Year: 2020

Newsmax Survey: Majority of US Supports Election Recount

A recent survey conducted by Newsmax and McLaughlin & Associates showed that two-thirds of Americans are okay with President Donald Trump asking for an election recount in key states like Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Georgia, and Arizona. These are states where Trump’s vote margins with Joe Biden are 1 percent or…
American Economy Surges By Record 33.1 Percent

The American economy grew by 33.1 percent for the July-September quarter this year. This is the largest quarterly gain in history since records started being maintained in 1947. The previous highest quarterly growth rate was 16.7 percent recorded in 1950. The 33.1 percent growth matches…
Dominion Employee Previously Worked for Chinese State Company

An employee from Dominion Voting Systems, which is one of the largest voting machine providers in the U.S., has been found to have previously worked with a Chinese state-backed telecom company. Dominion’s software was used in more than 30 American states this election, including those…
Trump Will Campaign for Georgia Senators in Runoff Elections

President Donald Trump will be participating in a rally on Dec. 5 in Georgia to support U.S. Senate candidates of the Republican Party in the runoff elections due on Jan. 5, 2021. The two Republican candidates in the state, David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler, failed in securing majority votes in…
How Xi Jinping’s Congratulations to Biden Could Backfire

The Chinese leadership’s delayed congratulations to Joe Biden and his running mate may have arisen from confusion — and perhaps self-inflicted misinformation — about the U.S. political process, according to China watchers. On Nov. 25, Chinese leader Xi Jinping offered congratulations to Joe Biden “on election as U.S. president,” according…
Pennsylvania Election Certification Delayed by State Judge

On Nov 25., Patricia McCullough, a Pennsylvania judge, ordered state officials not to verify the results of the 2020 presidential election until her court holds a hearing on Nov. 27 concerning an election dispute. Just a day before that, Tom Wolf said he had certified Democrat Joe Biden as the…
Amid Fraud Allegations, Only 3 Percent of Trump Voters Believe He Lost the Election to Biden

The 2020 U.S. presidential election has engendered a serious perceptive divide over its results, with just 3 percent of Trump voters agreeing that Democratic contender Joe Biden won the race, according to a recent survey. Most media outlets have called the election for Biden, while the Trump campaign mounts a…
Biden’s Pick for Treasurer Opposed China Tech Restrictions

Democratic U.S. presidential contender Joe Biden intends to make former Federal Reserve chairwoman Janet Yellen his administration’s Secretary of the Treasury, The Wall Street Journal reports, citing “people familiar with the decision.” An economist by training, Yellen has been at…
Economic Talks in Washington Strengthen US-Taiwan Relations

On Friday, Nov. 20, Taiwan officials participated in the island state’s first Economic Prosperity Partnership (EPP) Dialogue with the United States in Washington, D.C. Recent months have seen continuous relationship-building interactions between the U.S. and Taiwan, which is officially known as the Republic of China (ROC). This includes visits by…
US Religious Freedom Ambassador Calls Upon China to Stop Persecuting People of Faith

In a special briefing for the Ministers’ Forum of the International Religious Freedom of Belief Alliance (IRF Alliance), on Nov. 17, Ambassador Sam Brownback renewed his call for Beijing to end its “war on faith”; and specifically called out China’s use of technology in persecuting religious groups. The IRF members,…
Sister City Relationships With China Demand Scrutiny: US Senators

Owing to concerns over the Sister City programs between American and mainland Chinese cities, four U.S. senators have introduced a bill demanding serious inquiry and transparency over the economic and cultural exchange agreements. The legislators introduced a bill called the Sister City Transparency Act. It requires the Government Accountability Office…
China Joins RCEP, But Will Beijing Honor Commitments?

China signed the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (RCEP) on Nov. 15, joining 14 other countries in a free trade zone that will cut tariff and non-tariff barriers. Member countries signed the agreement via video conference to form the zone, which is set to encompass nearly one-third of the world’s…