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What the US Achieved by Sailing Into the South China Sea
After months of discussion, and an interval of three years, the United States has finally matched actions to its verbal challenges of China’s island-building in the South China Sea. The destroyer USS Lassen (DDG-82) sailed within 12 nautical miles of the Chinese construction effort on Subi Reef in the Spratlys. When PACOM Commander Admiral Harry… -
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China Breaks Cyber Agreement: Congress Should Move Beyond “I Told You So” and Address the Problem
Last month, President Obama and President Xi Jinping of China announced that “neither country’s government will conduct or knowingly support cyber-enabled theft of intellectual property, including trade secrets or other confidential business information, with the intent of providing competitive advantages to companies or commercial sectors.” When the agreement was announced, The Heritage Foundation was incredibly… -
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Masters of Psychological Warfare: How the Chinese Are Winning a Secret War
The comprehensive nature of issues discussed during Xi Jinping’s visit once again illuminated the extent of China’s political and social influence in the United States. On October 6, The Heritage Foundation, in cooperation with The Project 2049 Institute, cosponsored the public program event “Influence Operations: Chinese Political Warfare in East Asia and Beyond.” The event… -
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Obama Settles for an Unbalanced Relationship Between US and China
Last week’s U.S.-China summit offers an object lesson in how President Obama conducts foreign policy. All the rhetoric, assumptions, and diplomatic tics of the Obama Doctrine are there. And the outcomes, as usual, are not good. For example, no matter how provocative China is, it must be, according to Obama, “engaged.” It may launch a devastating… -
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4 Highlights From Obama’s Ridiculous Cyber Agreement With China
Last week, the White House announced that the U.S. and China had agreed to stop cyber economic espionage and work together to stop cybercrime. Well, that was easy, wasn’t it? Too easy. The reality is that the president has just made another paper agreement that will do little to change the behavior of bad actors…. -
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Why China’s Human Rights Violations Do Matter
Xi Jinping is set to visit the United States this week for his first official state visit as president of China. While strategic concerns about cyber security and tensions in the South and East China Sea will inevitably overshadow broader, systemic human rights challenges, President Barack Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry must nonetheless… -
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A ‘State Visit’ for China’s President Sends All the Wrong Signals
The president of China, Xi Jinping, arrives in Washington tomorrow for a “state visit.” It is certainly appropriate for President Obama to meet with Xi in order to manage the differences between the U.S. and China and to explore areas of cooperation. There is too much at stake in a relationship between the world’s two… -
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Activist: China’s One-Child Policy Responsible for More Violence Against Women Than Any Other Policy
NASHUA, N.H.—The pro-life movement should be an international effort, according to Reggie Littlejohn, the president of Women’s Rights Without Frontiers. Speaking at the Bringing America Back to Life conference in New Hampshire, Littlejohn said that as the American abortion debate comes to the forefront of public discourse as we wrestle with the allegations that Planned… -
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China Just Sent a Message to America: Don’t Mess With Us
Napoleon Bonaparte is credited with saying some 200 years ago that “China is a sleeping giant. Let him sleep, for when he wakes, he will shake the world.” Pretty spot on, don’t you think? China’s stock market and questions about the Middle Kingdom’s economic future have certainly shaken up world markets in recent weeks, but… -
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Chinese Military Parade Sends Multiple Signals
In honor of the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II, the People’s Republic of China (PRC) staged a major military parade, featuring some 12,000 troops and major displays of new equipment. Prominent among these was the DF-21D, the so-called “carrier killer” anti-ship ballistic missile. The parading of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA)’s… -
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The Connection Between China’s Stock Market Collapse and Its Past Spectacular Growth
In mid-June, China’s Shanghai Composite Index was up a dazzling 60 percent since the beginning of the year. It was the highest level in more than six years. Some took it as a sign that the recent weakness in China’s economy would be short-lived. Yet it is only a little more than two months later,… -
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In Treaty Negotiations, Obama Administration Broke Own Red Line and Alienated China
CANCUN, Mexico – After China went Communist in the late 1940s, conservatives liked to ask “who lost China?” That same question occurred to me on Tuesday, when China made it clear that it’s not likely to sign or ratify the controversial Arms Trade Treaty any time soon. The answer to the question this time seems… -
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How US Should Respond to China’s Stock Market Collapse
To give perspective, China is the world’s second largest economy, as well as the second largest importer. It is the largest trading nation for 75 countries and is by far the largest importer of commodities in the world. Over the past seven years, China has accounted for an incredible one-third of global growth. But its… -
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Why China’s Economy Is Scaring the World, Explained in 90 Seconds
Stock markets in the United States plunged over the past week, and many are blaming a place far away from home: China. Investors around the world are worried about China’s struggling economy — and its own stock market crash. Why should Americans care about China’s economic struggles, and what does it mean for the rest… -
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China’s Economic Woes Jolt Global Stock Markets
U.S. stock markets plummeted Monday, furthering a global market decline that has eliminated nearly $10 trillion from international shares as concerns grow over China’s economic health. The Dow Jones industrial average plunged more than 1,000 points soon after trading began, continuing losses from last week that marked the worst for U.S. stocks in four years…. -
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Why The Chinese Stock Market Continues to Unravel
As the Chinese stock market unravels, liberal economists are eating their words on the supposed benefits of heavy government intervention in the financial sector. On Monday, the Shanghai stock index declined by 8.5 percent, the largest single-day drop in 8 years. Before this point, the government had already taken extraordinary steps to further preserve the… -
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How Obama’s Poor Judgment Led to the Chinese Hack of OPM
The maxim that “personnel is policy” transcends partisan affiliations and political labels. Every president, including President Barack Obama, has the authority to staff federal agencies with loyal political appointees. Given the deep pool of experienced talent from which presidents can draw, philosophical alignment and management competence are not mutually exclusive. Presidents place America at risk… -
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Why I’d Never Invest in the Chinese Stock Market (And It’s Not Just Because of the New Decline)
From the summer of 2009 through 2012, I was an American economist living in Beijing. Although an avid stock investor, I have never once owned a Chinese listed company. Let me tell you why. Traditionally, Chinese households have had (basically) two places to put their savings: the banking system and residential real estate. With housing… -
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Chinese Say They’re Just Watching the Weather From Islands in South China Sea
Having antagonized much of the region with its island building in the South China Sea, as demonstrated by the loud chorus of concern heard at the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore several weeks ago, Beijing is now claiming that the islands are intended for weather observation. “The construction of infrastructure for observation and communication is the… -
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Hong Kong Rejects Communist China’s Bogus Election Plan
The people of Hong Kong have once again given the world a lesson in democracy and liberty, this time by rejecting a bogus election plan hatched by communists in the People’s Republic of China. This is the gist of confusing events that took place Thursday in the former British colony. Lawmakers in the mini-legislature, the…