Commentary Small states and their actions are key indicators of U.S. power. They allow Washington to perceive which way the geopolitical winds are blowing because small states get a vote regarding whether they seek to align with the United States or its enemy, communist China. Two recent events reveal that the evidence is mixed. That…
Small States, and Seemingly Small Events, Are Key Indicators of US Power
Can China Transition to a Consumption Economy?
Commentary The great economist Michael Pettis at Tsinghua University has noted for years the importance for the Chinese economy to shift its growth dependency away from investment and toward greater consumption. As China faces its weakest sustained economic period in modern history, it bears worth asking, can China shift toward a more consumer-focused economy? The…
What China’s Economic Disaster Means for Markets
Commentary China’s economy is in shambles. While it is unlikely to affect Chinese Communist Party leader Xi Jinping’s bid for another term as the regime boss, the world’s No. 2 economy will have an impact on the rest of the world if it crashes and burns. China’s real estate sector—whose importance cannot be understated in…
American War on Drugs 2.0
Commentary On Aug. 27, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers in El Paso, Texas, caught a 14-year-old child walking across the border with 0.52 pounds of fentanyl concealed around his waist. Given that only a few grains of the drug are enough to kill, that one child had what it takes to end over…
Why Are so Many Americans Renouncing Their Faith?
Commentary After studying Catholicism for his upcoming movie, “Padre Pio,” the American actor Shia LaBeouf recently announced his devotion to Christ. He is a fully-fledged Catholic. The 36-year-old has fully embraced Christianity. At the same time, however, millions of his fellow Americans are going the opposite way, renouncing their faith in record numbers. The United States is…
China Is Torturing Critics in Psychiatric Hospitals
September 2, 2022
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Originally published by Gatestone Institute Commentary China’s regime is torturing and killing critics, petitioners, activists, dissidents, and religious adherents in psychiatric hospitals, thereby bypassing its horribly misdescribed criminal justice system. The “barbaric practice,” as a Madrid-based NGO termed it last month, is still widespread. Safeguard Defenders, in “Drugged and Detained: China’s Psychiatric Prisons,” details how…
Washington’s Flawed New Law: Part 3
September 2, 2022
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Commentary This article is the last of a three-part series on the new Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), which takes up the proposed new health care rules in which the government lodges its inflation reduction claims. The first part of this series examined the law’s lavish spending on green initiatives. The second part assessed its dubious…
China’s Forced Organ Harvesting Demands US Response
Commentary American doctors go to great lengths to maintain the highest ethical standards as they work to save thousands of desperately ill patients waiting for an organ match, as underscored in recent reporting of innovative transplant experiments using genetically modified pig hearts. China’s transplant sector, unconstrained by rigorous ethical rules, found a more expedient solution….
The CCP Sees Gorbachev as the One Who Has Destroyed Russia’s Communist Regime
Commentary Global leaders have sent messages of support and sadness with the passing of former USSR leader (1985-1991) Mikhail Gorbachev, who died at age 91 on Aug. 30. Gorbachev, who worked closely with U.S. President Ronald Reagan and British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, is seen as the man who reformed and opened the USSR. These…
Europe’s Folly Leaves It Facing a Destabilizing Energy Crisis
Commentary Russian expansionism is a reality, and the dimensions of Europe’s looming energy crisis are broader and deeper than European Union leaders anticipated when the Ukrainian invasion began in February. Natural gas prices are now nearly 10 times higher than their prior 10-year average. Coincidentally, they’re also about 10 times costlier than in the United States. “This…
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