The US Media hasn’t been covering it well, but there is an uprising in Hong Kong going on over Communist Chinese President Xi Jinping’s efforts to absorb the former British colony into the mainland China’s grip.
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Chinese Missiles in Saudi Arabia?
Discovery or announcement? Multiple reports say Saudi Arabia has significantly escalated its ballistic missile program. The advance has come through acquisition of missiles and technology. Assuming the story is true it is not a development that moves the region closer to peace. It is a development threatening decades of US efforts to limit such proliferation … Read more
Only Donald Trump Could Make Democrats Complain About Higher “Federal Taxes”
Higher taxation by the left is a message. It says you are an idiot. Too stupid to know how to spend the wages you earn. And since you can’t do it right, you are forcing them to take your money and do the right thing with it. So, for Democrats to complain about higher taxes is rare.
“It is vulnerable [to a trade war] because it is a much poorer country with more fragile political institutions.”
So from this Op-Ed by Bill O’Brien on Trump’s Trade actions, one of our regular commentors left this (reformatted, emphasis mine): Where I work, we’ve been told we will not get raises this year because of the tariffs impacting the bottom line. they also said that the upcoming election was part of it. I asked “why … Read more
Donald Trump – The Free Trade Warrior We Hoped We Elected
By Bill O’Brien (former Speaker of the NH House) In 2018 the U.S. bought $559.5 billion in goods and services from China. In turn, China bought $120.3 billion in goods and services from the U.S. In order to sustain even this unbalanced trade, the U.S. had to endure Chinese requirements that U.S. companies transfer our … Read more
Pras Michel Indicted for Moving Millions in Foreign Money to Obama Presidential Campaign
Foreign influence in elections is not new just Democrats caring about it. Which, is to say, being Democrats about it. We’ve had stories going back to at least Bill Clinton of foreign nations funneling political donations to Democrats.
Venezuela, China, Russia, Caravan?
What’s going on? The Trump administration notes the return of competition between world powers. States with the ability to wield influence on a global scale are coming increasingly to prominence. America’s national security and national defense strategies need to reflect this new reality. China and Russia, both want to shape a world antithetical to U.S. … Read more
Clinton Email Contractor Mentions “Hillary Cover Up Operation” in Newly Released Documents
We already know that China has every email that ever passed through Hillary Clinton’s Illegal email server. This includes what new details suggest were hundreds of classified documents.
A Look at the Post Trump-Kim Summit – And Why Trump Came Out Ahead
You could go blind trying to read all the reporting on the Vietnam Summit before, after, pro, and con. Put Simply, the Media and the left, Neocons, Never-Trumpers, world leaders, China, and even North Korea were ready for Trump to give in. Just like every American President before him. He did not. And it changes everything.
Trump Takes on Russia and China Over Venezuela
The Chinese have accomplished a lot. They stole all of Sec. of State Hillary Clinton’s emails from her illegal server in real-time. They planted a spy next to Democrat Sen. Dianne Feinstein for decades. Some Chinese citizens sued Terry McAuliffe and Hillary’s brother Tony for fraud. And since Mr. Trump got elected, they’ve started to come … Read more
Trump Trade Win – China Says It Will Buy More US Goods, Eliminate Trade Imbalance
Our optimism about Mr. Trump’s trade war with China continues to be rewarded. While most American’s have been listening to the Western media and never-Trumpers, we’ve looked elsewhere for insight. And we’ve shared it here, including some of the most important insights of all. Observes in China view Mr. Trump as an excellent strategist and tactician. My … Read more
Winning?
Reformatted, emphasis mine: In its third round of tariff cuts this year, China announced that 700 more goods will have tariffs cut. Bloomberg reports: China announced another round of tariff cuts, lowering import taxes on more than 700 goods from Jan. 1 as part of its efforts to open up the economy and lower costs for domestic … Read more
Delusional #DemocratYouth
This: #ClimateChange “the biggest top threat to our national security”? Only if you are living in an alternative universe where China does not exist. In the actual universe we inhabit, China is working toward becoming the world’s preeminent military and economic power. “Since the accession of Xi Jinping to leadership in Beijing five years ago, … Read more
Data Point: China agrees to reduce their tariffs on American cars
President Donald Trump said on Sunday that China had agreed to “reduce and remove” tariffs on U.S. cars below the 40 percent level that Beijing is currently charging on American-made vehicles. A day after he and Chinese President Xi Jinping called a 90-day cease-fire in their trade war to allow time for negotiations, Trump said on … Read more
Donald Trump Is Winning the Trade War With China
Donald Trump is winning the trade war with China. That’s what they are saying. Who? Who is saying that? What crazy “right-wing mouthpiece” is peddling that blather? Munich-based EocnPol Europe, that’s who. In a paper titled ‘Who is Paying for the Trade War with China,’ they report that it’s not Americans. It is Chinese Exporters who are … Read more
China Hacked All of Hillary’s Emails in Real Time. I Wonder if They’ll Share?
A Chinese company operating in the United States had unlimited access to Hillary Clinton’s illegal email server and obtained copies of almost every email sent.
A Chinese-owned company operating in the Washington, D.C., area hacked Hillary Clinton’s private server throughout her term as secretary of state and obtained nearly all her emails, two sources briefed on the matter told The Daily Caller News Foundation.
Wait. It gets better, or maybe I mean worse.
Has the University of New Hampshire Been ‘Colluding’ With the Chinese Government?
In March of this year, the CIA issued a classified report labeling Confucious institutes as a threat.
The CIA has issued a classified report detailing China’s far-reaching foreign influence operations campaign in the United States, which imparts financial incentives as leverage to permeate American institutions.
The University of New Hampshire has had theirs since 2010. But according to the US Intelligence community, these arrangements may “provide ‘strings-attached’ funding to academic institutions and think tanks to deter research that casts (China) in a negative light,”
A View of Trump From China
The Fiscal Times (FT) is no right-wing rag. They are as incorporated into the globalist world culture (and its narratives) as anyone. So this piece on how China views Mr. Trump and his choices is enlightening.
Donald Trump is leading a double life. In the west, most foreign policy experts see him as reckless, unpredictable and self-defeating. But though many in Asia dislike him as much as the Europeans do, they see him as a more substantial figure. I have just spent a week in Beijing talking to officials and intellectuals, many of whom are awed by his skill as a strategist and tactician.
The Second Amendment in China. (WHAAT?)
This just in from the BBC. It happened days ago in Xinjiang province, China, where “officials described as community workers searched homes for weapons.”
What happened? It started when “three officials were killed as they were investigating reports of suspicious individuals at the home of a local resident.” And then…
The U.S. government joins China to target an American newspaper….
Well, well, well: President Obama, U.S. Attorney General Holder, and the Chinese communist dictatorship have teamed up to attack an American newspaper, using a little-known federal law. Coincidentally, no doubt, it’s a newspaper that doesn’t openly support any of the three (unlike, say, the Washington Post or the New York Times). Read all about it. (And … Read more