In a cautionary tale with pointed lessons for Canada’s deepening swoon towards China, James E. Fanell in American Greatness chronicles how the Communist regime shamelessly exploited its invitation to the biennial RIMPAC international naval exercises off Hawaii to both gather intelligence and humiliate its U.S. hosts and their Asian allies – brusquely sailing five armed warships right into Pearl Harbour. Donald Trump uninvited the Chinese in 2018, and Fanell urges the U.S. President not to give in to the current Chinese propaganda effort to relent this year.
Reversing Industrial Suicide
Following the loss of 5 million U.S. industrial jobs from 2000 through 2017, Joel Kotkin in Spiked writes of the growing consensus – alone among Western countries, and despite the U.S. left’s hatred of Donald Trump – to revive America’s industries by “reshoring” manufacturing. Today, writes Kotkin, even some of the famously globalist “tech bros” are opening new facilities back home to manufacture tangible, advanced products. One sign of success: China is measurably bleeding in its manufacturing output.
