There is a superpower that is groaning under erratic one-man rule that tramples on state institutions and flouts the constitution and the rule of law. Unfortunately for China hawks, that country is not China. Donald J. Trump tried his hand at stopping China’s global telecom surge by quashing a big-ticket acquisition in the US telecoms […]
The National People’s Congress of the People’s Republic of China revised the state constitution to remove term limits for the office of president of the PRC. This vote gives Xi Jinping the legal basis to become president for more than two terms and, possibly for life. The term limits affair also served as an excuse […]
Is Donald Trump working for Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin? As this crazy week winds on, that’s what the crazy people are starting to say…and what some sane people are starting to think. Trump isn’t following the China hawk playbook very closely, and the question of why he isn’t is starting to pop up. Is […]
This week on China Watch, the world cries “tyranny” as PRC moves to abolish term limits for Xi Jinping. China Watch says, Hmm. Term limits. Interesting. We look at how succession issues are handled in China. And point out that term limits have brought the United States to the brink of disaster. How ‘bout that? […]
It’s Chinese New Year and time for our special entertainment edition of China Watch. We document the atrocities at the CCTV New Year’s Gala! Racism! Outrage! And the back story on why China went blackface to show its love for Africa! Then we look at witch hunts against foreign influence. Do you know why witch […]
American diplomacy wipes out at the 2018 Winter Olympics! The Korean unified team is on parade as Mike Pence sits and stews. And American ignorance on parade as so-called experts struggle with the baffling hostility between Japan and South Korea! China Watch offers an exclusive look at the injustice at the heart of the Japan-South […]
The split between the Republic of Korea on one side, and the United States and Japan on the other, has become glaringly apparent at the Winter Olympic Games in Pyeongchang.
ROK President Moon Jae in has broken with Donald Trump and Shinzo Abe in pursuing direct outreach to the DPRK—the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, a.k.a. North Korea.
The US and Japan have responded with snubs, sitdowns, and calls for engagement to be abandoned after the Olympics and a return to an exclusive policy of harsh sanctions and coercion.
Nukes are coming back to Asia!
America’s Nuclear Posture Review is out, and it offers a blueprint for a nuclear war with China. China’s not gonna like it, you’re not gonna like it, but it’s the Pentagon’s miracle cure for declining US conventional strength in Asia.
In this special episode, China Watch tells the story that Errol Morris missed in his acclaimed documentary Wormwood.
The film has focused attention on the mysteries surrounding the death of government scientist Frank Olson. Olson fell 13 stories to his death from a New York hotel window in 1953. He died after—but possibly not because—he was dosed with LSD by the CIA. Why Frank Olson died—and maybe why he had to die—leads us to one of the most persistent controversies of Cold War America.
This week on China Watch, America aches for its manhood measuring moment in Asia; but will China oblige? Pacific Command’s Admiral Harry Harris is promising big doings in the Indo-Pacific—you know, that region that isn’t supposed to have China in it—in 2018. Will the Chinese rise to Admiral Harris’s bait prematurely…or will the PRC continues to dodge direct confrontation until it has built its way to military dominance?