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William R. Hawkins
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November 30, 2024
Climate Changes Nothing in the Real WorldThe United Nations has been looking for issues deemed larger than the perennial conflicts of traditional geopolitics. It created the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change in 1992 to acquire the authority to run the global economy so as to “...
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October 3, 2024
The UN’s Pathetic Attempt to Rule the WorldThe United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) opened its 79th session on September 24 with a week of speeches by representatives of 134 nations (out of a total of 193 members states, with another 118 observer entities and organizations). The UN is ...
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September 14, 2024
Keeping Aggression a Bad IdeaAt an event in Pennsylvania marking the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, President Joe Biden donned a “Trump 2024” cap handed to him by a Republican in the audience. The White House said this was a show of unity in the face of foreig...
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August 21, 2024
National Capitalism, National SecurityThe American Enterprise Institute is generally considered part of the “conservative” network of think tanks working to influence policy in Washington D.C. Founded in 1938 by executives of major corporations in opposition to the New Deal, ...
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August 3, 2024
Losing Wars, Not Winning WarsThe liberal-left reaction to Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s recent trip to Washington was negative for a simple reason: he is pursuing victory in the existential war against Hamas in Gaza amidst the larger regional confrontation wi...
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May 29, 2024
Trump and the True Basis of ConservatismOnce and future President Donald Trump addressed the Libertarian Party convention on May 25. He was reaching out to unify all who oppose a second term for Democrat president Joe Biden. It was not a success, as he was jeered and heckled. Disagreements...
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May 4, 2024
As Debate Heats Up, the Masks Come OffAs campus protests turned violent, necessitating police operations to clear illegal encampments, the true agenda of the activists became apparent. Initially, the demonstrations were presented as saving innocent lives in Gaza with a cease-fire an...
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April 10, 2024
UN Law of the Sea Gets Even WorseRecently, 60 Minutes ran a new plea for the U.S. to ratify the 1982 UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS). President Ronald Reagan rejected this convention then and, despite tentative efforts by Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama to rati...
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December 13, 2023
Trump, Dictators, and PolicyThe Left has charged every Republican President since Nixon with fascism. The two presidents Bush were major targets before the campaign against President Donald Trump. Trump made fun of this during a Fox News town hall with Sean Hannity. The once an...
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November 27, 2023
Endangering Civilians During WartimeThe hostage-prisoner exchange between Israel and Hamas is being called a “ceasefire” in the media, playing on the central demand of leftist demonstrators and others who favor the Palestinian cause. But the proper term is “truce,...
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November 8, 2023
The ANSWER Coalition of America’s EnemiesThe large protest against Israel and in support of the Hamas terrorists on November 4 in Washington, D.C. was primarily organized by the ANSWER Coalition (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism). It has called for a wave of disruption across the country ...
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November 1, 2023
More than Anti-Semitism: We are All TargetedThe wave of alleged “pro-Palestinian” demonstrations whose slogans embrace the Iranian-backed Hamas terrorist group are routinely denounced as anti-Semitism. Certainly, the brutality of the attacks by Hamas on October 7, which were direct...
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September 16, 2023
Confusion on ChinaThere has been criticism of President Joe Biden’s rambling performance at his Hanoi press conference and not just from partisan outlets. But there was also substance, both good and bad, in his remarks that indicate two important aspects of the ...
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August 15, 2023
The Push to Trade with EnemiesTreasury Secretary Janet Yellen’s attempt in Beijing to separate commerce from geopolitics, to promote private trade and investment even with nations that present threats to American security which include control of strategic industry and reso...
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July 29, 2023
Economics Belongs Within GeopoliticsThe Biden Administration has sent a parade of high officials to China who Beijing sees as supplicants seeking favor from their imperial court. The most glaring example was Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen who is not properly a diplomat and certainly n...
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July 5, 2023
No Mercenaries, No Coup, No PeaceA week after Yevgeny Prigozhin and his Wagner Group made their abortive “march for justice” the mainstream media and their featured experts continue to repeat the same story using inaccurate terminology and shallow thinking. The result is...
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June 18, 2023
National Strategy and Culture WarsOn June 7, Chinese President Xi Jinping called for more efforts to consolidate cultural confidence and boost “cultural prosperity.” This was at the opening of the first Forum on Building Up China's Cultural Strength, held in Shenzhen....
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May 6, 2023
Beijing's Peace Offensive Against NATOThe People Republic of China has gained attention by promoting itself as a peace advocate in the Russo-Ukraine War. Yet, it should always be kept in mind that when Chairman Xi Jinping met with Russian President Vladimir Putin to discuss the issu...
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April 19, 2023
Macron Bows to ChinaThe respected German observer of American-European relations Josef Joffe has noted “Envy [is] the motive for resentment… with America embodying the might and glory Europe no longer has and therefore pretends to disdain.” “Pre...
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March 25, 2023
Isolationism: Unrealistic and AhistoricalConcern that some antiwar media personalities and backbenchers will ruin the Republicans as the party most faithful to a strong defense and foreign policy is not new. The conservative movement always has to contend with the libertarian (classical lib...
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February 16, 2023
Putin Relies on 'Fatigued' RepublicansRussian President Vladimir Putin’s plan to blitz Ukraine back into a restored neo-Soviet Russian Empire failed quickly. The drive on the capital city of Kyiv collapsed, the assault on Kharkiv was turned back. Odessa on the Black Sea was never s...
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January 20, 2023
On National Security, Can the Center Hold?In domestic politics, the divisions roiling America enter new realms of extremism every week. From traditional economic issues to culture wars, hate speech dominates, the integrity of elections is questioned, civil disobedience is constant, and t...
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December 27, 2022
Beijing’s Acts Confirm Need for U.S. and Allied BuildupsThere is a strange but all too widespread coalition of left-wing anti-war activists and alleged “right-wing” isolationists trying desperately to dimmish any perception that Russia and China are working together against American secur...
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November 17, 2022
A Republican House in a Divided GovernmentI was serving on the staff of the Republican Research Committee, part of the GOP House leadership structure in 1994 when the party won control in the midterm elections during Democratic President Bill Clinton’s first term. I continued to serve ...
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September 21, 2022
China Prepares for Another War of ConquestOn “60 Minutes” President Joe Biden again said that the U.S. would defend Taiwan from an attack by China. He said he did not encourage Taiwan to declare its independence from the mainland, but that was mere diplomatic cover. Everyone, esp...
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September 1, 2022
Taiwan: Peace, Stability, and the Status QuoWorld politics dances to a three-step waltz: War, Peace, and Revolution; repeat. Wars are fought to create a better world for the victors. An improvement substantial enough to justify the cost of conflict, a calculation fraught with unknowns and subj...
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August 9, 2022
China’s Friends in America Rally to Its Saber-RattlingBeijing’s government owned and operated media launched an array of military threats in the days leading up to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan that if carried out would have triggered a regional war, perhaps even World War III...
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July 24, 2022
Biden in the Middle East: No Shame in Wise Strategic AlignmentsIn his Twitter feeds during his Middle East trip, President Joe Biden posted photos with President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi “to reaffirm our shared commitment to the U.S.-Egypt strategic partnership.” He also tweeted a photo with President Sh...
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June 17, 2022
The Need to Rethink U.S.-China Business RelationsThe Shangri-La Dialogue was recently held in Singapore. This annual event, sponsored by the British think-tank International Institute for Strategic Studies, brings together ministers of defense and other government officials to discuss security...
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May 24, 2022
Giving Putin an Off-Ramp to Victory LaneThe Institute for the Study of War has been providing expert assessments of the conflict in Ukraine. Its May 20 report included the observation that “Russian forces reportedly are holding defensive positions north of Kharkiv City following the ...
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May 12, 2022
The Return of a Powerful U.S.On May 3, President Joe Biden visited the Lockheed Martin plant in Troy, Alabama. He was there to thank the company and its workers for building the weapons being sent to Ukraine to defend against the Russian invasion, in particular the Javelin anti-...
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April 2, 2022
When Anti-War Means Pro-AggressionThere is overwhelming unity among the U.S., its allies, and even normally unaligned nations against Vladimir Putin’s aggression. On March 2, the UN General Assembly voted 141-5 that Russia “immediately, completely and unconditionally with...
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March 14, 2022
Economic Warfare: Ukraine and BeyondPresident Joe Biden's announcement March 11 that the U.S. and its allies will revoke Most Favored Nation trade status for Russia should drive the final nail into the coffin of economic globalization theory. So sacrosanct was MFN status...
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February 18, 2022
Chinese Strategy and Identity PoliticsThe decision of Olympic gold medalist Eileen Gu to join the Chinese national team, though born and raised in the U.S., had drawn criticism even before Nikki Haley called her out. The former governor of South Carolina declared, “You’ve got...
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December 17, 2021
Want to Hear Chinese Communist Propaganda Right on Your Own Radio?I recently spent a few days in Northern Virginia visiting friends from my two decades working in Washington, D.C. While driving around the Beltway, I happened upon WCRW, 1190 AM, a radio station in Leesburg with 50,000 watts of power, enou...
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September 3, 2021
Biden’s Other Military CollapseA post-mortem is needed on President Joe Biden’s decision to make a hasty withdrawal of all troops from Afghanistan. The resulting debacle will haunt us because of his simplistic concept of what war is about -- a blunder he has made n...
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August 11, 2021
Trading with the Enemy is WrongThe Navy and Marine Corps have kicked off their two-week Large Scale Exercise 2021, a massive effort that spans 17 time zones, to test their vision of how to conduct war on a global scale against peer competitors. Such an operation is reminiscent of ...
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June 17, 2021
Foreign Policy: Continuity Versus PartisanshipThe hyperpartisanship of the last five years has posed a threat to national security by dividing the American people and distorting how foreign policy is discussed. The “resistance” mounted by the Democrats against President Donald Trump ...
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May 31, 2021
The Democrats and Iran: Worse Than AppeasementThe liberal media approached the latest outbreak of violence in the Middle East as a renewal of the Israel-Palestinian conflict, if not a return to the Arab-Israeli Wars of half a century ago. Former president George W. Bush, however, saw the si...
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March 29, 2021
If Democrats Ever Get Our Guns, They'll Get Our Freedom, TooTo celebrate their origins, the Republican Party holds Lincoln Day dinners, and the Democrats until recently held Jefferson-Jackson dinners. Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of Independence and the third U.S. president, has fall...
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March 16, 2021
The Real World of 'Vaccine Nationalism'There are some policies so clearly in the national interest that they have survived the hyperpartisanship of the presidential transition from Donald Trump to Joe Biden. An example was provided at the March 10 meeting of the World Trade Organization...
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December 18, 2020
Climate Ambitions Worse than Climate ChangeThe December 12 Climate Ambition Summit 2020, it did not receive much attention, nor did it deserve to. The UN holds a major climate conference at the end of every year under the auspices of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. (UNFCCC). Se...
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December 3, 2020
Could Biden Maintain Trump’s Legacy of Strong Alliances?By 2017, the old Cold War alliances had become moribund. The centerpiece North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) had seemingly lost its purpose with the collapse of the Soviet Union. Russian President Vladimir Putin’s campaign to reassert Mos...
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November 20, 2020
China Hopes for a New Era of AppeasementOn Friday the 13th, the People’s Republic of China (PRC) congratulated Joe Biden on his win in the 2020 presidential election even as the results were still being contested in the U.S. The statement issued by Beijing’s Foreign Ministry wa...
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November 2, 2020
Fall of Another Venerable Magazine: The Economist Veers Hard LeftThe cover of the October 29 issue of The Economist displayed its endorsement in the U.S. presidential race: "Why it has to be Biden" under the image of a tattered American flag flying from the White House. The magazine is based i...
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September 29, 2020
The 'Peace Movement' Embraces ChinaThe Chinese Communist Party media outlet Global Times was happy to report that an international forum of thirteen “peace groups” and assorted academic fellow-travelers had been held to protest the opening of a new U.S.-led Cold War agains...
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September 9, 2020
The WTO Should Continue to Fade AwayRoberto Azevedo stepped down as director-general of the World Trade Organization (WTO) on August 31, becoming the first to do so before the end of his term. Azevedo's surprise announcement was made in May, and the Brazilian was in the third year ...
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July 30, 2020
China is all in for shutting down the US economy over COVIDXinhua News Agency, a state-run outlet of the People's Republic of China, reported on July 25 that "Over 150 U.S. experts urge decision makers to shut down country before starting over." Beijing would love to see it...
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July 1, 2020
Quisling ConservativesAt a time when the Left has “progressed” from calling for socialism in the face of an economic boom to calling for the defunding of police in the face of mob violence, anyone not knee-deep in the fever swamp of radicalism should be rallyi...
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June 2, 2020
This Bird Won’t Fly: the Fate of the Left-Winged PhoenixWhen I was a student at the University of Illinois, the various left-wing groups formed an umbrella organization called the Radical Union. They hung posters of Marx, Lenin, and Mao on their office walls. Their emblem was a phoenix rising from the ash...
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April 21, 2020
China Backs Democratic Resistance to President TrumpDemocratic governors are forming regional blocs to resist President Donald Trump’s efforts to get the American economy moving and put people back to work. They have picked up a powerful ally, one that should give the public cause for alarm. On ...
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March 3, 2020
Trump Was Right to Let Turkey Advance in SyriaThe outbreak of direct combat between Turkey and the Syrian regime of Basher al-Assad has shown the wisdom of President Donald Trump's strategy in the area. He took considerable flak for pulling American troops out of northern Syria last October....
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February 26, 2020
Why the Greens Love the CoronavirusWall Street's two-day panic, which saw the Dow Jones Industrial Average drop 1,911 points (6.8 percent), was sparked by the coronavirus (COVID-19) epidemic. It is not just that the virus is spreading to lands far beyond its origin in C...
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January 11, 2020
Deterrence is Peace Through StrengthBoth Presidents Barack Obama and Donald Trump came into office with the desire to end the long wars America had been fighting in the Middle East. Both had been opposed to the invasion of Iraq in 2003. President Obama chose the standard isol...
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January 6, 2020
Reduced Tensions with China Unlikely in New YearThe new year brings hope in business and liberal/establishment circles that tensions between the United States and the People's Republic of China are "de-escalating." President Donald Trump will sign the Phase One trade agree...
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December 24, 2019
The Real World Intrudes on the UN Climate ConferenceThe leading Democratic candidates for president are still wedded to some form of "Green New Deal" to combat climate change as the progressive heirs of King Canute. As the Los Angeles Times has reported, Joe Biden's $1.7-trill...
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December 5, 2019
Donald Trump, George HW Bush, and ChinaOn November 22, in a long interview with Fox News, President Donald Trump claimed credit for keeping Chinese forces at bay in Hong Kong. He said that he warned President Xi Jinping that if there was a violent crackdown against the pro-democracy demon...
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August 27, 2019
Business Must Adjust to Great Power Rivalry“Order? Somebody should tell Chairman Trump this isn’t the People’s Republic of America,” thundered an editorial in the Wall Street Journal on August 23. What prompted this diatribe was President Donald Trump's tweet ...
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August 9, 2019
True American Nationalism Is InclusiveWhen the New York Times dropped a factual headline because of partisan complaints (including criticism from several Democratic presidential candidates), it proved again that the liberal media is no longer even pretending to be an objective source of ...
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July 24, 2019
The Democrats Posture over NATOThe U.S. House passed its version of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for 2020 on July 12. It contained strong support for NATO as a deterrent to Russian aggression with some surprisingly tough language that went beyond the passage last ...
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July 10, 2019
Should U.S. Health Care Depend on China?Two new books expose the health dangers posed by the import of pharmaceuticals from the People's Republic of China. The dependence of America's medical system on products of questionable quality does not just endanger patients today, but risk...
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June 13, 2019
Friedrich List, China, and Economic Nationalism"We ask, would not every sane person consider a government to be insane which, in consideration of the benefits and the reasonableness of a state of universal and perpetual peace, proposed to disband its armies, destroy its fleet, and demol...
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May 29, 2019
The Left Doubles Down on Defense CutsOn May 23, a coalition of left-wing groups sent an open letter to all the announced Democratic candidates for president calling for major cuts in U.S. defense spending. Under the banner of “Put People Over the Pentagon,” the 22 groups sai...
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May 17, 2019
This is Truly a Trade WarThe trade negotiations between the Trump administration and the People's Republic of China (PRC) are not rooted in commercial disputes. Though media discussions are dominated by issues about opening markets for U.S. exports limited by Chinese pol...
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May 7, 2019
Would Green Socialism Shut Down e-Commerce?A few weeks ago a long essay appeared in The New Republic by staff writer by Emily Atkin titled "Breaking up Amazon Won’t Solve Its Climate Problem: The tech giant changed how Americans buy stuff. It will have to do so ...
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April 25, 2019
Going Green and SocialismIn response to New York City mayor Bill de Blasio's threat to make glass and steel skyscrapers "extinct" because “They have no place in our city or our Earth anymore,” the New York Post ran a cartoon depicting the mayor...
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April 17, 2019
Trade, the Left, and TrumpWhile working in Washington during the Clinton, Bush and Obama administrations, I was part of an effort to build a bipartisan coalition to reform American trade policy; or more precisely, formulate one. International trade was an issue that cut acros...
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March 25, 2019
Rep. Omar and the New Flock of Congressional DovesFor the cover photo on its current issue, Rolling Stone gathered together House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), Rep. Jahana Hayes (D-CT), Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) under the headline "Women Shaping the Future....
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February 4, 2015
The Lowest Form of WarPresident Barack Obama has again provoked criticism of how he talked about terrorist acts in the immediate wake of the brutal execution of Jordanian air force pilot Moaz al-Kasasbeh by the sell-proclaimed Islamic State (IS). This follows earlier...
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November 14, 2014
No Agreement in Beijing -- Just a SurrenderThe media is calling the U.S.-China Joint Announcement on Climate Change made by President Barack Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing an "agreement", a term that invokes the idea of mutual obligations. It is also fr...
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November 7, 2014
GOP Ovecomes Libertarian PlotIn 2013, Democrat Terry McAuliffe won the governor's race in Virginia with 47.8% of the vote against Republican Ken Cuccinelli who took 45.2%. Libertarian candidate Robert Sarvis captured 6.5%, enough to make the difference on the safe assumption...
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October 8, 2014
'Madame Secretary' Avoids another Benghazi"Madam Secretary" is a new TV drama that follows nearly appointed Secretary of State Elizabeth McCord (played by the very attractive Tèa Leoni). In the third episode that aired Sunday, a hacker leaks the names of three dozen undercov...
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August 27, 2014
Unilateral Disarmament and the PoliceOver the weekend, the New York Times ran a lengthy article on how President Obama and liberals in Congress are planning to "review" the policy of providing local police with surplus military equipment. This is supposedly because politicians...
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August 5, 2014
CAIR, ANSWER, Hamas and TerrorismThe Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) poses as the voice of moderate Islam to protect the Muslim community in the United States from any unjustified backlash that could be sparked by terrorist attacks committed by radical jihadist groups t...
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June 24, 2014
2014 is not 2001Over the weekend, prominent lawmakers hyped the case for military action against ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria) by arguing that if the radical Sunni insurgent group establishes itself in Iraq and/or Syria it will launch new terrorist att...
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June 10, 2014
Who is the Most 'Bloodthirsty' Enemy?Brian Beutler, a senior editor at The New Republic, claimed in a column Friday (June 6) that the GOP was "overreaching" in its criticism of President Obama for trading five Taliban leaders for Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl. He acknowledged that ...
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June 4, 2014
China's Unbelievable Hacking DenialsJeane Kirkpatrick once said of the Soviet diplomats she dealt with at the United Nations, "They lie. Even when everyone in the room knows they are lying, they lie." The same can be said of those who serve the Communist regime in the People...
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March 25, 2014
The Great Illusion Debunked AgainIn Monday's Washington Post, Robert Samuelson noted how the Ukraine crisis "confounds and contradicts one of the hopeful axioms of conventional wisdom. The presumption -- rarely stated openly but widely believed -- has been that the growing ...
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March 4, 2014
Bastiat, Obama, and the RussiansThe early 19th-century French radical Frederic Bastiat proclaimed, "I shall not hesitate to vote for disarmament because I do not believe in invasions." Bastiat is sometimes unwisely quoted by conservatives because of his opposition to...
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March 1, 2014
Losing the Middle East to Iran (and Russia)On Tuesday, the BBC opened its news with an account of Syria's expanding offensive against Yabrud, a key rebel stronghold near the Lebanon border. If it falls, a major supply line for those seeking the overthrow of the Bashar al-Assad dictatorshi...
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February 21, 2014
Secretary Kerry: Leadership for a New Dark Age?There was hopeful speculation that when President Barack Obama delegated to Secretary of State John Kerry the task of evaluating the long-stalled Keystone XL pipeline on "national interest" criteria it would lead to approval of the project, to smooth...
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January 16, 2014
Should America Realign with Iran?On Sunday it was announced that a deal had been reached to implement the interim agreement with Iran on suspending its nuclear program. Since the agreement was negotiated late last year, the ground has been laid in the media for the acceptance of the...
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November 19, 2013
Greens on the Rampage in PolandA recent video clip shown on the BBC demonstrated the fundamental foolishness and ignorance of the so-called environmental movement. Green activists unfurled a large banner on the side of a building in Warsaw asking "Who rules Poland: the coal indust...
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October 30, 2013
No Demagoguery NeededAt the end of last week, conservative news media reported on Census Bureau data showing that there were more people on welfare in the United States than there were people with full time jobs at the end of 2011. This is alarming news, but there is als...
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October 6, 2013
Failure of Appropriations Process Led to ShutdownAt a press conference held by Senate Democrats on October 2, Majority Leader Harry Reid asked reporters, "What right did they [Members of the House of Representatives] have to pick and choose what part of government is going to be funded?" The answer...
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March 3, 2011
China Returns as North Korea's DefenderIn his opening remarks at the Jan. 19 White House press conference with Chinese President Hu Jintao, President Barack Obama said, "I told President Hu that we appreciated China's role in reducing tensions on the Korean Peninsula, and we agree...
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March 2, 2011
China Tightens Control Over Its Raw Earths IndustryOn Monday (March 1) environmental standards governing the production of rare earth minerals where issued by the Chinese government. Rare earths, which consist of 17 elements, are essential for high-tech industries ranging from wind turbines and hybri...
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February 28, 2011
China Alleges Western Plot to Spread Turmoil Beyond the Middle EastBeijing gave some support to the uprising in Egypt because it would weaken an ally of the United States at the center of the Arab coalition against China's ally Iran. But as the rebellions have spread, the Chinese regime has become uneasy. Libya, ...
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February 25, 2011
USAF Buys American (Finally)On Thursday, the Department of Defense awarded a $35 billion contract to build 179 new aerial refueling tankers to Boeing. Aerial refueling is the key to America's global power projection capability, but the U. S. Air Force is dependent on tankers...
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February 23, 2011
New Intel Report on the Threat of Chinese Air PowerThe testing of China's new J-20 stealth fighter last month, which garnered international attention because it took place during Defense Secretary Robert Gates' visit to Beijing, was not an isolated event but the sign of something larger. There has...
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February 11, 2011
Mubarak Takes the Measure of the MobWhat would have been gained had Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak resigned as anticipated Thursday? Would the mob in Tahrir Square have gone home so Cairo could return to normal? Or would the protesters have smelled blood and made more demands tha...
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February 6, 2011
Hate America. Hate the SuperbowlIt has long been established since the early days of William F. Buckley and National Review that one of the advantages the right has over the left is that is has a sense of humor and its followers get more enjoyment out of life. In contrast,...
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February 1, 2011
Bandow's False Flag Budget DebateDoug Bandow of the libertarian Cato Institute has called for large, if unspecified, cuts in defense spending in Forbes magazine. He starts his argument "The U.S. government is effectively bankrupt. The deficit this year will run $1.5 trillio...
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January 29, 2011
Channeling Neville Chamberlain to Appease ChinaAmbrose Evans-Pritchard is the international business editor of the London Telegraph. His views are fairly orthodox conservative, as are the editorial positions of his newspaper. But in his lengthy January 23 column, Evans-Pritchard went ...
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January 23, 2011
Framework of Iranian Nuclear Talks Guaranteed Istanbul FailureIn diplomacy, the framework within which governments think can determine the course of events as much as any negotiations. Consider the seven-nation Istanbul meeting Jan. 21-22 to discuss Iran's nuclear program. Baroness Catherine Ashton, the high...
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January 17, 2011
Newest Nonsense: Hu JintaoToo Weak To Do America's Bidding!The New York Times continues to look for ways to justify the continued appeasement of Communist China. With President Hu Jintao coming to Washington for a state visit Wednesday, there is a need in liberal establishment circles to downplay expectat...
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January 12, 2011
Gates and China's leadersSecretary of Defense Robert Gates met with Chinese President Hu Jintao and Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi on January 11. The meetings followed Monday's session between Gates and Gen. Liang Guanglie, China's minister of defense. After the meeting with P...
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January 6, 2011
Hailing Violent Criminals as Political PrisonersI was visiting Duke University earlier this week and picked up a poster for a January 12 rally to celebrate the birthdays this month of several "political prisoners" who are called 'freedom fighters" by the rally organizers, the I...
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December 30, 2010
China Preparing for War in 'Every Strategic Direction'Peter Foster, a Beijing-based correspondent for the UK's Daily Telegraph newspaper, has reported on an interview with Defense Minister Gen. Liang Guanglie published by several state-run media outlets in China. The People's Liberation Army officer ...
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December 22, 2010
Chinese government defends control of Catholic churchA spokesperson for the People's Republic of China's State Administration for Religious Affairs said on Wednesday that the Vatican's criticism of the recent National Congress of Chinese Catholics was "imprudent and ungrounded." The...
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December 20, 2010
China and Russia Continue Cold War Backing of North KoreaBased on secret U.S. State Department cables from 2009 and early 2010 provided to it by WikiLeaks, the liberal British Guardian newspaper ran a story Nov. 29 claiming, "China has signaled its readiness to accept Korean reunification and is pr...
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December 16, 2010
UN Climate consensus failingJapan played a major role in undermining the Kyoto Protocol at the recent UN climate conference in Cancun, Mexico. Tokyo declared that it would not commit to a second period of Kyoto after 2012 unless all other major economies were required to mak...
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December 10, 2010
China Calls Nobel Prize Ceremony a 'Farce'Ever since the October announcement that the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize would go to Liu Xiaobo, Chinese officials, the state-controlled media, and "patriotic" bloggers have condemned the Norwegian Nobel Committee for honoring a "criminal...
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December 7, 2010
China defends growth principle at climate talksAs the UN climate conference moved into its second and final week in Cancun, Mexico, China said it would not compromise on issues of principle. Su Wei, the chief Chinese negotiator told the state-run Xinhua news agency, "I think we can cooper...
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December 3, 2010
Establishment Voices Call for AppeasementAs tensions have risen in Asia, Establishment voices are coming to China's defense. Writing for The New Republic Dec. 2, Joshua Kurlantzick, a fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, argued that "China can't fix North Korea, so don't ask...
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December 2, 2010
UN Proposal to Prosecute the U.S. for "Ecocide"The UN Framework Convention on Climate Change conference, which opened in Cancun, Mexico on Monday, has yielded another example of how supposedly idealistic notions concocted by Western liberals, no matter how daft, can be transformed into weapon...
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November 29, 2010
The Old World Order ContinuesThe December issue of Foreign Policy magazine features an essay by Parag Khanna, senior research fellow at the New America Foundation, which asks " How's That New World Order Working Out ?" The timing could not be better. A U.S. carrier s...
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November 23, 2010
Russia-NATO summit: Not as positive as portrayedThe spin given to Russia's participation at the NATO summit in Lisbon has been positive in Western government and media circles. President Barack Obama referred to President Dmitri Medvedev as " my friend and partner." and said " mo...
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November 18, 2010
Repudiated at the Polls, Will the Left Resort to Violence?Cliff Kinkaid, editor of Accuracy in Media, penned a column this week that warns of a leftward move towards violence in the wake of the Tea Party-Republican victories in the Congressional elections. His focus was nationally syndicated cartoonist T...
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November 15, 2010
Iran and Nigeria terrorismWriting in this week's Defense News, Efraim Inbar, a Political Studies professor at Bar-Ilan University and the director of the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, argues, A nuclear Iran would strengthen its hegemony in the strategic energy ...
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November 10, 2010
Obama Should Build on Bush Legacy, Not Lie About ItIn Indonesia, President Barack Obama continued to attack a straw man as if he were still on the 2008 presidential campaign trail. He proclaimed that America was not at war with Islam, and that he was trying to overcome "mistrust" which h...
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November 7, 2010
Obama's Trade Offensive Cannot Solve UnemploymentThe New York Times published an op-ed by President Barack Obama on Friday to coincide with his trip to Asia. It was entitled "Exporting Our Way to Stability." In the wake of Republican victories in the midterm elections prompted by ...
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November 4, 2010
Voters Were Not Seeking a Weaker AmericaIn October, the United Kingdom under its new Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition announced drastic cuts in the armed forces, reducing the number of warships, tanks, artillery, and aircraft, to help reduce the budget deficit. Last week, the conse...
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October 28, 2010
China Provoking Moves to Contain Its Aggressive RiseAfter meeting with Japanese Foreign Minister Seiji Maehara in Hawaii Wednesday, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said she will press China to clarify its policy on the export of rare-earth minerals which are essential to the production of high-...
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October 25, 2010
Chinese Professor Ad Highlights Cause of America's DeclineCitizens Against Government Waste is running a powerful new one minute ad on how bad economic policies in Washington can change the balance of power in the world to the benefit of foreign rivals. The "Chinese professor" ad is set in the ...
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October 21, 2010
Taiwan Sees China's Heir-apparent as Hard-linerThe Communist Party of China held its Central Committee meeting Oct. 15-18. The first steps were taken on drafting the ruling party's 12th Five-Year Plan (2011-2015) which envisions continued high growth to cement its place as the world's second l...
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October 19, 2010
NATO defense cuts endanger US securityThere has been virtually no discussion of defense and foreign policy in the debates leading up to the November Congressional elections even with American troops fighting overseas. Politics is dominated by questions of taxing and deficit spending in a...
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October 15, 2010
China seeking to exploit American economic woesThe state apparatus of the People's Republic of China continues its tirade against the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to jailed democracy activist Liu Xiaobo. On Thursday, an official organ of the ruling Communist Party focused its attack on al...
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October 11, 2010
Why China Sees the Nobel Prize as a ThreatThe Beijing regime has been very direct in its condemnation of the award of the Nobel Peace Prize to Chinese democracy activist Liu Xiaobo, who is serving an 11 year prison sentence. On Oct. 9, Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Ma Zhaoxu stated, Li...
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October 7, 2010
UN Climate talks fail on another issueThe United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change is conducting talks all this week in the Chinese port city of Tianjin. Delegates from 190 countries are taking part. It is the last conference before the UNFCCC tries again to write a binding,...
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October 5, 2010
Turkey may find shift toward Iran costlyOn Monday, Turkish State Minister for Foreign Trade Zafar Caglayan repeated that Ankara will not allow non-UN sanctions imposed by the U.S. and Europe to hamper its business with Iran. "Turkey will act in line with UN decisions. But decisions ...
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September 28, 2010
China blames US for dispute with JapanThough the Chinese fishing boat captain detained by Japan after ramming two coast guard boats returned home over the weekend, tensions remain high between Beijing and Tokyo. The underlying dispute over the islands called Diaoyu by China and Senkaku b...
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September 27, 2010
Ignore China's partnersIn an early draft of his Farewell Address, President George Washington wrote, "we would guard against the Intregues [sic] of any and every foreign Nation who shall intermeddle (however indirectly and covertly) in the internal concerns of our cou...
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September 23, 2010
A Belated Reaction To China's Rare Earth ThreatBeijing denied reports Thursday that it was blocking exports to Japan of "rare earth" minerals used in products like hybrid cars, wind turbines, computers, and aircraft, but the raising of the issue was itself a form of pressure on To...
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September 20, 2010
Anglo-American Influence ThreatenedLast week's issue of Defense News ran a front page story headlined "Big Firms Hunker Down, Cut Jobs and Costs" in anticipation of reduced military production that will be promoted by the Obama administration supposed effort to reduce govern...
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September 15, 2010
China vs. UN goals in AfricaUnited Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has invited world leaders to attend a summit at the UN General Assembly in New York on September 20-22 to assess progress towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals set out in 2000. The MDG are to ...
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September 9, 2010
China asserts need for a 'carrier killer'The 2010 annual report from the Secretary of Defense to the Congress on the "Military and Security Developments Involving the People's Republic of China" was released in late August. One of the more controversial findings in the report w...
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September 1, 2010
Withdrawal or Redeployment? China Fears the LatterIn his speech to the nation Tuesday night, President Barack Obama raised concerns that America is not just withdrawing combat troops from Iraq, but is withdrawing from world affairs and turning inward. He said, Unfortunately, over the last decade, we...
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August 26, 2010
China's Cold War mentalityChinese officials and the state-run media constantly accuse the United States of exhibiting an outdated "Cold War Mentality" in regard to Asian security issues. Two editorials this week in the ruling Communist Party's publication Global ...
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August 17, 2010
China Cheers as Russia Fuels Iran's ReactorAttempts by the Obama administration to "reset" relations with Russia have included the unilateral suspension of near-term plans to build a missile defense system in Eastern Europe; the signing of the bilateral START arms control agreement;...
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August 11, 2010
Navy backs Clinton diplomacySecretary of State Hillary Clinton sparked strong Chinese protests when she told month's meeting of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) that America has "a national interest in freedom of navigation, open acces...
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August 9, 2010
Tories to cut military spendingThere is no question that the economy of the United Kingdom is in trouble and that excessive government spending and debt have tipped the country in the direction of Greece and Spain. Last month, the International Monetary Fund lowered its 2011 ...
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August 4, 2010
Looking for Copenhagen repeat, climate conference opens in BonnThe third round of UN "climate change" negotiations this year kicked off on Monday with representatives from 178 governments meeting in Bonn, Germany. The conference runs August 2-6 and is being attended by over 3,000 government delegate...
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August 2, 2010
Two Priorities: Fiscal Responsibility and National SecurityAs European governments try to reduce their budget deficits under pressure from financial markets, it is not just the social programs responsible for runaway spending that are being cut. Defense programs are also being reduced. In America, a push ...
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July 24, 2010
Tensions in Asia still include TaiwanA new report indicates that China may increase the missiles it has deployed against Taiwan from 1,600 to 1,900 by year's end, a sign of continuing tensions stemming from Beijing's goal of capturing the island. While Americans were celebrating th...
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July 21, 2010
Downsizing the Navy's Industrial BaseNorthrop Grumman announced July 13 that it will close Avondale Shipbuilding in New Orleans and wants to sell its other two naval shipyards, Newport News in Virginia and Ingalls in Mississippi. The United States only has eight naval shipyards and Nort...
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July 14, 2010
Google surrenders to ChinaChina's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology confirmed over the weekend that the license for Google to operate in the country had been renewed for one year. The renewal was granted to Beijing Guxiang Information Technology Co. Ltd., ...
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July 9, 2010
Russia flexes its muscles while swapping spiesThe mainstream media has reflected the Obama administration line that the Russian spy swap is a sign of improving relations between Washington and Moscow. The New York Times on July 9 reported the espionage caseEvoked memories of ...
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July 8, 2010
China Winning a Victory at SeaChina is flexing its muscles at sea in Northeast Asia, taking advantage of perceived US weakness. So far, the US response has reinforced the Chinese view. Tensions have been rising in the region. The issue is not just North Korea's nuclear weapons pr...
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June 14, 2010
UN Amb. Rice unaware that Security Council approved Brazil-Turkey Iran dealSusan Rice, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, was on Fox News Sunday to defend the Obama administration against the charge that the sanctions resolution against Iran passed on June 9 is tougher than reports have alleged. Her discussion ...
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June 11, 2010
Chinese oppose US carrier deploymentIn a speech to the Asia Society June 9, Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, expressed dismay over China's failure to support U.S. and allied calls for punishing North Korea over its sinking of the Cheonan, a South Korean ...
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June 10, 2010
Western liberals help radicalize TurkeyIsrael and Turkey had been considered regional allies since the two signed a military cooperation accord in 1998. Israeli companies upgraded Turkish fighters and tanks. Ankara ordered rockets, electronic equipment, and unmanned aircraft from Is...
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June 6, 2010
Tech Cooperation With India, Not ChinaThe joint statement issued at the end of the U.S.-India Strategic Dialogue on June 3 did not mention China as a mutual security concern. Direct references to conflict situations were limited to countering terrorism and restoring stability to Afghanis...
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June 2, 2010
First U.S.-India Strategic Dialogue June 1-3The latest round of the U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue was held in Beijing, May 24-25. President Barack Obama added the State Department as co-chair with the Treasury for the biannual meetings which started in 2006. The broadened fra...
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May 28, 2010
Chinese desire a 'soft landing' for Korean crisisIn an exclusive interview with the BBC aired Thursday, China's new ambassador to the United Kingdom Liu Xiaoming commented on the mounting tensions following North Korea's sinking of a South Korean warship. When asked if he thought the situation...
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May 22, 2010
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May 13, 2010
Tory Euro-skeptics' time has comeThe "Draft letter from Foreign Secretary to Prime Minister" leaked to the British media sets out the timely change in United Kingdom policy towards the European Union that the new Conservative government intends to implement even though its...
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May 7, 2010
White House knows illegal immigration fuels unemploymentIn the expectation that the unemployment rate won't change much from the 9.7 percent March figure when new April numbers are released Friday, David Wessel wrote a pessimistic column that appeared in The Wall Street Journal on May 5. In it he a...
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May 2, 2010
Economic Policy Protests: U.S. versus GreeceMay Day protests in Greece turned violent, with rioters throwing Molotov cocktails and stones at police, who responded with tear gas. Leftists and who the press called "anarchists" smashed shop windows and set up burning barricades in Athen...
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April 27, 2010
China Asserts Its Naval AmbitionsLast week, warships of the People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) sailed through what Chinese strategists call "the first island chain" that links Japan to Taiwan, the Philippines, and Malaysia. The units from the East Sea Fleet included the ...
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April 21, 2010
China and Iran not intimidatedChina has preferred to let other governments take the public lead in resisting U.S. pressure for new sanctions on Iran. At times Germany and Russia have served that purpose. So, President Hu Jintao was happy to let Brazilian President Luiz Ina...
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April 14, 2010
UN Climate battle resumesBad ideas can be beaten back, but they never truly go away, especially if they have deep-pocket backers and an institutional structure as massive as the United Nations. Those who breathed a sigh of relief when the UN Climate Conference in Copenh...
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April 8, 2010
China thinks it has the winning handThe collapse of the Soviet Union led many in the 1990s to proclaim the unassailable superiority of the democratic-capitalism model. The financial crisis that threw the Western economies into recession, with high unemployment and mounting fiscal defic...
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April 2, 2010
China wants US and Russia to disarmWhen President Barack Obama announced a new nuclear arms limitation treaty with Russia March 26, he opened his remarks by saying, "Since taking office, one of my highest priorities has been addressing the threat posed by nuclear weapons to the ...
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March 25, 2010
Don't blame Teddy Roosevelt for nationalized health carePresident Barack Obama's attempt to blame Teddy Roosevelt for the massive Federal health care program adopted last week, over a century after TR left office, does not hold water. The allegation is an attempt by a Democratic President to find a Republ...
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March 18, 2010
China's hard line on economicsOn March 15, a bi-partisan group of 130 House members sent a letter to Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner and Commerce Secretary Gary Locke urging them to immediately address the growing problems associated with China's fixed exchange rate. Accordi...
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March 14, 2010
Global Warming and Cold War ThinkingChina sees climate change as another opportunity to help topple the United States from global preeminence, which remains its primary strategic goal in world politics.On March 7, Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi held a press conference at the 3rd ...
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March 6, 2010
Levin a better choice than Stark for Ways and MeansThe passing over of Rep. Pete Stark (D-CA) in favor of Rep. Sander Levin (D-MI) as chair of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee has policy implications during a time of high unemployment. Stark had seniority over Levin and was also chair o...
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March 2, 2010
Legalizing Chinese espionage?For its first segment Sunday night, CBS's "60 Minutes" looked at Chinese spying in America. Correspondent Scott Pelley asked Michelle Van Cleave ,"When it comes to espionage against the United States, is China now the number one thr...
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February 24, 2010
US-China relations souring over Taiwan, Dalai LamaOn Feb. 23, China's Foreign Ministry held a longer than usual press conference that concentrated on the growing diplomatic tension with the United States. The Chinese attitude expressed on a number of issues indicates that relations are not going...
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February 15, 2010
Does Obama finally understand Bush?Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Joint Chiefs Chairman Admiral Mike Mullen are touring the Middle East to build support for stronger action against Iran in the wake of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Feb. 11 proclamation that his country ...
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February 1, 2010
Obama administration green lights Taiwan arms saleOn January 29, the U.S. Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) released Congressional notifications for arms sales to Taiwan worth $6.4 billion. The list of weapons systems included in the package is a legacy from the Bush administration. The...
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January 24, 2010
Obama plotting a domestic counterinsurgency strategy?In The New York Times Saturday, Jeff Zeleny and Peter Baker reported on how President Barack Obama is moving to centralize control over Democratic party strategy in the wake of Senator-elect Scott Brown's victory in Massachusetts. What was striking w...
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January 18, 2010
Haiti's problem isn't imperialismLeft-wingers around the world are claiming that the reason the earthquake did so much damage to Haiti is because "Western imperialism" kept the island poor and saddled with corrupt and incompetent rulers. Rather than cite the hundreds of ne...
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January 6, 2010
While US disarms, Russia and China build up their militaryIn this week's issue of Defense News , Ilan Berman, vice president of the American Foreign Policy Council, warns, "Stagnation threatens U.S. arms superiority." After noting recent tests by Russia and China of new nuclear-armed missiles, ...
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December 29, 2009
The left embraces 'Avatar'Anyone who thinks I may have overstated the left-wing message in the movie "Avatar," which grossed another $75 million over the Christmas weekend, should read the column by David Swanson posted at the "progressive" website OpEdNe...
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December 24, 2009
Avatar: Cameron's Contradictions Loom LargeFilmmaker James Cameron is famous for blockbusters like Titanic and The Terminator. His latest movie, Avatar, just opened after a massive media blitz during which Cameron himself hit the talk show circuit, along with his on-screen stars. Since the hi...
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December 22, 2009
Climate change row breaks out between UK and ChinaA public dispute has erupted between the United Kingdom and the People's Republic of China over who is to blame for the general failure of the UN Climate Conference in Copenhagen. Ed Miliband, who is Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change i...
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December 17, 2009
China defends human progress in CopenhagenThe Green campaign for imposing a drastic reduction in human economic activity and energy use has always relied on extreme rhetoric threatening Armageddon if certain proposals are not adopted. The UN Climate Conference has been no exception. As th...
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December 9, 2009
'While there is a Rupee left...'On a surprise visit to Kabul Tuesday, Defense Secretary Robert Gates told Afghan President Hamid Karzai that the United States "will never turn our back" from Afghanistan. Gate's trip to the war zone came only a week after President Barack ...
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December 6, 2009
Sudan Despot Embraces 'Climate Justice' in CopenhagenVillains are flocking to climb on the fraudulent global warming bandwagon. On November 23, Stephen Sackur interviewed Abdalmahmood Abdalhaleem Mohamad on his BBC television show "Hardtalk." Mohamad is Sudan's ambassador at the United Nation...
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November 17, 2009
Obama's Copenhagen Suicide PactIn their joint message on climate change negotiations released Nov. 13, President Barack Obama and Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama pledged "to reduce our own emissions by 80% by 2050 and endorse a global goal of reducing emissions by 50% ...
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October 23, 2009
China-India Accord to Scuttle UN Climate TreatyOn October 22, an accord was signed by Xie Zhenhua, China's vice minister at the National Development and Reform Commission, and Jairam Ramesh, India's environment minister, in New Delhi. The memorandum provides an alternative framework to counter pr...
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October 1, 2009
World Rejects Planetary PanicPresident Barack Obama resorted to the same tactic at the United Nations last week that he has been using at home in the health care debate. He has escalated the rhetoric as political support has collapsed. At the UN Climate summit Sept. 22, Presiden...
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July 15, 2009
The Green Suicide of the G-8Chinese President Hu Jintao left the G-8 summit before the international conference had tackled the issue of climate change. He was needed at home as violence raged in Xinjiang province as the Uighur protested against being made a minority in their o...