Category: United States

Worsening Economy Paves the Way for a Maverick in 2024, Analysts Say

News Analysis Amid an ongoing deluge of negative economic data, analysts and strategists looking at the field of potential GOP contenders for the nomination in 2024 say that the public is increasingly fed up with the state of the economy and is not really concerned with whether a candidate has run for or held high…


Buzz About Buttigieg as 2024 Candidate Overlooks His Far-Left Agenda, Analysts Say

News Analysis Amid renewed concerns over President Joe Biden’s health and mounting speculation that he may not end up as the Democrats’ nominee for the White House in 2024, attention increasingly focuses on other potential candidates within a highly diverse and fragmented field. Pete Buttigieg, who ran for president in 2020 and currently serves as…


Congress Should Investigate NIH to Learn More About Origins of COVID-19, Urges Pete Hoekstra

An investigation into how the National Institutes of Health cooperated with a research lab in the central Chinese city of Wuhan would shed further light on the origins of the coronavirus, said former chair and ranking member of the House Intel Committee, Pete Hoekstra. This is important as China’s ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has…


South Korea Given Deadline to Join US-Led Chip Alliance Amid Mounting Pressure from Beijing

South Korea once again faces a significant strategic dilemma amid growing calls to participate in the U.S.-led chip alliance designed to decouple countries from China. The semiconductor powerhouse was asked to make a decision by the end of August. The United States has reportedly asked South Korea to inform it whether it will join the…


Demands to Cancel J.K. Rowling Are Latest Example of ‘Community Censorship,’ Analysts Say

The demands of transgender activists and other progressives for Warner Bros. to stop producing films based on the fictional worlds of author J.K. Rowling, and for the studio to dissociate itself officially from Rowling and her work, are among the latest efforts to censor viewpoints and sources by exerting enormous public pressure on the corporations…


Hawley Proposal Targets Federal Consultants Who Also Work for China

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) thinks it is “long past time” that the Department of Defense (DOD) and other federal agencies stop doing business with consulting firms like McKinsey that also have contracts with elements of the Chinese government. “The fact that these consultants are awarded huge contracts by our Defense Department and other federal agencies,…


‘Message of Hope’: Washington Audience Praise Shen Yun on Final 2022 Performance

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Domenic Savini, assistant director of the Federal Accounting Standards Advisory Board, said he waited for a long time to see Shen Yun Performing Arts, and was “so happy” to finally get a chance to see the final 2022 performance of the company at the Kennedy Center Opera House on July 17. Mr. Savini, who is also…


‘Message of Hope’: Washington Audience Praises Shen Yun’s Final 2022 Performance

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Domenic Savini, assistant director of the Federal Accounting Standards Advisory Board, said he waited for a long time to see Shen Yun Performing Arts, and was “so happy” to finally get a chance to see the final 2022 performance of the company at the Kennedy Center Opera House on July 17. Mr. Savini, who is also…


‘The World Needs to See This,’ Says Congressman After Attending Shen Yun

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Rep. Brian Babin (R-Texas) and his wife Roxanne saw Shen Yun Performing Arts for the first time at the Kennedy Center Opera House on July 15. “Wonderful, it is absolutely wonderful,” said Dr. Babin (D.D.S.).  “The talent of the dancers, the background, the graphics … fantastic.” Shen Yun was formed in 2006 by a group of…


‘What Great Ambassadors of China’: Professors Praise Shen Yun for Showing Real China

WASHINGTON D.C.—Shen Yun Performing Arts gives people around the world a chance to see what real China is like, said two professors after seeing the classical Chinese dance and music company perform at the Kennedy Center Opera House on July 16. “It’s very significant,” said Nia Mahallati, a government contractor and professor at Webster University, specializing in…