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Grand Rapids, MI ~ Friday, July 17, 2020 VIDEO: Attorney General William P. Barr Delivers Remarks at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum Thank you very much, Andrew for your very kind introduction and I’d like to say that I really appreciate the work that Andrew and Matt, our U.S. Attorneys for the Eastern and Western District of Michigan our doing here for the people of Michigan and all the law enforcement community from Michigan, that is here today. We really appreciate your work and as Andrew said, after my remarks they are going to put on a presentation of...

China’s One-Child policy, announced in 1979, is state-sponsored violence against women and children. The Nuremberg Nazi war crimes tribunal properly construed forced abortion as a crime against humanity. Nothing in human history compares to the magnitude of China’s thirty-five-year assault on women and children. Hundreds of millions of lives have been exterminated. Today, in China, rather than being given maternal care, pregnant women without birth-allowed permits are hunted down and forced to undergo an abortion. They are mocked, belittled, humiliated, and exploited. A mother has absolutely no right or legal standing to protect her unborn baby or herself from state-sponsored...

(article photo) As America grew in the 1800s from a republic of a few millions, whose frontier stopped at the Mississippi, into a world power, there were constant collisions with the world’s greatest empire. In 1812, we declared war on Britain, tried to invade Canada and got our Capitol burned. In 1818, Andrew Jackson, on an expedition into Spanish Florida to put down renegade Indians harassing Georgia, hanged two British subjects he had captured, creating a firestorm in Britain. In 1838, we came close to war over Canada’s border with Maine; in 1846, over Canada’s border with the Oregon Territory....

The China problem is not just that China is raking in trillions of dollars because of Obama's spending and borrowing binges, and it's not just that government policies encourage well-paying U.S. manufacturing jobs to move overseas. An even bigger problem is that the Obama administration is about to give Communist China some of our most precious and up-to-date military technology. This particular chicanery started when the Obama administration foolishly tried to use taxpayers' money to force green energy to replace fossil fuels. But green energy can't compete in the free market because it's so much more expensive to produce. Obama...

In her December 8 article, “The Real Inconvenient Truth: The Whole World Needs to Adopt China’s One-Child Policy,” syndicated columnist Diane Francis argues that “a planetary law, such as China’s One-Child Policy, is the only way to reverse the disastrous global birthrate.” After extolling the “intelligence” of the China’s family planning program, she caricatures opponents as “leaders of the worlds big fundamentalist religions.” She concludes: “For those who balk at the notion that governments should control family sizes, just wait until the growing human population turns twice as much pastureland into desert as is not the case.” This argument is...

Presidential hopeful Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.) is pressing President Bush to call a meeting with several congressional committees to discuss policy towards China in the aftermath of Beijing’s refusal to allow a Navy aircraft carrier and its accompanying ships to dock in Hong Kong last week. Hunter, the ranking member of the House Armed Services Committee, asked Bush to convene a meeting “as soon as possible” with the chairmen and ranking members of Armed Services and the House panels on Intelligence, Foreign Affairs and Defense Appropriations. In a letter to Bush on Thursday, Hunter also asked the administration to invest...

DON'T LET DEPUTY SECRETARY OF STATE Robert Zoellick's fondness for pandas mislead you. The Bush administration's China policy has been undergoing a quiet metamorphosis, and now has a new steeliness to it.Fifteen months ago, just two days before George W. Bush's reelection, the Chinese government's English-language mouthpiece, China Daily, reprinted a blast by senior diplomat Qian Qichen against a "Bush Doctrine" marked by "cocksuredness and arrogance." President Bush no doubt believed, in the last days of an extremely tight race, that Qian's comments were an attempt to influence the result of the election, or at the very least an attempt...

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao's December 9 visit to Washington is an opportunity to reassess the U.S.-China relationship and dispel myths that color the U.S. view of China's role in Asia. Secretary of State Colin Powell recently noted, "neither we nor the Chinese leadership anymore believe that there is anything inevitable about our relationship--either inevitably bad or inevitably good," but this candor was swamped by his assertion that "U.S. relations with China are the best they have been since President Nixon's first visit." Overexuberance regarding China is counter-productive. In 2003, China has renewed threats of war against Taiwan, dragged its feet...

Chien meets with Dick Cheney at US think-tank forum CNA Tuesday, Jun 24, 2003,Page 3 Minister of Foreign Affairs Eugene Chien (²¤S·s) met with US Vice President Dick Cheney in private on Sunday on the sidelines of the 22nd American Enterprise Institute (AEI) World Forum in Beaver Creek, Colorado. Chien confirmed that the meeting took place, but would not divulge any details regarding his talks with Cheney out of respect for his host and the sensitivity of the meeting. Informed sources said Chien discussed Taiwan-US relations with Cheney and other matters of mutual concern. Taiwan Repres-entative to the US Chen...