This week, however, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the UK is banning Huawei’s equipment from its network. British telecom operators must stop buying 5G equipment from Huawei by the end of the year and need to remove all of Huawei’s existing gear from the network by 2027. What explains the sharp reversal? To start, President Trump and his administration deserve credit.
5 Stories to Watch Next Week: Amid COVID-19 surge across US, states consider next steps; European leaders meeting to discuss COVID-19 rescue plan; US considers sweeping travel ban on Chinese Communist Party members; FBI investigates large-scale Twitter hack; and Biden to address nation’s largest Muslim American PAC.
China will likely defeat the US in a future war, if one erupts. That’s a difficult fact to accept for many Americans, but it’s the truth. America has a more powerful military now, to be sure. But mounting evidence points to a coming Chinese victory — unless Washington takes bold, aggressive steps today to maintain its dwindling edge. The foundation of these steps is to increase the Pentagon’s budget.
Five Stories to Watch: New coronavirus stimulus is in the works; Harvard, MIT sue Trump admin to block order revoking visas for foreign students; Trump admin seeking who leaked intel on Russian bounties in Afghanistan; Mystery continues to surround explosion at Iranian nuclear facility; and US, allies discussing how to respond to China’s aggression toward Hong Kong.
Years from now, when historians want to understand the presidency of Donald Trump — and scholars will no doubt be curious about our 45th president — they should study two speeches.
One speech is the president’s most recent, which he delivered at Mount Rushmore to celebrate Independence Day. The other speech dates back to July 2017, when President Trump spoke to the people of Poland in Warsaw.
One indicator of the wider effect of the economic shutdown is illegal poaching. Poaching has dramatically increased during the pandemic because tourism has declined precipitously.
5 Stories to Watch Next Week: The latest with the coronavirus and its economic impact; Tracking the National Defense Authorization Act; US-Mexico-Canada trade agreement goes into effect; US moves to seize Iranian fuel headed for Venezuela; China imposes new security laws on Hong Kong; Britain to take countermeasures.
5 Stories to Watch Next Week: The coronavirus surging across America; Efforts both to strike down and enhance Obamacare; Status of police reform legislation in Congress; Israel’s plan to extend sovereignty to parts of West Bank; and US-China tensions over China’s new Hong Kong law.
What Newt’s Reading: Wisconsin Dem Lawmaker Brutally Beaten by Protesters; Lincoln Park’s Memorial to the Great Emancipator Should Stand; Former Cincinnati Mayor: There Is No Evidence of Systematic Racism in Policing; Democrats’ Obamacare Bailout Could Extend the Pandemic; and NASA Names Headquarters After Its First Black Female Engineer, “Hidden Figure” Mary W. Jackson.
What Newt’s Reading: When Cops Aren’t on the Beat; Brooks Shooting: The Political Prosecutor Caves In to the Mob; Liberal Media and Democrats Fan the Flames of Civil Rights Ignorance; Ned Lamont Says the Unspeakable; and From India’s Himalayan Border to Our Local Cell Networks, It’s Time to Push Back Against China.