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Chinese telecoms giant Huawei may be looking to put the squeeze on small to medium companies for license fees on its sizeable patent portfolio as its bottom line continues to be hit by US sanctions and other restrictions. A report in Nikkei Asia claims that Huawei has approached about 30 small to midsize companies in Japan, apparently seeking license fees for using its patented technology. The move is being viewed as the Chinese company attempting to claw back some of the revenue it has been losing because of Washington's crackdowns. Nikkei states that the companies in question are all involved...

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... Yun Sun, director of the China programme at the Stimson Center, said the United States shared blame for the failure to restart dialogue in the military realm, an area where a crisis is most likely to erupt. The Biden administration -- which the rival Republican Party is eager to portray as weak on Beijing -- has refused Chinese requests to lift sanctions on its new defence minister, General Li Shangfu, which were imposed under a US law that targets arms purchases from Russia. The administration says that sanctions should not prevent Li from meeting his counterpart Lloyd Austin. "The...

Someone prompted me last night saying this. It motivated me more than ever and even though I'm squeezed I chipped in. Incredibly important I feel. Can you chip in, too? I know FR Is falling behind on the Freepathons so really important right now. This place is NOT cheap to maintain. I'm sure others more qualified can attest to that. Wishing Jim a speedy recovery...

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Biden administration scrambles to forestall China’s ambitions in the CaribbeanWASHINGTON—China and Cuba are negotiating to establish a new joint military training facility on the island, sparking alarm in Washington that it could lead to the stationing of Chinese troops and other security and intelligence operations just 100 miles off Florida’s coast, according to current and former U.S. officials. Discussions for the facility on Cuba’s northern coast are at an advanced stage but not concluded, U.S. intelligence reports suggest. The Biden administration has contacted Cuban officials to try to forestall the deal, seeking to tap in to what it thinks might...

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The son of an expelled ex-Minnesota state representative with a previous hit-and-run conviction in California was arrested and charged with murder for allegedly plowing into a vehicle carrying five Somali women, killing them all, in Minneapolis. Horrifying video shows the moment Derrick John Thompson, 27, smashed into the car carrying Sabiriin Ali, 17, Sahra Gesaade, 20, Salma Abdikadir, 20, Sagal Hersi, 19, and Siham Adam, 19, officials said. Thompson has a criminal record that includes a 2018 hit-and-run in California that gave the woman life-changing injuries. She spent several weeks in a coma. He was given an eight-year sentence, with...

Neil Oliver does a great monologue this week, generally following the arc of our current situation as constructed by a network of political elites. Oliver takes the continuum to its logical conclusion and then asks, what then? The political people and corporate institutions, those protecting themselves inside compounds and behind walls, cannot self-sustain. What happens when they need the proles they have diminished?

The Bible clearly tells us that among God’s people there are wolves that wear sheep’s clothing (Jeremiah 23:14; Titus 1:10; Revelations 2:2). It’s true that every human heart is inclined toward sin (Romans 3:23), and that includes evil (Genesis 8:21; James 1:4). We all miss God’ mark of moral perfection. However, most ordinary sinners do not happily indulge evil urges, nor do we feel good about having them. We feel ashamed and guilty, rightly so (Romans 7:19–21). These things are not true of the evil heart.Below are five indicators that you may be dealing with an evil heart rather than...

Brian lives in San Luis Obispo, California. He was sick of the world, sick of COVID, Trump, the “My Pillow” guy, Russia, China, global warming, street crime, fentanyl, illegal immigrants, racial tensions, and the rest of the disturbing stories that occupy media headlines.Brian drove his car into his garage and then sealed every doorway and window, as best he could. He got back into his car, rolled down all the windows, selected his favorite radio station, started the car and revved it to a slow idle.Five days later, a worried neighbor peered through his garage window and saw him in...

A father is being accused of taking things too far after he aggressively confronted his daughter's new boyfriend. The teen girl’s mother, Christy Kelly, retold the entire incident on her Twitter account, where she praised her husband for being an “old soul” and having traditional views. However, others criticized the parents for not only embarrassing their daughter but also upholding out-of-date customs on both virginity and a woman’s body. She bragged about her husband threatening to physically harm their daughter’s new boyfriend if he took her ‘chastity.’ In Kelly’s tweet, she shared that she and her husband had recently met...

Garland Nixon talks about natural selection, grizzly bears, and boy-scout knives.....

Zuckerberg’s most trusted lieutenants, unveiled what he called “our response to Twitter”. The product chief showed off what has internally been codenamed “Project 92”, or in some iterations “Barcelona”: a prototype app that the Facebook-developer hopes will finally kill its rival. The app is expected to be called Threads and screenshots suggest it will feature a continuous scroll of text like Twitter with buttons similar to the Like and Retweet functions, according to technology news site The Verge. Zuckerberg’s company is already courting celebrities and influencers to test the app. Meta has been negotiating with TV host Oprah Winfrey and...

Fox News’ interview with former President Donald Trump on Monday became tense after host Bret Baier told Trump, “But you lost the 2020 election.” After Trump was asked how would win back the independent, suburban women voters who were a “hard no” in supporting him despite disapproving of President Joe Biden, Trump said, “First of all, I won in 2020 by a lot, ok? Let’s get that straight. I won in 2020.” “That’s not what the votes show,” Baier shot back. Trump insisted, “You take a look at Truth the Vote, where they have people stuffing the ballot boxes on...

Monday night brought us the first part of the Fox News interview between Bret Baier and former and potentially future President Donald Trump, where the leading candidate in the Republican presidential primary discussed the most recent indictment against him in his first interview since last week's arraignment. As it turns out, though, Trump may have discussed a bit too much, and just by the very nature of giving the interview. In a part of the interview getting significant attention, Trump discussed with Baier the nature of the documents. In addition to seeking to turn the conversation to President Joe Biden's...

As Townhall has covered since Democrat party bosses decided to upend their party's 2024 primary schedule last December, President Joe Biden's party might have taken action that will see the incumbent president lose the first two contests of the looming primary season. In February when the DNC voted to formally approve the new schedule, Townhall noted that "there's still an uncertain and rocky road ahead for Democrats due to state laws and other yet-to-be-fully-determined problems."As it turns out, that rocky road included bumps that turned out to be insurmountable for the national Democrat leaders who sought to remove first in...

Here are seven Christian individuals or movements that helped end slavery in America.1. The QuakersThe Quakers were the first. The first official protest by a church against slavery in America was the Germantown (now part of Philadelphia) Quaker Petition Against Slavery in 1688. Soon, Rhode Island Quakers, led by Moses Brown (1738 –1836), pioneered freeing slaves; they founded the Providence Society for Abolishing the Slave Trade. John Woolman (1720-1772) devoted himself to campaigning against slavery, in 1754 writing Some Considerations on the Keeping of Negroes. His work was carried on by Benjamin Lundy (1789-1833), who edited the magazine Genius of...