Commentary The butterfly effect, as you are no doubt aware, is a phenomenon whereby small changes in a localized, complex system result in enormous changes elsewhere. If I may exaggerate a little, the flap of a butterfly’s wings in Tokyo has the potential to produce an earthquake in Tehran. What about the “Kabul effect,” a…
China’s Brutal Caste System
Commentary In a piece for The Atlantic, David Brooks laments the decline of American society. “These days,” writes Brooks, “your education level and political values are as important in defining your class status as your income is.” The country has split into two distinct, “separate class hierarchies—one red and one blue.” The “ideological divide” is…
As Chinese Regime Cracks Down on Big Tech, Big Tech Cracks Down on American People
Commentary The Big Five—Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, and Microsoft—essentially control America. In the United States, the pandemic resulted in the permanent closure of 200,000 businesses. People lost their jobs, their livelihoods, and too many lost their lives. But the pandemic didn’t affect Big Tech. In fact, rather perversely, it seems to have helped. Amazon just released its first quarterly…
We Need Tougher Trade War Against China’s Expanding Tech
Commentary Despite increased tariffs and technology export controls on China that the prior administration instituted, and that continue under the Biden administration, China outmaneuvered the United States by expanding technology exports to Europe, according to a new study. China keeps its trade levels high through predatory practices, and by diverting exports to low-tariff markets. The…
The Chinese Regime’s Biggest Export? Tyranny
Commentary In a recent op-ed for the South China Morning Post, the researcher, S. George Marano, writes, “Predictions of the Communist Party’s impending doom have come to nothing as its form of political governance has not only endured but thrived. The party has created a system that has rewritten China’s economic and social record in a short period…
From Health Care to Hollywood: How the Chinese Regime Attempts to Control America
Commentary We are fast approaching the two months anniversary of the John Cena apology. For the uninitiated, in an interview for Fast and Furious 9, a movie he was starring in, the professional wrestler and actor made the “mistake” of calling Taiwan a country. Ostensibly, Cena was apologizing to the people of China. In reality, though,…
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