For years, Hong Kong has dominated the Economic Freedom Index produced by the Fraser Institute and co-published by the Cato Insititute. Now, after increasingly restrictive controls being placed on the city-state by China, Hong Kong has fallen from that top position. In its place, Singapore has emerged as the leader on the Economic Freedom Index. […]
The Damage Is Just Unfolding
In the Manhattan Contrarian, Francis Menton shows how China’s system has” enormous disadvantages, mostly self-inflicted by the ruling Communist Party, that show every prospect of greatly hindering and undermining its ongoing economic advance.” China’s relative new-found wealth has allowed it to keep up the illusion of productiveness for years, issuing debt to support make-work projects […]
Is the Sun Finally Setting on China’s Real Estate Market?
Who could have imagined that after building “ghost cities” to boost GDP, China’s real estate market could potentially end in a crisis? After years of trouble, is the sun finally setting on China’s real estate market? George Magnus examines the current state of China’s real estate woes in The Spectator, writing: Once, not that long […]
China Deflation Signals Warning for Global Economy
Consumer prices fell 0.3% in July in China. That’s surprising news for an economy that is supposed to be recovering from long Covid lockdowns. Stella Yifan Xie reports in The Wall Street Journal: Tepid consumer demand and rising economic concerns in the world’s second-largest economy have tipped China into deflationary territory for the first time […]
COMMUNIST BLOCK: Congresswoman Wants to Stop Chinese Farmland Purchases
Rep. Beth Van Duyne, a congresswoman from Texas, has introduced a bill known as the Protecting American Farmland Act (HR 3996) that would prevent purchases of American farmland by “countries of concern,” including China, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, and Venezuela. Chinese purchases of American farmland have been accelerating, worrying many. Read the statement on the […]
Tensions Rising in the Taiwan Strait
In The Blaze, Joseph Mackinnon reports on the rising tensions between China and the United States in the Taiwan Strait. He writes: Communist China is becoming increasingly brazen with its anti-American military provocations. Over the weekend, a Chinese warship cut in front of the USS Chung-Hoon, an American destroyer, which was conducting a routine […]
EU Could Sanction Chinese Companies Over Russian War Supplies
The European Union is considering sanctions against certain Chinese companies believed to be supplying Russia with materials it uses in its efforts against Ukraine. Laurence Norman reports in The Wall Street Journal: The European Union is considering sanctioning eight Chinese companies over Russia’s war in Ukraine, diplomats said, with the bloc looking to target firms they […]
BEYOND RUSSIA: America Strengthens India Ties to Counter China
UPDATE 4.20.23: Admiral John Christopher Aquilino recently told a hearing on Indo-Pacific National Security Challenges that the United States and India face the same adversary in the region, China. WION’s Abhinav Singh reports: The US is providing assistance to India to counter its adversary China on the border areas and also develop defence industrial base, […]
Is War with China Inevitable?
At the Unz Review, Ron Unz considers the inevitability of war with China, as one major power seeks to supplant another. He draws historical context from the work of Graham Allison. Unz begins: Over the last couple of years I’d begun seeing our growing conflict with China described as an inevitable consequence of “the Thucydides […]
Can the West Loosen China’s Grip on Rare Earth Metals Production?
Many of the minerals necessary to build modern technologies are produced in China, and Western leaders are concerned about the national security ramifications of such deep consolidation of vital resources. In Foreign Policy, Christina Lu discusses the efforts of the United States and its allies to reduce reliance on Chinese rare earth metals production. Lu […]
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