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NATIONAL SECURITY & UNITED NATIONS
Protecting American Business from Chinese Bullying
Chinese “economic aggression” is propelling its global expansionism, and it’s up to the United States to put its efforts in check. In a Newsmax commentary, National Center Senior Fellow Horace Cooper credits the Trump Administration for “push[ing] back hard against China’s economic bullying.” But he adds that “more must be ...
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Trump Must Do More to Counter China Threats
China threatens America’s economic and national security. Its Belt and Road Initiative, which provides development assistance to emerging nations, has given it economic leverage all over the world. To obtain access to its growing markets and modern, inexpensive manufacturing infrastructure, Western businesses must often turn over valuable intellectual property — ...
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Disney’s “Pathetic” Groveling to China
When it comes to Disney turning a “blind eye” to human rights abuses in China, the director of the National Center’s Free Enterprise Project (FEP) said “they’ll be hearing from me.” In what RT America host Steve Malzberg called “one of the most egregious examples of capitulation to China,” the ...
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A Timely Exit from WHO
In a new commentary for Congressional Quarterly, National Center President David A. Ridenour asserts that the Trump Administration’s decision to begin the process of withdrawing the United States from the United Nations's World Health Organization (WHO) is “well-timed.” The July 7 announcement that began a year-long process of withdrawal also ...
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Winning China’s Cunning Cold War
To those who speculate that the United States is on the brink of a “cold war” with Communist China, National Center President David Ridenour declares that we are already deep in one that too many people have ignored for too long: [W]e've been in that cold war for years with ...
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We Didn’t Declare the New Cold War, but We Must Win It
China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi says the United States is pushing the two countries to the brink of a new cold war. On the brink? No, we've been in that cold war for years with China. The Trump administration is just the first administration to fight back. Yi decried the ...
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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
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
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
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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The Right Way to Buy American? Slow and Steady
The White House may soon issue an executive order that would require drug companies to manufacture certain essential medicines here in the United States. And lawmakers in both parties are pushing for more domestic manufacturing of drugs and other medical products. Proponents of these "Buy American" proposals want to reduce our ...
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Policy Experts Praise Trump for U.S. Withdrawal From World Health Organization
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
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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