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On Monday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Special Report,” Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) said that China is “trying to set the stage one day for a potential invasion and annexation of Taiwan, which would be a catastrophe for American interests.” And the U.S. “should be perfectly clear to the Chinese Communists, we will defend Taiwan if China tries to invade and forcibly annex it.” Cotton stated, “Joe Biden is showing weakness around the globe and our adversaries are probing and pressing. I mean, China is the biggest threat we face in the world right now, Bret, it’s not just a security threat, but an economic threat as well. What they’ve done in terms of kind of probing Taiwan’s airspace is, in my opinion, trying to set the stage one day for a potential invasion and annexation of Taiwan, which would be a catastrophe for American interests.” He added, “Bret, we should end the ambiguity. We should be perfectly clear to the Chinese Communists, we will defend Taiwan if China tries to … [Read more...] about Cotton: China Setting the Stage to Invade Taiwan, We Need to Be Clear We’ll Defend Taiwan

Verbally, Europe and the U.S. are adopting the same attitude towards China at this point. A few years ago, the European China strategy attributed three roles to China: partner (for example, concerning climate change), economic competitor and strategic rival (considering geopolitical ambitions of Beijing and divergent ideological systems). U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken phrased the attitude towards China as follows: “competitive when it should be, collaborative when it can be and adversarial when it must be.” China has been the main driver of the global economy in recent decades. It played a key role in shaping globalization and provided the West with the opportunity to keep up ultra-loose fiscal and monetary policies due to downward pressure that Chinese labor and products have exerted on global inflation . China first and foremost represented an economic opportunity — geopolitical concerns would be dealt with at a later stage. Later has become … [Read more...] about Politics and economics have come to a head for China, the US and the EU

As March ended, the BBC’s Beijing correspondent, John Sudworth , left China following escalating harassment by the Communist Party there. Sudworth, a nine-year veteran of the BBC’s China desk, since 2018 has investigated the Communist Party’s genocide in Xinjiang, publishing multiple long-form pieces on the concentration and forced labor camps that China has built to persecute Muslim Uyghurs. The Chinese foreign ministry expressed shock at Sudworth’s departure, claiming that he had not informed the authorities of his intention to leave or explained his reasoning. Of course, the harassment continued up until Sudworth and his family boarded their flight for democratic, capitalist Taiwan — Chinese plainclothes police officers followed them through the departure hall , observing them up until they boarded their aircraft. Sudworth is not the first journalist to provoke the Chinese Communist Party’s ire. In March 2020 — not coincidentally, precisely as the COVID-19 pandemic … [Read more...] about The unappreciated power of Radio Free Asia: Telling the truth to China’s people

KASHGAR, China — A human rights group appealed to the United Nations on Monday to investigate allegations China’s government is committing crimes against humanity in the Xinjiang region. Human Rights Watch cited reports of the mass detention of Muslims, a crackdown on religious practices and other measures against minorities in the northwestern region. It said they amount to crimes against humanity as defined by the treaty that established the International Criminal Court. China is not a member of the court and could use its veto power as a permanent U.N. Security Council member to block action against Chinese officials, Human Rights Watch said in a report. However, the New York-based group said the U.N. Human Rights Commission should create a body to investigate the charges, identify those responsible and provide a road map to hold them accountable. More than 1 million people have been confined to camps in Xinjiang, according to foreign governments and researchers. Authorities … [Read more...] about Group urges UN to probe China for crimes against humanity

close Video Ratcliffe: China aims to 'test Biden's leadership,' level of 'pushback' Former Director of National Intelligence joins 'Life, Liberty & Levin' to discuss the Biden administration's foreign policy approach Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday called for more equitable management of global affairs and, in an implicit rejection of U.S. dominance, said governments shouldn’t impose rules on others. Xi’s speech at an economic forum comes amid rising tension with China’s neighbors and Washington over its strategic ambitions and demands for a bigger role in making trade and other rules. Without mentioning the United States, Xi criticized "unilateralism of individual countries" and warned against decoupling, a reference to fears U.S.-Chinese tension over technology and security will split industries and markets into separate, less productive spheres with incompatible standards. Chinese President Xi Jinping delivers a … [Read more...] about China’s Xi warns against ‘unilateralism’ as tensions with US, neighbors rise