New sanctions on China are expected to be launched by the United States within the next couple weeks. They’re expected to encompass a long list of products, from electric vehicles to chips and medical devices. As this happens, Chinese e-commerce giant Temu is facing problems within China, as vendors protest over penalties. We’ll discuss these issues and others, in this episode of Crossroads. Views expressed in this video are opinions of the host and guests, and do not necessarily reflect the vie...
Aug 05, 2024•40 min
A new surveillance system now being tested in China would eliminate online privacy and allow the regime to monitor all online activity. The new system is being proposed as a state-run digital ID, which everyone would need to use for the internet. The program is raising deeper concerns, not just over digital privacy, but also on human rights abuses and digital theft. Moreover, large swaths of content on the Chinese internet are also just suddenly vanishing. Old news articles are disappearing on a...
Aug 02, 2024•35 min
A bizarre string of incidents is now taking place around the Paris Olympics, which stretches from drug-using athletes, to drug-laced hamburgers, and now into global conspiracies. This began as doping accusations against Chinese swimmers. Then it started to focus on the long history of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) using drugs to help win the Games. And now, the CCP has come out with its counter-narrative. The culprit, they say, is hamburgers. And the CCP is now pushing a broader conspiracy o...
Aug 01, 2024•33 min
The United States just launched a new military command in Japan, with the intent of countering threats from the Chinese Communist Party. This is happening alongside similar actions, such as the United States upgrading military bases in Australia, deploying new missile systems to the Philippines, and others. Among Asian partners, and with NATO partners in Europe, it appears that many countries are shifting focus to growing threats from the Chinese Communist Party, in what looks like a new Asia pi...
Jul 31, 2024•29 min
The significance of some of the recent diplomatic moves the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has made can’t be understated. It appears what the regime is trying to do right now is enact a plan for the so-called Eurasian Empire. It’s making key moves to create a new world order, so to speak, and to cut off the United States from its new system. The enacting of this new agenda was very public, but easy to miss. During the recent meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, the CCP and member sta...
Jul 30, 2024•28 min
Long-range bombers were intercepted near Alaska this week by the United States and Canada. The bombers were from China and Russia, and this was the first time such an encounter had occurred in the Alaska Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ). This comes on the heels of additional military exercises and maneuvers that represent only thinly veiled threats against the United States and its allies. Yet while this happens, the CCP is playing another role—ostensibly trying to broker peace deals and h...
Jul 29, 2024•22 min
Economic warfare is back on the table, following the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) recent declaration of a new economic agenda. The regime wants to develop a high-tech economy and wants it to be domestic. This means cutting out American businesses, getting rid of American software, and making sure that everything the CCP uses is made in China. And this also means the CCP will now be looking into which foreign technologies it uses, finding ways to replicate those technologies, and then booting ...
Jul 26, 2024•28 min
The United States is facing a growing security threat that has been brewing for years. The Chinese Communist Party and Russia are pushing into the Arctic, and there are concerns they could work to militarize it, giving them an easier attack point if a war were to take place against the United States. The Pentagon has now issued a new strategy on how to face this threat, and could soon begin pushing into the Arctic as well, aided by NATO allies, and with new defensive technologies. We’ll discuss ...
Jul 25, 2024•29 min
There are signs of growing distrust in the alliance between Russia and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The two countries signed a “no limits” agreement around the war in Ukraine, and are moving to create a new security alliance similar to NATO. Yet the CCP seems to be concerned. Russia is playing the subordinate in the relationship, and as the two move forward, old tensions over who’s in charge seem to be emerging. We’ll discuss in this episode of Crossroads. Views expressed in this video are...
Jul 24, 2024•29 min
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has begun a new campaign to charm foreign leaders and foreign investors. The strategy comes in the wake of the CCP’s top-level meetings in the third plenum, where the regime outlined an economic goal of domestic production, but gave very little in terms of practical steps in fixing the damaged Chinese economy. Yet, while the CCP appears to be trying to form new deals, another crisis for the regime is looming in the background: the United States is planning to an...
Jul 23, 2024•27 min
Chinese netizens are spreading a new poll on quality of life, and it’s highlighting what they’re now referring to as the “Garbage Time.” Their lives are getting more difficult, and some of the luxuries they once enjoyed are fading. With this, they’re also pointing out problems with the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP’s) current economic theory—state interventionism. The regime is facing an economic crisis, and in a recent meeting of top-level CCP members on trying to fix this crisis, the regime o...
Jul 22, 2024•24 min
A combination of floods and droughts is currently hitting China. Between January and June this year, the damage caused by natural disasters in China is alleged to cost around $13 billion. Yet while the recent disasters are being framed as a once-in-a-decade incident, a look back reveals that a similar barrage of floods and droughts have hit China for the last several years, also causing large-scale damage—not only to homes and infrastructure, but also to the food supply. We’ll discuss in this ep...
Jul 19, 2024•22 min
Chinese companies already own some of the most popular video games on the market. And the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) seems to now be taking notice. The gaming industry for China is now being treated as a type of soft power tool to the West. Cash from one of its most popular games is being used to fund technologies with deep CCP interest. And one of the lesser-known markets related to video games is also coming into focus: data collection. So how is the CCP using video games? We’ll discuss in ...
Jul 18, 2024•27 min
The Chinese economy has reached a breaking point. Trade wars, splitting global alliances, and internal instability are looking to make the problems even worse. And now, attention is shifting to a top meeting taking place among the heads of the Chinese Communist Party. The Party’s third plenum, from July 15 to 18, will seek to establish the future economic direction of the regime. We’ll discuss in this episode of Crossroads. Views expressed in this video are opinions of the host and guests, and d...
Jul 17, 2024•31 min
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is becoming isolated. NATO has now officially accused the CCP of supplying Russia in the war in Ukraine, and the CCP has responded with denial, alongside new military threats. NATO, meanwhile, is now reaching out to Asian countries, in what appears to be an expanding global alliance that recognizes the CCP as a threat to the free world. We’ll discuss in this episode of Crossroads. Views expressed in this video are opinions of the host and guests, and do not nece...
Jul 16, 2024•29 min
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is pushing for a new global order under its control. The push for a new international power structure came to the forefront after a meeting between CCP leader Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin during a gathering of leaders from the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. They now aim to create an alternative global security alliance, along with a new push for a “multipolar world” where the United States would no longer be the world leader. We’ll discuss...
Jul 12, 2024•30 min
If you’ve ever browsed through social media, chances are you’ve come across advertisements that seem to offer pretty good deals. And when you click through, you find yourself on a Chinese marketplace. One of these is Shein, a fashion retail company based in Nanjing, China. The other is Temu, an online marketplace similar to Amazon, but based out of China, and with most of its goods shipped directly from China. These companies are now coming under scrutiny, both in the United States and in the Eu...
Jul 11, 2024•22 min
China has been quietly buying up aviation companies in the United States and Europe. This has been part of a push both to become a contender in the commercial airline industry, and to help advance its military aircraft. Just last year, China unveiled its first domestically produced passenger jet, and that development—taking place alongside the growing controversies with Boeing—could mark the first step in China’s play for the global aviation industry. We’ll discuss this topic and more in this ep...
Jul 10, 2024•23 min
China has become one of the main sources of the world’s solar panels and wind turbines, but as the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) pushes green energy internationally, internally the regime has been moving toward coal and nuclear power. So why is the CCP pushing one agenda abroad, yet a very different one internally? We’ll discuss in this episode of Crossroads. Views expressed in this video are opinions of the host and guests, and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times. ⭕️ 🇺🇸Jos...
Jul 09, 2024•22 min
In his book “Nineteen Eighty-Four,” author George Orwell imagined a futuristic “INGSOC” or “English Socialism,” where the totalitarian regime controlled its population with constant video surveillance and ideological control. His imagining of that system included televisions that watch civilians, information control, historical revisionism, and logical tricks to make people accept lies as truth. In China today, all of these systems are actually in place already under the Chinese Communist Party....
Jul 08, 2024•22 min
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has large-scale programs for political warfare, and there are growing concerns that the CCP is trying to subvert the political systems of other countries by gaining influence over key figures. Recently, a string of incidents has raised concerns that the CCP is waging an aggressive operation to control foreign politics. We’ll discuss the recent warnings within the United States, and the global investigations now being launched against CCP subversion, in this epis...
Jul 05, 2024•31 min
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has been enacting policies that seem to suggest that China is facing a food crisis. Problems around food supply have been brewing for years in China, with serious water pollution, natural disasters, and the dwindling amount of arable land. The CCP used to heavily rely on imports, but economic lockdowns and contentious global trade policies are making that more difficult. Now, the regime is enacting policies that have analysts wondering if the food problem is wor...
Jul 03, 2024•27 min
There’s a new campaign taking place in China, where the CCP is trying to revive Marxism by merging it into Chinese culture. The campaign isn’t limited to just theory. It represents changes taking place throughout the country, from farms to the military, and from business to the CCP leadership. It appears that the CCP is planning to become more isolated from the world and, as new alliances are forming amid growing threats of war, the regime is trying to roll the country back to Maoist-era policie...
Jul 02, 2024•30 min
The Chinese communist regime is aggressively expanding its AI programs, which it’s aiming to use in military weapons and for new forms of tyrannical social control. This is raising alarms in the United States and in Europe, where AI experts are warning that the CCP is using AI technologies from private businesses and open platforms to create new forms of weapons. Yet how real is the danger from these programs, and what is the CCP using them for? We’ll discuss the issue on this episode of Crossro...
Jul 01, 2024•34 min
The Chinese regime is banging the drums of war. Outside China, it’s becoming more aggressive. In the South China Sea, it’s growing more daring in its disputes with the Philippines. In trade, its diplomats are aggressively trying to expand in new markets. Politically, its diplomats have been on the offensive. Yet, behind the scenes, there is a very different picture. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is reorganizing its military, but the demand is for loyalty to the Party. The same calls for loya...
Jun 21, 2024•29 min
The United States drew a line in the sand in its disputes with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). It declared openly that if the CCP attacks the Philippines, the United States will be forced to defend its ally. The warning comes after a Philippine sailor was seriously injured following a Chinese coast guard ship allegedly ramming their boat. The latest incident comes amid a growing pattern of confrontations between Philippine ships and CCP ships in the South China Sea. The Chinese regime claims ...
Jun 20, 2024•27 min
The United States and Europe are involved in a trade war with the Chinese Communist Party. Tariffs that started under the Trump administration when the United States was looking for new trade deals with China have since expanded under the Biden administration. Now it’s no longer just about trade. It’s about competition for jobs, domestic production, and international politics. So what’s really going on? We’ll discuss in this episode of Crossroads. Views expressed in this video are opinions of th...
Jun 19, 2024•35 min
It appears the Chinese Communist Party is launching a charm campaign at the Muslim world. This includes new propaganda programs in China, and new pushes on the diplomatic stage where it seems the CCP is trying to win new support among Muslim countries. Yet, behind the scenes, the CCP has continued its brutal human rights abuses of Muslims, and its diplomatic push is already running into problems. In this episode of Crossroads we’ll discuss this campaign, and what’s really at work. Views expresse...
Jun 18, 2024•30 min
The fate of Hong Kong is becoming a focal point in the United Kingdom, where a British judge, who recently resigned from Hong Kong’s highest court, said the former British colony is becoming a totalitarian state under the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The criticisms focus on the recent conviction of 14 political dissidents by CCP authorities, and come in the wake of recent CCP suppression in Hong Kong about discussions on the history of the Tiananmen Square massacre. The CCP controls several te...
Jun 17, 2024•30 min
The main espionage agency of the Chinese Communist Party has released a propaganda video on a new state program—essentially attempting to enlist every one of China’s citizens into the role of spies, from co-workers to kids, to the old lady down the street. Alongside this, the CCP has also been rolling out other programs, including one that forms militias among Chinese companies, and another for the military training of school children. So what’s really going on? We discuss all this and more in t...
Jun 14, 2024•36 min
