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NATIONAL SECURITY & UNITED NATIONS
BlackRock Promotes Chinese Investments While Punishing American Companies
Free Enterprise Project Calls BlackRock’s ESG Push Highly Hypocritical as the Asset Manager Pushes Risky Chinese Investments Already Under Fire From the U.S. Senate Washington, D.C. – The BlackRock annual shareholder meeting today brought to a head pressing issues that the Free Enterprise Project (FEP) has been highlighting for months: ...
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Ten Questions About China for BlackRock CEO Larry Fink
With so many of this year’s corporate shareholder meetings being held virtually, CEOs are using this new separation between themselves and their investors to dodge tough questions they usually can’t escape at traditional in-person events. Many of the questions submitted during online shareholder meetings this year by the National Center’s ...
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Coalition Asks Feds to Act Against Risky Chinese Investment
Building on steps already taken by the Trump Administration to remove federal and military pension plans from the risks inherent in being invested in state-controlled Chinese companies, the National Center has signed onto a coalition letter asking for such restrictions to be applied more broadly to protect American capital markets ...
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COVID-19 Aid to Africa Helps Counter Terrorist, Chinese Threats
Besides the threat to the economy and civil liberties domestically, the COVID-19 pandemic’s worldwide implications should also have the United States on alert and working right now on the looming threat of resurgent terrorism. In a RedState-published commentary, Project 21 member Christopher Arps suggests that the U.S. should be helping ...
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Course Correcting After COVID-19: Fear Must Never Again Be Used to Deprive Americans of Their Liberty
Freedom Group Releases Blueprint for Restoring Liberty and Restarting the Economy Safely Washington, D.C. – "Certain, measurable harm was imposed on our civil liberties, on our economy and on our health so we could reduce the less certain public health risks of COVID-19" and this must never happen again, says ...
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President Trump Needs to Hold China Accountable for COVID-19
Conservative movement leaders, including our own Justin Danhof, have signed a letter urging the Trump administration to hold the Chinese government accountable for its complicity in the worldwide spread of the COVID-19 virus, a pandemic that has costs hundreds of thousands of lives and trillions of dollars of economic damage ...
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More Scrutiny of Chinese Influence Needed
Asked “what do we have to do differently” regarding China policy, Project 21 Co-Chairman Horace Cooper told former Trump Administration official Sebastian Gorka that there needs to be a lot more oversight of Chinese activities in the United States. From investment in our infrastructure to propagandizing in schools, the government ...
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MSCI Risks Losing Federal Employee Assets by Funding Chinese Government Enterprises
Free Enterprise Project Urges Finance Giant to Remove Companies With Chinese Government Ties From Its Indexes Washington, D.C. – MSCI CEO Henry A. Fernandez indicated at the company’s annual shareholder meeting today that the company has no plans to even consider adjusting its global investment indexes to exclude Chinese government-involved ...
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COVID Will Pose a Fresh Threat That We Must Face—The Terrorist Threat, by Christopher Arps
Grim news reports have begun to emerge from the Middle East. Yes, they refer to the same topic that dominates the headlines in the US: the spread of COVID-19. But these headlines have an added, dangerous element: military leaders are growing concerned about COVID-19 leading to a resurgence in the ...
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Addressing the Chinese Threat to America
Russia, Russia, Russia! While the media and lawmakers have been spending too much “wasted time” on Russia, Project 21 Co-Chairman Horace Cooper argues that America has paid too little attention to the threat posed by China. On a recent edition of the nationally-syndicated “Armstrong Williams Show,” Horace and the panel ...
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Trump and Emir Must Clear the Air on Open Skies
Qatar’s “devious scheme to violate its Open Skies agreement with the United States” should have been a topic of discussion during Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamin bin Kamad’s recent visit to the White House. Even though Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says he has the issue covered, National Center Senior Fellow ...
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American Greens Possibly Helped Chinese Reds Influence Obama Climate Policy
As China reportedly sought to shackle the United States to the climate change restrictions of the Paris Agreement, it apparently used American green groups to try to influence the Obama White House. Yet none of the accused groups ever complied with a congressional request to document their adherence with the ...
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Black Conservatives Support Border Security, Immigration Enforcement
Project 21 “Blueprint” Recommends Prohibition of Most Public Services for Illegal Immigrants Washington, D.C. – In response to President Donald Trump’s address to the nation on immigration and border security issues, members of the Project 21 black leadership network are supporting strong enforcement policies intended to stop the unfair strain ...
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In Trade Talks, China Must Signal Change
With rumors that the United States and China may be on the verge of new trade negotiations, National Center Senior Fellow Horace Cooper told Fox Business Network host Charles Payne: It’s actually very popular with the American people that the President would like to reset the table with regard to ...
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Stop Encouraging the CIA to Go Rogue… Confirm Gina Haspel
Gina Haspel’s confirmation as the next CIA director is in trouble because she did what she was supposed to do: Follow directions of her superiors. Haspel was in charge of a so-called “black site” in Thailand during George W. Bush’s administration where “enhanced interrogation techniques” such as waterboarding were used ...
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Russian Influence May Taint Fracking Debate
There’s new information indicating a possible link between American environmental groups opposed to fracking for natural gas and funding from Russia. A new report published by The Daily Signal suggests there are charities funneling money from the Putin government to the Sierra Club Foundation (SCF) and Natural Resources Defense Council ...
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Bill Advances to Stop Foreign Lobbying Loopholes
Collusion! There are forces suspected of being hard at work to influence American politics on behalf of the Russian government. Not to influence our elections, but to shape policy on fossil fuels and related environmental issues. It’s the greens who may be working for the reds! To remedy this possible ...
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Always Blaming Trump
Back in the day, conservatives used to prank each other with a little joke that went something like this: Did you hear? There was a massive earthquake in California today. Los Angeles? The San Andreas Fault? No. A brand new fault. Really? Yes. It’s Reagan’s fault! Thank you. Thank you ...
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Controversial United Nations Cancer Report Selectively Edited to Promote Weed-Killer Scare
Anti-GMO Activist May Have Run Amok in World Health Organization Cancer Agency Agency Rebuffs Congressional Investigation, Leading to Increased Calls to Cut U.S. Funding of Scandal-Ridden WHO Global Public Health Too Important to Cede to Political Activists
Washington, DC – With the Trump Administration and congressional conservatives already skeptical of ...
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Amazon, Apple Called Hypocritical for Bowing to Chinese Censorship Demands
Free Enterprise Project Questions Jeff Bezos's and Tim Cook's Commitments to Human Rights Washington, D.C. - The nation's leading conservative shareholder activist organization calls on Amazon and Apple to recommit to protecting human rights after both companies recently, and hypocritically, bowed to Chinese government pressure regarding Internet censorship. The Free ...
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