Gordon Chang

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  • Aug 7, 2024
    Just hours after a bomb planted in a Hamas guest house in Tehran killed Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh, the Chinese foreign ministry issued its comment about the...
  • Jul 24, 2024
    China’s leaders on Thursday announced lofty economic goals for the coming years, repeated Chinese Communist Party (CCP) buzz phrases and offered up traditional Marxist jargon...
  • Jul 12, 2024
    As NATO members gathered this week in Washington to celebrate an alliance milestone, troops from two of Russia's closest partners, China and Belarus, began a joint exercise...
  • Jul 11, 2024
    On Sunday, hundreds of Kenyans flooded into the center of Nairobi, demanding President William Ruto step down.    
  • Jul 8, 2024
    Before serving as defense minister from 2018 to 2023, General Wei was the first chief of the Rocket Force, which has responsibility for almost all of the country's nuclear weapons....
  • Jun 22, 2024
    The Financial Times on Saturday reported that Xi Jinping in April of last year told European Union Commission President Ursula von der Leyen that...
  • Jun 10, 2024
    President Joe Biden said in his May 28 Time interview that China's "got an economy that's on the brink."  
  • May 30, 2024
    Critics and supporters are battling it out after President Joe Biden announced that he was increasing tariffs on $18 billion of Chinese products. Just about everyone...
  • Apr 10, 2024
    Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen was in Beijing this week for four days of talks over a range of topics, particularly China's predatory trade practices. Despite persistent...
  • Feb 12, 2024
    Officials from China and Russia met in Beijing this month and had "a detailed exchange of assessments" on the use of artificial intelligence for military purposes. "The meeting...
  • Jan 23, 2024
    “The situation on the Korean peninsula is more dangerous than it has been at any time since early June 1950,” wrote noted North Korea researchers Robert Carlin...
  • Jan 5, 2024
    Forget looking at what North Korea's Kim Jong Un is doing or plans to do. He’s out of Juche. Look instead to what Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin have in store for...