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THE MOST SERIOUS THREAT WE FACE IS...
The Power Grid being hacked/disabled if at war.
“If the grid went down for a long enough time…
90 percent of the U.S. population would die from starvation, lack of water, and social disruption. We are talking about total devastation.”
-- Ambassador Henry Cooper, Former Director of U.S. Strategic Defense
What China is 'DOING' Signals they are...
Preparing for War
REPORT: Military and Security Developments Involving the People's Republic of China | U.S. Dept. of Defense - Oct 19, 2023
VIDEO: Unpacking Recent Developments in the Chinese Military | CSIS - Oct 31, 2023
LATEST
China's Military Trains Using Mock-Ups of Taiwan Buildings
March 27, 2024 | 3 min | TaiwanPlus (Public TV)
FEATURED
China’s Military is Growing – Fast
March 2022 | 14 min | Bloomberg
This Chinese Military Unit Runs One of the World's Largest Missile Forces
Jan 23, 2024 | 7 min | Wall St Journal
RESEARCH & ANALYSIS
China Prepares for War: A Timeline
July 2023 | 40 min + Q&A | Hudson Institute
Speaker: Kyle Bass
CHINESE WAR NATIONALISM
"KILL AMERICANS!" "KILL JAPANESE!"
- China's New Education Campaign in School
June 2023 | 20min | Matthew Tye
Understanding China-Japan Relations
China Continues to Stage Aggressive Military Drills off Taiwan’s Coast
April 2023 | 3 min | CNN
China’s Foreign Minister Warns of War
March 2023 | 3 min | Sky News Australia
China Fires Missiles Towards Taiwan Strait in Drill after Pelosi Visit
Aug 2022 | 7 min | CNN
China Builds Mock-Ups of U.S. Warships for Target Practice
Nov 2021 | 2 min | News Nation
What would you do if you were serious about going to war? Practice!
China has built full-scale replica mock-ups for 'practice troop invasions' of important Taiwanese buildings including of the Presidential Palace. It's also built full-size missile practice targets of a U.S. air-craft carrier and actual warships - and full-scale mock-ups of a real Taiwanese Air Base, Airport, and Military Naval Base.
2023-Aug | AP - China releases TV documentary showcasing army’s ability to attack Taiwan
2022-May | Taipei Times - China might have built mockups of Suao port; Defense Post
2021-Nov | AP - Satellite images show China built mock-ups of US warships
2021-Oct | news.com.au - Proof China has been practising for years for a war
2020-May | The War Zone - Review of Satellite Images
2015-Jul | WSJ - Chinese state television ran footage of troops storming a mock-up of Taiwan's presidential palace
2006-Aug | Foreign Policy Magazine - China builds a mock Taiwanese air base
Official Data 2007-2023 (FY Oct-Sept)
Waves of Chinese Nationals at Southern Border
Sept 2023 | 6 min | News Nation
Fox captures video of Chinese Nationals being released in Texas amid migrant surge
March 2023 | 6 min | Fox Business
How Western Countries and the Indo-Pacific Region are...
Preparing for War
Mini Documentary
War with China:
Are We Closer than We Think?
Sept 2021 | 41 min | 60 Minutes Australia
AUKUS is a new trilateral security partnership for the Indo-Pacific region between Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Announced on September 15, 2021.
Who are the Uyghurs?
PBS Frontline: China's mass persecution of the Uyghurs
Mini Documentary
Inside the Battle for Taiwan
and China's looming War Threat
Nov 2022 | 31 min | 60 Minutes Australia
Will China Invade Taiwan in 2027?
A Taiwanese Perspective
Aug 2023 | 19 min | TaiwanPlus (Public TV)
ASIAN ANALYSIS
How the U.S. Military is Planning for a War with China
July 2023 | 21 min | Johnny Harris
SOUTH CHINA SEA
The Real Top Gun: US Military in Heated Stand-off with China
May 2023 | 20 min | 60 Minutes Australia
U.S. Major General: “China's Military Buildup Is Astonishing”
May 2023 | 15 min | Wall St Journal
PACIFIC
Go Inside one of the Most Powerful Warships in the World
April 2023 | 6 min | CNN
USS Mississippi
SOUTH CHINA SEA
Is the U.S. Navy ready? How the U.S. is Preparing amid a Naval Buildup in China
March 2023 | 27 min | 60 Minutes
US Pacific Fleet | USS Nimitz
DETAILED ANALYSIS
How the U.S. is Training Taiwanese Troops
March 2023 | 48 min | Taiwan Talks (Public TV)
PACIFIC
U.S. Building Up Military Presence in Western Pacific
Feb 2023 | 4 min | CBS News
USS Nimitz
Analysis & Commentary
Asian Geopolitics and Beyond
with Congressman Mike Gallagher (R-WI),
Chairman of the House Select Committee on the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) [on YouTube]
Nov 14, 2023 | 1 hr | Hover Institute & Fox Nation
SEE ALSO: CCP, PLA, Wang Huning, United Front, TSMC
Can We Compare China to Nazi Germany?
April 2020 | 10 min | Matthew Tye
How America is Pushing China out of the Internet
Nov 17, 2023 | 24 min | CaspianReport
China's Economy is Failing- and It's Way Worse Than You Thought
Nov 11, 2023 | 18 min | Matthew Tye
The Secret to Beating China
Aug 2023 | 7 min | ChinaUncensored
(an affiliate of The Epoch Times)
Why Australia and China Can't Quite Get Along
Aug 2022 | 19 min | Bloomberg
Can New Zealand Be Trusted When it Comes to China?
July 2021 | 15 min | China Unscripted
(an affiliate of The Epoch Times)
Why US Allies Might be Working AGAINST the US on China
July 2021 | 15 min | China Unscripted
(an affiliate of The Epoch Times)
China's Growing Influence in the World
SEE ALSO: China's 'Influence' Used to Silence Opponents Worldwide
China's growing influence in the world is providing them leverage, but for what? That is the question. Does this 'influence' - partnerships, cultural exchanges, and financial assistance help other countries? It depends - but for sure, it definitely helps China - and one should seriously ask the question how.
China's influence is naturally self-serving and even more so, manipulative and at times ruthless, since they are an authoritarian communist government pushing their own economic and political agendas. The Chinese Communist are very sensitive about their image - this is to be sure. A common fundamental to being their friend is to not not challenge or question them. One example is that they demand their friends not recognize or treat Taiwan as a sovereign independent nation. If you oppose them, you will be shut out and could be even persecuted, especially if you embarrass them.
WHAT IS POLITICAL WARFARE?
How China wages an Unseen War for Strategic Influence
Wikipedia Article
More about the CCP's United Front
Confucius Institutes - Global Influence of Schools
Confucius Institutes are a global 'cultural outreach' project of the Chinese Education Ministry used to identify and 'groom' Chinese sympathetic individuals at all levels of schooling. While it teaches forms of Chinese culture and language, it also teaches propaganda and combats anti-governmental sentiments. It is solely controlled and funded directly by the Chinese Communist Government and provides funding for staff, operations, materials, and student trips to China.
'Propaganda centres': Time to 'close down' Chinese-funded Confucius Institutes in Australia
Feb 2023 | 2 min | Sky News Australia
As West Shuts China's Confucius Institutes, More Open in Africa
Nov 2022 | 3 min | Voice of America
China’s Confucius Institutes Advance in Latin America
April 2022 | 4 min | Voice of America
Investigative Report on:
China's Confucius Institutes
March 2020 | 8 min | Full Measure
A look at Confucius Institutes in Canadian Schools
Nov 2019 | 3 min | CBC
Nebraska Confucius Institute: Education Abroad
Oct 2017 | 2 min | Univ of Nebraksa
SEE ALSO: 2020 News Report
Belt & Road Initiative - China Aid
The Belt & Road Initiative is the Communist Chinese Government's foreign infrastructure project that buys influence through business development with and loans to foreign governments. One of the conditions of this partnership is that they do not recognize Taiwan. China Aid is the foreign development and aid arm of the Communist Chinese Government.
China's Trillion Dollar Plan to Dominate Global Trade
April 2018 | 6 min | Vox
Military Bases and Commercial Ports Reveal Strategies to Extend Global Reach
Oct 2022 | 7 min | Wall St Journal
Inside the U.S. Strategy to Counter China’s Booming Network of Ports
May 2023 | 8 min | Wall St Journal
Is Sri Lanka a victim of Chinese 'debt traps'?
June 2022 | 7 min | BBC
Chinese Spy Ship Triggers Alarm Bells in Sri Lanka
Aug 2022 | 3 min | 7 News Australia
China has Invested Heavily in Europe. Not Everyone’s Convinced It was a Good Idea
Aug 2023 | 12 min | CNBC
How China Plans to Salvage Its Faltering Belt and Road Initiative
Oct 2022 | 6 min | Wall St Journal
South Pacific Islands
Pacific Islands to the north, northeast, and east of Australia.
CHINA BUYING INFLUENCE
Investigation: Why is China on The Move in the South Pacific?
Nov 2019 | 23 min | 60 Minutes Australia
CHINA BUYING INFLUENCE
Is China taking over the South Pacific?
June 2020 | 18 min | 60 Minutes Australia
China to send Police to the Solomon Islands
July 14, 2023 | 3 min | Sky News Australia
“We now have a country … just off the northeast coast of Australia that is sliding further and further into China’s orbit,” - Lincoln Parker
CHINA BUYING INFLUENCE
How Chinese Money is Buying Solomon Islands
Aug 2022 | 45 min | ABC News Australia
about Solomon Islands
CHINA PREPARING FOR WAR
TOO CLOSE TO HOME
China's new target in the battle to control the Pacific
July 2022 | 29 min | 60 Minutes Australia
CHINA BUYING INFLUENCE
Taiwan and China BATTLE Over Pacific Nation Solomon Islands
July 2021 | 21 min | China Unscripted
about Solomon Islands
TUVALU ISLANDS
Australia Gives Security Guarantee to Taiwan Ally Tuvalu
Nov 10, 2023 | 1 min | TaiwanPlus (Public TV)
About Tuvalu Islands
TUVALU ISLANDS
Samuelu Teo, Speaker of Tuvalu Parliament
Beijing Always Tries to Lure Us Away from Taiwan
Oct 2023 | 2 min | TaiwanPlus (Public TV)
About Tuvalu Islands
Indo-Asia Region
SOUTH ASIA: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka.
SOUTHEAST ASIA: regions that are situated south of mainland China, east of the Indian subcontinent, and north-west of mainland Australia which consist of the countries of: Brunei, Cambodia, East Timor, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam.
Philippines to Exit China's Belt & Road Initiative Terminating Major Chinese Infrastructure Projects
Nov 2023 | 2 min | WION (India)
Philippines in talks with India, others for Possible Funding of Big-Ticket projects formerly funded by China's Belt & Road Initiative
Nov 2023 | 2 min | CNN Philippines
China’s New $6B Railway in Laos: Massive Debt Trap or Megaproject Success?
Sept 2023 | 8 min | Wall St Journal
Central & South America
Why China has its Eye on Latin America
Oct 2023 | 12 min | CNBC
Africa
The Myth of the Chinese Debt Trap in Africa
March 2022 | 19 min | Bloomberg
The Truth About China in Africa
Dec 2021 | 18 min | Polymater
About China - The Country
Current Domestic Problems
Why Youth Unemployment Is Surging In China
Sept 2023 | 12 min | CNBC
How China's former One-Child Policy has Charted a Course for Rapid Population and Economic Decline
Sept 2023 | 15 min | ABC Australia
CHINA RELIANT ON FOREIGN ENERGY
China's Catastrophic Oil & Gas Problem
July 2022 | 40 min | RealLifeLore
CHINA DOMESTIC CRISIS
Inside China’s Property Crisis
Sept 2023 | 9 min | Bloomberg
CCP Persecution of Chinese
Special Frontline Investigation
China Undercover
April 2020 | 53 min | PBS Frontline
A revealing look at the Chinese government’s mass imprisonment of an estimated two million Uyghurs and other Muslims, with undercover footage inside China's secretive Xinjiang region.
GENOCIDE
Report: China Responsible for ‘Ongoing Genocide’ of Uyghurs
March 2021 | 7 min | CNN
CNN finds Stranded Uyghur Children in China
March 2021 | 15 min | CNN | Article
A LOOK INSIDE CHINA
Uncovering China’s Uyghur Propaganda Campaign
March 2021 | 27 min | Matthew Tye
Forced Confessions Rampant in China's Justice System
Nov 2015 | 4 min | CNN