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‘Ideological Prejudices’

Relevance: 17%      Posted on: July 7, 2022

“‘One country two systems’ has been tested and proved time and again,” Chinese ruler Xi Jinping told his hand-picked Hong Kong audience last week, “and there is no reason to change such a good system.” Twenty-five years into that “good system” — created when the United Kingdom signed it over…

America Is Speech

Relevance: 16%      Posted on: January 19, 2021

In this frightening time marked by actual violence — five dead in the attack on the U.S. capitol and many more killed during last summer’s unrest* — last week’s very scariest news was this admission by Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY): Several members of Congress, in some of my discussions, have…

Maybe Next Year?

Relevance: 16%      Posted on: December 7, 2020

Once again, TIME is skipping right over you and me for consideration as the magazine’s “Person of the Year for 2020.” What am I saying, YOU were named back in 2006! TIME’s choice can be important recognition for someone working against all odds to make a very positive difference in…

Dictators on Parade

Relevance: 16%      Posted on: June 23, 2023

The day following Secretary of State Anthony Blinken’s “successful” visit to China, wherein the Chinese rulers agreed to start talking to U.S. officials again — well, except on trivial military-to-military stuff like the PLA playing chicken with our fighter jets and naval ships in international waters — President Joe Biden…

“Nobody” Cares

Relevance: 16%      Posted on: February 4, 2022

“Nobody cares about what’s happening to the Uyghurs, okay,” Chamath Palihapitiya stated emphatically on the All-In Podcast. “I’m telling you a very hard, ugly truth.” Concern that the totalitarian Chinese regime has locked more than a million Muslim Uyghurs in concentration camps is “a luxury belief,” according to Mr. Palihapitiya,…

‘Meat on the Table’

Relevance: 16%      Posted on: October 14, 2024

Paul Jacob believes we should make ourselves unappetizing.

Disgraced, Enraged, Belligerent

Relevance: 16%      Posted on: May 28, 2020

“Over the course of April and throughout May,” writes Timothy McLaughlin in The Atlantic, “Beijing was undertaking aggressive actions across Asia.” These include: The ramming — and sinking — of a Vietnamese vessel in the South China Sea.Intrusive surveying by a Chinese research vessel (plus coast-guard and other ships) near…

America Unmasked

Relevance: 15%      Posted on: April 6, 2020

For weeks, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Department of Health and Human Services told us not to wear face masks. The Surgeon General even warned that mass use of masks could “increase the spread of the coronavirus.”  “My nose tells me,” I posted on Facebook weeks…

Follow the (Media) Money

Relevance: 15%      Posted on: April 21, 2020

“[A]t a time of rising tensions with China” is “the objectivity of news” . . . dead?  Wounded? So wonders Arthur Bloom, lamenting for The American Conservative, in “China’s Long Tentacles Extend Deep Into American Media.” “We’ve got this tremendous disconnect between what the American people actually think about China…

Keeping Score

Relevance: 15%      Posted on: June 12, 2020

Retired Chinese soccer superstar Hao Haidong “stunned his country,” The Washington Post reported last week, “after he called for the downfall of the ruling Communist Party and the formation of a new government.” Certainly, Hao — “the Chinese national team’s all-time top goal scorer and an idol in the 1990s…