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China Launches ‘Punishment’ Drills Around Taiwan After President’s Inauguration
China launched a series of military drills Thursday around Taiwan as “punishment” for the swearing-in of the island’s new president, Chinese state media reported. Lai Ching-te, inaugurated Monday, is a member of Taiwan’s Democratic Progressive Party and won the island’s presidential election in January. China’s People’s Liberation Army initiated joint naval and air drills around the island in…Jake Smith -
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It’s ‘in Hamas’ Interest’ to Create ‘Situation of Misery and Starvation’ in Gaza, Columbia University Professor Says
A Columbia University professor says Hamas is responsible for the ongoing famine in Gaza. “It is in Hamas’ interest, as they have defined it, to actually create a situation of misery and starvation, rather than worrying about its population and making sure that its population stays safe,” according to Awi Federgruen, a professor at the…Virginia Allen -
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Legacy of Iran’s Late President: Tyranny and Terrorism
For Iran’s late President Ebrahim Raisi—who died this week in a helicopter crash—the question was not whether terrorism was good or evil, but who perpetrated it against whom. Raisi condemned the terrorist attack that the Islamic State launched this January against Iranians who were commemorating the death of Qassem Soleimani, who was killed by a…Terence Jeffrey -
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How Taiwan’s New President May Change His Country’s Tense Relationship With China
F-16s flew overhead, marching bands played, and singers entertained with cultural performances during Taiwan’s presidential inauguration on Monday. The inauguration of President Lai Ching-te was “quite the party,” Asia analyst Michael Cunningham tells “The Daily Signal Podcast,” after attending the event in Taiwan. The new president has a challenging job in front of him as…Virginia Allen -
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Northwestern U. May Have Broken Federal Law by Failing to Report Crimes During Anti-Israel Protests
Northwestern University may have violated a federal law by failing to report crimes on campus at least five times during recent anti-Israel protests. Northwestern appears to have violated a U.S. law called the Clery Act by not taking and publishing police reports from students who say they were assaulted, battered, stolen from, or witnessed crimes…Tony Kinnett -
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US Must Oppose International Criminal Court Bid to Prosecute Israeli Prime Minister, Defense Chief
For more than two decades, supporters of the International Criminal Court have urged the U.S. to ratify the Rome Statute and join the court. But multiple U.S. administrations of both parties refused, concerned that the ICC lacks safeguards against political manipulation and violates national sovereignty by claiming jurisdiction over the nationals and military personnel of…Brett Schaefer -
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Forget Tariffs: Biden Should Look to Domestic Mining to Thwart Chinese EVs
The Biden administration’s decision to raise tariffs on Chinese-manufactured electric vehicles, steel, computer chips, and other technological products is the epitome of a penny wise and a pound foolish. To much of the nation, the news was a reelection flip-flop, or an attempt to prop up the electric vehicle industry Biden has prioritized since he…Rick Whitbeck -
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Congress Seeks Answers to ‘Unprecedented Surge’ of Chinese Nationals Arriving at Border
Chinese nationals are crossing America’s southern border at abnormally high rates, according to Customs and Border Protection data. Already in fiscal year 2024, more Chinese nationals have crossed America’s southern border than the three previous fiscal years combined. Under the Biden administration, “there is no serious vetting” of illegal aliens from China, Rep. Dan Bishop,…Virginia Allen -
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Unprecedented Surge in Chinese Illegal Immigration Raises Security Concerns: The BorderLine
Editor’s note: This week, we will be taking a brief break from Simon Hankinson’s originally scheduled Part 3 of his series on the three reasons President Joe Biden’s border chaos is intentional. Instead, we bring you lightly edited excerpts from his breaking testimony Thursday before the House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Oversight, Investigations, and Accountability…Simon Hankinson -
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Russian Troops Make Major Gains After Congress, Biden Greenlight Aid Package to Ukraine
Ukraine’s armed forces suffered considerable territorial losses over the weekend despite receiving a large military aid package from the U.S. in April, The New York Times reported. From Friday to Sunday, Russian forces captured more square miles per day than they have at nearly any point of the Russia-Ukraine war other than its earliest days,…Nick Pope -
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‘They Don’t Understand War’: Analyst Slams Biden’s Denial of Arms to Israel
As stunned outrage escalated in reaction to President Joe Biden’s decision to halt arms shipments to Israel in the midst of its battle against the Hamas terrorist group, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed on Thursday that the Jewish state would “stand alone” and “fight with our fingernails” in the face of a lack of…Dan Hart -
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The Week in Israel News: The World’s Upside-Down Response to Oct. 7 Gets Even Worse
Welcome to 2024, the year where each week brings a new batch of fresh insanity, especially on Israel. While Donald Trump, the former president and presumptive Republican nominee in the upcoming presidential election, sits in the dock and unprecedented numbers of illegal aliens flood across our borders, elites are turning on Jews and demonizing Israel,…Tyler O’Neil -
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10 Most Common Pro-Hamas Lies About Israel
Scan news accounts of anti-Israel campus and street protesters. Read their demands and manifestos. Collate the confusion from the Biden administration after Hamas’ Oct. 7 terrorism in Israel. Here are 10 of their most common untruths about Oct. 7 and the Israel-Hamas war that followed. ‘Progressive Hamas’ Gay and transgender student protesters in America would…Victor Davis Hanson -
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Joe Biden Is Selling Out Israel to the Antisemitic Mob
Even as President Joe Biden was delivering his perfunctory Holocaust Remembrance speech earlier this week, decrying the “ferocious surge” in antisemitism on college campuses and prattling on about how he would never forget the Oct. 7 attack—which saw well over 1,200 Israelis murdered, raped, and/or kidnapped—the president was planning to stop the Jewish state from…David Harsanyi -
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If You Can’t Tell the Bad Guy in Israel Vs. Hamas, You’re the Problem
The war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza strip is the most morally clear conflict in modern history. It pits an actual terrorist group that just engaged in the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust against a democratic country that protects citizens—Jewish, Muslim, and Christian. It pits a monstrously evil tentacle of Iran—handed…Ben Shapiro -
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China’s Land Grab
Editor’s note: The threat posed by the Chinese Communist Party through Chinese entities purchasing real estate in the U.S. is real, especially when property is located next to critical infrastructure or military installations. Enacting prohibitions on real estate sales to foreign adversaries is long overdue. The reforms now being contemplated in Congress and in state…Bryan Burack -
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US Is Failing to Counter Threat of Chinese Land Ownership, Report Finds
The United States government is not appropriately addressing the threat posed by growing Chinese ownership of American land, according to a report released by The Heritage Foundation Thursday. The federal government is woefully ill-equipped to track Chinese-owned real estate in the country, despite the serious threat these Chinese Communist Party-affiliated entities can pose to critical U.S….Jason Hopkins -
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She Spoke Out in Defense of China’s Uyghurs, Then China Abducted Her Sister
Rushan Abbas, a Muslim Uyghur living in America, delivered remarks at the Hudson Institute in 2018 about China’s persecution of Uyghurs. Six days later, her sister was arrested by the Chinese government. “My freedom of speech in America as an American citizen, my First Amendment right, cost my own sister’s freedom,” Abbas, founder and executive…Virginia Allen -
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Europe Must Stop Dragging Its Feet and Oppose Chinese Forced Labor
British parliamentarian William Wilberforce’s legacy rests on his bold public stance against slavery. The legendary 18th- and 19th-century abolitionist stood up before the British people in the House of Commons with a message of piercing moral clarity: Whatever the cost of abolition, there is no excuse for slavery. After several years of impassioned advocacy, Wilberforce…Jordan Embree -
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How China’s Climate Agenda Threatens US
China is intentionally advancing a climate agenda for its own gain, and America is allowing it to happen, according to a senior research fellow for international affairs at The Heritage Foundation’s Asian Studies Center. China has “taken advantage of the United States, because we’ve had this very driven climate agenda,” Heritage’s Erin Walsh says. (Heritage founded…Virginia Allen