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China Embraces Occupy Wall Street

Don’t hold your breath waiting for the protests to come to Beijing…. From the Associated Press: Occupy Wall Street…but not Tiananmen Square BEIJING (AP) — China’s foreign ministry said Monday the Occupy Wall Street movement highlights issues that are worth

Dean Cheng: Dominating Its Neighbors

Tonight on Secure Freedom Radio: What is Communist China up to these days and what does a secretive Beijing mean for its people, the United States, and its neighbors in the region? Research Fellow of the Asian Studies Center at

Iran's Assassination Plot Goal: Armed Clash With U.S.

I often quote Debka reports because they have unique content based on intelligence sources not available elsewhere, and because they’re right more often than they’re wrong. Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei According to Debka, the motivation for Iran’s plot to

China: Senate Dem Legislation Would Spark a Trade War

From Reuters: China warned the United States that it would damage relations, and American jobs, if it forces Beijing to let its currency rise under a law to be voted on in the U.S. Senate on Tuesday. Vice Foreign Minister

Congressman: China Waging Econ War Against The US

Congressman Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) writes in today’s Washington Times: Putting us back on a path of national prosperity requires a dramatic change in trade policy. A weakened U.S. industrial base and a monstrous public debt also make it difficult to

Senate Moves To 'Punish' China On Currency Policies

The Hill The Senate voted Monday to advance legislation pressuring the Chinese government to stop undervaluing its currency, a practice most economists agree is giving the country an unfair trade advantage and is costing the U.S. jobs. The Senate voted

We're Still on the Front End of a Recession

The stronger-than-expected ISM manufacturing-index reading for September might normally suggest that the economy, at least for now, has dodged a recession bullet. After zero jobs and zero real consumer spending in August, which put the stalled economy on the front

Is China's Green Energy A Myth?

While politicians hawking policies supporting green energy warn that China is overtaking us in that race, many forecasters and analysts think China’s green energy future is a myth. While China is putting more money into green energy technologies than the

Taiwan's F-16 Upgrade: Obama's Triple Mistake

The State Department’s authorization of a $5.3 billion Taiwanese bid to upgrade their 145 F-16A/B Block 25 fighters, instead of adding 66 new F-16C/D Block 52 planes as the ROC had originally requested, is the big defense news of the

Trade Agreements, China and the Impact of the Presidential Election

[audio: http://newledger.com/podcasts/CoffeeandMarkets100311.mp3] Download Podcast | iTunes | Podcast Feed On today’s edition of Coffee and Markets, Brad Jackson and Ben Domenech are joined by Francis Cianfrocca to discuss the opening of the fourth quarter, the movement of free-trade agreements in