In a recent congressional hearing, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen stated that decoupling from China would be disastrous. She bases her analysis almost entirely on economic cost and benefit in the short run and ignores that, first and foremost, decoupling is…
While it shouldn’t be a surprise that communist Cuba is helping communist China spy on the United States, it should be of paramount concern and priority. The Wall Street Journal reported that China has a spy base in Cuba and…
What does TikTok have in common with 9/11? On Sept. 11, 2001, terrorists hijacked airplanes and committed suicide attacks on the World Trade Center’s twin towers in New York City and the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia. These terrorists took advantage…
Ever since Chiang Kai-shek and the Nationalist Party of China, or Kuomintang (KMT), declared their control of Taiwan in 1949 after losing the Chinese civil war, the United States has pledged to defend Taiwan against Communist aggression from the mainland….
President Richard Nixon’s rule for handling other countries was: “Do unto others as they would do unto you.” Then–Secretary of State Henry Kissinger corrected him, saying, “Plus 10 percent.” The legendary Jimmy Hoffa gave this notion sharper elbows: “I do…
The spy balloon event could not have come at a worse time for the Chinese Communist Party. The U.S.–China relationship has fallen to a low point, and many in the U.S. government and private sector demand economic delinking from China….
This year, 2023, is the Chinese Year of the Rabbit, and China is sending a cute one to us. The former Chinese ambassador to the United States, Qin Gang, has been promoted to the position of China’s foreign minister, and,…
After three years of harsh and inhumane zero-COVID lockdown, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) had to reopen the society after widespread discontent led by the “White Paper Movement.” But in apparent retaliation to the massive protests, the CCP took an…
Twitter was a huge lie, but it was fun. Maybe it’s like television. Elon Musk is having a blast unveiling the conservative-hiding, progressive-promoting plot that was rising up in the complex engineering behind the little blue bird, which leads me…