With the World

    Americans get to elect their presidents. Not so in China. We may have moved from the 45th commander in chief to the 46th, and the attendant changes already are legion, given the dozens of executive orders issued by President Joe Biden. But our relationship with China, and the man who recently made himself leader for…
    Sebastian Gorka
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    Cotton, Rubio Blast Biden Over Decision on China’s Confucius Institutes at Colleges

    Two Republican senators on Tuesday blasted President Joe Biden for withdrawing a proposed rule that would require U.S. schools to disclose their partnerships with Confucius Institutes, which some U.S. officials and lawmakers have alleged serve as front groups for the Chinese Communist Party. Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton and Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, both known as…
    Chuck Ross
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    Will Biden Force Taxpayers to Fund Massive International Monetary Fund Bailout of China?

    Last year, The Heritage Foundation analyzed the risk to American taxpayers from a plan pushed by progressives and the international left to massively increase the quantity of the International Monetary Fund’s special drawing rights, or SDRs—a type of international reserve currency. Under the Biden administration, those fears may soon be realized. And which country would…
    James M. Roberts
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    China’s Economy Is Mostly Unfree and Likely to Stay That Way

    The People’s Republic of China often pays lip service to reforming its bloated, inefficient state-owned enterprises. Unfortunately, reforms rarely pan out. When China began to emerge from the dark ages of the Cultural Revolution in the late 1970s, progress in reforming state-owned enterprises, particularly in the form of consolidating state control of large state-owned enterprises…
    Anthony B. Kim
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    Christmas Shoppers Beware: Chinese Slave Labor Is on the Rise

    As Americans peruse store aisles and websites in search of Christmas gifts this year, many may not be aware of a sinister and growing problem with the products they are buying: If it was made in China, there’s a good chance that it was produced through slave labor. Ken Cuccinelli, acting deputy secretary of the…
    Dan Hart
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    How the Chinese Communist Party Robs Children of Their Religious Faith

    The U.S. State Department on Dec. 7 designated China a “country of particular concern” for its systematic, egregious, and ongoing violations of the religious freedom of its citizens. The Chinese Communist Party has rightly been under scrutiny for its persecution of religious groups, including the internment of Uighurs in concentration camps in Xinjiang and the…
    Sydney Kochan
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    Pelosi Defends Swalwell After His Ties to Alleged Chinese Spy Are Revealed

    House Speaker Nancy Pelosi backed Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., on Thursday in response to revelations of his interactions with an alleged Chinese spy, accusing the GOP of harping on the issue to distract from QAnon. “I don’t have any concern about Mr. Swalwell,” Pelosi, D-Calif., told reporters during her weekly press conference Thursday morning. “I…
    Andrew Trunsky
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