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US Must Contain Chinese Influence Rising in the United Nations
Chinese influence is on the rise within the United Nations system. Qu Dongyu became director general of the Food and Agriculture Organization this month, raising the number of Chinese nationals leading a U.N. specialized agency to four. This trend is concerning, because China is not a benign force internationally. It is seeking to shift the values, programs, and policies of the U.N. in…Brett Schaefer -
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Why US Governors Should Beware of Russians Bearing Gifts
Under the misleading guise of being a British company, a firm connected to a Russian oligarch is seeking to expand its investments and business dealings across the United States. Only a few months after Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska’s companies were scandalously removed from U.S. sanctions, they have wasted no time trying to enter the U.S….Luke Coffey -
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China’s Forced Sterilization of Uighur Women Is Cultural Genocide
Unknown pills and forced injections. Those are not fictional horrors from scary movies, but the reality many Uighurs in mass arbitrary internment are faced with today in China. In Xinjiang, human rights abuses against Uighur women and children abound. Uighurs, a predominantly Turkic-speaking ethnic minority in Xinjiang, are being seriously repressed by the Chinese government….Olivia Enos -
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Academia Today ‘Not for Faint-Hearted,’ Says Professor Who Lost His Job for Talking About Gender
Academia today “is not for the faint-hearted,” says a veteran professor who was head of child and adolescent psychiatry at the University of Louisville School of Medicine until he was demoted and then let go for making public comments on gender identity. “You know, I really was an academic physician, not a politician. I wasn’t…Rachel del Guidice -
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Trump ‘Orders’ American Businesses to Find Alternative to China
President Donald Trump told U.S. companies Friday to “start looking for an alternative” to China for business, after that country announced a 25% tariff on all U.S. automobiles and a 5% to 10% tariff on $75 billion worth of U.S. goods. Trump tweeted that bringing companies back home would be a “GREAT opportunity” for the…Audrey Conklin -
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Under Shadow of War With Russia, Ukraine Celebrates Independence
KYIV, Ukraine—Ukraine’s celebration Saturday of its Independence Day marks 28 years since the country split from the Soviet Union. But freedom hasn’t come easy for Ukraine. And the country’s freedom struggle isn’t over. For more than five years, Ukrainian troops have been bogged down in a war in the country’s eastern Donbas region, where they…Nolan Peterson -
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Trump Backs Down on Rescinding $4 Billion in Foreign Aid
President Donald Trump has opted against a cost-cutting measure to cancel more than $4 billion in budgeted foreign assistance, much of which he previously deemed as wasteful. Days earlier, the administration had cited U.S. taxpayer dollars going to projects such as border security in Asia, crop diversity in Bangladesh, solar panels in Central Asia, and…Fred Lucas -
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UK Eco-Extremists Show Why US Needs a Counter-Drone Strategy
Climate change activists from a group called Extinction Rebellion are threatening to fly drones over London’s Heathrow Airport with the goal of deliberately stopping all flights for a week. If their efforts were to succeed, the group could shut down the United Kingdom’s busiest airport and upward of a million travelers could be affected. There…Jason Snead -
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Solar Panels in Asia, Border Security for El Salvador: Trump Tries to Rein in Wasted Tax Dollars Abroad
Amid contentious debate in Washington on how much to devote to securing the southern border, what might surprise some is that tax dollars are going to finance border security for countries in the Pacific and in East, South, and Central Asia. That’s not all, because the United States is paying for border security for a…Fred Lucas -
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The Rise of ‘Hate Speech’ Policing in Europe
Free speech is increasingly under attack on college campuses — but if you think it’s bad here, look across the pond to Europe. Authorities over there are increasingly cracking down on so-called “hate speech” — a label that’s been applied to speech critical of Islam, homosexuality, and more. Paul Coleman, a British attorney who’s had…Daniel Davis -
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To Counter China in the Pacific, America Reboots the ‘Island-Hopping’ Campaign of World War II
POHNPEI, Federated States of Micronesia—A twin-engine, blue-and-white U.S. Air Force transport jet carrying Secretary of State Mike Pompeo descended to land on Pohnpei, one of four Pacific island states that comprise the Federated States of Micronesia. Onboard the jet during approach, the remote island’s aquamarine coastal waters and lush green tropical forests appeared as an…Nolan Peterson -
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Open Borders Inc.: Who’s Funding the Wicked War on ICE?
All the gun control zealots out in full force last week have apparently gone to the beach. An alarming shooting took place at a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in San Antonio on Tuesday. Local media reported that “multiple shots were fired on two floors targeting ICE officials.” But the Second Amendment saboteurs were…Michelle Malkin -
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What Hong Kong Unrest Tells Us About China’s Plans for the Rest of the World
The outside world can do little to assure the future of freedom in Hong Kong beyond making the case that preserving the principles of liberty are at stake. Nevertheless, the plight of that territory’s more than 7 million souls can teach us an important lesson about what China has in mind for the rest of the world….James Carafano -
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The Treasury Department Is Wrong. China Didn’t Just Devalue Its Currency.
The U.S. Treasury Department has incorrectly labeled China a manipulator of its currency. An important distinction exists between devaluing a currency and currency depreciation. Devaluing implies the People’s Bank of China actively manipulated the value of the Chinese renminbi to gain unfair advantage for its exports. Depreciation simply means the renminbi has lost purchasing power…Riley Walters -
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5 Things to Know About the New UN Ambassador
Kelly Knight Craft was a business executive and philanthropist when President Donald Trump appointed her as ambassador to Canada in June 2017. Now Craft is the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, replacing the popular Nikki Haley, a former governor of South Carolina. She has yet to be sworn in. Trump nominated Craft, 57, of Lexington,…Kaylee Greenlee -
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Kenyan Nonprofit Discovers a Way to Curb Africa’s Orphan Crisis
The East African nation of Kenya is home to 3 million orphaned and street children. The majority of these kids have living relatives, which in the late 1990s came as a great surprise to one local nonprofit. Agape Children’s Ministry is based in Kisumu, the third-largest city in Kenya. The Christian nonprofit says it has…Virginia Allen -
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Pompeo Calls for US, Australia to Present United Front to China
SYDNEY—The U.S.-Australia alliance is “more vital than ever,” Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said, calling on greater cooperation between the two countries to deal with a new era of security challenges as China seeks to extend its influence in the Indo-Pacific region. Speaking Sunday in Sydney, Pompeo condemned China’s territorial claims in the South China…Nolan Peterson -
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Man Who Sent Faulty Pipe Bombs to Trump Critics Gets 20 Years
A judge sentenced mail bomber Cesar Sayoc to 20 years in prison Monday after he pleaded guilty to sending pipe bombs last year to multiple high-profile Democrats and critics of President Donald Trump. “Now that I am a sober man, I know that I a very sick man,” Sayoc said, according to CNBC. “I wish more…Evie Fordham -
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The Menace of Russian Hybrid Warfare and How to Thwart It
Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2014 with the use of so-called “little green men” and Moscow’s subsequent meddling in elections across the transatlantic community, “hybrid warfare” has become the term du jour in Western foreign policy circles. Perhaps the best definition of hybrid warfare is offered by the new European Centre of Excellence for…Luke Coffey -
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US Slaps New Sanctions on Russia for 2018 Nerve Agent Attack
ABOARD A U.S. AIR FORCE AIRCRAFT—The U.S. has announced a new round of sanctions on Russia for its use of a chemical weapon in 2018 during an attempted assassination of former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter on British soil. In the March 2018 attack in the town of Salisbury in the United Kingdom,…Nolan Peterson