Posts Tagged ‘china’
Middle East Crumbles Around Obama’s Foreign Policy
Mike Brownfield, Heritage Foundation Thousands are dead in Syria, with more blood spilled each day. Iran is within arm’s reach of a nuclear weapon, threatening Israel’s very existence. And in Egypt, 19 Americans are banned from leaving the country, making them veritable hostages in an unfriendly land. All indications are that the Middle [...]
Preparing the Military for Future Threats
EARL H. TILFORD With breaking news of a U.S. Navy SEAL team successfully rescuing two hostages from pirates in Somalia, military pundits are quick to note how the deployment of small, elite units will fit in with President Barack Obama’s vision for modernizing the U.S. military. Yet, while small, elite units are indeed crucial to the modern [...]
Thanks to Obama, Canada Pledges to Sell Oil to Asia
NEWSROOM AMERICA STAFF Canada says it will sell crude to Asian customers, particularly China, after the Obama administration on Thursday rejected a permit filed by TransCanada Corp. to build its Keystone XL oil pipeline project. In a telephone call to President Obama, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper said "Canada will continue to work [...]
Chapter Twelve – Trouble Brewing
By Chris Clancy The presentations began in week three of the second semester I knew from past experience, that if students are told to give a presentation and then left to get on with it by themselves, the result is normally a mess. This is to be expected. A good team presentation, especially one lasting more than thirty minutes, takes time [...]
Beyond the Post-American World
CARL L. BANKSTON III In this month’s issue of Time magazine, Fareed Zakaria comments on what he calls “A Post-American World in Progress.” (1) Zakaria observes that none of the world’s rising powers, including the rapidly growing BRIC nations (Brazil, Russia, India, and China) have been able to shape international events because of [...]
Chapter Eleven – Telling An English Joke in Chinese
By Chris Clancy The second semester got off to smooth start – a good job as well - because the first half of it proved to be a very hectic affair. This was all my own doing. First degree courses in China are normally spread over four years. When students enter their third year they become “junior” students and then “seniors” in [...]
Chapter Ten – Something Completely Different
By Chris Clancy January 2006. The first semester at ZUEL finished. I was told that the department was very happy with my performance. As a reward I was given a pay rise of 500 RMB per month. I was now earning the same as I had got at DJK, but for a lot less hours. I was happy with this considering that I didn’t think my performance had [...]
Reality TV on Chinese Airwaves
By Carl Bankston III The front page of today’s New York Times carries an article on one of the most popular television shows in China, “If You Are the One” (online version, with video, here). In this Chinese version of “The Dating Game,” “the men boasted of their bank accounts, houses and fancy cars. The women were svelte and [...]
China Celebrates Outwitting Us in the WTO
By Phyllis Schlafly Communist China is this month celebrating its tenth anniversary of joining the World Trade Organization. The subtitle ought to be China's tenth anniversary of cheating the United States. The globalists talked us into supporting this cozy trade relationship with China by getting U.S. manufacturers and farmers to salivate [...]
North Korea Sealed Its Border With China
Liberty Alerts, Patrick Goodenough, CNSNews.com During the two days that passed between Kim Jong-il’s death and the official announcement, the North Korean regime reportedly took steps to prevent a chaotic response to the news, apparently fearing a mass exodus across the border with China. Announcement of the death came on Monday, at noon [...]
China’s ‘Superior’ Economic Model
Mark W. Hendrickson, The Center for Vision and Values In a recent piece for the Wall Street Journal, Andy Stern, an Obama insider and one of organized labor’s more aggressive personalities, praised what he called “China’s superior economic model.” Does China have a superior economic model? That depends: Superior to what? Mr. [...]
Chapter Nine – Not Much Beats a Good Story
By Chris Clancy Chapter Nine – Not Much Beats a Good Story Here’s a question for those of us in the West who went on to higher education. When you look back to your time at university, no matter how long ago it was, what are the first thoughts that come to mind? For most of us I doubt if it would be things like “academic [...]
Chapter Eight – “Take It Easy Chris, Just Take It Easy”
By Chris Clancy Chapter Eight – “Take It Easy Chris, Just Take It Easy” When I got the job at Zhongnan University of Economics and Law (ZUEL) there were a few things I did not fully appreciate. The first was just how prestigious the accounting department was. The second was the calibre of the students I would be teaching. And third, [...]
Debate Night
Mike Brownfield, Heritage Foundation Tonight at 8 p.m. ET, eight Republican presidential candidates will take the stage at Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C., to tell America where they stand on foreign policy and national security in a special debate hosted by The Heritage Foundation and the American Enterprise Institute, broadcast on CNN [...]
Obama Hails ‘Job-Creating’ Deals in Asia, As China Complains
Liberty Alerts, Patrick Goodenough, CNSNews.com President Obama headed home from a nine-day Asia-Pacific trip highlighting deals that he said would support nearly 130,000 American jobs, while Chinese state media complained about an ambitious trade agreement widely seen as designed to isolate China. In his weekly address, recorded in Indonesia [...]
Morning Bell: The Debate Over China
Ericka Anderson, Heritage Foundation Want to hear something disturbing? China has increased its defense budget by double digits every year for the last 20 years. Just as China seems to be gearing up for some undefined enterprise, the U.S. is winding down its defense budget at a similarly rapid pace. Despite the obvious contrast, President Obama [...]
Let’s Talk About Jobs
By Phyllis Schlafly We watched a couple more TV presidential candidate debates and, funny thing, again there was little or no mention of what is widely conceded to be the number-one issue: jobs. The unemployment figures remain unacceptably high, and the figures for young people are truly shocking. The general unemployment rate has been 9 [...]
Kill the Law of the Sea Treaty — Again
By Phyllis Schlafly One of the first things Ronald Reagan did when he entered the White House in 1981 was to reject the Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST), which had been laboriously negotiated by our State Department and made ready for the President's signature. Reagan said, No way. He clearly saw that the Treaty was a bad deal for the United [...]
China Sells Us a Trojan Horse
By Phyllis Schlafly Yesterday, we were talking about the threat from Chinese counterfeit microchips that the Pentagon buys and puts into our planes and military equipment. The fact that the Chinese are deliberately selling us counterfeit chips is really not news to those in the know. It has been known for so many years that it has acquired a [...]
Foreigners Are Not “The Best and the Brightest”
By Phyllis Schlafly The globalists have been promoting the peculiar notion that we should import foreign students, award them advanced college degrees, and then give them a green card so they can legally remain in the United States and get good engineering jobs. It's a ridiculous idea that our great country of 300 million people must look to [...]
U.S. Citizenship Should Not Be For Sale
By Phyllis Schlafly Outsourcing is not the only way we are losing American jobs to Communist China. The Chinese have figured out how to capture jobs inside the U.S. by using our EB-5 visas; that stands for employment-based, fifth priority. Most Americans have never heard of that visa, but the Chinese are now planning to use it to build and run [...]
Cut Loose at Fifty — Chapter Seven
By Chris Clancy Chapter Seven – The Calm Before the Storm I arrived in Wuhan in the first week of July 2005. The FAO met me and brought me to the place which would be my home for the next year. It was in a hotel on the campus. Two rooms had been joined into one to make a self contained flat which was very clean and comfortable – [...]
Wheat, Bread, Noodles and Global Competition
By Alan Caruba My late Mother used to bake her own breads, along with cookies, cakes, and pies. I miss the taste of freshly baked bread and I miss the aroma that floated from the kitchen to the rest of the house. The author of several cookbooks, she knew a lot about the history of foods. Much of history was shaped by the development of [...]
Candidates Should Be Talking About China
By Phyllis Schlafly The media are absorbed with the race for the Republican presidential nomination and predicting who will win. But why are they omitting discussion of the elephant in the room--I mean China? When Donald Trump briefly considered running for President, his straight talk about China helped him rise to the top of the Republican [...]
Communist China Is a U.S. Jobs Killer
By Phyllis Schlafly Communist China is a killer of U.S. jobs, not only from U.S. outsourcing but also by taking thousands of construction jobs right here in the U.S.A. China will soon finish rebuilding the great San Francisco-Oakland Bay bridge damaged in the 1989 earthquake. A Chinese company built the construction machinery and the bridge [...]
Buying Counterfeit Chips from China
By Phyllis Schlafly It's a problem for U.S. retailers when Communist China makes fake designer handbags and illegal copies of our music CDs, but it's a much bigger problem when the fakes are chips installed in our military weapons. The American people are starting to discover that counterfeit computer components bought from the Chinese are used [...]
U.S. Ambassador Slams Russia, China for ‘Defending Dictators on the Warpath’
Liberty Alerts, Patrick Goodenough, CNSNews.com A frustrated U.S. ambassador to the United Nations accused some Security Council members Tuesday evening of going “to whatever lengths are necessary to defend dictators who are on the warpath,” after Russia and China cast a rare double veto to shoot down a resolution condemning Syrian [...]
China Is Invading Idaho
By Phyllis Schlafly A plan is in the works to make Idaho the first Chinese-owned state in the United States. This plan is called Project 60. It is part of the globalization of America. Project 60 uses a federal program that grants permanent residency to foreign nationals and gives special tax exemptions to foreign firms that move to the United [...]
U.S. Citizenship Should Not Be for Sale
By Phyllis Schlafly Outsourcing is not the only way we are losing American jobs to Communist China. The Chinese have figured out how to capture jobs inside the U.S. by using our EB-5 visas (employment-based, fifth priority). Most Americans have never heard of this visa, but the Chinese are now planning to use it to build and run a casino [...]
Cut Loose at Fifty: Goodbye DJK
By Chris Clancy China Series: Chapter 6 Someone once said to me that when an employee starts thinking about his pension, he’s had it. He might as well hold up his hands and say, “I surrender.” There’s a lot of truth in this. I remember reaching this point, back in the UK, when I was one year off my fiftieth birthday. [...]
China is Blocking America’s Economic Recovery
By Alan Caruba Americans of the generation that fought World War II and lived through the next fifty years of the Cold War never lost sight of the fact that the Soviet Union was Communist and therefore lacking anything resembling the moral values of our nation or the West. Why then do a more recent generations ignore the fact that Red China is [...]
Cut Loose at Fifty: Spring Festival
By Chris Clancy China Series: Chapter 5 My first semester in China drew to a close. I went to see the Foreign Affairs Officer (the FAO). I asked him if he could give me a bit more variety in the second semester – I really didn’t want to spend another one doing nothing but repeat lessons. He said he’d see what he could do and then [...]
Romney Pledges to ‘Clamp Down’ on Unfair Trade by China
Liberty Alerts, Fred Lucas, CNSNews.com Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney warned China that if he is in the White House, there will be consequences for unfair trade, as he would “clamp down on the cheaters and China is the worst example.” Romney affirmed his commitment to expanding free trade, but asserted that China was [...]
China Plans to Legalize Disappearances
By Dennis Behreandt The extrajudicial disappearance of Ai WeiWei, China's most famous artist and architect, reminded the world that the Chinese communist police state apparatus is alive and well. As a result, it brought intense international criticism down on the regime in Beijing. Ultimately, Ai WeiWei was released. But instead of reforming [...]
Candidates Should Be Talking About China
By Phyllis Schlafly The media are absorbed with the race for the Republican presidential nomination, commenting on daily fluctuations in the polls, and predicting who will win. But why are they omitting discussion of the elephant in the room — China? When Donald Trump briefly considered running for President, his straight talk about China [...]
Cut Loose at Fifty: Part 4
By Chris Clancy Chapter Four – The Girl in the Garden There are many reasons for coming to teach in China. Money, however, is not one of them. Given the conversion rate between RMB and other currencies there’s little point in saving your earnings unless you intend to stay here. Most foreign teachers only stay for one year and just [...]
Cut Loose at Fifty: Part 3
By Chris Clancy Chapter Three – Three Weeks in and One Day Out! September 2004. Hubei Province. China. Three weeks in. I was sitting in the back of a van with the other foreign teachers – in total there were six of us in Dan Jiang Kou (DJK) that year. Three had already worked in China before coming to DJK. The first was an American [...]
Cut Loose at Fifty: Part 2
By Chris Clancy Chapter Two – Getting On With It There are good starts, bad starts and great starts. A bad start may be difficult to recover from. A great one usually has to stay great. Therefore, of the three, "good" is probably the best. My start in China was good…ish. Coming here to live and work had never entered my head six [...]
China Opens Oil Field in Iraq
By Phyllis Schlafly The United States waged an incredibly expensive war in Iraq, got rid of their cruel dictator, set up a peaceful democratic government, and rebuilt much of the country's infrastructure. Iraq has the second largest supply of oil in the world, and the spoils of war should belong to us. We should take enough Iraqi oil to [...]
China Threatening U.S. Space Superiority
Mike Brownfield, Heritage Foundation Yesterday in New York City, NASA’s last space shuttle astronauts visited a World War II aircraft carrier-turned-museum docked on the west side of Manhattan. The carrier is one of four museums where retired NASA shuttles will go to rest now that the historic shuttle program has ended. But as NASA sends [...]
‘No More Important Relationship’ Than That With China, Biden Says
Liberty Alerts, Fred Lucas, CNSNews.com Vice President Joseph Biden kicked off a five-day visit to China Thursday by exchanging warm words with his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, the man expected to lead the ruling communist party next year and then assume the presidency in 2013. Ahead of the meeting, Xi hosted a welcome ceremony at [...]
Are You Eating Dangerous Foods?
By Phyllis Schlafly I was shocked to read a article in the New York Times stating that nearly two-thirds of the fruits and vegetables and 80% of the seafood eaten in the United States now come from other countries. Half of the medical devices and 80% of the active ingredients in U.S. medications come from outside our country, often or usually [...]
Governors: Stop Partnering With Communist China’s State-Owned Corporations
Liberty Alerts, JBS.Org Many U.S. governors are actively seeking to attract investment money from China’s state-owned corporations. In some cases they are using taxpayer-paid incentives to sweeten the deal. In order to expedite such investments, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton signed a Memorandum of Understanding with her counterpart from [...]
Governors: No Partnership with Communist China!
Liberty Alerts, JBS.Org Freedom Campaign It doesn't make sense. Our economy is a shambles because our industry has been driven to China by high taxes and myriad regulations. As a result China has accumulated hundreds and hundreds of billions of dollars by selling us products that we formerly made. Now Communist-Chinese-run corporations are [...]
Cut Loose at Fifty
By Chris Clancy It was May 1st 1976 – I was at university. To kick the May Day festivities off the student union organized a three-legged pub crawl. A map was provided detailing ten pubs – the last being a student bar in one of the Halls of Residence. The rules were that every male must drink one pint of beer at each pit-stop. Females [...]
Standoff Shows How U.N. Security Council Could Undermine The U.S.
Liberty Alerts, Patrick Goodenough, CNSNews.com A European-led initiative to secure U.N. Security Council condemnation of Syria is faltering, as opposition from Russia and China is bolstered by the stance of three emerging powers that want permanent seats on the Security Council. Brazil, India and South Africa are not convinced of the [...]
Who Will Answer the Jobs Question?
By Phyllis Schlafly Public opinion polls show that all the Republican presidential hopefuls are clustered in single- or teen-digit approval ratings. It should be no mystery why no one is breaking out of the pack: no one has answered the number-one political question. That question can be asked in several different ways. Why did millions [...]
Three of ‘World’s Worst’ Regimes Sit on U.N. Human Rights Council
Liberty Alerts, Patrick Goodenough, CNSNews.com Three of the world’s 17 most repressive regimes, as identified in a new report released this week, have been members of the United Nations’ Human Rights Council since its inception and have never been censured by that body. China, Cuba and Saudi Arabia have never been the subject of a [...]
U.S. EPA Gave $1.29 Million to China
Liberty Alerts, Fred Lucas, CNSNews.com The Environmental Protection Agency has given at least $1,285,535 in grants to China to promote environmental research in the country. In all, the EPA issued six grants that went to China, most of which pertained to researching methane in Chinese coal mines and reducing carbon emissions in China, a [...]
China: A Serious Crisis Between State and Church That is Still Unfolding
By Jennifer Marshall, Heritage Foundation Nineteen Chinese pastors have joined together to send a remarkable petition to the National People’s Congress on behalf of one of Beijing’s largest underground churches. The Shouwang church is the most recent target of Communist authorities’ crackdown on the unauthorized house church movement [...]
