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...That is, wokeness is just a smokescreen. A smokescreen for allowing certain groups to wrap themselves in the latest cloak of politically correct piety while seeking to crush less favored groups...You see, wokesters are all about power,... Still, today, we can’t kid ourselves about the challenge ahead: We’re in an epic contest with China,... In the meantime, as we gather our strength, patriotic and freedom-loving Americans need to make sure that top athletes, big sports leagues, and giant corporations are on our side. As of now, there’s no reason to think that they are.

January 11, 2007 America's Stake in Taiwan The Heritage Foundation, Backgrounder: by John J. Tkacik, Jr. Backgrounder #1996 The United States and Taiwan have maintained a remarkable security partnership in the Western Pacific for over a half century, but today this partner­ship is in peril. In Washington, there is considerable concern and confusion about Taiwan's commitment to its own defense. In Taiwan, a much deeper uncertainty among the citizenry about the Washington-Taipei relation­ship threatens to undermine their determination to keep democratic Taiwan separate from Communist China. This uncertainty is compounded by the cur­rent political turmoil in Taipei surrounding allega­tions of...