President Biden hosted the country’s governors at the White House Friday. Last week, the National Governors Association (NGA) Winter Meeting was held in Washington, D.C.. It is traditional for the president to invite them to the White House. The governors also met with Kamala Harris, cabinet members, and senior White House advisers. Governors of about […]
Last weekend Sen. J.D. Vance gave a speech at the Munich Security Conference in which he made the case for negotiating an end to the war in Ukraine. But his argument went beyond that. In fact, the main point he was trying to make was that America needed to pivot from a focus on Europe […]
This week someone claiming to be a whistleblower leaked a large cache of documents on GitHub outlining the operations of one particular hacking company in China. The company is called I-Soon and it’s apparently just one of many “patriotic hacking” companies that have sprung up over the past couple decades. Patriotic in this case means […]
FDI or Foreign Direct Investment in China hit a 30-year low last year. China’s direct investment liabilities in its balance of payments stood at $33 billion last year, according to data from the State Administration of Foreign Exchange released Sunday. That measure of new foreign investment into the country — which records monetary flows connected […]
I’m pretty sure you think, “Oh, here comes a lecture about Democrats and the War on Poverty.” You’re safe – I’ll be sparing you that. Instead, it’s a look at what China’s done to themselves. Their current tenuous state of affairs started with worries about overpopulation – and they have never been able to feed […]
China’s troubled property market continues to get a lot of the headlines but China’s stock market is also in terrible shape right now. The total losses since 2021 are roughly $7 trillion dollars. While U.S. stocks have been soaring, Chinese shares have been on a seemingly interminable downward slide. China’s benchmark CSI 300 index is […]
Image Credit: capitol.tn.gov The Center Square [By Jon Styf] – A bill adding tax credits for research and development from energy and tech companies along with banning tax credits and incentives for countries of concern passed the Tennessee House Government Operations Committee on Monday. A fiscal note on House Bill 1843 noted it would cost […]
The news coming out of China’s economy continues to be a very mixed bag. Officially the country met its 5% growth target last year, but Evergrande is on the verge of liquidation, the stock market is down, foreign investment is down and the PMI numbers for January also show factory activity is still contracting. China’s […]
Is Xi Jinping preparing to endorse Nikki Haley? Or perhaps RFK Jr.? It’s not that any of us should really care what an adversarial foreign power thinks about American elections, but the Chinese Communist Party is clearly not a fan of either the current administration or the potential return of Donald Trump for a second […]
Evergrande was once China’s top real estate developer, but ever since it defaulted on loans in 2021 the company has been in a kind of slow-motion collapse. With more than $300 billion in debts and contractors who hadn’t been paid, there seemed to be no way for the company to recover. The central problem at […]
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