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China’s rise is often portrayed as unstoppable. It dominates global supply chains, pours money into research and development (R&D), and boasts some of the world’s largest tech companies. But scratch beneath the surface of this economic juggernaut, and a picture of structural inefficiencies, inflated innovation claims, and deep technological dependencies emerges. For all its ambition, … Read more
It is not news that Nogfu Spring Water acquired a large property adjacent to the Pennichuck Water Plant. It’s been the talk of the town, so to speak, the state, and now the nation. Nongfu says it wants to sell beverages and needs access to water. Pennichuk says it has an agreement to sell water … Read more
Federal officials are reevaluating the security risks posed by Chinese-manufactured components found in solar power equipment after discovering undocumented communication devices capable of compromising the U.S. energy infrastructure, according to a new report from Reuters. The devices are installed inside Chinese-made inverters, which convert solar energy into electricity. They transform the DC current that the panels … Read more
Several things have become evident a few weeks into Donald Trump’s big beautiful tariff strategy. The most beautiful tariffs – like nobody’s ever seen. The world needs the United States as a trading partner more than we need them. If pressure is applied, America can get concessions on a long list of issues to our … Read more
Currently, the United States relies on supply chains controlled by China for the vast majority of its supply of rare earth minerals. This has been a known problem for more than 30 years, yet president after president has failed to address it. Now, with China imposing export restrictions on these minerals, on which it holds … Read more
Three Chinese nationals, two of them here illegally, two of whom were living in Nashua, have been sentenced for operating a gift card fraud scheme. “These individuals were part of a Chinese transnational criminal organization that used a complex scheme to steal and launder millions of dollars through gift card theft,” Michael J. Krol, special … Read more
The Key to Countering China Requires Restoring American Industrial Might Here at Home Pat Fallon – April 11th, 2025 U.S. intelligence predicts a Chinese invasion of Taiwan by 2027, just two short years away. The fall of Taiwan would ensure China corners the world’s market for semiconductor chips—used in everything from cars to smartphones to satellites. … Read more
Maine is a beautiful state, blessed by God with a long and rocky shore with the Atlantic, incredible mountains for hikers and skiers, inland lakes for boaters, and a plethora of woodlands for campers. It is also a sanctuary state, not by God, but by Governor Janet Mills, in her infinite wisdom and against the … Read more
The April 5 deadline for TikTok’s China-based parent company, ByteDance, to divest its holdings or be shut down revives a controversial battle. Free speech advocates and millions of American TikTok users who practically have a codependent relationship with the video-sharing app are facing off with national security concerns and impacts on children’s mental health. Will … Read more
George Orwell’s novel 1984 provides us with the political wisdom: “those who control the present control the past and our future.” Thinking back to the nineties, I ask, “Should treason have been the reason for the Clinton Impeachment?” Monica Lewinsky was the scapegoat in the Senate-conducted kangaroo trial, while the Senate ignored President Clinton’s alleged … Read more
(Associated News Service) Following the execution of a search warrant at 199 Middle Road in Fairfield related to an illegal cannabis growing operation, the Somerset County Sheriff’s Department released images from the raid that show illegal Chinese-made fumigants—highly toxic chemicals not approved for any use in the United States. According to a statement from the … Read more
The US and China came closer to a full-fledged trade war last week when China imposed tariffs of up to 15 percent on key US agricultural exports. This was retaliation for President Trump’s increasing of tariffs on Chinese exports to the United States from 10 percent to 20 percent. China’s retaliatory tariffs show how export-dependent … Read more
In the autumn of 2017, this author took two graduate level courses at West Chester University, a small liberal arts college in the suburbs of Philadelphia, one course being Women’s and Gender Studies (WGS) and the other Critical Race Studies (CRS). These two courses present the lynchpin of the modern Western leftist and neo-Marxist ideologies … Read more
Whatever one’s interests might be, whether it’s religion, family, education, or American culture, the enemy’s effort to devalue and eliminate is obvious! Considering this as anything other than a coordinated agenda is delusional and dangerous. Also, this approach suggests that your education misled and your most truest source, the family, was successfully outspoken or devalued. … Read more
We know the Chinese, and therefore the CCP, are infiltrating every aspect of our lives. It is challenging to purchase anything in America that does not have the Made in China label. Some of us make a conscious effort to buy American, knowing that if we can source our needs, they will be more costly, … Read more
Who is going to make better economic decisions? A smallish group of self-deluded “we know all that is necessary/we know better than you do” narcissists or millions of people making self-interested decisions outside of anyone’s control? It is the First Law of Supply and Demand: Prices are competed to that level at which people want … Read more
The Biden administration’s controversial renewal of the US-China Science & Technology Cooperation Agreement presents an awkward closing chapter for the president’s legacy. China has systematically stolen US trade secrets and technology, hacked into telecommunications networks, and spied on American military facilities using drones. Nevertheless, the Red Dragon is essentially being rewarded with a renewed information-sharing … Read more
We’ve always reserved the right to share or use reader mail for content. I thought this brief bit of exposition on Jake Tapper and Maggie Goodlander was worth a share. Authors are welcome to identify themselves or not in the comments. I was just reading this article about what Jake Sullivan thinks about China and … Read more
Joe Biden is the President of the United States and is charged with being the Commander in Chief. As such, Biden’s number one priority and responsibility is the safety of America’s citizens and the protection of America’s sovereignty. A year ago, Joe Biden failed us as a Chinese spy balloon traversed our country as if … Read more
Of the innumerable Satanic evils the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has perpetrated on humanity, the murder of members of Falon Gong (and I suspect Christians) for purposes of organ transplantation to prolong the life of the CCP ruling elite is horrific. Apparently, the CCP has struck a Faustian deal with Mephistopheles: “All the organs you … Read more