by FRANCES MARTEL at breitbart.com Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, who debuted as Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign running mate on Tuesday, reportedly chose to get married on the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre and honeymooned in communist China. Walz had a long history of educational work in China before entering American politics. Local media […]
by Mandy Zuo at scmp.com In the decades following China’s opening up and reform, industrial parks flourished across the Yangtze River Delta. Foreign investment poured into the nation’s biggest port city, Shanghai, and overflowed into the surrounding areas. Eyeing opportunities in China’s huge market, multinationals with a presence in these parks were often lured by […]
by Thomas Buckley at californiaglobe.com The past few weeks have not been good for Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascon. One of his top deputies, Assistant District Attorney Diana Teran, was arrested and charged with 11 felonies by the state Attorney General’s Office and he was accused of dropping charges against an election information […]
via money.whatfinger.com Rep. Dan Newhouse, R-Wash., joins ‘The Bottom Line’ to discuss growing concerns over illegal weed farms in the United States with reported ties to China.
by TYLER DURDEN at zerohedge.com Perhaps the world’s most influential banker – JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon – warned the world in his annual letter to shareholders that while he expects US economic resilience (and higher inflation and interest rates), and is optimistic about transformational opportunities from AI, he worries geopolitical events including the war in Ukraine and […]
by Eric Worrall at wattsupwiththat.com China is apparently doing such a good job at transitioning to renewables, we should all ditch democracy and copy their example. Capitalism Can’t Solve Climate Change BY BRETT CHRISTOPHERSMARCH 20, 2024 9:00 AM EDT Christophers is professor at Uppsala University in Sweden, and author The Price Is Wrong: Why Capitalism Won’t Save […]
via zerohedge.com The grind of heavy machinery breaks the silence of the Darién jungle, where the Pan American Highway ends at Yaviza in Panama. Construction workers have cleared towering trees to make way for a steel and concrete bridge mighty enough to withstand flooding from the Chucunaque River. An onsite worker for the construction company […]
by Antonio Graceffo at thegatewaypundit.com Rebuilding the US industrial base is not only crucial for national security in preparation for potential conflict with China but will also help stave off socialism by creating good-paying jobs for the working class. Increasing domestic production is a better choice than socialist solutions such as forcing a higher minimum […]
by TYLER DURDEN at zerohedge.com Color us not surprised, but another one of the Biden administration’s “visions” for forcing people to own electric vehicles isn’t working out exactly as planned. This time it deals with supply chain logistics, with Bloomberg reporting this week that in the year and a half since passing the Inflation Reduction Act, automakers are finding out […]
by Liam Knox at insidehighered.com Portland State University isn’t the type of institution one would expect to have much name recognition outside Oregon, let alone thousands of miles across the Pacific. Yet a few years ago, the mostly local-serving public university began attracting an unusually large number of international applicants, primarily from India and Bangladesh. […]