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McCarthy does it right in meeting with President Tsai Ing-wen

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, who doesn’t always speak for America, did so with moral clarity when he met visiting Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen last week along with a bipartisan group including the House’s No. 3 Democrat, Pete Aguilar, at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, and ...

The concerns over TikTok are right

by Jonah Goldberg In a remarkable display of bipartisanship, Congress went to war with the social media app TikTok last week. The House Energy and Commerce Committee grilled TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew about its independence — or lack thereof — from the Chinese Communist ...

Putin ups ante with nukes in Belarus

by Andreas Kluth Let’s all hope that Chinese President Xi Jinping sees this outrage as a personal affront and gives his “friend” in Moscow a good talking to at once.  Only days ago, Xi was paying Russian President Vladimir Putin a visit — to discuss their collaboration, ...

Congress scapegoats TikTok, but it’s no worse than others

TikTok Chief Executive Shou Zi Chew did not have a successful appearance before the House Energy and Commerce Committee on Thursday.  He did not assuage skeptical members of Congress that his enormously popular social media platform can isolate itself from Chinese government ...

Xi and Putin’s ‘no limits’ pact has limits, after all

by Martin Schram Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin ended their Moscow summit this week by showcasing economic help and diplomatic support China will provide the now supplicant banana-less republic that is Putin’s Russia today.  But even more importantly, the two autocratic ...