Conservatism has been wrongly declared dead by both Democrats and avid Trump supporters, but that’s a misreading of the situation both in the US and elsewhere in the world.
Major escalation of US-China trade war by both sides
Trade correspondent L.C. writes: President Trump’s threatened tariff escalation against China – announced a week ago – has now come to pass. The Section 301 tariff rate of 10% on $200 billion of US imports from China has been increased to 25%. The tariff increase went into effect for goods leaving China after 12:01 a.m. […]
Death by acronyms at the UN
The UN’s new species extinction group IPBES is an offshoot of another UN doomsday group, the IPCC Recent doomsday predictions from the United Nations claim that millions of species are about to become extinct due to human activity and global warming. The predictions come from a new UN body called the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on […]
Effect of Trump China tariff threat uncertain
Trade correspondent L.C. reports: The US-China trade talks apparently aren’t going as well as US and Chinese officials indicated after USTR Robert Lighthizer and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin held talks in Beijing last week. In a threat that took most observers by surprise, President Trump tweeted on Sunday, May 5th: For 10 months, China has […]
US Afghan diplomacy is a disgrace
The US continues to disgrace itself by negotiating with the Taliban despite repeated Taliban humiliations of both the negotiators and the US-allied Afghan government from 2013 to the present. US negotiators have acquiesced in the Taliban’s refusal to negotiate with the Afghan government, insisting that it is a US puppet. This ignores the fact that […]
