Last week it became clear that a new bill which would force China to sell off TikTok was making its way through the House. TikTok responded by asking users to call their members of congress. That resulted in some interesting calls including users who called up and threated to commit suicide if TikTok was banned […]
A bipartisan bill introduced by the GOP chair of the House China committee and the Democratic ranking member of the committee would force China’s ByteDance to sell off TikTok or face having it banned in app stores in the US. The bill, dubbed the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act, creates a process […]
Image Credit: capitol.tn.gov The Tennessee Conservative Staff – Legislation that would prohibit Tennessee from having a business relationships with foreign adversaries of the United States failed in the House Public Service Subcommittee on Tuesday by voice vote led by Republican Chair Iris Rudder. House Bill 1841 (HB1841) was sponsored by State Representative John Ragan (R-Oak […]
China’s National People’s Congress opened today. This is supposed to be the moment where the government reveals big plans for the coming year. But there were no big surprises this year. Officials are targeting a growth rate of 5% again this year, a figure which some economists think is overly optimistic. Officials signaled that they […]
“These guys have got to stop this stuff.” That’s what President Joe Biden told reporters on Friday. The “guys” he was referring to are Speaker Johnson, James Comer, and the rest of the House Republicans currently investigating the trail of apparent corruption left in the wake of his son Hunter, his brother James, and the […]
Last year, soon after the end of zero-COVID measures, China expanded a counter-espionage law making it more vague and therefore more of a threat to any company or individual who falls under suspicion. Here’s what CNN reported about the new law last April: The new language in the amendment suggests “any organization and anyone can […]
Last week, First Brother James Biden gave testimony as part of an impeachment inquiry about his financial dealings with China and also with his brother Joe Biden. The NY Post reports that during that testimony, James Biden admitted that the money he used to repay a loan from Joe came to him as part of […]
Nicolas Wade is the former NY Times science writer who has become a major proponent of the lab leak theory. Back in May 2021 he wrote a lengthy post on Medium in which he argued that the lab leak theory was plausible despite efforts to brand it a conspiracy theory. As Wade saw it at […]
Do journalists have a constitutional right to keep sources confidential? That question sits at the heart of a dispute over a Fox News report from Catherine Herridge seven years ago. Herridge, who recently got unceremoniously and strangely terminated by CBS News in the Paramount Minus downsizing, used a confidential source within federal law enforcement to […]
A pair of Chinese scientists who worked in a Canadian biological laboratory were marched out of the lab in 2019 and fired in 2021. The pair, who are married, claimed they were being targeted because they are Chinese but an investigations by Canada’s intelligence agency found they were sharing information with China including at one […]
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