Tag: Opinion

Remain Steadfast in Supporting Taiwan and Hong Kong

Commentary March is a month where strategic moves have been made by world leaders. We will first take a bird’s eye view on the geopolitical events, and carry on our discussions from a Hong Kong perspective. The meeting between communist China’s Xi Jinping and Russia’s Vladimir Putin in Moscow drew worldwide media attention in an…


The ‘Strategic Ambiguity’ Surrounding Taiwan

Commentary “Strategic ambiguity” has been the longstanding policy of the United States with regard to defending it against Chinese aggression from across the Taiwan Strait. In keeping with the term, the actual meaning of strategic ambiguity is, well, ambiguous. Idea Behind Ambiguity The gist of the ambiguity strategy is that U.S. military planners and policymakers…


What Is Above Our Laws?

Commentary When government enacts legislation that undermines even our most elementary rights, one might be inclined to inquiry whether, in order to be valid, positive laws may have to conform to certain objective standards of justice and morality. Some lawyers have traditionally answered this in the affirmative, arguing for objective standards which are accessible to…


Out-of-Control DA Bragg Just Elected Trump as 47th President

Commentary My immediate reaction on hearing that Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg maneuvered the indictment of Donald Trump in the “hush money” case surrounding Stormy Daniels was that the out-of-control Bragg had just elected Trump as the 47th president of the United States. My second thought was the fear that he may have instigated a…


David Krayden: Federal Budget Continues to Impose Reckless Climate Ideology on Canadian Farmers

Commentary This week’s federal budget spells further disaster for Canadian farmers and the agriculture. While promising money for Ukrainian farmers, the Trudeau government is continuing to insist Canadian farmers reduce their use of fertilizers—only because it is fanatically committed to a climate change crisis scenario that fraudulently insists the nitrogen in fertilizer is hastening that…


Should America Divorce?

Commentary With the Civil War, America was split by region, north and south. Today it’s worse—the country is divided not just politically but by class, race, and sex, too. Left and right, blue and red, have different values and thus dream differently for themselves and their families and hold competing ideals for the country they…


High-Cost California Hampering Switch to Electric Vehicles

Commentary California policies keep contradicting themselves. Now it’s the switch to electric vehicles. Prompted by a 2020 executive order by Gov. Gavin Newsom, last Aug. 25 the California Air Resources Board approved its Advanced Clean Cars II rule. It stipulates, “by 2035 100 percent of new cars and light trucks sold in California will be…


Foreign Companies in China Face Increasing Obstacles

Commentary Twelve years ago, China was one of the fastest-rising economies. Beijing welcomed foreigners, and foreign employees were excited to be working there. Now, the country is losing its appeal. Growth is plateauing. COVID-19 recovery is slowing the economy. And a lot of the foreigners and companies that left because of the lockdowns are not…


Is the G-7 Ranged Against China?

Commentary Japan seems to be planning an end-run around China’s trading power. As chair of the G-7 meetings scheduled for this May in Hiroshima, Japan, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is leveraging concerns about supply chain reliability to range this group of powerful economies—Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States—against China….


Air Force and Air National Guard: Stop Treating Part-Timers Like They’re Subjects in a Social Experiment

Commentary This post popped up on my feed today on a business networking site where a mom was talking about her young daughter getting older. “’It’s easier and faster if I just do it myself,’ I say this way too much. My daughter has been teaching me a valuable life lesson without even knowing it….