Commentary China these days can serve as a global economic bellwether, and the direction it points is far from encouraging. As the world’s great exporter, its growth depends less on its domestic conditions than on what is happening in the United States and Europe. And because China sources heavily elsewhere in Asia, its export issues…
China’s Xi Intensifies Anti-Corruption Purge Ahead of the Crucial 20th Party Congress
Commentary Xi Jinping’s anti-corruption campaign targeting the real estate and banking sectors could be compensation for his failure to make good on campaign promises. Nearly 5 million people—including Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials, entrepreneurs, and ordinary citizens—have been caught in Xi’s anti-corruption probes. Xi rose to power through his anti-corruption campaign, which began in 2012….
The US Must Respond to Putin’s Nuclear Threat
Commentary Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sept. 21 threatened the “leading NATO countries” with nuclear weapons and ordered a draft of reservists. The top three NATO countries are the United States, France, and Britain. The stakes are high for Putin, as Russia’s military is in retreat and Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy vowed to retake areas occupied by…
Chinese Police Adopts North Korea’s ‘Three Generations of Punishment’
Commentary A recent report by human rights NGO Safeguard Defenders reveals that the Chinese police have adopted North Korea’s “three generations of punishment,” in which three generations of a political offender’s family can be imprisoned or executed despite not having committed a crime themselves. Similar to the concept of “guilt by association,” Chinese police use…
The 10th Amendment Is on the Ballot in November
Commentary Federal encroachment on states’ rights is ultimately a 10th Amendment issue that Americans must address head-on. What’s in a poll? That depends on one’s political perspective, especially during campaign season. Take, for example, the new NBC poll that NBC News claims that “Democrats have pulled even with Republicans” in advance of the midterm elections…
Put North Dakota’s Shannon Brandt in Prison for Life
Commentary Does that sound extreme? It shouldn’t. Not to a healthy society, at least. Shannon Brandt, 41, ran down 18-year-old Cayler Ellingson with his car in North Dakota due to a supposed political disagreement. He then fled the scene, leaving the teenager to die of his injuries. Brandt was drunk and argued that he felt threatened…
Putin’s Sudden Turning Point
Commentary Russian President Vladimir Putin finally abandoned hope in mid-September that he could rebuild a bridge to the West. With that realization, he committed Russia to the new anti-Western pact. The turning point was the signal Putin received from the United Kingdom over the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II. It had little to do with…
The CHIPS Bill: Strange Mix
Commentary Washington has rushed to save computer chipmaking in the United States and has found $280 billion for the project. Even by the standards of modern Washington, that is a sizable sum. And as is typical of federal practice, the new legislation is about a lot more than manufacturing semiconductors. Chipmaking will get a little…
China Steals Your Shipping Data
Commentary China stole a march on the United States by getting a major information technology system to market while we were dozing. The technology, called LOGINK, reportedly tracks 90 percent of the world’s container ships in real time, including granular details about thousands of containers per ship and packages per container. Beijing provides the technology free…
The Revolutionary Pierre Poilievre
Commentary The attempt by pundits in Canada’s mainstream media to portray Pierre Poilievre as a simplistic, unsophisticated thinker resembles past attacks that the media levied against Ronald Reagan in the United States and Margaret Thatcher in the United Kingdom, both of whom would go on to dwarf their critics and be recognized as transformative, consequential…
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