China appointed Li Shangfu as its new defense minister, making the general targeted by U.S. sanctions the face of the communist regime’s growing military. China’s rubber-stamp legislature, the National People’s Congress (NPC), formally confirmed Li’s appointment as the Minister of National Defense and a state councilor on Sunday. The 65-year-old aerospace engineer succeeds Wei Fenghe,…
Hong Kong Ranks 41 From Bottom in Latest Global Democracy Report
The V-Dem (Varieties of Democracy) Institute, Department of Political Science, University of Gothenburg, Sweden recently released the “Democracy Report 2023,” with Hong Kong’s Liberal Democracy Index ranking dropping from 123rd last year in the world to 139, the 41st when counted from the bottom, a rating within the 20 to 30 percent of countries and…
Japan to Deploy Over 100 Ammunition Storage Facilitates
The Japanese government is poised to set up about 130 ammunition storage facilities across the country in the next ten years, gearing toward boosting constant fighting capability to tackle the Taiwan Strait crisis. The first four ammunition depots are expected to be constructed in 2023 in Aomori and Oita, two prefectures in the Self-Defense Force…
Chinese Ambassador to Japan Resigns Upon Failure to Complete CCP-Tasked Missions
March 12, 2023
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News Analysis Chinese ambassador to Japan, Kong Xuanyou resigned on Feb. 28 from his post and returned home to China. A 2019 analysis in Nikkei suggests that Kong’s departure was due to his failure to achieve the objective given to him by Beijing to restore and improve China-Japan relations. Kong, 63, was born to an…
Bangladesh Poised to Overtake China as EU’s Largest Garment Exporter
China has seen a large number of clothing orders canceled by international buyers in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and the U.S.-China trade war, with many of these orders having been transferred to Bangladesh, the world’s second-largest garment processing exporter. Ahsan H. Mansur, executive director of the Bangladesh Policy Institute, said that Bangladesh is expected…
Hong Kong Retired Pilot Reminiscences His Time in Joining the Taiwanese Military
Li Binlun, moved to Hong Kong from China with his family in the early 1950s because they were worried about what would happen after the Chinese Communist Party (CCP’s) had taken over China, but lacking money to live, he went to Taiwan and joined the Taiwanese army for sustenance. He relates his journey through life…
Rubio Introduces Bill to Block EV Tax Credits to Ford’s Plant Using Chinese Technology
March 11, 2023
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U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), the top Republican on the Senate Intelligence Committee, introduced a bill on Thursday to block subsidies to Chinese battery companies. If enacted, Ford’s new electric vehicle battery plant that licenses a Chinese battery maker’s technology will not qualify for the EV tax credits appropriated in the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA)….
Biden May Give European Automakers US Tax Credit for Battery, Critical Mineral Production
March 11, 2023
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The United States and the European Union will negotiate a revised trade agreement that could allow European manufacturers to receive U.S. tax credits for producing critical minerals such as lithium and nickel for electric car batteries. Following a March 10 meeting at the White House between President Joe Biden and European Commission President Ursula von…
Michigan State Legislators Reject Tax Benefits to Ford’s New Battery Plant
March 11, 2023
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MARSHALL, Mich.—Michigan House Freedom Caucus held a press conference on Saturday to object to using taxpayer dollars to fund the new Ford electric vehicle battery plant. Two days ago, the state appropriated $630 million for the project that sees Ford partnered with a Chinese EV battery maker with ties to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)….
Has Wokeness Peaked? That’s Debatable
March 11, 2023
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News Analysis As headlines declare that “peak woke” has passed, one researcher thinks it’s possible that wokeness is actually just “mutating.” “The jury is still out in terms of whether the Great Awokening is winding down,” wrote Associate Professor David Rozado in a Feb. 24 Twitter post. Rozado’s research in computational social science at the New Zealand Institute…
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