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National Insecurity: America's Continuing Reliance On Critical Chinese Materials Authored by Benjamin Weingarten via RealClearWire, At the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 - with face masks, gloves, and other basic protections in high demand - Chinese leaders threatened to plunge America into the "mighty sea of coronavirus" by withholding essential medical supplies in retaliation for measures such as the U.S. travel ban on visitors from China. The threat, issued through a Chinese Communist Party organ, brought into stark relief China's strategy to subdue would-be foes by rendering them reliant on...

Yemen’s ruling Ansar Allah said it conducted a large-scale attack on several military sites in Saudi Arabia.  “Our armed forces have detected large-scale Saudi military mobilizations in their final stages, aimed at escalating against the liberated provinces and the Yemeni people to deter them from their stance on ending the unjust siege,” Ansar Allah military […]

When Paris Went Hungry Under Government Food Controls Authored by Daniel J. Smith via The Daily Economy, How does Paris get fed? Frédéric Bastiat famously explained in Economic Sophisms (1845) how market exchange reliably provisioned the (then) million people of Paris with agricultural produce from the countryside that they were able to enjoy "peaceful slumbers...not disturbed for a single instant...." In stark contrast, Bastiat predicted that there would be "much suffering within the walls of Paris - poverty, despair, perhaps starvation..." if a presumptuous minister decided to replace the market with their...