Taiwan is the fortress island dominating the sea passage between the South and East China Seas, the linchpin of the first island chain of US allies that blocks the Chinese navy from dominating Asia’s coastal nations from Japan and South Korea down to Indonesia and Australia and westward past Singapore and India to the Persian […]
White House debates what to do about China
The weekly trade report with L.C. A White House decision to blame China for the COVID-19 pandemic, together with ongoing discussions as to how to punish Beijing economically, have now become public knowledge. Both President Trump and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo now say that the virus likely emerged from a Wuhan bioscience lab. China […]
Repudiate debt to China
by Richard Schulman Founders Broadsheet seems to have been the first publication worldwide to call for holding China financially liable for the worldwide destruction of lives, employment, and wealth caused by the Wuhan virus. The response by some to that call was disbelief and ridicule. “Just try and collect it!”, “Sovereign nations can’t be sued”, […]
Hold China liable for worldwide coronavirus costs
by Richard Schulman Courts on all six continents should be holding the government of China liable for worldwide coronavirus costs. For over a month, the totalitarian Communist government concealed the existence of a dangerous epidemic threat and threatened or jailed those of its doctors and citizens attempting to warn of its existence. “[T]he spread of […]
China’s phony data and treaty unreliability
The weekly trade report — by Trade Correspondent L.C. One of the few growth industries in China now are the private start-ups selling accurate reports on the Chinese economy to business customers. The government reports have been found useless for business planning. Today’s Wall Street Journal gives front page coverage to how the Chinese Communist […]