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But how long will it last? | Often, when President Biden says something unscripted, it comes out as an embarrassing gaffe. But occasionally, writes former Pentagon official Joseph Bosco, it takes the form of a "refreshingly honest restatement of an uncomfortable truth." Such was the case with Biden's recent labeling of Xi Jinping as a "dictator." |
Coming after constructive talks with China's leader in California last week, Biden's utterance may have been a diplomatic faux pas. But it was also the plain truth. Tyrants like Xi believe they can simply proclaim their regimes to be democratic, says Bosco. "Biden did not sing from the same page and Beijing took offense. In the information contest that is part of Cold War II, which has been upon us for the last several years, score one for Biden and the Free World." "It remains to be seen whether [Biden's] actions will follow his words or whether his staff will urge him to make some concessions to Beijing…to salve Xi's injured pride." Bosco believes the biggest "favor Biden could render Xi, the Chinese people and the world" would be another candid declaration: that America will defend Taiwan. "In contrast to the policy of strategic ambiguity and doubt, it is the only sure way to deter a strategic miscalculation by Xi that could plunge China and the U.S. into a major military conflict and bring about Biden's nightmare scenario: World War III." Read the op-ed at TheHill.com. |
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By Liz Peek, former partner of major bracket Wall Street firm Wertheim & Company |
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By Douglas MacKinnon, political consultant |
Tens of millions of Americans believe they were much better off four years ago than now. Americans who know mortgage rates were at record lows; gasoline prices were well below three dollars per gallon; inflation was under control; our border was more secure; our major cities were not homeless encampments; crime was dramatically lower; and the world was more at peace. |
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By Andreas Umland, analyst at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs |
To suddenly hold nation-wide elections with an undetermined outcome would contradict patterns of behavior ingrained over two decades by thousands of public servants, party functionaries, media workers and police officers. |
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By Trevor Potter, president and founder of the Campaign Legal Center |
Despite its elegant legal prose and signatures from all nine justices, the court's so-called Code of Conduct is no cause for celebration. Upon anything more than a brief glance, this new document reads alarmingly hollow, failing to bind the justices to any meaningful ethics rules that could restore public trust in the judiciary. |
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