Tag: China

Trump and Xi Jinping (Official WH Photo by Daniel Torok)

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Beneath the surface of everyday American life, the pork on supermarket shelves, the seeds planted across Midwestern fields, and the agrochemicals sprayed on crops from Texas to Iowa, lies a quietly assembled architecture of Chinese influence. Through corporate acquisition, land accumulation, data harvesting, and regulatory manipulation, the Chinese Communist Party has embedded itself within the systems that feed and power America. The scale of this penetration is vast, its implications alarming, and the oversight mechanisms designed to prevent it have proven, repeatedly, inadequate. (more…)

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David R. Shedd & Andrew Badger
The Great Heist: China’s Epic Campaign to Steal America’s Secrets
New York: Harper, 2025

“Certainly no one has ever denied the Chinaman’s extraordinary economic efficiency. Winnowed by ages of grim elimination in a land populated to the uttermost limits of subsistence, the Chinese race is selected as no other for survival under the fiercest conditions of economic stress. At home the average Chinese lives his whole life literally within a hand’s breadth of starvation. Accordingly, when removed to the easier environment of other lands, the Chinaman brings with him a working capacity which simply appalls his competitors. That urbane Celestial, Doctor Wu-Ting-Fang, well says of his own people: ‘Experience proves that the Chinese as all-round laborers can easily outdistance all competitors. They are industrious, intelligent, and orderly. They can work under conditions that would kill a man of less hardy race; in heat that would kill a salamander, or in cold that would please a polar bear, sustaining their energies through long hours of unremitting toil with only a few bowls of rice.’”—Lothrop Stoddard (more…)

A Confucius Institute, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.

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Americans have grown increasingly alert to the machinations of foreign powers. Qatar’s funding of university campuses, the reach of the Israeli lobby, Saudi Arabia’s investments in media and sport: these are debated loudly in Congress and across cable news. The scrutiny is warranted. Yet one foreign power, arguably the most consequential geopolitical rival the United States has ever faced, has managed to embed itself far more deeply and systematically into Western economies, institutions, and political life than any of the others, with comparatively little public attention. (more…)

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“The leading nations of the world are now engaged in a new kind of arms race. Our hesitation, perceived or otherwise, to move forward with military applications of artificial intelligence will be punished. The ability to develop the tools required to deploy force against an opponent, combined with a credible threat to use such force, is often the foundation of any effective negotiation with an adversary. (more…)

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Spencer Morrison
How Tariffs Will Bring Our Jobs Home & Revive the American Dream
Washington, D.C.: Calamo Press, 2025

“In 1721 Prime Minister Robert Walpole instituted a coherent trade policy which was explicitly designed to turn England into the world’s factory. This was based on Walpole’s observation – the same observation made by King Edward III or Queen Elizabeth I before him – that it was far more profitable to sell refined goods than raw goods. It was better to sell cloth than wool, ships than lumber, and swords than iron ingots.”

–Spencer Morrison (more…)

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Saleha Mohsin
Paper Soldiers: How the Weaponization of the Dollar Changed the World Order
New York: Portfolio, 2024

[. . . ] in April 2023, Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva drew loud applause from an audience of Chinese dignitaries in Shanghai when he heralded the demise of the dollar. “Every night I ask myself why all countries have to base their trade on the dollar. Who was it that decided that the dollar was the currency after the disappearance of the gold standard?” he asked the delighted crowd. (more…)

Pixabay, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons

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BRICS—named for the first five nations which entered the pact, Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa, is a serious danger to America. The BRICS hazard comprises three separate threats. The first is an alternative banking and financial system which is opposed to the US dollar. The second consists of military threats which include aggressive Russian forces in Eastern Europe and the Arctic as well as Chinese military pressure in the Indo-Pacific. The BRICS bloc has already militarily cooperated. (more…)

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Canada’s sovereignty has been subverted from within by a seditious political class beholden to foreign interests. Under Prime Minister Mark Carney, what was once a covert infiltration by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has turned into blatant collaboration. Recent diplomatic maneuvers by Carney prioritize Beijing’s agenda over Canada’s national security, economic independence, and alliances with traditional allies like the United States. This is no mere policy shift; it is an appalling betrayal that undermines Canada’s borders, empowers its adversaries, sunders Canada’s relationship with the U.S., and exposes its citizens to the whims of a communist regime. (more…)

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On December 11, Sarah Dzafce was forced to step down as Miss Finland and hand over her crown in a public ceremony.

This was due to a joke she had made two weeks earlier. While eating with a friend, she pulled her eyes into a slanted position. Her friend captioned the photo “eating with a Chinese person.” (more…)

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Sulmaan Wasif Khan
The Struggle for Taiwan: A History of America, China, and the Island Caught Between
Basic Books, 2024

Economically, Taiwan is to Asia what Holland is to Europe in that Taiwan’s people punch above their weight in most categories of industry. Dreadfully near Taiwan is mainland China, which is ruled by the Chinese Communist Party. (more…)

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Tang dynasty-era painting depicting African slave.

Throughout Africa, there is a clear appreciation for China’s growing economic engagement. From infrastructure development to investment in key industries, African leaders largely see China not as a neo-colonial threat but as a partner in development. This pragmatic approach contrasts sharply with the selective moral outrage often directed at Western nations, particularly the United Kingdom. (more…)

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You can buy Jonathan Bowden’s Western Civilization Bites Back here.

Despite endless talk about the “decline of the West,” Western civilization remains the cultural, legal, and intellectual nucleus of the modern world. Its institutions, values, and aesthetic standards still define what progress and modernity mean. Though power has diffused economically—China manufactures, India grows, and the Persian Gulf invests—the blueprint of civilization remains unmistakably Western. (more…)

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1. Chain Reactions & Control Rods

If the elites who rule us were truly far-sighted, they would have strangled the Internet in its crib. Their control was never greater than when there were only three major television networks and all newspapers followed the Associated Press.

The old media were one-way conduits delivering standardized messages to isolated individuals. (more…)