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Preemptive Request: Zero Government Bailouts for AI Fails, Please

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The US’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) self-feeding frenzy is still…frenzy-ing.

Except everything about it seems fake.

The US’s Large Language Model (LLM) version of AI seems to be (at least) years away from the promises being made to feed the frenzy.

Which can be seen as a partially good thing – since no one has any idea what to do with the hundreds of millions of humans they tell us US AI will un-employ.

The Importance Of Taiwan, And Why The United States Cannot Back Down by John Sullivan

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On April 17th 1895, the Qing dynasty of China signed the treaty of Shimonoseki with the Empire of Japan. In doing so the Qing dynasty was forced to recognize the independence of Korea. They also gave control of Taiwan, the Pescadores islands, and the Liaodong peninsula to Japan. Following this, the Qing dynasty fell into …

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Comparing Revolutions: Xi Jinping versus Mao Zedong

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Xi Jinping is orchestrating a deliberate, decade-long, multi-domain campaign of ideological and political reconsolidation that draws conscious inspiration from Mao Zedong’s methods while adapting them to a modern surveillance state. The comparison is imperfect but illuminating, and the trend lines are unmistakably moving in one direction — tighter, deeper, and more permanent — while obfuscating its harsh effects on the victims from scrutiny.

What a trillion dollars buys: The absolute worst foreign policy was opening trade to Red China

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I may be the only person left in the world to call the land Red China, but that does not make me wrong. Chairman Xi runs the joint and he is the president of the Chinese Communist Party—the largest political party in the world.

The Kuomintang Follows the Mensheviks into Oblivion: This is how accommodating the CCP ends

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Friends of Taiwan continue to be alarmed by the antics of the Kuomintang (KMT) leadership. The latest flare was the visit to China by KMT leader Cheng Li-wun, as reported by AP News.

Perhaps the KMT in their continuing drift toward accommodation with the CCP are ignoring the history of (and fate) of other accommodationist political parties like Russia’s Mensheviks did a hundred years ago.

Chinese Nuclear and Missile Proliferation Exposed: The official Chinese support for nuclear nonproliferation is bogus

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The Congressional Research Service has tracked Chinese nuclear and missile proliferation concerns across multiple decades and report iterations. The six editions examined here span from May 2021 through May 2026. Taken together, they reveal a consistent underlying pattern — Chinese government-level transfers have largely ended, but a persistent, arguably worsening problem of Chinese entity-level proliferation continues unabated — while the diplomatic and rhetorical framing around that problem has shifted considerably over time.

Chinese Law with CCP Characteristics The Party decides guilt or innocence

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Every once in a while, Chinese leader Xi Jinping makes a grand announcement that makes a person laugh out loud. His statement on 18 November of last year was one such event, as parroted by state-run China Daily: “President Xi Jinping has called for upholding the unity between Party leadership, the running of the country by the people and law-based governance, and making concerted efforts to break new ground in advancing the rule of law in China.”

Oil Falls Below $80 For First Time in More Than Three Months

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Brent oil fell below $80 a barrel for the first time in more than three months as the US-Iran deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz boosted expectations for a revival in supply, with leading Wall Street banks reducing their price forecasts and regional benchmarks collapsing. Gasoline prices are also falling. Bloomberg Mike McGlone joins to discuss.

Communist China Has Hollowed Out the UN: Decades of successful CCP subterfuge

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The United Nations was chartered in 1945 as a creation of American strategic vision – a Pax Americana scaffolding dressed in multilateral language that was intended to be a cornerstone of the American-made international order shaped after World War II. That calculus has been fundamentally altered over time. The institution has been methodically infiltrated, staffed, and redirected by the Chinese Communist Party over the past 25+ years, transforming the UN from a tool America shaped into a platform Beijing increasingly controls – and paid for in large part by the American taxpayer.

STRIKING: Congressman says Iran is operating in Cuba #shorts

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Rep. Carlos Gimenez, R-Fla., joins ‘Mornings with Maria’ to discuss Cuba’s reported drone capabilities, concerns about foreign adversaries operating on the island and his outlook on the future of the Cuban regime.

Dragon-proof American Foreign Policy Forged in Fire, Burns China

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President Trump’s dragon-proof foreign policy systematically targets and reverses Xi Jinping-era Chinese geopolitical and economic gains. It combines economic pressure, targeted regime disruptions, military actions, and hemispheric reassertion to erode China’s influence in key regions, disrupt cheap resource flows, undermine proxy networks, and reassert US dominance. This directly counters Xi’s narrative of inevitable US decline and multipolar “Global South” realignment, and that private meeting between Xi and President Trump in Beijing must have been a doozy!