BreakFromChina

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Welcome to BreakFromChina.com! We are in our infancy. This site will endeavor to define and illuminate the issues and dangers posed by Communist China to the United States and the rest of the free world. We will also propose actions that countries as well as individuals must take in order for freedom loving people to decouple from China. Below you will find the latest articles broken out by aspect of the China problem. Click on the "Issues" tab above to dive further into each aspect and to see past articles. The site will update daily at a minimum so check back often. Look for much more to come in the future!

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Dedicated to educating the public about the importance of decoupling the United States and the rest of the free world from Communist China until it is a free democratic country that respects the human rights of its citizens and the world.

Overview and Theory

These articles and resources will give you insight into the background and political theory of the China problem.

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How China Sees the WorldAnd how we should see China

Communist China’s imperialist dreams of dividing the world A century ago, Vladimir Lenin wrote a book titled “Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism.” I doubt it occurred to him that imperialism might one day become the highest stage of communism. Yet that day is here.

COVID-19 and Trust in the Chinese Government: What Do We Actually Know?We need to be cautious about survey data exploring the Chinese public’s attitudes toward their government.

China’s Political Warfare Methods in East Asia - FPRI EventsThis event is part of a special series on Political Warfare in East Asia In the Spring 2020 special issue of Orbis, nine articles assess political warfare in, and emanating from, East Asia. Authoritarian regimes in Asia, including China and North Korea, use the weapons of political warfare and the tools…

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COVID-19 Pandemic

Trump Announces U.S. ‘Terminating’ Relationship with World Health Organization | National ReviewWHO has “failed to make the requested and greatly needed reforms,” the president said.

In The Battle Against COVID-19, A Risk Of 'Vaccine Nationalism' The race to defeat the coronavirus is generating competition among nations and multinational companies. The main competition appears to be between the United States and China.

Opinion | The Coronavirus InquiryChina loses at the WHO but it could still hijack the origin investigation.

China Faces Pressure as World Health Assembly MeetsOver 120 countries have now co-sponsored calls for an inquiry into the international response to the coronavirus pandemic.

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Supply Chain Security and Repatriation

U.S. Falters in Bid to Replace Chinese Rare EarthsDespite new legislation, Washington won’t be delivering critical minerals needed for defense, high tech, and energy.

The hidden perils of drugs imported from ChinaWhen you pick up your prescription at the pharmacy, it isn’t labelled “made in China,” but odds are that’s where many of your medications come from. President Trump is calling on US industries to m…

Bans on Foreign Equipment in U.S. Critical InfrastructureA recent executive order on the bulk electric power system signals that still-in-progress efforts to ban Chinese-made telecommunications equipment from U.S. networks may represent a new approach to critical infrastructure security more broadly.

Pandemic Exposes Perils of Global Reliance on China for Drug SuppliesIn early May, U.S. President Donald Trump was asked during a Fox News virtual town hall when the country would no longer be dependent on foreign pharmaceutical manufacturers for 94% of antibiotics used in this country. “I think we will have it done within two years,” Trump answered. “Everybody makes our drugs, except us.” U.S.

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Economic and Diplomatic Warfare

China is embracing a new brand of wolf warrior diplomacyThere is a new brand of diplomacy taking hold in Beijing and its chief architects have a suitably fierce nickname to match their aggressive style -- they are the wolf warriors.

Kennan Cable No. 52: In Russia’s Shadow: China’s Rising Security Presence in Central Asia

The Future of the DollarWhen it comes to the primacy of the dollar, the main risk stems not from Beijing but from Washington itself.

China’s Banking Sector Risks and Implications for the United States

https://www.uscc.gov/research/chinas-banking-sector-risks-and-implications-united-states

Bank sanctions, delistings: U.S. poised to take financial fight to ChinaWith the two powers already sparring over trade, technology and the coronavirus pandemic, the dispute is spilling over into a damaging new sphere.

US charges North Koreans in $2.5B sanctions-busting schemeThe Justice Department has accused a network of North Korean and Chinese citizens of secretly advancing North Korea’s nuclear weapons program by channeling at least $2.5 billion in illicit payments through hundreds of front companies

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Hacking, Surveillance and Data Security

Hackers infect multiple game developers with advanced malwareNever-before-seen PipeMon hit one developer's build system, another's game servers.

How a Chinese AI Giant Made Chatting—and Surveillance—EasyAlexa can tell you the weather. Siri knows a few jokes. In China, voice-computing company iFlytek built similar smart assistants beloved by users. But its tech is also helping the government listen in.

Cyber security review may spell end for Huawei 5G dealGovernment set for climbdown after US bans on Chinese telecoms group and growing resistance from backbenchers

Hackers affiliated with countries are trying to steal coronavirus vaccine researchNothing is more central to nation-state security right now than the race for a coronavirus vaccine.

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Propaganda and Disinformation

The Global Times is a 'propaganda mouthpiece' used to 'intimidate' Australian MPs Liberal MP Andrew Hastie says The Global Times “serves as a propaganda mouthpiece for the Chinese Communist Party” and “the intent of naming me, Senators James Paterson and Kimberley Kitching was to intimidate us”. “And to make us go quiet, which we won’t,” Mr Hastie told Sky News. The Global Times published an article during…

How China Is Planning to Win Back the WorldAs its global image takes a big hit, the Chinese Communist Party is using an arsenal of spin, obfuscation, hyperbole, and outright disinformation to win back its reputation.

Twitter fact-checks Chinese official's claims that coronavirus originated in U.S.Twitter has now added fact-check labels to hundreds of tweets amid backlash over its action toward Trump.

China Deploys Propaganda Machine to Defend Move Against Hong KongState-run news media depicted the proposed national security laws as necessary to protect the rule of the Communist Party.

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International, Cultural and Educational Institutions Co-opted

U.S. planning to cancel visas of Chinese graduate students -sources***

U.S. to Expel Chinese Graduate Students With Ties to China’s Military SchoolsThe move is the latest in the Trump administration’s efforts to impose limits on Chinese students. But university officials say the government is paranoid, and that the United States will lose out.

YouTube says China-linked comment deletions weren’t caused by outside partiesThe deletion of anti-communist comments sparked accusations of censorship

YouTube is deleting comments with two phrases that insult China’s Communist PartyThe two anti-communist phrases you can’t say on YouTube.

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Racial, Religious and Other Oppression Inside China

Deleting Facebook, downloading VPNs: How Hong Kongers are preparing for a draconian lawHong Kongers are preparing for a new reality as China moves to impose new national security powers over Hong Kong that are seen by many as a “death knell” for the former British colony's freedoms.

Trump orders his administration to begin eliminating Hong Kong privilegesU.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday he was directing his administration to begin the process of eliminating special treatment for Hong Kong, in response to China's plans to impose new security legislation in the territory.

China public security ministry pledges to 'direct and support' HK policeChina's public security ministry pledged to "direct and support" the Hong Kong police force after China's parliament approved a decision to impose a national security law on the semi-autonomous territory, highlighting Beijing's intention to take a more hands-on law-enforcement role in the city.

In helping Hong Kong, follow the Cold War model | OpinionThe U.S. could simultaneously hurt the Chinese Communist Party and greatly improve its own position.

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South China Sea, Taiwan and Regional Hegemony

What Do Taiwan’s People Think About Their Relationship to China?A new survey delves more deeply into Taiwanese public opinion toward the ROC, China, and the nation’s future.

USS Mustin Conducts FONOP Past Paracel Islands In South China Sea - USNI NewsUSS Mustin (DDG-89) conducted a freedom of navigation operation past the Paracel Islands in the South China Sea Thursday, the Navy announced.

Air Force sends pair of B-1B bombers on mission over South China SeaTwo Air Force B-1B Lancer bombers flew over the South China Sea on Tuesday, the latest in an increasing number of U.S. military demonstrations in the region.

Australia angered China by calling for a coronavirus investigation. Now Beijing is targeting its exportsWith ministerial ties fraying and anti-Australian rhetoric rising in Chinese state media, experts say deep cracks are emerging in relations between the two countries.

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Military, Espionage and Space

ChinaTalk: An Industrial Espionage ParableWhat do you get when you take a Chinese national, a rental car, rural Iowa and a $52 billion seed business hanging in the balance? Said one review, "not since Alfred Hitchcock's in North by Northwest has a cornfield produced so much excitement."

Inhofe, Reed back new military fund to confront ChinaNew support for an Indo-Pacific Deterrence Initiative suggests it's a lock for the FY21 National Defense Authorization Act.

Report to Congress on Chinese Naval Modernization - USNI NewsThe following is the May 21, 2020 Congressional Research Service Report, China Naval Modernization: Implications for U.S. Navy Capabilities—Background and Issues for Congress. In an era of renewed great power competition, China’s military modernization effort, including its naval modernization effort, has become the top focus of U.S. defense planning and budgeting. China’s navy, which China …

Trump Admin Sanctions Chinese Firm Working With IranThe Trump administration issued new sanctions on a Chinese firm that it says is providing critical services to Iran's Mahan Air.

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