China Calls Second COVID-19 Origin Inquiry ‘Arrogance Towards Science,’ White House Says Reaction ‘Irresponsible’ and ‘Dangerous’
Spokespersons from Beijing and Washington engaged in rhetoric on July 22 after the Communist Party rejected a World Health Organization call for a second Wuhan-based investigation into origins of SARS-CoV-2, the pathogen that causes Coronavirus...
Former US General Criticizes Afghanistan Withdrawal, China Seeks Cooperation With Taliban
Retired General David Petraeus, a former American military commander in Afghanistan, believes withdrawing troops from the nation is a mistake. In an interview with CNN, the general stated that the situation on the ground was...
US Restarts Trade Talks With Taiwan Despite Beijing’s Opposition, Raises Pork and Beef Issue
On June 29th, representatives from the United States and Taiwan held trade talks for the first time in five years. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) disapproved, believing that the island nation is a Chinese province...
Chinese National Handed 3.5 Years in Prison for Attempt to Obtain Maritime Raiding Craft for Reverse Engineering
A Chinese national has been sentenced to 42 months in prison after pleading guilty to charges arising after his company lied to manufacturers during an attempted purchase of military-grade combat-use seacraft with multi-fuel engines for...
‘Don’t Come To America’: Biden Official Warns Cubans Fleeing Regime
Alejandro N. Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security, warned in a July 13 press conference that people from Cuba and Haiti should not attempt to sail to the United States as they flee their countries. Both...
Falun Gong Practitioners Rally in Washington for End to Beijing’s Persecution as 22nd Anniversary Looms
The month of July is host to one of the most solemn and tragic anniversaries in the history of human society: the beginning of the 22-year-long persecution of the 100 million practitioners of Falun Gong,...
US Increasing Surveillance of Chinese Submarines: PRC Think Tank
A Beijing think tank stated in a recently published report that the United States is escalating its surveillance of Chinese submarine activity in the South China Sea, in yet another example of rising tensions between...
China and America’s Fate: A Conversation Between Simone Gao and Mike Pompeo
We have a sense that America is at risk. We see it day after day as stories of cyberattacks, congressional debates, coronavirus devastation, and social unrest overwhelm our news outlets. And we wonder where we...
Economic Talks in Washington Strengthen US-Taiwan Relations
On Friday, Nov. 20, Taiwan officials participated in the island state’s first Economic Prosperity Partnership (EPP) Dialogue with the United States in Washington, D.C. Recent months have seen continuous relationship-building interactions between the U.S. and...