France's recent overture to China as a prospective member of aParis-led multi-national alignment against the United States andits European Allies should be met with a swift and stern response,as well as a re-assessment of standing defense and trade agreementswith those who would boost Beijing's military capabilities.
The Federal Aviation Administration should continue to resist theair traffic controllers' demands for a contract that would increasetotal compensation to over $200,000 by the last year in thecontract and build on its past privatization efforts by developinglegislation to privatize the entire air traffic control system, asmany other countries have done.
Congress will soon consider two significant reforms to disrupt the Big Tech companies whose totalitarian behavior threatens freedom of speech and open discourse online. Earlier this year, the Senate Judiciary Committee reported out the American Innovation and Choice Online Act (AICOA, S. 2992),
The government of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau had an uneasy relationship with the Administration of U.S. President Donald Trump, with the two often operating from differing ideological planes. That has changed with the election of President Joseph Biden, as his progressive Administration and Mr. Trudeau’s have similar left-of-center views on a variety of issues, perhaps most significantly on climate change.
Since the winter of 2021 and throughout Russia’s February 2022 invasion of Ukraine, the Russian Navy has been very active in Asia. On August 21, 2022, for example, 14 Russian warships sailed into the Sea of Japan for drills.