In The Federalist, Shawn Fleetwood expresses puzzlement that President Donald Trump has seemingly ditched his vow to begin cancelling and refusing visas for Chinese students due to their rampant spying and theft of intellectual property. Fleetwood frets that Trump may not share Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s view that they’re a profound threat to national security, and instead regards student visas as a mere bargaining chip for a trade deal.
Inhuman for Criminals, the Luck of the Draw for You and Me
The EU may have banished the “‘inhuman,’ ‘degrading,’ and ‘irreversible’” death penalty for criminals, writes Frank Haviland in The European Conservative – but its member states’ soft-on-crime, easy-on-illegal-immigrants policies are making violent death an increasingly common fate for innocent Europeans. In a world gripped by barbarian forces, writes Haviland, it’s time for Great Britain to hold a national referendum on restoring an older form of justice.
