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Relevance: 47% Posted on: March 18, 2024
March 18 marks the ninth anniversary of the 2014 Sunflower Student Movement, wherein students occupied the Taiwanese legislature to block a trade agreement between Taiwan and China, which the public came to believe gave too much economic leverage to China, a power that regularly threatens to invade the free and…
Relevance: 45% Posted on: January 13, 2023
In merely the last month . . . Belligerently attempting to enforce China’s illegal claim to virtually the entire South China Sea, a People’s Liberation Army jet intercepted a U.S. Air Force reconnaissance aircraft over international waters, coming within 20 feet, forcing the U.S. pilot to take evasive action to…
Relevance: 44% Posted on: February 27, 2022
Paul Jacob talks about the biggest political issue: real democracy, where politicians aren't allowed to manhandle and tyrannize citizens. Watch this weekend’s episode of This Week in Common Sense on Rumble: https://rumble.com/embed/vtccaq/?pub=rnuf4 Or watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/jqM4SnTaTJA Because Paul is on the road this weekend, the main feature of this…
Relevance: 44% Posted on: January 10, 2020
How much longer does the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) have to put up with freedom-loving loudmouths? Thoughtful Party rulers can’t even entertain their subjects with NBA basketball or English Premier League soccer without fear that Chinese fans will then discover the tweet of some busybody droning on against Chinese repression…
Relevance: 42% Posted on: October 11, 2022
Elon Musk, the world’s richest person, has often been lauded in this commentary — regarding SpaceX and the growth of private space travel, and recently for providing crucial internet access through his company’s Starlink satellites first to Ukraine and now for Iranian protesters. I like that. But the Chinese Communist…
Relevance: 42% Posted on: August 5, 2021
The term “Shanghaied” dates back to the 1850s, referring to Americans being kidnapped, sneaked onto ships, and transported across the Pacific Ocean, often to Shanghai, China. Doesn’t happen so much anymore. Unless you’re Taiwanese. The subject came up on a just released Common Sense podcast featuring Joseph [last name withheld…
Relevance: 41% Posted on: August 18, 2022
“Today, I confess, I am proud — proud of my profession.” Sky News host Andrew Bolt was referencing the tough questions posed to Xiao Qian, China’s ambassador to Australia, following the ambassador’s speech last week to journalists at the nation’s Press Club. After Xiao talked about “a possible opportunity to…
Relevance: 41% Posted on: November 19, 2021
Weeks ago, the U.S. military confirmed that China tested a hypersonic missile last summer capable of speeding around the globe with a nuclear payload. Top generals called it “a Sputnik moment.” Speaking of Sputnik, on Monday the Russians blew up one of their own orbiting satellites with a missile test…
Relevance: 40% Posted on: December 31, 2019
Legislation introduced last April to allow the extradition of criminal suspects from Hong Kong to mainland China motivated millions into the streets in protests that have not yet ended . . . . . . including a major pro-democracy rally scheduled for tomorrow in Causeway Bay. Traveling to Hong Kong…
Relevance: 40% Posted on: April 14, 2020
When times get tough, you learn who your friends are. Take the United States’ relationships with Taiwan and the People’s Republic of China. The island nation sports a population roughly the size of Australia’s, about 24 million; just across the Taiwan Strait, what we used to call “Red China” holds…