SACRAMENTO — Those of us who know and love San Francisco have a pretty good idea why the city continues to become less livable as rampant crime and homelessness turn its streets into (literal) cesspools of public disorder. Despite a…
What is the real purpose of the Biden administration’s excessive rapprochement and even flattery of China, including the most recent controversial Xi–Biden meetings in San Francisco? The answer, found in the U.S. government’s statements, is to keep channels open between the two sides…
Niall Ferguson is one of the Western world’s most prolific historians, and his recent opinion piece in Bloomberg marries history with current geopolitical insight. He describes the recent meeting in California between Presidents Joe Biden and Xi Jinping as a…
Why does Biden continue to call Xi Jinping a dictator? I raise this question because the label of “dictator” does not fully express, and even hides to some extent, the inherent brutality of Xi Jinping. Therefore, although Biden’s calling Xi…
Don’t forget what Robert Gates had to say about Joe Biden. Gates, a Republican who served for a time as the defense secretary in the Obama administration and was one of the few somewhat-truthful Americans to serve in that administration,…
We cannot allow the Washington establishment to capitulate to China’s bullying demands. The Chinese government and the CCP do not respect any agreement. Whether it is the Paris Accord, trade agreements, intellectual property laws, or climate change, they ignore them…
They gave a standing ovation to the current leader of what may be the most murderous political organization in world history. Dozens of American business leaders, including Apple CEO Tim Cook, Blackstone’s Stephen Schwarzman, Tesla CEO Elon Musk, Boeing CEO…
“Shame on the American CEOs Who Dined With Xi,” editorial cartoon by Shaomin Li for The American Spectator, Nov. 18, 2023.