Podcasts about gordongchang

Photo: The hundred-year-old bank; here:  Bank of England parlor in the 19th century. First published in Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison Fifteen Years in Solitude, copyrighted 1897 by Bidwell Publishing Company, Hartford, Conn. Climb-down PRC banking. Charles Ortel @CharlesOrtel; @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-11-24/jpmorgan-s-jamie-dimon-says-he-regrets-his-comments-on-china “The Communist Party is celebrating its 100th year. So is JPMorgan. And I'll make you a bet we last longer.” Charles Ortel, @CharlesOrtel, On the Money with Charles Ortel podcast, & Newport Value Partners.  

Photo:  U.S. sailors with the Unmanned Underwater Vehicle (UUV) Detachment of Commander, Task Group (CTG) 56.1 guide a UUV after lowering it into the water June 5, 2013, in the Persian Gulf off the coast of Bahrain. CTG 56.1 provided mine countermeasures, explosive ordnance disposal, salvage diving and force protection in the U.S. 5th Fleet area of responsibility. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Peter Lewis/Released)   The Submarine Fleet Gap; & What is to be done?. James Holmes, @NavalWarCollege. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill https://www.19fortyfive.com/2021/11/how-uuv-swarms-could-unstealth-us-navy-submarines/

Photo:  The Statute of Anne, also known as the Copyright Act 1710, is an act of the Parliament of Great Britain passed in 1710, which was the first statute to provide for copyright regulated by the government and courts, rather than by private parties Purloined PRC stealth. Rick Fisher, International Assessment and Strategy Center. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill https://geostrategy-direct-subscribers.com/china-makes-stealth-headway-with-5th-generation-fighter-variants/  Rick Fisher, senior Fellow of the International Assessment and Strategy Center

Photo:   Two American hostages in Iran hostage crisis, 4 November 1979 PRC Hostage Tape. Charles Burton  @cburton001,  MacDonald-Laurier Institute. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill https://www.thedailybeast.com/peng-shuai-is-making-china-panic?ref=home Charles Burton @cburton001  Senior Fellow at the Centre for Advancing Canada's Interests Abroad at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute; associate professor of Political Science at Brock University.  Charles Burton and Associates consults to governments, educational institutions and businesses to support their programs in China.    ..  

Photo: Marriott surrenders to genocide.  @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill.   Nury Turkel, @nuryturkel, commissioner at the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.foxbusiness.com/politics/marriott-refuses-to-host-uighur-conference-over-political-neutrality-concerns.amp

Photo: Disappearing Peng Shuai.  @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill.   Cleo Paskal, non-resident Fellow at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/17954/china-olympics

Photo:   China Trade: Portrait of the American Clipper Ship Bunker Hill Entering Hong Kong Harbour The Trading with the Enemy Act (TWEA) of 1917 (40 Stat. 411, codified at 12 U.S.C. § 95 and 50 U.S.C. § 4301 et seq.) is a United States federal law, enacted on October 6, 1917, that gives the President of the United States the power to oversee or restrict any and all trade between the United States and its enemies in times of war. TWEA was amended in 1933 by the Emergency Banking Act to extend the president's authority also in peace time, and later revised. China was listed on two occasions. The Republic of China was first listed in 1941 to prevent invading Japan from using Chinese assets during WW2. China was delisted in 1946. After WW2 the People's Republic of China was sanctioned and listed in 1950 for aggression in the Korean War. After President Richard Nixon's "opening with China," sanctions were lifted in 1975. CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Trading with the adversary; & What is to be done? @AlanTonelson  @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill: https://www.ft.com/content/812116c8-89fb-4057-93a9-d0ef190fa8ae

Photo: One of the typical "freight trains" that carry China's home commerce--caravan leaving Peking CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Huawei stymied. Brendan Carr, FCC commissioner. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-11-15/huawei-recruits-smartphone-partners-to-sidestep-u-s-sanctions https://www.reuters.com/technology/biden-signs-legislation-tighten-us-restrictions-huawei-zte-2021-11-11/ ..  ..  ..   Huawei Recruits Smartphone Partners to Sidestep U.S. Sanctions Bloomberg News November 14, 2021, 10:08 PM EST  It could license designs to third parties to access components  Trump-era sanctions have cut off Huawei from U.S. technology Huawei Technologies Co., whose smartphone business has been devastated by U.S. sanctions, is planning to license its handset designs to third parties as a way to gain access to critical components, people with knowledge of the matter said.  The Shenzhen-based tech giant is considering licensing its designs to a unit of state-owned China Postal and Telecommunications Appliances Co., or PTAC, which will then seek to buy parts barred under the Trump-era blacklisting, said one of the people, asking not to be identified discussing internal matters. The unit, known as Xnova, is already selling Huawei-branded Nova phones on its e-commerce site and the partnership will see it offer self-branded devices based on the larger company's designs.  Chinese telecom equipment maker TD Tech Ltd. will also sell some phones featuring Huawei's designs under its own brand, another person said. The partnerships are subject to change as negotiations are still ongoing.  The move may be Huawei's best chance at salvaging its smartphone business after U.S. sanctions cut off its access to key chipmaker Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Google's Android apps and Qualcomm Inc.'s 5G wireless modems. Since Huawei first came under fire from the Trump administration, its shrinking consumer business has seen sales fall for four straight quarters.  The company sold its Honor sub-brand to a consortium led by a state-owned company in Shenzhen about a year ago, freeing the business from U.S. sanctions. Honor is now able to buy components from suppliers including Qualcomm, Chief Executive Officer George Zhao has said. The success of that spin-off has encouraged Huawei to seek new partnerships to keep its consumer business alive. Engineers at Huawei have already begun redesigning the circuits of some marquee smartphones previously powered by the company's in-house HiSilicon chips so they can adapt to Qualcomm or MediaTek Inc. processors, said one of the people. Huawei expects the partnerships could bring smartphone shipments -- including inhouse models and those sold by partners -- to more than 30 million units next year, the person added. Huawei declined to comment. PTAC and TD Tech didn't respond to emails and phone calls seeking comment. PTAC is a unit of China General Technology Group Holding Co., a key machinery maker and importer directly controlled by the central government. TD Tech was set up in 2005 with assets from companies such as Siemens AG, though the German multinational said in an email it is no longer a shareholder in the venture. Huawei has been struggling to find a new cash cow to make up for the hole left by its quickly shrinking consumer electronics business, which booked 483 billion yuan ($75.6 billion) in revenue last year, equal to International Business Machines Corp.'s annual sales. The latest arrangement is unlikely to bring in meaningful profit for Huawei, but such partnerships could be essential in helping the company maintain its smartphone development capabilities. The Biden administration has shown no signs of easing off on the sanctions imposed on Huawei, though Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou recently struck a deal that released her from a U.S. extradition request that had kept her under house arrest in Canada for two years. Executives including founder Ren Zhengfei, Meng's father, have vowed to continue making smartphones. — With assistance by Yanping Li, and Yuan Gao

Photo: A normal.,slightly daunting bank. Here: interior of the Helsinki Branch of the Vyborg-Bank  in the 1910s The Glass-Steagall Act is a 1933 law that separated investment banking from retail banking. ... By separating the two, retail banks were prohibited from using depositors' funds for risky investments. Only 10% of their income could come from selling securities. They could underwrite government bonds. CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Banks too big to quarantine.  Charles Ortel of the On the Money with Charles Ortel podcast. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill https://www.ft.com/content/812116c8-89fb-4057-93a9-d0ef190fa8ae

Photo: The Vermilion Bird on the gates of a Han Dynasty mausoleum complex             In Chinese philosophy, fire (Chinese: 火; pinyin: huǒ) is the prosper of the matter, or the matter's prosperity stage.  Fire is the second phase of Wu Xing. Fire is yang in character. Its motion is upward and its energy is convective.            Fire is associated with Summer, the South, the planet Mars and the Sun ,the colour red (associated with extreme luck), hot weather, daylight, and the Vermilion Bird (Zhu Que) in the Four Symbols. CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow "Playing with fire" in the Taiwan Strait.  Stephen Yates, former deputy national security advisor to Vice President Cheney and currently CEO of DC International Advisory. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/16/politics/biden-china-taiwan/index.html

Photo: No known restrictions on publication. CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Xi transformed into greater than Mao and Deng.  Charles Burton, MacDonald Laurier Institute. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/12/china/xi-jinping-sixth-plenum-biden-mic-intl-hnk/index.html

Photo: No known restrictions on publication. CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow India pushes back in the high Himalayas. @CleoPaskal @F DD @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/china-biggest-security-threat-says-general-bipin-rawat/articleshow/87675595.cms

Practicing carrier killers and Guam killers. Rick Fisher, International Assessment and Strategy Center. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/08/asia/chinese-military-mock-targets-us-aircraft-carrier-warships-intl/index.h tml

Xi declares Mao is the future. Charles Burton @cburton001, MacDonald Laurier Institute; and @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill https://www.reuters.com/world/china/chinas-xinhua-lauds-xi-ahead-key-communist-party-meeting-2021-11-06/ Charles Burton @cburton001  Senior Fellow at the Centre for Advancing Canada's Interests Abroad at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute; associate professor of Political Science at Brock University.  Charles Burton and Associates consults to governments, educational institutions and businesses to support their programs in China.     

Singapore Watches the Global Minimum Tax, Not Much Climatewatch. Howie Fraser, author, Red Capitalism.  @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill https://www.aseanbriefing.com/news/minimum-global-corporate-tax-rate-implications-for-singapore/

PRC Mainland Real Estate Wobbles as Hong Kong Real Estate Firms. Andrew Collier, Orient Capital Research. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill https://www.ft.com/content/e5fd7583-024a-4d81-b14e-afa5c0969384

Photo:  Postage stamp with portrait of King George VI, 1939 Saying no to PRC bullying.  @CleoPaskal, @FDD; @GordonGChang. HFN https://www.sundayguardianlive.com/news/ccp-aggression-lead-violence-solomon-islands-hon-p-kenilorea Cleo Paskal  @CleoPaskal, associate Fellow at Chatham House; Adjunct Faculty in the Department of Geopolitics, Manipal University, India;  adjunct professor of Global Change, School of Communication and Management Studies, Kochi, India. Non-resident senior Fellow, Foundation for Defense of Democracies.    Gordon G. Chang @GordonGChang. Author, The Coming Collapse of China and The Great U.S.-China Tech War.

Photo:  Forced Labor of Muslim Women by Dogra ruler in 1930 before Kashmir agitation PRC provokes Bangladesh and Kashmir.  @CleoPaskal, @FDD; @GordonGChang. HFN https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/10/29/bangladesh-communal-violence-hindu-muslim-identity-crisis/ https://www.voanews.com/a/spate-of-civilian-killings-in-indian-kashmir-drives-minority-hindus-to-flee-homes/6279790.html Cleo Paskal  @CleoPaskal, associate Fellow at Chatham House; Adjunct Faculty in the Department of Geopolitics, Manipal University, India;  adjunct professor of Global Change, School of Communication and Management Studies, Kochi, India. Non-resident senior Fellow, Foundation for Defense of Democracies.  Gordon G. Chang @GordonGChang. Author, The Coming Collapse of China and The Great U.S.-China Tech War.

Wednesday 11/03 Listen as Vince talks with Guests: Gordon Chang, China expert, Distinguished Senior Fellow, Gatestone Institute, author of "The Great U.S.-China Tech War" and you can find him on Twitter at @GordonGChang;  Dr. Stephen Farnsworth, Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at University of Mary Washington;  Curtis Houck, Managing editor of Newsbusters;  John Lott, the president of the Crime Prevention Research Center. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Photo:  Artist's concept of the Soviet directed-energy research and development site at the Sary Shagan proving ground. It includes ground-based lasers that could be used in an anti-satellite role today and for ballistic missile defense in the future. From Soviet Military Power 1985 Anti-satellite satellite launched.  Brandon Weichert, @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/17907/china-satellite-crusher

Photo:  T-26 tanks of Chinese Nationalist Army during WW2. China threatens the US, NATO, AUKUS, and climate change.  Stephen Yates, @YatesDCIA,  DCI Advisory. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DukbE9kw-7I  [Deutsche Welle: China boosts coal production as world leaders discuss climate crisis] Stephen Yates, @YatesDCIA, CEO of D.C. International Advisory and former advisor to Vice President Dick Cheney.   

Photo:  This view of downtown Las Vegas shows a mushroom cloud in the background. Scenes such as this were typical during the 1950s. From 1951 to 1962, the government conducted 100 atmospheric tests at the nearby Nevada Test Site. The Allies recommend "No First Use"; & what is to be done?  Peter Huessy @hobeyoco. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill https://www.ft.com/content/8b96a60a-759b-4972-ae89-c8ffbb36878e https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202110/1237769.shtml

Photo:  Eight tractor trailers haul what will soon be the Bayonet The imagined stable supply chain of 2023 at the earliest. Charles Ortel @CharlesOrtel  “On the Money with Charles Ortel." @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/18/supply-chain-chaos-is-hitting-global-growth-and-could-get-worse.html

Photo: Xi refuses COP26; & What is to be done?   Charles Burton @cburton001;  @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill https://www.reuters.com/business/cop/xis-not-there-cop26-hopes-dim-chinese-leaders-likely-absence-2021-10-26/ Charles Burton @cburton001  Senior Fellow at the Centre for Advancing Canada's Interests Abroad at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute; associate professor of Political Science at Brock University.  Charles Burton and Associates consults to governments, educational institutions and businesses to support their programs in China.     

Photo: PRC Anti-Satellite Arsenal.  Rick Fisher, IASC;  @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill Rick Fisher, senior Fellow of the International Assessment and Strategy Center : https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/oct/25/china-launches-suspected-anti-satellite-weapon/

Photo: The stark Evergrande window on the troubled PRC economy and state.  @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-10-27/evergrande-founder-collected-billions-in-dividends-before-crisis?sref=5g4GmFHo

Photo: Decoupling from the China troubles. @AlanTonelson #RealityChek @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill Alan Tonelson, @AlanTonelson, independent economic policy analyst who blogs at RealityChek  https://alantonelson.wordpress.com/2021/10/21/whats-left-of-our-economy-new-doubts-about-u-s-china-decoupling/ https://www.reuters.com/business/us-house-panel-grants-request-disclose-data-blacklisted-firms-2021-10-21/

Photo: China's hypersonic missile test accelerates the new arms race in Asia. Jonathan D. T. Ward, @jonathandtward author, China's Vision of Victory. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill https://www.19fortyfive.com/2021/10/gordon-chang-joe-bidens-taiwan-policy-is-now-a-total-disaster/

Photo: In India, Bene Israel Teachers  India talks Abraham Accords with Israel, UAE and the US.  @CleoPaskal,  @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill HFN https://www.deccanherald.com/national/india-moves-to-take-advantage-of-abraham-accords-joins-israel-uae-us-in-new-quad-1041900.html Cleo Paskal  @CleoPaskal, associate Fellow at Chatham House; Adjunct Faculty in the Department of Geopolitics, Manipal University, India;  adjunct professor of Global Change, School of Communication and Management Studies, Kochi, India. Non-resident senior Fellow, Foundation for Defense of Democracies   ..  ..  ..  — ‘India-Israel-UAE-U.S. quad to focus on economic cooperation' says Israeli envoy — India, Israel, UAE, U.S. decide to launch quadrilateral economic forum

Photo:  Party platform of Taiwanese People's Party 1927-07 Canada's Navy stands up to the PRC bullying of Taiwan. Charles Burton @cburton001.   @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill HFN https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/us-canadian-warships-sailed-through-taiwan-strait-last-week-2021-10-17/ Charles Burton, senior Fellow at the Centre for Advancing Canada's Interests Abroad at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute

Photo:   Anti-Trusteeship Campaign in December 1945. The leading Korean presidential candidate appears decidedly anti-US and pro-China. @DrTaraO. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill https://www.economist.com/asia/2021/10/16/south-koreas-ruling-party-bets-on-an-anti-establishment-figure Tara O, adjunct Fellow, Pacific Forum CSIS, and Fellow at the Institute for Corean-American Studies. (https://eastasiaresearch.org/)   @DrTaraO. 

Photo:  Text is, "Boycott Xinjiang Genocide Products! Also don't attack our Chinese neighbors. Just say no to xenophobia and racism!."  Sign on NYU campus. The call to postpone and move the 2022 Winter games from Beijing. Nury Turkel @nuryturkel .  @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/sports/us-olympians-voice-concern-over-human-rights-ahead-beijing-2022-2021-10-20/ Nury Turkel, commissioner at the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom ..  ..  ..  Permissions: Xinjiang boycott advert on NYU's campus in New York, NY 20 September 2020  /  Source | Own work  /  Author | Themomenthasarrived2020 This file has been extracted from another file:  Uyghur boycott 20Sept2020.jpg   I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby publish it under the following license: This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license. | You are free: to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work; to remix – to adapt the workUnder the following conditions: attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.

Photo:  Hypersonic weapon, demonstrating its non-parabolic trajectory (denoted in red), has a distinctive signature which is being tracked by one of the layers of the National Defense Space Architecture (NDSA) beginning in 2021. Tranche 0 is to begin deployment in 2022. The satellites of the NDSA, in gray, are to be deployed in constellations orbiting Earth, and constantly keep Earth in their view (as depicted by the blue triangles [really, cones] representing the fields of view of the satellite constellations). The satellites are to intercommunicate and serve the defensive systems arrayed against the enemy hypersonic weapons (in red), and build a kill chain against it. Conversely, if a hypersonic weapon were friendly, the satellites follow the progress of the friendly trajectory (not shown), and perform battle damage assessment of the strike against its target. See JADC2 (Joint all-domain command and control) Orbital hypersonic missile launch:  "We don't know how they did this."   Brandon Weichert @WeTheBrandon  and @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill  https://twitter.com/FinancialTimes/status/1449469070814896132 Brandon Weichert,  @WeTheBrandon, The Weichert Report and author of Winning Space: How America Remains a Superpower.

Photo:  Tsai Ing-wen, President of the Republic of China Target Taiwan.  Gerrit van der Wees @GerritWees, and @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek https://thediplomat.com/2021/10/what-do-taiwanese-think-of-chinas-record-setting-incursions-into-taiwans-adiz/ Gerrit van der Wees, adjunct professor at George Washington University's Elliott School of Foreign Affairs and George Mason University's Schar School of Policy and Government 

Photo:  "He's driving me nuts - I'm on the verge of blowing my top" Ed. Valtman '62 (Herblock) Editorial cartoon drawing shows two hairy, muscular, anthropomorphic atomic bombs labeled "U.S. A-Tests" and "Soviet Intransigence" sitting at a table on which is a ringing alarm clock and a paper waiting to be signed that is labeled "A-Test Inspection Treaty." The U.S. atomic bomb is about to blow his top waiting for the Soviet atomic bomb to sign the treaty; the Soviet Union refused to accept on-site inspections of its nuclear weapons program, which caused a delay in the signing of a nuclear test-ban treaty. The nuclear arms race slips back into the shadows.  Peter Huessy. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill https://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/2021-10-06/us-state-department-discloses-number-of-nuclear-weapons-in-stockpile Peter Huessy, director of Strategic Deterrent Studies of the Mitchell Institute of the Air Force Association.

Photo:  Two traders in 16th-century Germany Losing Christmas, saving summer.  Alan Tonelson, independent economic policy analyst who blogs at RealityChek and tweets at @AlanTonelson ;  @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/09/us-china-trade-talks-on-trade-deal-china-purchases-of-us-goods.html https://alantonelson.wordpress.com/2021/10/07/whats-left-of-our-economy-lots-to-like-in-bidens-trump-y-china-trade-policy-vision/

Photo:  Semiconductor outlines Bolstering the Garden of Eden of Semiconductors, Taiwan.  @WeifengZhong,  @Mercatus ; @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill https://nationalinterest.org/feature/it's-time-america-tie-knot-taiwan-trade-194275 https://www.ft.com/content/212f44b9-a271-425b-a7cf-608d43d46288 .. Permissions:  semiconductor outlines Date | 9 October 2018 /   Source | Own work   /    Author | Nimal udayanga 12 I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby publish it under the following license: This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license. | You are free: to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work; to remix – to adapt the workUnder the following conditions: attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use. ,,

Photo: Evergrande Evergrande losers and worse.   Fraser Howie, co-author Red Capitalism: The Fragile Financial Foundation of China's Extraordinary Rise.   @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/oct/04/shares-in-china-property-giant-evergrande-suspended-after-debt-payments-missed

Photo: The gardens of the American factory at Guangzhou c. 1845 Phase One fail PRC; & What is to be done?  Andrew Collier, managing director of Orient Capital Research in Hong Kong; author, Shadow Banking and the Rise of Capitalism in China.  @acollier. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill.  https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/04/us-china-trade-ustr-katherine-tai-vows-to-enforce-phase-1-deal.html

Photo:   The Himalayan mountain range with Mount Everest as seen from the International Space Station looking south-south-east over the Tibetan Plateau. Four of the world's fourteen eight-thousanders, mountains higher than 8000 metres, can be seen, Makalu (8462 m), Everest (8850 m), Lhotse (8516 m) and Cho Oyu (8201 m). The South Col Route is Mount Everest's most often used climbing route. Watch on the Himalayas.  @CleoPaskal and @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill Cleo Paskal, non-resident Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/3151296/china-india-border-new-delhi-redirects-pakistan-facing-troops

Photo: No known restrictions on publication. @Batchelorshow What of a Mutual Defense Pact with Taiwan? Steve Yates @DCIAdvisory @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill Stephen Yates, former deputy national security advisor to Vice President Cheney and currently CEO of DC International Advisory. https://www.19fortyfive.com/2021/10/gordon-chang-joe-biden-should-offer-a-mutual-defense-treaty-to-taiwan/

Photo:  A 1900s greeting card reading 'Greetings from Krampus!' Krampus is a horned, anthropomorphic figure, in Alpine folklore, who during the Christmas season scares children who have misbehaved, assisting Saint Nicholas.   The pair visit children on the night of the 5th December, and Saint Nicholas rewards the well-behaved children with modest gifts such as oranges, dried fruit, walnuts and chocolate whilst the badly behaved ones only receive punishment with birch rods. The supply chain breaks Christmas. Jonathan Bass, CEO of PTM Images. @jonsbass ; @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill https://www.wsj.com/articles/chinas-power-shortfalls-begin-to-ripple-around-the-world-11633101100

Photo:  Hypersonic weapon, demonstrating its non-parabolic trajectory (denoted in red), has a distinctive signature which is being tracked by one of the layers of the National Defense Space Architecture (NDSA) beginning in 2021. [More: see below, at the end] North Korea boasts hypersonic weapons. Bruce Bechtol, author, North Korean Military Proliferation in the Middle East and Africa: Enabling Violence and Instability  https://www.space.com/north-korea-tests-hypersonic-vehicle-hwasong-8 @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill ..  ..  ..   ..  ..  ..  ..  ..  ..  ..  ..  ..    Continuation of PHOTO text. Tranche 0 is to begin deployment in 2022.[13]*The satellites of the NDSA, in gray, are to be deployed in constellations orbiting Earth, and constantly keep Earth in their view (as depicted by the blue triangles (really cones) representing the fields of view of the satellite constellations). The satellites are to intercommunicate and serve the defensive systems arrayed against the enemy hypersonic weapons (in red), and build a kill chain against it. *Conversely, if a hypersonic weapon were friendly, the satellites follow the progress of the friendly trajectory (not shown), and perform battle damage assessment of the strike against its target. See JADC2 (Joint all-domain command and control)

Photo:  DPRK hypersonic nuclear missile test.  Screen grab. China prepares an orbital bomber; North Korea prepares a hypersonic missile.  @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill.   Rick Fisher, senior Fellow of the International Assessment and Strategy Center  https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/29/asia/north-korea-hypersonic-missile-intl-hnk-ml/index.html https://geostrategy-direct-subscribers.com/air-forces-kendall-china-working-on-space-strike-capability-amid-massive-nuke-buildup/ (behind a paywall) Fractional orbital bombardment system, FOBS (Cold War tech) .

Photo: Poster for Wolf Warriors, a 2015 Chinese 3D war action film.  . . . " the legendary 'Wolf Warriors', an elite unit within the PLA tasked with simulating foreign tactics for the PLA to train against." PRC Wolf Warrior intervenes in Canada's election; & What is to be done?  @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill. Charles Burton,  @cburton001, senior Fellow at the Centre for Advancing Canada's Interests Abroad at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute. https://nationalpost.com/opinion/tasha-kheiriddin-liberals-must-demand-probe-into-any-china-election-meddling

Photo: Chinese researchers and agents in white lab coats PRC agents in white lab coats.  @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill.  Brandon Weichert,  @WeTheBrandon, The Weichert Report and author of Winning Space: How America Remains a Superpower. https://www.newenglishreview.org/custpage.cfm?frm=189989&sec_id=189989

Photo:  Water bubble revealing a refracted image  China bubble burst. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill. Charles Ortel, On the Money with Charles Ortel podcast, & Newport Value Partners.  @CharlesOrtel https://www.wsj.com/articles/hidden-debt-plagues-chinas-belt-and-road-infrastructure-plan-studies-find-11632866461

Photo: No known restrictions on publication. CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Meung in a red dress.  Charles Burton, senior fellow at the Centre for Advancing Canada's Interests Abroad at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill. HFN https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-58690974

Photo: No known restrictions on publication. CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Bad News Christmas Supply Chain. Jonathan Bass, onshoring advocate and CEO of PTM Images, @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill. HFN https://www.reuters.com/world/china/chinas-power-crunch-begins-weigh-economic-outlook-2021-09-27/

Photo:  Painting of Two Women of Tahiti by Paul Gauguin France is already an Indo-Pacific power.  @CleoPaskal, @GordonGChang https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/macron-and-modi-vow-to-act-jointly-after-subs-dispute/ar-AAOFdbY https://www.sundayguardianlive.com/news/aukus-big-deal-everyone @CleoPaskal, non-resident Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. Gordon G. Chang @GordonGChang. Author, The Coming Collapse of China and The Great U.S.-China Tech War