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The Threat(s) of Chinese Nationalism.

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The Great Firewall is probably the best-known feature of the complex censorship system in China. It’s how the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) censors what anyone in China can see on the internet. Everything from popular western websites like Wikipedia and YouTube, information about the Tiananmen Square Incident and the Dalai Lama, and most foreign films […]

American Nationalism or Chinese Imperialism. You Can Only Pick One. by Will Chamberlain…

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Recently, Americans received a wake-up call about the ascendant soft power of China. After Daryl Morey, the general manager of the Houston Rockets, was chastised by the Chinese government for tweeting out support for Hong Kong, LeBron James, the world’s most famous basketball player, decided to weigh in on behalf of China. James was ratioed […]

U.S. Opens National Security Investigation Into Chinese-Owned TikTok…

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A national security review of Chinese-owned TikTok’s $1 billion acquisition of U.S. social media app Musical.ly has been opened by the U.S. government, three unidentified sources told Reuters. U.S. lawmakers have only recently called for a national security probe into the popular Chinese video-sharing app, though the acquisition by TikTok—which is owned by Beijing-based ByteDance […]

Grassley Investigating Hunter Biden’s China Business Dealings…

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The Washington Free Beacon is reporting that Senator Chuck Grassley “received a classified briefing about [Hunter Biden’s] foreign investment deal on Friday.” Hunter was able to land a major investment deal that was backed by the Chinese government after he and his father, Vice President Biden, made an official visit to China by flying there […]

China’s IP Theft Remains a Thorny Issue in Trade Talks…

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Whether the United States and China will sign the first part of a trade deal at the APEC meetings in Chile isn’t yet certain, and one obstacle in the ongoing talks is China’s stance on intellectual property. This is one of the most problematic issues in the trade talks, as Beijing wouldn’t “move the needle” […]

Krugman Admits He and Mainstream Economists Got Globalization Wrong…Ya Think?…

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Paul Krugman, Nobel-prize winning economist and avowed champion of free trade, admits he and his colleagues got a few things seriously wrong about globalization, in particular around its downside impact on local labor markets. “We missed a crucial part of the story,” Krugman wrote in a Bloomberg article in October, referring to members of the […]

OUCH! China Apparently Doesn’t Like VP Pence Calling Out the NBA for Being a ‘Wholly Owned Subsidiary’ of the Communist’s Regime…

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Vice President Mike Pence was called on once again to play the ‘bad cop’ in Washington’s negotiations with China yesterday when he delivered an aggressive speech blasting Beijing’s record on human rights. As noted yesterday, in a twice-delayed hawkish speech, Pence defended the pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong, while slamming both Nike and the NBA […]

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