Commentary The Russian invasion of Ukraine shows the lengths that some people go to make things gray. And without good guys, there is no reason for action against Russian, or likely Chinese, aggression. One of the revealing parts of the Russian invasion of Ukraine has been the lengths that some intellectuals go in defending inaction….
The Most Important Market in the World Is Also the Most Vulnerable
Commentary Click past Apple’s shiny consumer marketing of its latest iPhone 13, and you’ll read in the specs that it brings some serious new technology to its hardware. Its A15 Bionic chip has 15 billion transistors… a new six‑core CPU with two performance and four efficiency cores… a new five‑core GPU… a new 16‑core Neural…
Russia-Ukraine War: ‘Kill With a Borrowed Knife’?
Commentary What is Russian President Vladimir Putin doing in Ukraine? Who benefits from the war? Everyone knows that Ukraine is a resource-rich country. Some business articles ask this question: “Are Ukraine’s vast natural resources a real reason behind Russia’s invasion?” Let’s examine this pragmatic-realist view and assume that the invasion is to acquire Ukrainian resources….
China’s Other Genocide: Against the Rohingya in Burma
News Analysis After five years of terror against the Rohingya in Burma (also known as Myanmar), the U.S. government finally designated it as a genocide. Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced the determination on March 21 at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington. The genocide designation took so long because Washington did not want…
China Trolls the World: ‘Everyone Is to Blame for the Ukraine Crisis—Except Us’
Commentary As the U.S.-led Western world continues to fail in pressuring China to condemn Russia and its military operations in Ukraine, one is left to wonder: Are our policymakers just going through the political motions, repeating talking points that are passed down through think-tanks and academia, or are they truly just downright naïve? China won’t…
When China and America Were Friends
March 24, 2022
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Commentary Communist China conveniently forgets the U.S.-China alliance during World War II. With the constant drone of anti-U.S. agitprop from Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and Chinese state-run media, a person might think that Chinese animosity toward America has always existed. The communists’ venom and vitriol are blatant (examples here, here, and here), but they…
Tesla and SpaceX Are Apparently Compromised by China
March 23, 2022
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News Analysis Elon Musk and his companies, Tesla and SpaceX, are under scrutiny for their billion-dollar links to China and their CEO’s political support for the totalitarian country. Some of that support comes in the same breath as his denigration of the United States. While the freedom that America gives business is legendary in attracting…
It’s On–China’s Economic War on the West
Commentary What’s really behind Beijing’s “zero-tolerance” COVID-19 policy? Isn’t the pandemic all but over, with the vast majority of variants becoming less lethal and a large percentage of populations either vaccinated or with natural immunity? If all that’s true—and it is—what’s going on? Follow the Science: Lockdowns Don’t Work China’s lockdowns aren’t about saving lives….
Latin America Moves Closer to China Amid Ukraine Crisis
News Analysis The Ukraine crisis allows the Chinese regime to increase engagement in Latin America, expand its power, isolate Taiwan, and threaten U.S. dominance in the region. Russia sought to increase ties with Latin America days before the Ukraine invasion, sending delegates to Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela. Moscow and Caracas discussed increasing their “strategic partnership” with…
Return of Troubled Visa Scheme Opens Door to More Chinese Capital
March 23, 2022
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Commentary Chinese investors once again can purchase green cards by investing in the U.S. real estate market under the aegis of a controversial immigration program that has been revived after lapsing last year. The $1.5 trillion omnibus spending bill passed by Congress and signed by President Joe Biden earlier this month reauthorizes the heart of…
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