From covering up the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic to using dangerous apps like TikTok to compromise Americans’ personal information, the Chinese Communist Party has long kept its nefarious activities under wraps. It’s here.
As a new report from the Heritage Foundation assesses, China’s lack of transparency is part of a larger strategy to mislead its adversaries. Based on data gathered from a variety of sources, the report examines inhumane practices in Xinjiang, influence operations to distort global media, and the number of people likely to have died from the coronavirus. It exposes much that China has gone to great lengths to hide, including the underreporting of a million Chinese citizens. -19 within the borders. (The Daily Signal is Heritage’s news and commentary outlet.)
The 2024 China Transparency Report assesses the current state of transparency in the People’s Republic of China on eight key issues: economy, energy and environment, human rights, influence operations, military, foreign investment in other countries, politics and law, and technology. I am evaluating it. .
Each section of the report reviews the data that China has made public – the information it wants the world to know. But that data alone doesn’t tell the whole story. To better understand what’s really going on, this report examines nearly 100 private and non-governmental databases, reports, and researchers that reveal the reality in China.
This report contains many eye-opening statistics. For example, despite professing to adopt environmentally friendly policies, China is rapidly adding to its existing 1,100 coal-fired power plants, while the United States has only 250 coal-fired power plants. It’s not even basic. Additionally, China’s annual defense budget is reported to be around $225 billion, although the actual figure could exceed $700 billion.
The report includes prominent experts who delve into topics such as human rights, the U.S. defense industrial base, influence operations in the Pacific, Wall Street financing, the COVID-19 cover-up, and China’s internal politics. It also includes an essay by the house.
For example, Dr. Adrian Zentz, the world’s leading expert on China’s genocide against Muslim Uyghurs in Xinjiang, reports new evidence examining China’s mass internment and birth control measures. is provided. Zenz uses the Chinese Communist Party’s internal state secret documents to show that the Chinese government fully intends to target the Uyghurs for genocide, and that the Communist Party plans to prevent the birth of up to 2.6 million children. It has been revealed that measures such as female sterilization have been enacted to prevent this. They did not belong to China’s dominant ethnic group (Han Chinese).
In a separate essay, Dr. George Calhoun, director of the Hanlon Center for Financial Systems at Stevens Institute of Technology, uses China’s own data to expose China’s systematic suppression of information related to the coronavirus, We are assessing the true impact that the virus has had on the country. China.
Although China’s official statistics put the official death toll from the new coronavirus at around 90,000 by spring 2022, Calhoun concluded: This highlights how the Chinese government’s efforts to cover up the virus outbreak and suppress vital information about the disease are imposing terrible costs on its own citizens as well as the rest of the world. I have to. ”
If the United States is to win the new Cold War with Communist China, it must have access to accurate data and resources. Dr. Kevin Roberts, Chairman of the Heritage Foundation, said in the report’s foreword:
In honor of President Reagan, the 2024 China Transparency Report enables our leaders to shine a light on and bring enthusiasm to China. [Chinese Communist Party]. As he famously said, “When you can’t show them the light, make them feel the heat.” The American public is taking the Chinese threat deadly seriously. It is time for our leaders to do the same.
Heritage’s 2024 China Transparency Report, published here, reveals the truth about the Chinese Communist Party, the consequences of its authoritarian rule, and the secrecy it practices against the rest of the world. and will help lead the way in exposing the consequences of deception. Reliable, detailed, and transparent data on China will help American policymakers understand as accurately as possible the nature of this adversary they must confront.
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