Publisher at Journal of Political Risk and Principal at Corr Analytics. Supporter of freedom, democracy, and human rights. Independent. Yale '01 Harvard '08.
Invitation to my book launch - The Concentration of Power: Institutionalization, Hierarchy & Hegemony (@opibooks) - November 23 - discussion by publisher Dean Baxendale, Prof @JamesKraska (USNWC/Harvard) and former NSC Chief of Staff Alex Gray (AFPC). https://t.co/DDmJ9ywntU
#Darwin is our ONLY Nth Coast port. Leasing it to a PLA friendly org was madness but then NT Chief Min Giles hadn’t a clue. It’s time leaders at the sub national level got an education on the CCP Party State and its overdue that @AlboMP grew a spine and keep his election promise
The original China shock came after the country joined the WTO and flooded the world with inexpensive goods in 2001. US tariffs in 2018 diverted Chinese exports meant for the US to third countries, causing China Shock 2.0. The EU is the second region to get wise to the China threat to its industrialization and is instituting its own tariffs. Those Chinese exports meant for the US and EU will now flood the rest of the world, setting up other countries to institute tariffs and divert the exports to yet other markets in a China shock domino effect. https://t.co/kjSWSyU9ZI
The UK and Latvia co-lead the Drone Coalition — delivering 45,000+ FPV drones, 150,000+ interceptors and 20,000+ long-range strike drones to Ukraine.
At the Drone Summit in Riga, Latvia, Minister for the Armed Forces @AlistairCarns met with British companies at the forefront of drone technology.
British innovation. British jobs. Standing with our allies.
The Gripen is a collaboration between the UK, Sweden and the US, with over 30% of each aircraft built in the UK.
A new deal will see Ukraine purchase 20 new jets, with at least 50 companies across the UK supplying critical components, expected to support over 5000 UK jobs.
China is closing more doorways to capital flight, which will only increase pressure for the same. The US and allies should facilitate such flight to weaken the world's greatest threat to democracy and free markets. https://t.co/qZDojUECf6
Dans un entretien @lemondefr, j’insiste sur l’urgence d’un rééquilibrage commercial avec la Chine.
Chaque jour, l’🇪🇺 enregistre 1 milliard d’euros de déficit avec Pékin.
L’UE doit parler d’une seule voix et se donner les moyens de défendre ses intérêts. https://t.co/30vjjMV7BR
This is a must-read in Canada, the U.S., the U.K., Germany, and across other democratic nations; whether featured in the report or not. Our adversaries are gaining ground, while too many politicians, drawn to easy money and short-term interests, appear blind to the realities of hybrid warfare.
As the geopolitical and geo-economic landscape becomes increasingly contested, nations must prioritize economic security as a matter of both self-preservation and long-term competitiveness.
Unfortunately, this understanding has too often been absent within both our political and business communities.
@DMCBaxendale Optimum Publishing International
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Compromised Chinese-made medical devices give Communist China access to Americans’ private health data.
I’m ready to work with @US_FDA to investigate these dangerous devices and protect patients’ privacy. https://t.co/3gG7vIQQm3
The dictators in Beijing, Moscow, and Tehran are fighting democracies and the democracies need to make structural changes to the international system to defend themselves. This includes taxing the international trade of dictatorships (including with each other by confiscating their ships if they do not pay) and providing the most powerful means of defense (most notably nuclear weapons) to frontline democracies in places like Germany, Poland, Ukraine, Taiwan, Japan, and South Korea.
Putin is losing the war in Ukraine and so could soon look for new strategies, including attacks on ill-equipped Baltic countries that are in NATO and the EU. This would be an attempt to force NATO countries to stop supporting Ukraine, and a major escalation that should be deterred by transferring operational control of tactical nuclear weapons (at least) to the most vulnerable Baltic and Scandinavian democracies. The US, UK, or France could do this. Recipient countries should include at minimum those European democracies that border Russia (including Kaliningrad): Norway, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, and Ukraine. If we wait until Moscow attacks again it will be too late. We failed to deter Russia in its attacks on Ukraine and we are close to failing in its potential new attacks on NATO. https://t.co/uve9fY8uCI
NO JOKE: 🇨🇳 China, which oppresses 1.5 billion people and gave the world the Coronavirus, has just been elected to the @WHO Executive Board, empowering Xi Jinping to shape global health policy.
For too long, China has used its dominance over critical minerals processing to pressure industries, manipulate markets, and threaten global supply chains.
Today’s @StateDept Quad partners announcement is a major step toward building resilient, diversified supply chains with trusted partners, not strategic adversaries.
The U.S., Japan, Australia, and India are mobilizing up to $20 BILLION to secure supply chains for the minerals powering advanced technology, defense systems, batteries, and AI.
The era of relying on China for critical minerals must come to an end.
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My argument in this piece is simple: Beijing is pressing foreign leaders to describe Taiwan in China’s language, while also keeping Taiwan’s own leaders from being heard on the world stage. The result is a dangerous distortion: Taiwan’s desire to preserve its democratic way of life is treated as a provocation, while China’s military and diplomatic coercion is treated as normal. But peace cannot be built on a narrative that blames the threatened for the threat.
Today we are asking the European Union, UK, Canada and Australia to agree that it is morally obscene for a U.N. “human rights expert” to take $150,000 in direct funding from the brutal Chinese Communist regime that systematically violates the human rights of 1.5 billion people.
In 2006, UN Special Rapporteur on Torture reported that Falun Gong practitioners accounted for 66% of documented torture cases in China.
The regime brutally enforced widespread blood testing, tissue typing, and organ examinations on healthy detainees in prison.
A Chinese Students and Scholars Association (CSSA) tried to press a Berlin university to cancel a human rights event. CSSA, the main student body abroad for Chinese students, receives ideological "guidance" from the CN govt & often seek to enforce it https://t.co/TX0JXPma03
AVIC builds military aircraft for the Chinese Communist Party, supplies Iran-linked entities, and has been repeatedly flagged by @ChinaSelect as a national security threat.
Yet through its ownership of @Cirrus_Aircraft and other U.S. aviation assets, @_AVICINTL still operates freely inside America’s aerospace sector.
@RepPatHarrigan is speaking out against the CCP’s strategy of using “civilian” acquisitions to gain access to sensitive U.S. technology and manufacturing capabilities. While China weaponizes Military-Civil Fusion, Washington can’t afford to stay asleep at the controls.
The Select Committee has already exposed billions in U.S. investment flowing into Chinese companies tied to America’s adversaries. It’s time to shut down these dangerous loopholes.
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