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China Bans Exports of Rare Earth Tech as Critical Minerals Race Heats Up
US President Joe Biden has called Chinese President Xi Jinping a dictator at a fundraising event in California.
US-China tensions: Biden calls Xi a dictator a day after Beijing talks
Good to see that the status quo is changing. /s
To hear Donald Trump tell it, a vote for him in 2024 is a vote for world peace.
Donald Trump Is Promising Peace In A Second Term. War With Iran Seems More Likely.
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Lawyers Unable to Find Document Trump Discussed in Recorded Conversation
Unlike any of his predecessors, the president seems to be openly courting the idea of Israeli military confrontation with Iran.
By caving to Israel, Biden opens the door to war (archived)
No Cold War is pleased to publish the following interview of Wu Rong-yuan, Chairperson of the Labour Party of Taiwan, conducted by Wim De Ceukelaire. The interview has been edited for clarity.
“Stop US interference”: Interview with the Labour Party of Taiwan
Video via The Duran
White House Rethinks China Tariffs Amid Taiwan Turmoil
By Zerohedge.com
The Trump tariffs are the subject of a lawsuit filed by scores of U.S. companies who’ve asserted the levies are overly broad and were improperly implemented. If the Biden administration can’t defend the Trump tariff regime, it could be compelled to evaluate tens of thousands of public comments about it, or reimburse the plaintiffs for tariffs they’ve paid so far.
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Biden’s interest in pandering to labor unions also figures in his slow-walking his tariff-relief decision. Milton Friedman had something to say about that
“The benefits of a tariff are visible. Union workers can see they are ‘protected.’ The harm which a tariff does is invisible. It’s spread widely.”
What labor unions?!
Union Representation Petitions Continue to Increase in FY 2022 Under Biden Administration
According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, in 2021 the percentage of U.S workers, including public- and private-sector workers, who were members of unions was 10.3 percent—a half point decline from the 10.8 percent unionization rate in 2020. Within the private sector, the unionization rate declined by 0.2 percent in 2021 to 6.1 percent. The degree to which union activity in 2022 with an aggressively labor-friendly NLRB general counsel and a majority Biden appointed Labor Board moves the needle for union membership is yet to be determined.
An article published in the New York Times on Tuesday, entitled “US aims to expand export bans on China over security and human rights,” explicitly linked Washington’s escalating economic war on China with the US proxy war on Russia in Ukraine.
US extends economic war on Russia to China
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