What happens when the world’s two most dangerous humans meet?  We are about to find out. Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping are going to get together for their 40th in-person chat Monday. The conversation, in Moscow, is scheduled to run until Wednesday.  Xi’s timing confirms the closeness to his Russian counterpart. The summit, for one […]

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Tuesday, China announced its first population decline since 1961. The official National Bureau of Statistics reported that last year 9.56 million people were born and 10.41 million died. (Subscribe to Our YouTube Channel Here. 19FortyFive publishes original videos every day.) China’s total population in 2022, officials announced, was 1.412 billion, down 850,000 people from the […]

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China’s Xi Jinping Capitulates on COVID-19: Henry Gao of Singapore Management University argues that Chinese ruler Xi Jinping suddenly reversed his “dynamic zero-Covid policy,” perhaps the world’s most draconian set of disease-control measures, because he believed his own propaganda and overestimated the ability of his regime to handle the aftermath.  (Subscribe to Our YouTube Channel […]

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Perhaps as many as 90% of China’s 1.41 billion people will come down with COVID-19, said Feng Zijian, former deputy chief of China’s Center for Disease Control and Prevention, to Bloomberg News. Feng predicts 60% of the population will be infected in the first wave. China did not have to wait long. There is now […]

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Biden Angers Xi Jinping on Taiwan Before G20 Summit. Good: Beijing expressed anger at Washington, just days before the long-awaited summit in Bali between President Joe Biden and Chinese ruler Xi Jinping. Excellent. Let China fume. It’s good for China’s aggressive leader to feel upset and disrespected at this crucial moment. The summit will not […]

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The ‘Foxconn Great Escape’: Workers Flee China’s ‘iPhone City’: Hundreds and perhaps thousands of workers fled a Chinese manufacturing complex that accounts for 85% of iPhone assembly capacity. The mass migration, which began this weekend, called into question that country’s COVID-control measures and, more broadly, its reliability as a part of global supply chains. “Something […]

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Disarray on Taiwan: Is Biden Still Commander-in-Chief? – President Joe Biden may no longer be making foreign policy, and it is unclear whether he is still discharging the duties as commander-in-chief. On “60 Minutes” on Sunday, Biden, in response to a question from Scott Pelley, declared the United States would send troops to defend Taiwan […]

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To stimulate the economy, China’s regulators are forcing Chinese banks to meet high loan quotas. (Editor’s Note: Watch the author of this expert analysis, 19FortyFive Contributing Editor Gordon Chang, on Fox News discussing tensions with China.) To hit the difficult-to-attain targets, ingenious bankers are lending and simultaneously allowing borrowers to deposit identical amounts with their […]

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China expert Gordon Chang makes the case that China is preparing for armed conflict - and could happen quite soon.

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“The position of the Chinese government and people on the Taiwan question is consistent, and resolutely safeguarding China’s national sovereignty and territorial integrity is the firm will of the more than 1.4 billion Chinese people,” Chinese ruler Xi Jinping told President Joe Biden during their phone call on July 28, according to the Chinese foreign […]

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Biden Call with Xi Jinping: Time to Hang Up on China – President Joe Biden is scheduled to speak with Chinese ruler Xi Jinping on Thursday. What’s the point of that exercise? American leaders have been talking with their Chinese counterparts for decades, and for decades Chinese behavior has only gotten more belligerent and dangerous. […]

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China’s economy grew 0.4% in the just-completed second quarter, compared with the same period last year, according to the official National Bureau of Statistics. According to almost everybody else, gross domestic product shrank in Q2. As Max Zenglein of the Mercator Institute for China Studies told the Washington Post before the announcement, “The government will […]

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The Chinese Economy is in Trouble: “What we are going to see with China, for the first time that anyone can remember who’s alive, is an economy that’s twice the size of the U.S., possibly three times the size of the U.S., and it’s going to be very weird living in that world,” said Elon Musk […]

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China Murdered a Million Americans, So Why Do We Still Have Diplomatic Relations with Beijing? – Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s major policy address on China, scheduled for May 5th, will now be delivered at a later date. America’s top diplomat tested positive for COVID-19 on Wednesday and was experiencing, according to State Department spokesperson […]

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“I think it’s a disaster for China,” said J Capital Research’s Anne Stevenson-Yang, referring to Beijing’s support for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Foreign policy elites have for years thought about how to break up the growing China-Russia partnership. Now, they should be cheering the tie-up and hope the two large states get even closer. Why? […]

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General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev dissolved the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on Christmas day 1991. In the two succeeding decades, the Communist Party of China, mindful of the Soviet demise, was implementing policies prolonging its rule and thereby postponing the USSR’s fate. Yet in the past decade, under General Secretary Xi Jinping, China’s ruling party […]

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The virtual summit between President Joe Biden and Chinese ruler Xi Jinping, scheduled for Monday evening Washington time, will score a big win—for China. The two leaders have not met face-to-face since Biden took office. Instead, they have held two long phone calls, on February 10 and September 9. Not much is publicly known about […]

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“He is just too old and likes to bluff, doesn’t know what he is talking about,” tweeted China Daily’s Chen Weihua on Friday, referring to President Joe Biden. On Thursday, Biden told CNN’s Anderson Cooper he would defend Taiwan. “Yes, we have a commitment to do that,” the President said, responding to a question about […]

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Taiwan reports that China sent a record 56 planes into its air-defense identification zone on Monday. The previous records were 38 planes on Friday and 39 planes Saturday. Sunday was quiet: Only 16 Chinese aircraft intruded. Many will say that China is only huffing and puffing, wasting aviation fuel with the provocative flights. Friday, after […]

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Recent pronouncements from the Biden administration suggest China, once again, will be the biggest beneficiary of Taliban terrorism. History is not only rhyming for Beijing, it is, thanks to American obliviousness, repeating. “Well, I think many countries in—immediately neighboring Afghanistan and in the broader region, including China, have interests in Afghanistan,” said Secretary of State […]

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Reuters reports that in late August a senior defense official had talked with a Chinese general in a video call conducted over the U.S.-PRC Defense Telephone Link. A “U.S. official” speaking without attribution told the news organization that the purpose of the communication was “to focus on managing risk between the two countries.” It was […]

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Chinese supremo Xi Jinping has made taking Taiwan the centerpiece of his rule. He calls that “reunification.” Taiwan, which governs itself as the “Republic of China,” labels a takeover “aggression” because Xi’s People’s Republic of China has never exercised sovereignty over the island. Xi has been clear that, one way or another, he will get […]

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COVID-19 is ravaging China. The Delta variant is spreading across the country fast, and Beijing has no answer to the new strain other than draconian, totalitarian brute-force measures—and blaming foreigners. Millions of Chinese residents are now in various forms of lockdown. The recent infections constitute the most widespread coronavirus outbreak since the disease first hit […]

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Recently released satellite imagery reveals that China has embarked on what the Washington Post termed “a building spree that could signal a major expansion of Beijing’s nuclear capabilities.” Nuclear analyst Jeffrey Lewis revealed that China is building what appears to be 119 missile silos across more than 700 square miles in the Gansu desert. Construction […]

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We had a chance to chat with Gordon Chang, author of the book The Coming Collapse of China, on what he thinks the incoming Biden Administration will do when it comes to China but also its overall approach to Asia in general. Here is a readout of the conversation below: President Obama famously pivoted or […]

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