The End of (Whig) History
History goes where we push it. And if we don’t push, someone else will.
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FCC Designates Chinese Tech Giants Huawei and ZTE as National-Security Threats
The Federal Communications Commission has formally designated two technology giants closely connected to the Chinese Communist regime as national-security threats to the integrity of telecommunications networks and the communications supply chain.
The designation applies to Huawei Technologies Company and ZTE Corporation.
FCC chairman Ajit Pai announced that, after a full investigation, the commission’s Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau (PSHSB) concluded that “[b]oth companies have close ties to the Chinese Communist Party and China’s military apparatus, and both...
China Swallows Hong Kong
The Chinese Communist Party, through what it portrays as its legislature (the “National People’s Congress”), has enacted a law crushing democracy in Hong Kong.
Under the guise of protecting “national security,” the new law criminalizes as “subversion” and “terrorism” various expressions of protest and political dissent. It further endeavors to cut off Hong Kong’s support lines by criminalizing, as conspiracy to endanger national security, sundry exchanges with other countries and outside groups.
The people of Hong Kong have...
The American Infection
The Europeans did a much better job of controlling the coronavirus than we did, and they don’t want us spreading it there.
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Vive la Liberté
France rediscovers free speech as the United States abandons it.
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