Category: Biden presidency

The Perfect Democratic President?

Commentary Daniel Henninger, writing in the Wall Street Journal on April 26, properly describes Joe Biden as “the perfect Democratic president.” According to Henninger, Biden’s “non-compos” condition should give the “left wing of his party free rein” during his second presidential term, which is exactly what his party wants. A cognitively impaired, not particularly principled…


Biden Admits That Sanctions Don’t Work and They Make Us Poorer

Commentary  President Biden on Thursday made two big admissions about the U.S.-led economic sanctions on Russia. The first is that the sanctions will lead to food shortages for many countries other than Russia and that this is simply the price that Americans ought to be forced to pay. The second admission was that sanctions haven’t worked to…


Graham: Afghanistan War ‘Has Not Ended,’ US to Deal With ‘Catastrophe’ For Decades

The former Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) has rebuked the Biden administration’s handling of the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan, saying that U.S. presidents will be dealing with the “catastrophe” for decades to come. In an interview with CBS’ “Face the Nation” on Sunday, days before President Joe Biden’s…


Key Biden Allies Serve in National Committee on US-China Relations, Group Works Closely With CCP Front Groups

Commentary “Top Biden Allies Worked for Group With Close Ties to Chinese Communist Party (CCP),” headlines a July 5 report in the Washington Free Beacon. The Biden allies include Jacob Lew, a former Secretary of the Treasury, and Kurt Campbell, an official of the National Security Council (NSC), an arm of the White House. Campbell…


Why Does Xi Jinping Believe Time Is on His Side?

Commentary During a top-level meeting in Beijing in mid-January, Chinese leader Xi Jinping told officials that “time and momentum” are on the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)’s side. But Xi seems overly optimistic. Since he came to power, the CCP’s “time and momentum” has been declining and China has even fallen back to the time of…


China-Taiwan Tensions Rise Days Into Biden Presidency

TAIPEI—Chinese air force planes including 12 fighter jets entered Taiwan’s air defense identification zone for a second day on Sunday, Taiwan said, as tensions rise near the island just days into U.S. President Joe Biden’s new administration. The Chinese communist regime claims the self-ruled Taiwan as a part of its territory and has repeatedly threatened…


Will Biden Unwind Trump’s China Policy?

Commentary With the Trump administration ending with Joe Biden’s inauguration on Jan. 20, it’s quite likely that much of Trump’s comprehensive China policy will go with him. That includes Trump’s executive order that mandates delisting Chinese companies from American capital markets. In fact, it’s almost a fait acompli. Wall Street’s Priorities This can be said…