Commentary President Joe Biden appears to have no understanding of where high gas prices come from and that his policies have contributed to the problem. “If oil companies were investing their profits in their operations at historic rates, America would produce more oil today and prices would be down even further. Rather than giving Americans…
Is China’s New Silk Road Just Another Elaborate Scam?
Commentary China on Nov. 6 kicked off the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27) in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, by calling on the world to provide aid to poorer nations. The idea of China, the world’s most notorious emitter, lecturing world leaders stinks of hypocrisy. Alas, this is China we are discussing, a country ruled…
Biden Should Shun Xi at the G-20
Commentary China’s new “emperor for life,” Xi Jinping, is foisting a whirlwind tour on the world’s presidents and prime ministers, including at the upcoming G-20 meeting in Bali. There, he will tell them to reject U.S. leadership and embrace China instead. Xi will watch how countries address key issues that separate the China hawks from…
Standing Trial in Unjust Hong Kong
Commentary Let us go back in time to the world of 2020 and 2021 in Hong Kong to the raids of Next Digital, the parent company of Apple Daily and Next Magazine, in Cheung Kwan O on Aug. 10, 2020, and June 17, 2021, when more than 300 and 500 police turned up to clamp…
Japan’s Defense Goes ‘Joint’—Kind Of
Commentary When considering Japan’s defense policy, particularly the speed at which it changes, it’s good to keep your wits about you. The following apocryphal exchange between a skeptical U.S. observer and a Japanese government official following some newly announced defense initiative is instructive: U.S. observer: “I suppose you’re going to get it done, ‘mañana’?” Japanese…
The Arctic: A New Military Domain?
Commentary The strategic environment of the Arctic has traditionally been dictated by its isolation and its extremely difficult climate: it was, quite simply, an extremely cold, distant, and generally desolate place for humans to operate in. Global climate change, however, has begun to alter this general point of view. In particular, the extent and thickness…
Xi’s Control Is Preventing China From Overtaking the US
Commentary With Xi Jinping at the helm, it is unlikely China will recover economically or overtake the United States for several decades, if ever. From 1980 to 2019, China’s average GDP growth rate was 8 percent. In recent years, annual growth rates have been in decline. And this year, China is expected to post the…
Xi Consolidates Power With Deliberately Contradictory Moves
Commentary Xi Jinping was, by the beginning of November 2022, trying to pull the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and China out of the terminal velocity death spiral into which he had deliberately placed them in order to win total power. But blunting the velocity of the implosion—the hard landing—of China will prove less easy than…
The War on the US Southern Border
Commentary An estimated 100,306 drug overdose deaths in the United States in 2021. That’s a 28.5 percent increase from 78,056 in 2020. Nearly 80,000 of those deaths were from opioids—up from 56,000—which is largely the result of fentanyl pouring over our wide-open southern border. At the same time, crime is skyrocketing, inflation is rampant, and…
Investors Vote ‘No’ on China’s Xi
November 8, 2022
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Commentary Financial markets have shown disapproval of Xi Jinping’s success in securing a third term as China’s leader. Stocks, bonds, and China’s currency, the yuan, all fell with the close of the Party Congress and have more or less stayed down. The reaction is certainly understandable. For some time now, Xi has shown a penchant…
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