James Freeman explains Shaq’s commitment to freedom at the WSJ, writing: Retired National Basketball Association star Shaquille O’Neal has been doing business in China for years. But he’s not going to remain silent to please the world’s largest police state. On Tuesday night the hoops legend supported not just free speech in general but specifically […]
LeBron James Sounding Presidential?
Like other sports heroes, LeBron James, among the NBA’s biggest stars, often opines about political matters. In 2018, for example, LeBron famously tweeted that “Injustice Anywhere Is A Threat To Justice Everywhere – Our Lives Begin To End The Day We Become Silent About Things That Matter.” Things That Matter … Like people fighting for […]
“I Don’t Watch the NBA, Ever.” Dick Young
Did Trump Just Lock Down 2020?
According to David P. Goldman, Donald Trump may have just secured his 2020 reelection with an armistice in the U.S.-China trade war. Goldman writes in Asia Times (abridged): Investors greeted a prospective US trade deal with China by bidding for stocks that had suffered the worst in this year’s economic slowdown, including energy equipment, retail […]
NBA Security Prohibits Free Speech on U.S. Soil
Several nights ago at Capitol One Arena in D.C., the Wizards played the Guangzhou Long Lions at basketball. Fearing offending the Chinese government, NBA security agents confiscated signs reading “Free Hong Kong” and “Google Uyghurs.” The NBA, ESPN, Nike, Paramount, MGM, Apple, VANs, and “South Park” are not the only ones kowtowing to China’s growing […]
Taiwan’s Reunification with the Mainland Now Looks Utterly Remote
At The American Conservative, Cato Institute senior fellow, Ted Galen Carpenter, tells readers that in light of the recent Hong Kong situation, any Taiwan/Mainland China reunification effort looks “utterly remote.” Indeed it is difficult to see Taiwan’s citizens who are no doubt watching Hong Kong closely, harboring any desire to rejoin China and its war […]
President Trump Winning Back American Jobs China Stole
In The Hill, Bradley A. Thayer and Lianchao Han explain that China must be confronted or it will continue to erode America’s free-market economy. In the short-term America must suffer some pain in order to win back the jobs China has stolen with unfair trade practices, intellectual property theft, closed markets, and subsidized socialist businesses. […]
Here’s How China’s Hacker Army Steals Up to $600 Billion from American Businesses Each Year
Secret arms of the Chinese military have been tasked with stealing the secrets of American businesses using a variety of hacking methods, some off the shelf and some sophisticated. Evidence collected by the office of the U.S. Trade Representative suggests that the cost of all that theft could be between $225 billion and $600 billion. […]
Are “Oodles” of Chinese Pigs Exploding?
Soybean prices are low, and many in the media are blaming President Trump’s trade war with China for the slump, but in a worldwide market like that for soybeans, customers can choose where they buy a product, but not necessarily impact the price. Demand is the only thing that will really affect a commodity price […]
Trump’s Correct China Trade Strategy Requires Backbone, Resolve
At The American Conservative, Pat Buchanan tells Americans that President Trump is using tariffs as a weapon to stop the looting of America that has taken 70,000 factories and 5 million manufacturing jobs out of the country. He writes (abridged): Trump is using tariffs to coerce China to stop cheating on the trade rules we […]
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