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Ying Ma talks to The Andrew Klavan Show about China

The Andrew Klavan Show, September 1, 2020

Ying Ma spoke to the popular Andrew Klavan Show about the bourgeoning Cold War with China, the Obama administration’s misguided approach to the country, President Trump’s trade tariffs and other policies, and the democracy movement in Hong Kong.

To listen to the interview, please click HERE or use the player below.

“Kung Flu” Is Funny; America Is Not a Racist Country

China vs. USA, August 14, 2020

COVID-19 and the Black Lives Matter protests have turned race and racism in the United States into hot topics in both the United States and China. Throughout the pandemic, President Trump has been condemned as a racist for labeling the coronavirus “Kung Flu,” “China virus,” and “Wuhan virus.”

Meanwhile, protestors and rioters throughout the country—from New York to Minneapolis to Portland—have been violently assailing America as one big racist enterprise for the past two plus months. China has eagerly fanned this narrative to deflect criticisms of its human rights abuses.

The latest episode of Ying Ma’s podcast, China vs. USA, features four first-generation Chinese Americans who personify the American Dream and reject the mentality of victimhood and the accusation that Trump is a racist. They condemn real racism as manifested in policies such as racial quotas and preferences, but offer a resounding defense of America as a country that is not racist.

Titled “‘Kung Flu'” Is Funny; America Is Not Racist,” the episode is available HERE. Enjoy!

Guests:

Zhenya LI came to the United States as a graduate student and obtained her PhD in biochemistry. She is actively involved in local politics in Montgomery County, MD, including in opposing sanctuary policies for illegal immigrants.

Cheng TU came to the States to attend graduate school at University of Maryland. He is a small business owner residing in Rockville, Maryland.

George SHEN is a technology executive, strategic thinker and published author on Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, big data, and other topics. Currently, he is an associate partner with IBM.

Linda YANG is a small business owner in Washington State and founder of Washington Asians for Equality. Last year, she was the co-chair of the Let the People Vote—Reject Referendum 88 campaign, which defeated the attempt to reinstitute racial quotas and preferences in Washington.

Confronting China Without Starting a War

China vs. USA, August 6, 2020

Washington seems to be having conflicts with Beijing on almost every front. There’s everything from the trade war to China’s culpability in spreading the coronavirus to its repression of civil liberties in Hong Kong. News headlines regularly scream about a new Cold War between the United States and China. 

Are we in a new Cold War with China? China would be a much more formidable enemy than Iraq, the Taliban, or ISIS. How should the United States confront China in multiple realms—economic, political, military, public health, human rights—while avoiding an unintentional war? 

Ying Ma discusses these issues on the China vs. USA podcast with retired Admiral Gary Roughead, former Chief of Naval Operations and and one of only two people in the Navy’s history to command both the U.S. Atlantic and Pacific Fleets.

[image error]Adm. Gary Roughead

Listen to or download the episode HERE.

Hosted by Ying Ma and produced by the Three Kingdoms Institute, China vs. USA is a new show that explores China’s growing global influence and geostrategic competition with the United States. Subscribe to the show HERE.

 

Trump’s TikTok order heats up China trade war. Can he still salvage a key relationship?

NBC News THINK, August 7, 2020

Is giving a big, aggressive speech on China now a requirement for the Trump administration’s senior officials?

In the span of about four weeks this summer, four of the administration’s Cabinet officers — the attorney general, the FBI director, the national security adviser, and the secretary of state — each gave a speech condemning Beijing.

The message was supposed to be clear: China is the most serious threat to America’s economic vitality, national security and global leadership. Except the message was not clear. Trump administration officials who did not give speeches seemed to say as much with their silence as those who delivered the speeches.

To continue reading this column, please click HERE.

“Kung Flu” is not racist; racial quotas and preferences are

Washington Examiner, August 3, 2020

I chuckled the first time I saw the words “Kung Flu.” It is a clever wordplay that attributes the COVID-19 pandemic to its country of origin, China.

The mainstream media disagrees. After all, many journalists had long ago discarded a sense of humor in exchange for a self-congratulatory obsession with race. Not surprisingly, when President Trump publicly used the term this summer, the media worked itself into a fit of rage and called him a racist. The accusations reveal the media’s narcissism, just as their faux outrage masks cowardice before real racism.

In March, an unnamed White House official was reportedly the first to refer to the coronavirus outbreak as “Kung Flu” in front of a CBS journalist. The correspondent, a Chinese American, immediately took to Twitter to express her indignation and insinuate that the White House was being racist toward her. During the deadliest pandemic to hit the United States in a century, this reporter has a habit of focusing first and foremost on her own ethnicity. Though China has bequeathed the virus to the world and exacerbated its early spread with falsehoods and coverups, the correspondent thought everything was about her.

To read the entire column, please click HERE.

Dear liberal white people: “It’s not about you!”

Washington Examiner, June 26, 2020

In early June, protesters at a raucous rally in Minneapolis screamed at Mayor Jacob Frey, “It’s not about you!”

White people on the political Left, however, would beg to differ. Since the tragic death of George Floyd in the custody of the Minneapolis police, they have very much made the protests, the chaos, the raw emotions, and this moment about them.

They have been falling all over themselves to express contrition, self-loathing, and outrage. The contrition and self-loathing is for their white privilege. The outrage is about showing that they are not racists, that they care about the plight of black people who suffer from racism and police brutality.

Alas, a great deal of liberal white people’s virtue-signaling has become disgusting and disgraceful.

To read the entire column, please click HERE.

Blame universities for Black Lives Matter riots

Washington Examiner, June 22, 2020

America’s universities bequeathed the post-George Floyd protests to the country. The protesters, whether peaceful or violent, have justified their actions by denouncing systemic racism in law enforcement and the country as a whole. The basis for their mass grievance is that America is a racist country.

Amid the chaos, the leaders of the Claremont Institute, a California-based think tank, asked an important question: “Why is it that so many of our citizens believe that America is racist to its core?” The answer actually is quite straightforward. They explained:

“Because this lie has been preached by our universities and media like the Gospel for a generation. From there, it has traveled throughout society, particularly among the elite. Even most leaders on the Right are unwilling to refute this destructive untruth. In failing to do so, they promote the falsehood, the riots that it has engendered, and ultimately America’s destruction. This is to say, the riots are the handiwork of the elite.”

Indeed, universities, especially the elite universities, sowed the seeds of the current convulsions by having peddled for decades the myth that this country is racist. These universities were not the only institutions to do so, but they bear an extraordinary amount of responsibility.

To read the entire column, please click HERE.

 

Corporations are too spineless to say America is not racist

Washington Examiner, June 19, 2020

Corporate giants have been falling all over themselves to express support for the Black Lives Matter movement and contrition for systemic racism and white privilege.

Since the death of George Floyd, the nation has been convulsed by mass protests and riots. Anger at police brutality has galvanized nationwide calls for the institutional reform of law enforcement. At the same time, lawlessness has raged and has been widely condoned. As political leaders struggle for the right response to this national crisis, corporate America has been busy virtue signaling. In the process, it has demonstrated its spinelessness in abundance.

Click HERE to read the entire column.

Contribute to Resurrect “China Takes Over the World” Radio Show

GoFundMe Campaign, June 9, 2020

Six years ago, I hosted a radio show called “China Takes Over the World.” It explored the myriad issues surrounding China’s growing global influence and provided critical analysis of U.S.-China geostrategic competition. I’m now raising money for a new nonprofit that will resurrect this show. (Donate HERE.)

Many in the West have feared–and many in China have hoped–that China would dominate the world in the 21st century. In 2020, China has indeed taken over the world, but unintentionally, by bequeathing the globe with the COVID-19 virus.

As the pandemic wreaked havoc in countries near and far, China openly flaunted its authoritarianism, whether by shamelessly blaming the U.S. military as the source of the coronavirus, pressuring the World Health Organization to do its bidding, barring the export of personal protective equipment, or bragging about its draconian lockdowns as the superior way to combat the virus. As if that’s not enough, China currently keeps a million-plus Muslims in internment camps and recently passed a new national security law that essentially ended the “one country, two systems” framework under which it had promised to govern Hong Kong until 2047.

Meanwhile, China has taken center stage as America’s most serious strategic threat and geopolitical adversary. As the trade war with the United States raged during the first term of the Trump administration, China’s economic might continued to speak loudly and at times obnoxiously, through everything from state-directed foreign investments to restrictions on foreign entities doing business in China.

Yet, much of America’s commentary and analysis on China is woefully inadequate. On one end of the spectrum, it is full of hot air—ill-informed and intellectually shallow, with far too many policymakers and commentators recklessly pining for conflict. On the other end, it is snotty, self-righteous, boring, and delivered by people who condescend to the American public and are far too eager to accommodate Beijing’s wishes, including by condemning legitimate criticism of China as racist.

Americans deserve better China coverage. I promise a show that covers the pressing China-related issues of the day and is accessible to everyone. I also promise lively and provocative commentary, not lectures or sanctimony. (View or listen to examples here  and here.)

Donate now by clicking HERE.

In 2014, “China Takes Over the World” aired every Saturday morning on Hong Kong’s public broadcast station. Today, the city is at the forefront of confronting the encroachments of Chinese authoritarianism. Throughout the city’s mass protests in 2019, I wrote about the need to support the city’s democracy movement—with candor and nuance—while condemning the violence from radical protestors. (You can read examples of my columns here  and here.) Alas, too many U.S. politicians and senior officials chose political convenience over the truth.

The resurrected “China Takes Over the World” today will cover historical moments like the Hong Kong democracy movement with similar intellectual rigor. It will also examine the best interests and options for the United States.

In the last episode  of “China Takes Over the World” that aired in Hong Kong six years ago, I recited a poem from the famed Chinese historical novel, The Romance of the Three Kingdoms. Aptly, the nonprofit under which the new show will be housed is named the Three Kingdoms Institute, after a period in Chinese history that saw fierce battles and rivalries, as well as legendary strategy and clear-eyed thinking.

It is for the institute and the show that this campaign seeks funding. “China Takes Over the World” plans to relaunch this summer on a popular podcast platform in the United States.

The Three Kingdoms Institute seeks funding for the following:

-Podcast/radio show production

-Research assistance

-Filing for IRS 501(c)(3) status

-Promotional costs, including on social media

-Operating costs

Your contributions will be tax deductible and can be made HERE. Though the Three Kingdoms Institute does not yet have federal tax-exempt status, it is incorporated as a nonprofit on the state level and hence all donations qualify for tax deduction.

I hope you will support this worthwhile project.

Media’s Obsession with Trump Lets Top Health Officials Off the Hook

NBCNews THINK, April 27, 2020

A popular narrative about the COVID-19 pandemic is that President Donald Trump cares little about science and data and that his top public health officials must regularly and valiantly try to restrain him from making foolish decisions or unsound assertions. The narrative gained momentum last week when video of Dr. Deborah Birx, the White House coronavirus response coordinator, went viral showing her reaction to Trump’s comments about light and disinfectant.

Widespread acceptance of this narrative has contributed to fawning media attention for Trump’s chief medical advisers, such as Birx, Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and (to a lesser extent) Surgeon General Jerome Adams.

In Florida, for example, 62 percent of voters say they rely on public health officials the most for accurate information about the coronavirus. By contrast, only 18 percent say the same for Trump.

Certainly, the president should be held accountable for his policies and actions during the gravest public health and economic crisis the country has faced in decades, but public health professionals should not be immune from tough — but informed — questioning, either. The high level of trust placed in them by the American public should be matched by serious scrutiny.

Alas, Trump’s public health advisers are too often viewed as infallible. The change in guidelines on mask-wearing in early April is a great example. With notable exceptions in conservative media, the original guidelines and the subsequent pivot were largely accepted without much second thought or criticism. Yet much is troubling about the instructions issued by the U.S. government on a consequential public health issue.

To read entire article, please click HERE.