Why are Muslim and Buddhist countries allies of an atheist China that murders their co-religionists? Key Muslim-majority countries allied with China include Pakistan, Iran, Syria, and Turkey. Yet Chinese persecution of its Uighur Muslim population in Xinjiang is disgraceful and extreme. Key Buddhist-majority countries allied with China include Cambodia, Laos, and Myanmar. But China’s persecutions […]
Google’s blatant bias shown in search engine comparison
Many readers have doubtless noticed bias in results returned by Google’s search engine when the topic is political. Today our editor decided to do a controlled experiment. He entered the following search string in each of the leading search engines: China “Cold War” “trade war” Founders By the very specific nature of the search string, […]
What to do about China as an existential threat to the US and other free nations?
China within a matter of years will pose an existential military threat to the United States. At 1.34 billion inhabitants, it is four times larger in population than the US with its 311 million. Once a nation industrializes, a greater population means greater wealth and power rather than just too many hungry mouths to feed. […]
President Trump’s Best of Weeks, Worst of Weeks
It was President Trump’s best of weeks and his worst of weeks. It was his best of weeks in that The President instantly won the hearts of conservative Republicans by pardoning Scooter Libby, the innocent casualty of a previous lawless Special Counsel, Lawrence Walsh. President George W. Bush should have pardoned Libby but didn’t; The […]
Europe’s troubles, Putin’s hope, a justifiable Trump tariff intervention
We’ve been hard on the Trump administration’s steel and aluminum tariffs, which were supposed to hit the primary troublemaker, China, but instead are threatening US allies. But one move by the administration is justifiable and consistent with the administration’s otherwise shaky claim that the steel and aluminum tariffs are defense related. In the face of […]
