Much of the gloss has faded from China's and Chairman Xi Jinping's dream of an irrepressible rise to the pinnacle of world power. Poor handling of the COVID-19 crisis, a struggling economy, difficult demographic realities, social disillusionment at home, aggrieved neighbors over China's poor
The People's Liberation Army (PLA), China's party-controlled military, has been hit by yet another high-profile scandal. Chairman Xi Jinping has been charge of the PLA for twelve years, but the organization seems little cleaner than when he started his ferocious anti-graft campaign.
Admiral Miao Hua (69) heads the Political Work Department of the CMC. He is considered a close protege of Xi Jinping, and had served as a political officer in the army in Fujian when Xi was a local official there in the 1990s and early 2000s.
Taiwan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) said China issued an "unmistakable false" statement concerning Taiwan after Singapore Prime Minister Lawrence Wong met with Chinese President Xi Jinping on November 15 on the sidelines of Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Peru.
Chairman Xi Jinping likes to use the term "common destiny of all mankind" or "community with a shared future for humanity," but what kind of destiny does he really envision for our world? Xi desperately needs to censor the books you read and control the T-shirt you wear, for one thing.
Coast Guard facilities, and Department of Energy National Labs, among other locations, remain off CFIUS's list of sensitive sites and thereby vulnerable to foreign adversary exploitation
Chinese ambitions - "the grand rejuvenation of the Chinese nation", as Chairman Xi Jinping calls it - are almost unbridled in their scope. As well as seeking to dominate nearby territory such as Taiwan, the mountainous border with India, international waters in the South China Sea and the ic
Amid international scrutiny for human rights violations, China is now attempting to present Xinjiang as a tourist hotspot, a strategy orchestrated and funded by the Xi Jinping administration, wrote Foreign Affairs & Security Minister of the East Turkistan Government in Exile on X.
Xi is heavily involved in military appointments and promotions, supposedly of candidates who are reliable, competent and loyal. Yet with so much cash being splashed around in ever-increasing defence budgets, some high-up officers in the PLA have seized the opportunity to profit personally.