Republicans on the House Committee on Natural Resources held a forum Oct. 22 to discuss how President Biden’s exit from Afghanistan left massive, untapped reserves of rare-earth metals, lithium, and other vital minerals in Taliban hands, potentially opening them up to exploitation by China. Speakers said the Biden administration has simultaneously worked to hinder key…
Biden Abandoned Critical Mineral Reserves in Afghanistan While Thwarting Mining at Home: GOP Forum
October 23, 2021
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14 Chinese Activists Seek Candidacy in Beijing District Election in Bid to ‘Speak for the People’
October 20, 2021
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Fourteen Chinese activists in China’s capital are presenting themselves as independent candidates in the local People’s Congress election, posing a challenge to the ruling Party that has long kept a tight grip over the twice-a-decade event. Most of them have experienced have had firsthand experience of the harshness of authoritarian control, but say they hope…
China Promotes Most Sanctioned Xinjiang Official in Snub to the West
October 20, 2021
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Beijing has promoted a senior official whose name appeared on multiple Western sanction lists for his role in suppressing Uyghur communities in China’s far-western Xinjiang region, which several countries have labeled a constitute genocide. Wang Junzheng, 58, has taken over the top Chinese Communist Party (CCP) post in Tibet after serving as the Party boss…
High-Ranking Chinese Official Sanctioned by the West Promoted by the CCP
October 20, 2021
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Beijing has promoted a senior official in China’s far-western Xinjiang region whose name has appeared on multiple Western sanction lists for his role in suppressing Uyghur communities, which several countries have labeled as genocide. Wang Junzheng, 58, has been placed in the top Chinese Communist Party (CCP) post in Tibet after serving as the Party…
Human Right Activists Stage Protest at Beijing Olympics Torch-Lighting Ceremony
October 18, 2021
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Three human rights activists holding a Tibetan banner that read “No genocide games” managed to sneak into the site where the Olympic flame was lit in Greece before being detained by police. The flame was lit on Monday at the Temple of Hera in southern Greece, the birthplace of the ancient Olympics, ahead of the Beijing 2022…
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Dr. Anthony Fauci suggests the Johnson & Johnson vaccine should have been two doses instead of one. And Navy personnel faces a general discharge if they don’t get vaccinated by the deadline. Americans are kidnapped in Haiti. They were on their way home from building an orphanage when gang members kidnapped them in Haiti’s capital,…
UN Biodiversity Conference Begins in China
October 12, 2021
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Part One of the United Nations’ Biodiversity Conference is taking place this week in the city of Kunming in the country identified as the world’s largest polluter, the People’s Republic of China. Coming shortly before the United Nations’ scheduled Climate Change conference, the meeting takes place at a time when extinction rates among animals are…
The Moral Arguments for Taiwan’s Independence Have Been Made by Xi Jinping
Commentary There are two major moral arguments for Taiwan’s independence, and surprisingly they were both recently made by Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leader Xi Jinping. The first is the threat of violence against Taiwan. On the eve of the anniversary of the 1911 Xinhai revolution, which ended China’s last imperial dynasty, the Manchu-led Qing Dynasty,…
Pentagon’s Ex-Software Chief Denies Saying America Has ‘Lost Its AI Fight to China’
October 11, 2021
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The Pentagon’s first Chief Software Officer Nicolas Chaillan clarified comments he made about China’s artificial intelligence during an interview with the Financial Times, denying that he told the publication America had “lost its AI fight to China.” Chaillan resigned from his role at the Department of Defense early in September, which he said was in protest over the slow…
Former Pentagon Software Chief Denies Saying America Has ‘Lost Its AI Fight to China’
October 11, 2021
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The Pentagon’s former software chief has clarified comments he made about China’s artificial intelligence during an interview with the Financial Times, denying that he told the publication America had “lost its AI fight to China.” Nicolas Chaillan resigned from his role at the Department of Defense early in September, which he said was in protest over the slow pace of…
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