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2 weeks ago | 
myemail.constantcontact.com | Gareth Vipers |Michael Sobolik |Matt Pottinger |Liza Tobin
Quotes of the Da:"No one is going to give you the education you need to overthrow them. Nobody is going to teach you your true history, teach you your true heroes, if they know that that knowledge will help set you free."– Assata Shakur"Self education is, I firmly believe, the only education there is.”– Isaac Asimov“A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.”– Ezra Pound1.
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Jan 8, 2025 | 
washingtonexaminer.com | Michael Sobolik
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
msn.com | Michael Sobolik
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
washingtonexaminer.com | Michael Sobolik
On Dec. 16, 2024, the U.S. Treasury Department celebrated the seventh meeting of a joint economic working group with China. According to Treasury’s press release, both sides “shared views on areas of cooperation,” while the U.S. side “expressed its continued concern” about Beijing’s nonmarket policies and “the support of some Chinese firms” for Russia’s war in Ukraine. Only in Washington could such drivel be mistaken for success.
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Dec 2, 2024 | 
washingtonexaminer.com | Michael Sobolik
The U.S. Congress still has a month of legislating ahead. If current conditions hold, China policy appears poised to dominate a significant portion of Capitol Hill’s time. In September, House Speaker Mike Johnson telegraphed his desire to restrict U.S. outbound investment to the People’s Republic of China (PRC), and moves in this direction are expected this fall. This is essential and long overdue action.
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Oct 5, 2024 | 
washingtonexaminer.com | Michael Sobolik
During the vice presidential debate between Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) and Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH), viewers in the People’s Republic of China experienced a broadcast interruption. When the CBS moderators asked Gov. Walz about discrepancies regarding his story of being in China during the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989, the video feed throughout China cut to an error screen.
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Sep 18, 2024 | 
thehill.com | Michael Sobolik
On Sept. 4, China’s Ministry of Civil Affairs announced that China would no longer carry out foreign adoption work, except for a few narrow exceptions. In turn, the U.S. Department of State notified American families, many of whom had already been matched with children in China years ago and were just waiting to bring their kids home. With this devastating announcement, China has nullified the bond that American families had with their waiting children.
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Jul 2, 2024 | 
nationalinterest.org | Michael Sobolik
Editor’s Note: The following is adapted from Countering China’s Great Game: A Strategy for American Dominance by Michael Sobolik with the permission of the publisher. On May 26, 2022, Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced the Biden administration’s long-awaited China strategy.
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Jun 13, 2024 | 
nationalreview.com | Michael Sobolik
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May 31, 2024 | 
thedispatch.com | Kevin Williamson |Scott Lincicome |Michael Sobolik |James Scimecca
In Hong Kong, the local factota operating in the interests of Beijing have convicted 14 democracy activists of subversion for the crime—and it is, under local law, a crime—of working to organize a slate of candidates for office who would work for liberty and democracy in Hong Kong.
