The U.S. State Department has approved a $300 million sale of equipment to help maintain Taiwan’s tactical information systems. The United States is bound by law to provide Taiwan, which China claims as its territory, with the means to defend.
The CCP uses united front work “to shape its political environment, including to influence other countries’ policy toward [China] and to gain access to advanced foreign technology,” the memo says, adding that it is carried out “by an extensive and well-documented network of organizations.”
U.S. officials began expressing concern this week about a new outbreak in respiratory illnesses in China that have sent a surge of children to the hospital.
The People’s Bank of China and the Saudi Central Bank signed a local currency swap agreement worth 50 billion yuan ($6.93 billion) or 26 billion Saudi riyals, both banks said Monday, as bilateral relations continued to gather momentum.
The China National Narcotics Control Commission announced on Friday the Biden administration has lifted sanctions against the Institute of Forensic Science (IFS) at China’s Ministry of Public Security. IFS is complicit in human rights violations and abuses committed in China’s campaign of repression, mass arbitrary detention, forced labor and high-technology surveillance.
The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) released a report this week that found China has become a leading power in operating seaports across the globe, as well as “the world’s largest trading country and second-largest economy.”
Qatar’s state-owned QatarEnergy corporation announced a massive deal this weekend with the Chinese regime-owned company Sinopec to provide Beijing with 3 million tons of liquified natural gas (LNG) a year for the next 27 years – and a stake in Qatar’s North Field South (NFS) gas project.
The Chinese government on Monday reported its first-ever quarterly decline in foreign direct investment (FDI), potentially a sign that “de-risking” initiatives from Western governments and corporations are cutting into Beijing’s bottom line.
Chinese state media on Sunday praised California Governor Gavin Newsom for a climate change agreement between his state and the city of Shanghai, signed during Newsom’s visit to China.
China is counting on the West becoming ever more dependent on solar panels and batteries, industries Beijing dominates with an iron fist.
China and Cuba have reportedly teamed up to transport Chinese nationals across the Atlantic Ocean’s Straits of Florida and smuggle them into the United States, according to a top Florida Republican lawmaker.