With the election of Joe Biden it seems that the time has arrived for all tyrannies to try to accomplish what they’d been putting off for just the right moment. And so we have the looming specter of China actually … Continue reading →
Don’t the Chinese even have the Potemkin village concept down? Maybe they realize that ratings are abysmal, and so this time the whole world isn’t watching. Because this sounds awful: Complaints from athletes and officials are pouring in about the … Continue reading →
This is an old story, which appeared in January of 2021. But it’s taken on even more significance now, because there’s so much talk of Taiwan being vulnerable due to Biden’s weakness and inability/unwillingness to defend US interests. An excerpt: … Continue reading →
Richard Fernandez has been writing a great many posts about China lately. In fact, his last five were on the subject: here, here, here, here (that one’s indirectly about China, anyway), and here. One of the essays highlights a quote … Continue reading →
It seems self-evident that without an understanding of and commitment to our own basic principles, the underpinnings of both our government and our institutions are undermined. At some point – and we can argue about exactly when it happened – … Continue reading →
Today I noticed this headdline at Hot Air: “The media’s lab leak debacle shows why banning ‘misinformation’ is a bad idea.” No, it most assuredly does not show that, although banning misinformation is indeed a bad idea because misinformation is … Continue reading →
One of so many things that Biden has been doing [emphasis mine]: President Biden has revoked a Trump-era executive order that sought to keep foreign countries and companies out of America’s bulk power systems – principally entities associated with the … Continue reading →
From today’s NY Post article: Biden was identified as “Chair / Vice Chair depending on agreement with CEFC,” an apparent reference to the former Shanghai-based conglomerate CEFC China Energy Co. His pay was pegged at “850” and the email also … Continue reading →
What’s Alinsky’s Rule 4? “”Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.” Even though the Democrats are historically the party of slavery (some would argue it’s the party of ideological slavery today, and I don’t disagree), and … Continue reading →
From Richard Fernandez: If all this Chinese espionage, hacking and secrets theft is so widespread, how come it never came to prominence before? It's like it sprang fully formed from Zeus' forehead. If it is real the scandal is why … Continue reading →
It can’t happen fast enough for me: The Trump administration is “turbocharging” an initiative to remove the US from dependency on a China-based supply chain and weighing imposing new tariffs to punish the Communist Party in Beijing for its response … Continue reading →
I grew up in an era when China was not only considered an enemy, but an unknown country that was rarely visited and from which little information came that filtered down to the American people: US policy toward China during … Continue reading →