Commentary The Biden administration is taking steps to restrict China’s investment and trade to slow Beijing’s quest for dominance, but it is slow going with piecemeal and often uncoordinated legislation. American money supports the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) juggernaut on both sides of the Pacific. China is buying up assets in the United States, while…
Biden Administration Is Working to Reduce China Investment and Trade—But Moving Slowly
More Bad News on Inflation
July 15, 2022
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Commentary Each bit of inflation news discredits Washington’s excuses. America recently received still more bad inflation news. The Labor Department reported that its benchmark consumer price index (CPI) rose 1.3 percent in June and stood 9.1 percent above year-ago levels. This news makes any administration excuses for these price pressures even less convincing than they…
Russian Derangement Syndrome Trumps All
Commentary Saving Ukraine from Russia has become more important to Western leaders than saving the planet from climate change, more important than keeping their populations from freezing in the dark, more important than the viability of Western industries, and more important even than avoiding the risk of an all-out nuclear war between the West and…
America’s Meth Crisis: Made in Mexico, Engineered in China
Commentary On June 27, an abandoned truck was discovered near San Antonio, Texas. Inside, dozens of migrants were found dead. They had succumbed to the effects of extreme heat. Officers arrested three men less than 24 hours after discovering the abandoned truck. One of the men was Homero Zamorano, the driver of the truck. According…
Pentagon Moves to Wrest Rare Earths Control From China
News Analysis The battle for control of the global rare earths supply chain is heating up, with the U.S. Department of Defense investing in a new processing plant in a bid to challenge China’s chokehold over the critical minerals. The Pentagon has agreed to fund the entire $120 million cost of a heavy rare earths…
The Approaching Geographic Realignment in Post-Roe America
Commentary Roe v. Wade has been overturned. This has rightfully been highlighted as one of the most monumental developments of our lifetime. That is because the case hits at the very nexus of forces that define the American national identity: social, political, legal jurisprudence, economic, and even spiritual. It causes us to wrestle with the…
South Australian Government Drops European Trade Office
The South Australian (SA) centre-left Labor government will push its trade opportunities from the state’s London office reversing the previous Liberal government’s plan to fund an additional trade office in France. Changing the former government’s decision will save around $500,000 (US$346,000), a sum the current government says is equivalent to hiring six frontline nurses. The…
Why Are Many Police Officers Being Murdered?
Commentary An increasing number of Democrats are busy distancing themselves from calls to “defund” the police. But, some would argue, the damage has already been done. For years, those on the left have vilified police officers, painting them in an unfair, even malicious, light. With such crude generalizations fueled by mainstream media outlets, millions of…
US-South Korea Ties: Focus on Economics as Much as Defense
Commentary On March 9, the Biden administration may have felt that it dodged a bullet when conservative Yoon Suk-yeol was elected president of the Republic of Korea (ROK, aka South Korea) for a five-year term. Unlike his defeated leftist opponent and the previous Moon Jae-in administration, Yoon strongly supports the ROK-U.S. alliance. Its military component…
Philippines Purchase of India’s Supersonic Missile Breaks ‘Psychological Barriers,’ Expert Says
NEW DELHI—In its first-ever major military export, India is set to supply supersonic cruise missiles valued at over $350 million to the Philippines. The move is likely to help the two countries overcome Cold War-era psychological barriers due to their respective affinities to the United States and the Soviet Union, according to Richard Heydarian, associate professor at…
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