New rules for China internet posts....change "China" to "America" and you have seen the future.

ALL Writers, Bloggers, Influencers MUST Follow This New Rule!

Beginning next week, the Cyberspace Administration of China will require bloggers and influencers to have a government-approved credential before they can publish on a wide range of subjects. The new rules expand that requirement to health, economics, education and judicial matters.

Weibo CEO Wang Gaofei, responding to Ma on the platform, said commentary on news released by official media was permitted but commentators could not “release news” themselves.

The policy revision is meant “to standardize and steer public accounts and information service platforms to be more self aware in keeping the correct direction of public opinion,” according to a statement posted by the Cyberspace Administration.

A week after unveiling the new rules in late January, the administration held a nationwide conference on the importance of “strengthening order in online publishing." The head of the agency, Zhuang Rongwen, said the agency must “let our supervision and management grow teeth.”

On Feb. 4, the agency publicly announced a month-long clean-up drive targeting search engines, social media platforms and browsers.

A notice on Sohu in January, which also hosts microblogs, said public accounts without credentials must not issue or republish current affairs news. Banned topics include “articles and commentary on politics, economics, military affairs, diplomatic and public affairs; Taking out of context and distorting the content of the Party and country's history; breaking news and commentary.” Internet giant Baidu, which also has a publishing platform, issued a similar notice.

It is unclear to what extent bloggers will be punished if they publish commentary without the credentials.

SOURCE: https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/ztZiqpOEsGcVO7HRsrra1w

As the Biden administration continues to formulate its policy toward China, more voices are being raised in support of or opposition to specific approaches. This article outlines recommendations from a recent report from Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., calling for the U.S. to pursue a strategy of targeted decoupling from China and urge its allies to do the same. The report explains that the U.S. has “grown too entangled” economically with China given that the two sides are “in the middle of a strategic competition … that may last as long as the Cold War.”

Among the trade-related actions urged by Cotton’s report are the following.

• impose credible, reliably enforced sanctions on the perpetrators and beneficiaries of Chinese intellectual property theft

• apply secondary sanctions against non-U.S. entities and individuals that engage in transactions with sanctioned Chinese targets

• expand the Office of Foreign Assets Control to help it carry out this sanctions campaign

• apply targeted import duties on Chinese exporters that receive substantial state subsidies or engage in anti-competitive practices such as export dumping

• tighten U.S. export controls on certain advanced technologies for all Chinese end-users

• revoke China’s permanent normal trade relations status

• expand restrictions on U.S. outbound investment in China to include investments in Chinese technology companies, companies tied to the Chinese Communist Party, and companies implicated in the CCP’s human rights abuses

• require the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States to scrutinize inbound Chinese investments into strategic sectors with a presumption of denial

• ban the sale of cutting-edge semiconductors developed or produced with U.S. software or technology to all Chinese entities

• explore establishing a multilateral semiconductor trading and export control bloc

• continue efforts to halt Chinese firms from expanding their positions in global 5G telecom networks and impose further sanctions on Huawei

• diversify foreign sources of rare earths to reduce reliance on China

• prohibit federal purchasing of items containing rare earths and critical minerals mined or processed in China by a certain date

• prohibit federal purchasing and reimbursement of drugs that contain active pharmaceutical ingredients made in China by a certain date

• create a Food and Drug Administration requirement that all drugs sold in the U.S. include conspicuous country-of-origin labeling for their active ingredients

• retain or reshore enough domestic medical equipment manufacturing so that production can be increased to meet crisis-level demand within six months

Recognizing that targeted decoupling from China will impose up-front costs and create risk, the report urges a number of steps to mitigate these impacts, including (1) negotiating bilateral trade agreements with partners like Japan, Malaysia, Vietnam, the United Kingdom, and the European Union that prioritize U.S. jobs and exports and “limit the depth and nature of China’s economic and financial integration” with those partners, and (2) using the U.S. Agency for International Development, International Development Finance Corporation, and Export-Import Bank to connect U.S. firms with new customers, migrate supply chains out of China, and combat Chinese attempts to dominate sales of key technology.

In addition, the report states, the U.S. government should make the following changes to “better position itself for the economic long war” with China.

• consolidate federal export control licensing authorities into a single licensing agency within the State Department

• give the secretary of defense a new role, deputy chair of CFIUS, to ensure that Treasury addresses national security concerns raised by the DoD and other organizations on the committee

• charge the Department of Commerce with collecting data that informs an annual report on the state of the U.S.’ industrial base and its dependency on key foreign inputs as well as contingency plans to insulate the U.S. against supply chain disruptions

• empower the DOC to support the regeneration of U.S. manufacturing in key sectors

SOURCE: https://www.strtrade.com/trade-news-resources/str-trade-report/trade-report/february/trade-measures-among-steps-recommended-to-decouple-u-s-from-china

The "Undeniable Truths" were part of an article he wrote for the Sacramento Union back in 1988. Here they are:

1. The greatest threat to humanity lies in the nuclear arsenal of the USSR.
2. The greatest threat to humanity lies in the USSR.
3. Peace does not mean the elimination of nuclear weapons.
4. Peace does not mean the absence of war.
5. War is not obsolete.
6. Ours is a world governed by the aggressive use of force.
7. There is only one way to get rid of nuclear weapons - use them.
8. Peace cannot be achieved by developing a "understanding" with the Russian People.
9. When Americans oppose America, it is not always courageous and sacred; it is sometimes dangerous.
10. Communism Kills.
11. Neither the US, nor anyone else, imposes freedom on the peoples of other nations.
12. Freedom is God given.
13. In the USSR, peace means the absence of opposition.
14. To free peoples, peace means the absence of threats and the presence of justice.
15. The Peace Movement in the US, whether by accident or design, is pro-Communist.
16. The collective knowledge and wisdom of seasoned citizens is the most valuable, yet untapped, resource our young-people have.
17. The greatest football team in the history of civilization is the Pittsburgh Steelers of 1975-1980.
18. There is no such thing as war atrocities.
19. War itself is an atrocity.
20. There is a God.
21. Abortion is wrong.
22. Morality is not defined and cannot be defined by individual choice.
23. Evolution cannot explain Creation.
24. Feminism was established so as to allow unattractive women access to the mainstream of society.
25. Love is the only human emotion that cannot be controlled.
26. The only difference between Mikhail Gorbachev and previous Soviet leaders, is that Gorbachev is alive.
27. Soviet Leaders are just left-wing dictators.
28. Abe Lincoln saved this nation.
29. The L.A. Raiders will never be the team that they were when they called Oakland their home.
30. The US will again go to war.
31. To more and more people, a victorious US is a sinful US.
32. This is frightening and ominous.
33. There will always be poor people.
34. This is not the fault of the rich.
35. You should thank God for making you an American; and instead of feeling guilty about it, help spread our ideas worldwide.

Rush has updated this list, many of the "old" UTOL having become somewhat dated (but no less true for being in the past tense!) As read by Rush Limbaugh on his radio show, Friday, February 18, 1994:

(All equally truthful: number 1 is not more or less important than 35.)

1. There is a distinct singular American culture - rugged individualism and self-reliance - which made America great.
2. The vast majority of the rich in this country did not inherit their wealth; they earned it. They are the country's achievers, producers, and job creators.
3. No nation has ever taxed itself into prosperity.
4. Evidence refutes liberalism.
5. There is no such thing as a New Democrat.
6. The Earth's eco-system is not fragile.
7. Character matters; leadership decends from character.
8. The most beautiful thing about a tree is what you do with it after you cut it down.
9. Ronald Reagan was the greatest president of the twentieth century.
10. The 1980s was not a decade of greed but a decade of prosperity; it was the longest period of peacetime growth in American history.
11. Abstinence prevents sexually transmitted disease and pregnancy -every time it's tried.
12. Condoms only work during the school year.
13. Poverty is not the root ("rut") cause of crime.
14. There's a simple way to solve the crime problem: obey the law; punish those who do not.
15. If you commit a crime, you are guilty.
16. Women should not be allowed on juries where the accused is a stud.
17. The way to improve our schools is not more money, but the reintroduction of moral and spiritual values, as well as the four "R's": reading, 'riting, 'rithmatic, and Rush.
18. I am not arrogant.
19. My first 35 Undeniable Truths are still undeniably true.
20. There is a God.
21. There is something wrong when critics say the problem with America is too much religion.
22. Morality is not defined by individual choice.
23. The only way liberals win national elections is by pretending they're not liberals.
24. Feminism was established as to allow unattractive women easier access to the mainstream of society.
25. Follow the money. When somebody says, "It's not the money," it's always the money.
26. Liberals attempt through judicial activism what they cannot win at the ballot box.
27. Using federal dollars as a measure, our cities have not been neglected, but poisoned with welfare dependency funds.
28. Progress is not striving for economic justice or fairness, but economic growth.
29. Liberals measure compassion by how many people are given welfare. Conservatives measure compassion by how many people no longer need it.
30. Compassion is no substitute for justice.
31. The culture war is between the winners and those who think they're losers who want to become winners. The losers think the only way they can become winners is by banding together all the losers and then empowering a leader of the losers to make things right for them.
32. The Los Angeles riots were not caused by the Rodney King verdict. The Los Angeles riots were caused by rioters.
33. You could afford your house without your government - if it weren't for your government.
34. Words mean things.
35. Too many Americans can't laugh at themselves anymore.

Can we please sticky it to the top. I think we need to remind the fucking world that BIDEN is responsible for the death of innocent people and the suffering that families have to endure looking at all those EMPTY seats at the dinner table.