Day: May 14, 2023

Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare has not held onto power because of his popularity with the people, but despite it. This is thanks to the help of China, specifically Chinese money and security. This corrupt dictator has quashed protests, bribed his opponents, delayed elections and set the Solomon Islands up to become a military base for the Chinese Communist Party. In this episode of China Uncensored, we sit down with one of his former advisors, Celsus Talifilu, who later went to work for So

On May 8, Shenzhen citizens found a significant reduction in their social security pension balances. Some people’s accounts even shrunk a third, the most loss reached 120,000 RMB, around 17000 USD. A wave of public outcry ensued, with aggrieved parties accusing the government of arbitrarily “pooling” their hard-earned social security funds. The controversy grew to such an extent that the balance inquiry function of the Shenzhen social security system was promptly suspended. Following in the footsteps of Sha

#Chinainsights The Communist authorities are anxious to revive the economy after ending a three-year epidemic control, so they actively put on various expos in the spring and summer of 2023. But so far, the results have been disappointing for many vendors.

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US president Joe Biden has said on several occasions that the US would defend Taiwan militarily if China were to invade. The US has also sold weapons to Taiwan so it can defend itself. And it has reportedly sent specialists from the US military to train the Taiwanese military. But the question remains, is all this enough to deter China? Can the US prevent China from going to war to take Taiwan? In this episode of China Unscripted, we discuss what the US can do to prevent a war over Taiwan, whether the West

#Chinainsights Why didn’t the PLA test-fire missiles this time? It’s likely related to what happened in August 2022. At that time, in retaliation against U.S. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan, the CCP conducted military exercises and fired 11 missiles, 5 of which landed in Japan’s exclusive economic zone. The biggest problem for the CCP is that Taiwan won’t be fighting alone. The Chinese navy is blocked by the long chain of the first island. As long as the U.S. and other nations work tog