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Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 17, 2013 4 Comments

The third person killed in the bombing of the Boston Marathon has been identified. Via Riehl World News: The third person killed in the Boston Marathon bombings is a 23-year-old Chinese graduate student at Boston University who came to the U.S. because it was her dream to...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 03, 2013 19 Comments

I'm watching a 60 Minutes segment about the Chinese real estate bubble: China has been nothing short of a financial miracle. In just 30 years, this state-controlled economy became the world's second largest, deftly managed by government policies and decrees. One sector the authorities concentrated on...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 31, 2013 29 Comments

There are Times that we need to stick up for The NY Times. Whatever we have said about The Times, we don't regret. But we stand with The Times when it gets hacked by China: For the last four months, Chinese hackers have persistently attacked The New York...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 25, 2012 8 Comments

If you had any doubt who is the weak horse, witness the change in the story line of the just released remake of Red Dawn, as described by Sonny Bunch in The Washington Free Beacon: Sometime between the start of production and the remake’s release, which...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 24, 2012 21 Comments

Elizabeth Warren famously wants us to be more like China and devote even greater percentages of our GDP to infrastructure construction. Warren is making this push despite the fact that we already spend huge sums on infrastructure, we just don't do it very efficiently as state...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 03, 2012 31 Comments

Via The Hill: Chen Guangcheng’s daring escape to the U.S. embassy turned into a major political headache for President Obama on Thursday as Republicans accused the administration of naively handing the blind human rights activist back to Chinese authorities...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 16, 2012 25 Comments

I previously posted regarding Pete Hoekstra's commercial about jobs being shipped to China, and the cries of racism because an Asian woman played the role of an Asian woman in China in the commercial. The woman's identity was outed by a blog called Angry Asian Man,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 11, 2012 25 Comments

I posted earlier in the week about the Super Bowl commercial run by Pete Hoekstra, who is running for Senate from Michigan against Debbie Stabenow. The commercial was part of a DebbieSpendItNow.com campaign highlighting the loss of jobs in Michigan to countries like China. The url now redirects to...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 28, 2012 21 Comments

No, not the video I posted of Nancy Reagan. It was, according to Israel Matzav, a video of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wishing China a Happy New Year, receiving 40 million views not including people who viewed it on Chinese television: Related:  Bibi sends Christmas Greetings Netanyahu at the U.N....

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 13, 2011 11 Comments

As part of his campaign to paint Newt Gingrich as crazy, Mitt Romney has focused on Newt's statement that the Palestinians were an "invented" people.  Romney argued at the Drake University debate Saturday night that Newt had used "incendiary words" which would "create extraordinary tumult" and said "I'm not a...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 08, 2011 4 Comments

I've posted before about the Chinese real estate bubble, and what will happen when this bubble bursts. Rather than worshipping the Chinese economy like Obama does (high speed trains anyone?), we should be recognizing that the Chinese model, like the Soviet model, is artificial and contrived. ...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 27, 2011 10 Comments

They will not have China to bail them out: For so long we have heard nothing but how the Chinese were doing things right. Hundred of millions rising up out of poverty. News cars replacing bicycles on the streets of Beijing. An economy that could not...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 15, 2011 4 Comments

There is something disturbing about an explanation of our debt crisis in Chinese, even if the video producers are in Taiwan, not mainland China. It's easy for them to laugh. ...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 07, 2011 9 Comments

Reader Tom reports that when he was in China recently he was not able to access this blog, or the affiliated Facebook and YouTube pages..Other blogs worked fine, including other conservative blogs.Calling out to the People of China to try to access this blog and report the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 30, 2010 3 Comments

As a follow up to my post the other day regarding the reopening of a rare earth minerals mine in the U.S., China announced yesterday that it was slashing exports:China, which produces about 97 percent of the global supply of the metals used in the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 27, 2010 7 Comments

I have posted multiple times before about how worldwide "green" technology and a variety of high tech industries were dependent on "rare earth minerals" mined almost exclusively in China.  U.S. production was shut down almost a decade ago over environmental concerns.  Among other things, the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 26, 2010 5 Comments

I stumbled upon this unusual video, taken by American Jews in China and narrated in Yiddish, of man-on-the-street interviews regarding perceptions of Jews and Israel.The money line is at 7:30 of the video, in which a sympathetic Chinese man wonders whether it is true that Jews...

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