China: Benign Player or Global Threat?
China has a large, global presence that they use to enable a mercantilist strategy. They control key ports throughout the world and use their corporations to buy foreign assets that enable this strategy.
Citizen Writers Fighting Censorship by Helping Americans Understand Issues Affecting the Republic.
China has a large, global presence that they use to enable a mercantilist strategy. They control key ports throughout the world and use their corporations to buy foreign assets that enable this strategy.
A woman in a hot air balloon realized she was lost. She lowered her altitude and spotted a man in a boat below. She shouted to him: “Excuse me, can you help me? I promised a friend I would meet him an hour ago, but I don’t know where I am.” The man consulted his portable GPS …
Biden: A Whole of Government Disgrace This week several polls indicated that only 39% of the population approved of President Biden’s performance. He pushed through the $1.5 TRILLION leftist pork spending bill that has helped fuel record inflation. Biden proudly proclaims that on his first day in office he signed a bunch of executive orders …
The Biden administration has decided to push the price of appliances up even more than inflation already has.
Part VI, Part VII, Part VIII, and Part IX of this multi-part series discussed the first four increments of the second tier geopolitical and economic goals and objectives of the Chinese Communist Party. This part summarizes a fifth portion of those goals and objectives. Introduction The Chinese Communists (ChiComs) are pursuing strategic initiatives aimed at …
Part VI, Part VII, and Part VIII of this multi-part series discussed the first three increments of the second tier geopolitical and economic goals and objectives of the Chinese Communist Party. This part summarizes a fourth portion of those goals and objectives.
Our government is incapable of mobilizing private industry to solve problems, because it is inhabited by people who see government as the solution to every problem.
Part VI, Part VII, Part VIII, Part IX, Part X, Part XI, and Part XII of this multi-part series discussed the first six increments of the second tier geopolitical and economic goals and objectives of the Chinese Communist Party. This part summarizes an eighth portion of those goals and objectives. Introduction The Chinese Communists (ChiComs) are pursuing strategic initiatives aimed at achieve …
Part VI of this multi-part series discussed the first increment of the second tier geopolitical and economic goals and objectives of the Chinese Communist Party. This part summarizes a second increment of those goals and objectives Introduction The ChiComs seek to become a technologically-advanced leading manufacturing power by the centennial celebration of the founding of …
They hate America. Seriously, how else to explain the latest White House tsunami of bad policies and outcomes emanating from the penumbra of socialist dogma crowding out common sense?
Part V of this multi-part series discussed the Made in China 2025 initiative whose goal is to modernize the Chinese industrial base – and ultimately the People’s Liberation Army – through the infusion/exploitation/theft/transfer of advanced technologies into the Chinese economy. The ChiComs seek to become a technologically-advanced leading manufacturing power by the centennial celebration of …
Part IV of this multi-part series on Communist China covered three components of the overarching Belt and Road Initiative, also called the One Belt One Road initiative: 21st Century Maritime Silk Road, Digital Silk Road, and Arctic Silk Road. This part covers a mutually supportive economic initiative: Made in China 2025. The initiative was announced …
Xi Jinping became the “paramount” Communist Chinese leader in 2012-2013
Due to taking Staff Sergeant Pico to her reassigned Army Reserve unit in advance of her deployment to Kuwait, Mrs Pico and I spent a few days in William Teach’s home state of North Carolina. When we fueled up in Kentucky, last Tuesday, before leaving, gasoline was $3.779. Naturally, I noticed that gasoline prices were …
Everybody from Chuck Schumer to AOC and the squad are demanding Joe Biden declare some form of student loan forgiveness, to buy up to 40 million votes – with taxpayers picking up the tab.
This is the second part of a 5-part series exploring the tactical planning that the Republican party should be doing going into the next two elections.
We just saw the first sign of actual, “Oh my god this is bad” cold-sweat panic from the White House.
Confucius was a pretty smart guy. His comment on revenge is spot on. We see it playing out now with the social justice movement. For many in Black Lives Matter (BLM) and other social justice organizations, the social justice movement is perhaps more about revenge than it is about justice.
No matter how much you try to manipulate people, they will work to avoid it.
Forgiving Student Loans is a Really Bad Idea John R. “Buck” Surdu and Dan Davis This week the Leftists and other purveyors of victimhood are at it again, arguing that student loans should be forgiven and abrogated. John Stossel produced an excellent video on this subject. These eighteen-year-olds, supposedly adults, signed a piece of paper …