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Are We on the Brink of a New Cold War with China? – ScoopTV: Episode 4

Tensions are rising between the U.S. and China following the ordered closure of China’s Houston consulate. Some say we’re on the brink of a New Cold War. Are we? This edition of ScoopTV answers that question ...
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Lack of Transparency in Government Contracts Hurts Service Members, by Horace Cooper

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Last month when TRANSCOM (United States Transportation Command) pulled back its $7 billion contract award to Norwegian subsidiary American Roll on Roll off Carrier (ARC) taxpayers breathed a sigh of relief. The contract had been awarded on April 30 in the midst of COVID-19 to overhaul the domestic and international ...
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Robert Stethem, American Hero: (Almost) Forgotten Again

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Even though the destruction of monuments is socially accepted behavior these days, I chose to break the law and show some respect for a neglected one. Tomorrow is the 35th anniversary of the murder of Robert Dean Stethem, a construction technician and diver in the U.S. Navy. He was executed ...
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Tear Down China’s Firewall

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China’s greatest wall is not the one made of stone. It’s the Internet firewall that the repressive communist government uses to suppress free speech and the flow of information. The National Center has joined the Conservative Action Project and others in a coalition letter telling the Trump Administration that “[a]s ...
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Policy Experts Praise Trump for U.S. Withdrawal From World Health Organization

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Action Fulfills Key Recommendation of National Center’s COVID-19 Blueprint Washington, D.C. – The National Center for Public Policy Research praised President Donald Trump for withdrawing the United States from the World Health Organization (WHO), three years after first calling for this separation. “WHO is plagued by persistent wasteful spending, utter ...
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BlackRock Promotes Chinese Investments While Punishing American Companies

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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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