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THE EPOCH TIMES
Convergence of Events and Disastrous Policies Threaten the CCP
Beneath the Chinese Communist Party’s carefully managed image lies a series of structural challenges that may imperil its survival.
Security guards stand behind a glass door at the Great Hall of the People during the 14th National People's Congress (NPC) in Beijing on March 6, 2024. Greg Baker/AFP via Getty Images
James Gorrie
3/18/2026|Updated: 3/18/2026
Commentary
From the outside, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) appears monolithic—an ironclad political machine controlling the world’s second-largest economy and ruling more than 1.4 billion people with an iron fist. Beijing goes to great lengths to project an image of stability, discipline, and long-term strategic planning to both its people and the outside world.
But history tells us that authoritarian systems often look strongest right before cracks from internal and external pressures begin to show. Beneath the CCP’s carefully managed image lie a series of structural challenges—aging leadership, demographic collapse, slowing economic growth, internal power struggles, and declining confidence in local governance—that threaten the integrity of the Party’s control over the country and its economy.
Each problem would be manageable individually. Together, they raise serious ...
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THE EPOCH TIMES
Trump Expects Iran War to End ‘Soon’
‘Won’t be long. And we’re going to have a much safer world when it’s wrapped up,’ President Donald Trump said.
Rescue workers search the rubble of a destroyed residential building in Tehran, Iran, on March 12, 2026. AFP via Getty Images
Aldgra Fredly
3/17/2026|Updated: 3/17/2026
President Donald Trump said on March 16 that he believes the U.S.–Israeli war with Iran could be “wrapped up soon,” but added that it is unlikely to end within the week.
During a press conference in the Oval Office, Trump was asked whether he thinks the war could end this week, to which he replied, “I don’t think so, but it’ll be soon.”
“Won’t be long. And we’re going to have a much safer world when it’s wrapped up. It’ll be wrapped up soon,” the president told reporters. “I had an obligation to do this.”
Trump said the military operation against Iran had stopped Tehran from developing nuclear weapons and averted “a nuclear war that would have evolved into World War III.”
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WASHINGTON EXAMINER
New report on Iran war shows Democrats and legacy media have been lying about US progress
By Christopher Tremoglie
March 17, 2026 9:12 am
President Donald Trump has regularly criticized legacy media for its left-wing biases and agenda-driven reporting. He’s rightfully accused them of dishonesty and manipulating stories that advance specific Democratic narratives instead of telling the truth to the people. An example of these deceptions is the recent legacy media coverage of Operation Epic Fury. Manipulated stories, omitted facts, and contrived narratives are advanced daily in attempts to persuade the public that the Iran war is going poorly. Today’s Democratic politicians are no better. This dishonesty reinforces Trump’s previous claims that the legacy media is the enemy of the people.
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WASHINGTON EXAMINER
The US should give Japan what it needs
By Washington Examiner
March 17, 2026 5:00 am
The United States–Japan alliance is strong, but President Donald Trump has an opportunity to make it stronger than ever. Japan’s Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi is due to meet the president on Thursday and will reportedly lobby him for better trade terms and greater security assistance. Trump should give Japan what it needs.
Tokyo is Washington’s most important ally in the Indo-Pacific. The two nations’ alliance has been steadily built over eight decades, enduring in spite of occasional disagreements, especially on trade. Japan is the U.S.’s indispensable partner in the region, with an irreplaceable economic and technological prowess and decades of close cooperation. This was the case during the Cold War, and it remains so now.
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THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Higher gas prices are the least of our problems
Oil shocks, supply chains and Asian chip dependence could amplify economic fallout
Iran war and oil prices illustration by Linas Garsys / The Washington Times more >
COMMENTARY
By Peter Morici - Tuesday, March 17, 2026
OPINION:
The thinking among economists is that a moderate jump in oil prices instigated by the war with Iran shouldn’t cause a recession for the U.S. economy. President Trump says a temporary spike in the cost of oil is a small price to pay to secure peace.
Don’t bank on the economists, but Mr. Trump is right.
In February, Brent crude cost $71 a barrel, and the national average price of a gallon of gasoline was $3.04. Each $10 increase in oil should push up gasoline prices by about 15 to 20 cents per gallon. That hurts working families, but gasoline and diesel represent only about 3% of the consumer price index, and that money doesn’t leave the economy.
The U.S. is a net oil exporter, and incomes in the domestic petroleum industry will rise.That should translate into more investment.
Still, Americans spend less on other stuff almost immediately, and new spending in the oil patch arrives with some lag.
Wells Fargo’s economists estimate that a 50% increase in oil prices would reduce consumer spending by 1 percentage point. By itself, that shouldn’t be enough to cause a downturn.
Wars always have unforeseen consequences.
By supporting the Houthis, Iran has been terrorizing shipping around the Suez Canal. By attacking other Gulf states, it has now effectively shut down passage through the Strait of Hormuz.
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READ MORE: https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/mar/17/higher-gas-prices-least-problems/
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THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Trump, Rubio say Cuba needs to see major changes ‘soon’
President Donald Trump speaks with Secretary of State Marco Rubio during a roundtable discussion on college sports in the East Room of the White House, Friday, March 6, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson) more >
By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times - Tuesday, March 17, 2026
President Trump said Tuesday the U.S. will be “doing something with Cuba very soon” as the administration tightens its economic squeeze on the island’s communist leaders.
Cuban officials recently said they planned to open the country to foreign investment as Mr. Trump squeezes the government by effectively blocking fuel shipments to the island.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio, sitting by Mr. Trump in the Oval Office on Tuesday, said the administration wanted to see more drastic changes.
“Cuba has an economy that doesn’t work in a political and governmental system. They can’t fix it, so they have to change dramatically,” said Mr. Rubio, who is a Cuban-American. “What they announced yesterday is not dramatic enough. It’s not going to fix it. So they’ve got some big decisions to make over there.”
Mr. Trump is eyeing a change in Cuba after he raided Venezuela to capture President Nicolas Maduro and extradite him to the U.S. to face drug-trafficking charges.
The president is deploying a so-called “Don-roe Doctrine” in which the U.S. is the main force in the Western Hemisphere and boxes out foreign intervention.
The U.S. has wielded a trade embargo against Cuba for six decades. But Mr. Trump ramped up the pain by threatening to punish countries like Mexico for any oil shipments to Havana.
Mr. Rubio said Cuba can no longer rely on subsidies from Venezuela or the former Soviet Union, so it must adapt.
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NEWSMAX
Rubio Calls for New Leadership in Cuba
Tuesday, 17 March 2026 01:19 PM EDT
Large parts of Cuba were without power on Tuesday after its third blackout in four months underscored the island's deepening energy and economic crises and rising political tensions with President Donald Trump.
Electricity was slowly being restored to hospitals and some of the island's 11 million residents, but officials warned that its crumbling power network could fail again.
Cuba's aging grid has drastically eroded in recent years, leading to daily outages and an increase in significant blackouts.
The government blames its woes on a U.S. energy blockade after Trump in January warned of tariffs on any country that sells or provides oil to Cuba.
Trump was asked during a meeting Tuesday in the Oval Office with the prime minister of Ireland about the U.S. seeking regime change in Cuba but deferred to his Secretary of State, Marco Rubio.
Rubio, who himself is of Cuban heritage, said the island “has an economy that doesn’t work in a political and governmental system. They can’t fix it.”
“So they have to change dramatically,” Rubio said. “What they announced yesterday is not dramatic enough. It’s not going to fix it.”
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THE EPOCH TIMES
Conrad Black: The Hormuz Strait Threat Won’t Derail US Strategy in Iran War
A gas tanker at anchor as traffic is down in the Strait of Hormuz amid the Iran war, in Shinas, Oman, on March 11, 2026. Benoit Tessier/Reuters
Conrad Black
3/17/2026|Updated: 3/17/2026
Commentary
As is the norm when political events in uncivilized places become violent, stock and related commodity prices become volatile and usually overreact. This has certainly occurred with oil prices responding to developments in the Iran war. The U.S. administration has already waived the Jones Act to facilitate the delivery of foreign oil in foreign ships to U.S. ports and announced increased supply from the Naval oil reserve.
The United States is now an energy self-sufficient country, so concerns within the United States itself about the oil price are unfounded. The current spike in California is entirely the responsibility of successive state governments conducting an unholy war on the oil industry that has caused a drastic reduction of California’s oil refining capacity. However, even California will not long be troubled by this burden.
The principal concern is the Strait of Hormuz, through which 20 percent of the world’s oil traffic passes, and it has Iran on its northern shore at its narrowest ...
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THE EPOCH TIMES
Senator Warns of Threat Posed by Chinese Nationals Receiving US Flight Training
Chinese nationals receive U.S. flight training as China faces military and civilian pilot shortfall, according to Sen. Jim Banks.
Rep. Jim Banks (R-Ind.) on Capitol Hill on March 27, 2019. York Du/NTD
Frank Fang
Reporter
3/17/2026|Updated: 3/17/2026
Sen. Jim Banks (R-Ind.) is urging federal aviation security officials to tighten oversight of U.S. flight schools training Chinese nationals, warning that these programs must “serve American interests” and not the Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s “dreams.”
Banks announced on March 16 that he sent a letter last week to Ha Nguyen McNeill, acting administrator of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA).
He warned that the CCP is employing a strategy called military-civil fusion that “deliberately erases” the boundary between the civil and the military sectors, meaning that Chinese trainees could become airmen for the Chinese military.
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RedState
Trump Lashes Out at NATO for Their Fecklessness: 'We Will Protect Them, but They Will Do Nothing for Us'
By Bob Hoge | 12:43 PM on March 17, 2026
The opinions expressed by contributors are their own and do not necessarily represent the views of RedState.com.
As we’ve reported, many of our supposed European allies are refusing to step up to the plate and help the U.S. rid the world of one of history’s most evil regimes, Iran, even though they all want that outcome.
Meanwhile, they all agree that keeping open the crucial waterway, the Strait of Hormuz, where 20 percent of the world’s oil travels through, is crucial, yet they are content to stand idly by as what’s left of the Iranian regime threatens shipping and disrupts the world’s oil supply.
They’re all but too happy to let the United States do the dirty work.
Trump has already made his feelings about their weakness known, but on Tuesday, he let them have it once again in a livid Truth Social post. We don’t need your help, NATO, he wrote:
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