China has set a target of approximately 5% economic growth in 2023, its lowest target in over 30 years while increasing its defense budget. What Happened: President Xi Jinping is seeking to restore …
Monthly Archives For March 2023
China blocking U.S. investigation of COVID-19 origins, lawmakers assert
Formerly maligned as a conspiracy theory, the notion that COVID-19 originated in the lab has increasingly gained traction among major government agencies such as the Department of Energy and the FBI.
Investigation launched after man in China allegedly forced to eat feces after torturing cats to death
Chinese authorities have launched an investigation into a videoed attack on a man suspected of abusing his adopted cats to death and sharing the act on social media. The incident occurred on Feb. 25 when…
Speaker McCarthy to meet Taiwan’s president in US to avoid escalating tensions with China: report
The president of Taiwan, Tsai Ing-wen, will meet with U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy in California instead of in Taipei in hopes of preventing tensions from rising with China, a report says.
China will use the Whole Nation Approach to become Self Reliant and Combat US
Chinese Vice-Premiere Liu He said that to solve the semiconductor crisis, China must maintain a “whole nation” approach.
Biden’s mining NIMBY-ism fuels China’s critical minerals dominance
Rather than the minerals needed to power renewable energy technologies, the refining of president Biden’s NIMBY energy policy is producing fiscal waste.
Republican senators ask US intelligence chief for evidence behind latest assessment of Covid-19 pandemic origins
Eight Republican senators are pressing Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines to provide them with the raw materials that informed the intelligence community’s latest assessment on the origins …
China dismisses reported U.S. concern over spying cargo cranes as “overly paranoid”
As a new fear over possible Chinese intel-gathering on U.S. soil emerges, U.S. business leaders in Beijing watch the People’s Congress for clues about the year ahead.
China dismisses American concerns about ‘spy cranes’ as ‘paranoia’
A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson dismissed concerns that cranes manufactured in China could be used to spy on U.S. ports, claiming the theory was “paranoia.” …
China Tower ends 2022 with 2.05 million telecom towers
In its financial release, China Tower said it had completed approximately 745,000 5G base stations during 2022.
Big Tech is a big deal in the strategic competition with China
I testified before the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee on the state of the U.S. technology and innovation sector and what that portends for the nation’s strategic competition with China …
U.S. law firm Quinn Emanuel bets on Beijing amid geopolitical tensions
U.S. law firm Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan on Monday said it has opened an office in Beijing, expanding its presence in the Chinese mainland amid heightened U.S.-China tensions.
After 2020, 2022 Second-Worst Year For China’s Economy Since 1970s: Report
The Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) two sessions of top political meeting started on Saturday, March 4, and are expected to last for two weeks. The regime has set its 2023 gross domestic product (GDP) …
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