The Chinese Party Congress takes place this week in Beijing. It’s likely President Xi Jinping will be elected to an unprecedented third term, giving him more power to push a Marxist-Leninist agenda at home and around the world.

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CHINA IS an imminent threat to our way of life. That may sound like a return to a 1950s way of thinking, but it’s true.Continue Reading

A German bakery was shocked when its bill for natural gas, normally about $5,800 a month, jumped to about $87,500 a month for the last quarter. The ongoing proxy war between NATO and Russia is leading to a cold, dark, and hungry winter for Europe.Continue Reading

The Federal Reserve Bank plans to launch a new settlement system called FedNow by next summer. While it’s not blockchain-based, like cryptocurrency, it would route credit and debit card transactions through the Fed—meaning instant government records of card purchases.Continue Reading

It’s a question being asked by some Taiwanese government officials after Pelosi Jr., the second-largest investor in a major Chinese tech firm, accompanied his mother on her visit to the island. Specifically, why are children of prominent Democrats so skilled at landing high-paying jobs with foreign companies?Continue Reading

China quietly cut off shipments of sand to Taiwan last Wednesday, depriving the country that produces 2/3 of the world’s computer chips of a critical raw material, potentially affecting everything from computers and cars to missile guidance systems.Continue Reading