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Hollywood Insider Shares the Truth About the CCP’s Influence on the US Movie Industry | Chris Fenton
China is infiltrating Hollywood in order to give the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) a positive spin in movies and television. That’s the first-hand experience of our guest on this episode of California Insider. Producer Chris Fenton explains how the CCP wants to spread its narrative around the world and is using the U.S. movie industry to carry out its mission.
The Hague ruling's effect on the South China Sea...in 60 Seconds
What does China want in the South China Sea? in 60 Seconds
Unlike China's neighbors, the South China Sea's islands are not within China's exclusive economic zone. So what do they want there? AEI Research Fellow Michael Mazza describes China's motivations for its claims in the waters near the Philippines and Vietnam.
China and the Philippines are among six governments that have overlapping territorial claims in the South China Sea, waters through which an estimated $5 trillion in global trade passes through each year and which have rich fishing stocks and a potential wealth of oil, gas and other resources.
The disputes have also increased friction between China and the United States, which has ramped up its military presence in the region as China has expanded its navy's reach farther offshore.
The Philippines, under a U.N. treaty governing the seas, asked in 2013 for arbitration on a number of issues it had with China.
The five-member panel from the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague, Netherlands, unanimously concluded that China had violated its obligations to refrain from aggravating the dispute while the settlement process was ongoing.
It also found that China had interfered with Philippine petroleum exploration at Reed Bank, tried to stop fishing by Philippine vessels within the country's exclusive economic zone and failed to prevent Chinese fishermen from fishing within the Philippines' exclusive economic zone at Mischief Reef and Second Thomas Shoal.
You know we are in dark times when the UN is willing to rule against China in their South China Sea Expansionism but the Commander and Chief does nothing. Too bad they don’t have any way to enforce their ruling because they are a completely useless organization.
Rubio: Obama Shouldn’t Let Authoritarian Regimes Rush Us Into Bad Internet Handover Deal
I can’t speak for anyone else, I’m talking from my perspective, my engagement on this issue. It’s not about not giving it up at some point, it’s about would we do it the right way because that’s an irreversible decision in many ways. It comes in light of increased authoritarian measures around the world, in places like Russia, and in places like China over the internet...
We are having this debate in the context of an increasingly authoritarian environment when it comes to oversight and the internet, where China has done a successful job of building a great firewall. Today people in China do not have, for example, images to Tiananmen Square. It is filtered out. So there’s real concerns about the environment that we operate in when some of the largest global players are authoritarian regimes who have shown the propensity and the willingness to exercise control over the internet. By the way, in the context of what is happening geopolitically in the South China Sea is an example where China is a signatory on the law of the sea treaty, yet they are taking over–illegitimate territorial claims that they are exercising, building artificial islands, claiming territory that doesn’t belong to them, and basically ignoring the mechanisms by which all that is supposed to be regulated.
If they do that for islands, why would they not do it for the internet, one of the most powerful tools in human history? So it’s not that I don’t want it to happen, I just think it has to happen in the right way, in the right timing, or we can’t get it back. We can’t reverse those mistakes.
Carter was asked about the strategic significance of China’s plan to add military facilities to a disputed island known as Scarborough Shoal located about 120 miles—within missile range—of Subic Bay, Philippines, where U.S. warships will be based.
The defense secretary said Scarborough is “a piece of disputed territory that, like other disputes in that region, has the potential to lead to military conflict.”
“That’s particularly concerning to us, given its proximity to the Philippines,” Carter told a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on efforts to counter the Islamic State terrorist group.
China is getting too aggressive with their military in the South China Sea, and this development of wanting to build on an island in the Philippines is particularly disconcerting.
If Obama had any foreign policy competence, he would have realized that this needed to be nipped in the bud when it started a few years ago. Instead, he has let China ravage the South China Sea, and now there is a potential international incident involving one of our allies, the Philippines.
If America were strong, China would know they could not get away with stunts like this. But because America is weak, China can do what it wants and America will just lay down and accept it.
While the Chinese may be sticking to International Waters, it is disturbing how far north they have ventured. The article doesn’t say how close they came to Alaska, but it quotes some bonehead Bonnie Glaser stating, “China’s navy is going to increasingly become a blue water navy,” she said. “I don’t think we should be alarmed by it.”
Yes, we should be alarmed by it. China doesn’t have a legitimate reason to “expand their military power in tandem with their economic power.” And if that’s their reason, then with their stock market crash, shouldn’t their military shrink in tandem with their economic power? I doubt it. Point is, China knows there is no one to challenge them at the moment, and are doing things they should not be doing just because they can get away with it. (This include the cyberespionage and their building of islands in the South China Sea).
