Here is what Trump said on the campaign trail last year, which thrilled Republican voters as much as it must have angered Chinese leaders: ‘We can’t continue to allow China to rape our country, and that’s what they’re doing.’… Sunday marks the first time in this campaign that Trump has used the term ‘rape’ to… Read more.
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China, Next Stop on Trump’s Traveling Circus through Far East
President Trump begins his state visit to China today. He will pay lip service to the threat of trade war with China, but the threat of nuclear war with North Korea will dominate all talks. Except that anyone who knows anything about the nature of this threat knows that these talks will amount to much… Read more.
China Vows to Crush Hong Kong-Led Confederacy; and It Should
A week ago today, thousands of lawyers donned black suits and marched silently through Hong Kong. They did so to protest Mainland China’s decision to bar two elected legislators from serving in their local legislature: [The legislators’] specific offense (at least in the eyes of Beijing) was to unfurl a banner proclaiming ‘Hong Kong Is… Read more.