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Stop Trying to ‘Contain’ China

Jeremy Powell Jeremy Powell is a blogger on Substack. His X (formerly Twitter) handle is @jpowell145. mises.org It was a laughable moment when President Joe Biden said at a press conference during his visit to Hanoi that the United States wasn’t seeking to contain China. Despite efforts by

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Why Are We Provoking Wars?

Michael My name is Michael and my brand new book entitled End Times is now available on Amazon.com. In addition to my new book I have written six other books that are available on Amazon.com, including 7 Year Apocalypse, Lost Prophecies Of The Future Of America, The Beginning

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Will the BRICS Dethrone the US Dollar?

Daniel Lacalle Daniel Lacalle, PhD, economist and fund manager, is the author of the bestselling books Freedom or Equality (2020), Escape from the Central Bank Trap (2017), The Energy World Is Flat? (2015), and Life in the Financial Markets (2014). mises.org The summit of the so-called BRICS (Brazil, Russia,

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China Is Going Down the Gurgler

China Is Going Down the Gurgler

The Chinese economy is on the skids. Then again, it’s always been on the skids. Country Garden’s dollar debt payments on Monday and Beijing’s new efforts to help China’s beleaguered real estate sector appear to have spurred some newfound hope in the country’s financial markets.

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‘I Almost Lost My Will to Live’

Chih-Ling Liu Lancaster University theconversation.com China has a gender crisis. The country has a huge surplus of men – around 722 million compared to 690 million women in 2022. This is largely because of sex-selective abortions linked to China’s one-child policy, which ended in 2015. Though popular belief is

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British Report Endorses Taiwan as “Independent Country”

In a move that will almost certainly enrage the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) – which is to say, it’s the right thing to do – a UK government report has explicitly referred to Taiwan as “an independent country”. This is a bold move: the CCP is adamant that the independent island

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Are the Crazy Pills Wearing Off?

Are the Crazy Pills Wearing Off?

Sometimes I know just how Mugatu felt. Jacobim Mugatu is the fashion-designer villain of the 2001 comedy, Zoolander. When everyone else swoons over male model Derek Zoolander’s range of “looks”, Mugatu finally screams in disbelief. They’re the same face! Doesn’t anybody notice this? I feel like I’

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In 5 Years, China’s Birth Rate Has Plunged 40%

In 5 Years, China’s Birth Rate Has Plunged 40%

Louis T. March Louis T. March has a background in government, business and philanthropy. A former talk show host, author and public speaker, he is a dedicated student of history and genealogy. Louis lives with his family in the beautiful Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. mercatornet.com China is in big

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China Is Creaming the EV Market

Duggan Flanakin Duggan Flanakin is a Senior Policy Analyst with the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow. A former Senior Fellow with the Texas Public Policy Foundation, Mr Flanakin authored definitive works on the creation of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality and on environmental education in Texas. cfact.org According

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A Devil’s Dilemma: BlackRock or the CCP?

A Devil’s Dilemma: BlackRock or the CCP?

Yesterday saw a very interesting spectacle, the Government launching a new climate infrastructure fund, introduced by the crown solicitor in Auckland, Meredith Connell, and in partnership with BlackRock. One of the world’s largest investment companies has committed $2 billion to a fund focused on making New Zealand the first

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The West’s Fossil Fuel Aims Empower China

Don Ritter Don Ritter holds a Science Doctorate from MIT and served fourteen years on the House of Representatives Energy and Commerce and Science and Technology Committees. He was a National Academy of Sciences Fellow in the USSR, speaks fluent Russian, and was Ranking Member on the Congressional Helsinki Commission

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Should China Fund NZ’s Essential Infrastructure?

The major political parties agree on the importance of allocating funding to fixing substandard roads and developing new roading infrastructure. In 2017 the Ardern Government signed a “memorandum of arrangement” to develop a work plan for China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) within 18 months; and in 2023 the

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Luxon Says the Quiet Bit Out Loud

Luxon Says the Quiet Bit Out Loud

I’ve always suspected that Luxon was a Sinophile, just like his pal John Key. Yesterday he proved it without a shadow of a doubt by enthusiastically saying he’d take CCP cash to fund roads. National Party leader Christopher Luxon has said the party would “absolutely” accept Chinese money

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Staggering Towards the Abyss

William Schryver ronpaulinstitute.org I have long asserted, and I continue to be convinced, that the US could NOT establish air superiority against Russia, China, nor even Iran — not in a week; not in a year. Never. It simply could not be done. American air power would prove substantially inferior

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I Love America, but …

Don Brash bassettbrashandhide.com I love the United States. I travelled across the US by car when I was a 19-year-old, and lived in Washington, DC, for five years. On returning to New Zealand, I was the chief executive of an investment bank, partly owned by Wells Fargo Bank, a

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They Learned Nothing from the past Three Years

They Learned Nothing from the past Three Years

Australia’s elite class really learned nothing from the pandemic years – least of all about China. Whether or not China engineered the virus, and whether or not it was deliberately released or leaked, the fact that China’s months of lies and cover-ups meant that the pandemic was far worse

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