China's accelerating fertility crisis - The Japan Times japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/0…

Grateful to Rabbi Cooper of Simon Wiesenthal Center for joining me this #Passover to call for an end to the modern-day enslavement of #Uyghurs by #CCP as #Jews around the world celebrate freedom from #slavery and tyranny. HUGO BOSS Corporate Volkswagen GermanForeignOffice Secretary Antony Blinken newsweek.com/hugo-boss-volk…

Myanmar allows China to get access to Middle East hydrocarbons without going thru the Malacca Strait chokepoint. No way it won't get involved in the escalating conflict one way or other. npr.org/2021/03/29/982…

The U.S. is committed to end the race to the bottom on corporate tax rates and prevent corporations from shifting jobs overseas. A core piece of our national security strategy is national competitiveness: creating jobs & raising wages at home, not incentivizing tax havens.

"In the near future, just 12 management professionals—meaning a dozen people, not a dozen management committees or firms, mind you—will likely have 'practical power over the majority of U.S. public companies.'” Such a good @annielowrey piece: theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

China's hypersonic missile technology: designed in America, manufactured in Taiwan. This reporting from Ellen Nakashima & Gerry Shih is scary stuff. 1/x washingtonpost.com/national-secur…

Theresa Fallon China's new tourism slogan "We probably won't kidnap you!"

important story and hats off to zachary for putting in the work to pull this all together

Op-ed for Asia Times: "Europe’s crusade to fend off Chinese interference falls short" asiatimes.com/2021/05/europe…

A new report shows almost the entire global solar panel industry is linked to #UyghurForcedLabour. We're calling for the #solarindustry & governments to act now so that the global transition to clean energy doesn't rely on Uyghur forced labour. Read more: antislavery.org/solar-panel-in…

In response to China declining to accept Chinese removed by the US, US suspends student visa issuance to children of senior Chinese gov officials and police officers. Hua Chunying says the US "disrupts normal exchange of people from the two countries for political reasons"

It appears there's quite a bit of interest in China's population trends nowadays. I also saw a call for resurrecting the Far Eastern Economic Review. I am thus pleased to share my old article on how Chinese demographic trends might affect Chinese governance,

Have you ever wondered how the Chinese Communist Party's censorship regime works at home and abroad? What follows is a short thread 🧵 /1

“The best China policy really is a good Asia policy.” Kurt Campbell's very insightful and no-nonsense comments on the harsh *realities* of US-China relations. Very much the opposite of dreamy WAPO Op-Ed writers. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

"Japan is America’s only reliable security partner in Northeast Asia. Together, these two allies must assume the leading role in creating a deterrent sufficient to protect the region from a cross-strait conflict." Must read piece by Nobukatsu Kanehara. nippon.com/en/in-depth/a0…

People digging up lots of old Jimmy Lai and Apple Daily content given this week's news. In English, this is one of the most interesting pieces I've seen. A very early look inside the Apple Daily newsroom: facebook.com/TheBritishHong…

"America's national security elite came prepared to talk about how to push back on Russia without triggering World War III, but the Chinese ambassador wanted them to know that it wasn’t Moscow who would bring that thunder, it was Beijing." My latest. puck.news/aspens-world-w…

"An entire population is besieged and under attack, denied access to the essentials for survival, bombed in their homes, shelters, hospitals and places of worship. This is unacceptable." ... "We renew our call for the immediate and unconditional release of all civilians held