Commentary Solar is the future, we’re told. It’s risk-free, we’re assured. But it’s not. Solar energy is inefficient. It’s also costly, not just financially but also environmentally. The world is in the midst of a food security crisis. Now, in an effort to combat this escalating crisis, China, the most populated country in the world,…
The South Pacific: A War to Start All Wars?
Commentary China has intensified its strategic onslaught into the South Pacific since the start of the Russia-Ukraine war in February 2022. Despite the theoretical strategic advantage of the AUKUS alliance of Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States, momentum in the Indo-Pacific has begun to move in favor of Beijing and away from Washington…
Why Americans Should Pay Attention to the Plight of Falun Gong
Commentary On July 20, 1999, the Chinese Communist Party banned Falun Gong and started subjecting its adherents “to widespread surveillance, arbitrary detention, horrific torture, and extrajudicial killing—abuses which continue today,” according to Freedom House, a nonprofit organization. Twenty-three years later … and the persecution continues. Why? According to Levi Browde, executive director of Falun Dafa Information…
The Diminishment of Family Values
Commentary In the space of three decades, the Democrats have gone from the party of “safe, legal, and rare” abortions to the party of abortion on demand. In the early 1990s, then-presidential nominee Bill Clinton argued that although abortions should be accessible, they should also be considered emergency procedures. But as they say, that was…
Will China Shoot Down Explorers to the Moon?
Originally published by Gatestone Institute Commentary “This is not the first time that the NASA administrator has lashed out at China in disregard of facts,” said Zhao Lijian, Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson, at his July 4 regular press briefing. “Some U.S. officials have spoken irresponsibly to misrepresent the normal and legitimate space endeavors of China. China firmly…
China and the EU Try Again
July 19, 2022
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Commentary China and the European Union (EU) are about to try once more to reach an agreement on trade or perhaps investments. The parties came close in late 2020 when they signed an ambitious investment agreement, but it failed to go forward. The two parties tried again this past April in talks that the EU’s…
Weep for the Souls of the Falun Gong and Other Persecuted Minority Groups in China
Commentary The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has been emboldened by the world’s lack of serious response to their crimes against humanity. Let’s face it: the CCP has been guilty of crimes against humanity virtually since its inception—especially since assuming control of China at the point of the gun in 1949. Estimates vary, but as many…
US and G-7 Development Initiative: Good Idea but Maybe Too Little, Too Late
July 18, 2022
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Commentary The Global Infrastructure and Investment with $600 billion in funding is a good idea—but comes 10 years later and pales in comparison to the $1 trillion estimated for China’s Belt and Road Initiative. On June 26, the White House issued the “Memorandum on the Partnership for Global Infrastructure and Investment” (GII) to fund development…
Is Africa’s Richest State Ready for a Breakthrough?
July 18, 2022
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Commentary Nigeria, in 2022, remained the state with the largest economy in Africa and the African state with the largest population (211 million in 2021). But it is a nation that even its staunchest supporters would admit was economically mismanaged—and in social and security upheaval. Yet its economy grew, albeit slightly, in 2021 over 2020,…
China Book Review: Nury Turkel’s ‘No Escape’
Commentary Nury Turkel was a Uyghur boy once from the city of Kashgar, China. To be sure, he was no ordinary Uyghur. His father was a math teacher. Turkel worked for an American consulting company in Beijing. But then, no Uyghur is ordinary anymore. They are all under the terrifying pall of genocide imposed by…
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