US_ Chang to Newsmax: China Needs Hormuz Reopened (Sam Barron - NEWSMAX)

NEWSMAX

Chang to Newsmax: China Needs Hormuz Reopened

VIDEO

By Sam Barron | Thursday, 21 May 2026 10:08 PM EDT


China analyst Gordon Chang told Newsmax on Thursday that the country needs Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz more than the United States does.

"We are energy independent. We are food independent. China is neither," Chang said on "Greg Kelly Reports." "And that really means we're the only superpower in the world."

"China needs us much more than we need China," Chang said. "And yes, there are certainly things that we absolutely depend on the Chinese for. But when you look at the balance of the relationship, we're in a much better position."

Chang said he hopes the United States goes forward with a planned $14 billion arms sale to Taiwan.

"I believe we need to do that because not only do we instill confidence in Taiwan, in the Taiwanese people, but also in Japan as well as around the world," Chang said. "And the other thing we do is we show that we've got political will, and that is going to have a very good effect on whoever is running Iran right now."

"There are a number of things that we can do to push the world in much better directions," Chang added. "We have pushed China out of the Western Hemisphere. We're pushing them out of the Middle East. Xi Jinping is just helpless."

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WORLD_ Trump snubs Xi in promise to have first direct talk with leader ‘running Taiwan’ in almost 50 years (Emily Hallas - WASHINGTON EXAMINER)

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Trump snubs Xi in promise to have first direct talk with leader ‘running Taiwan’ in almost 50 years

By Emily Hallas
Published May 21, 2026 5:24pm ET | Updated May 21, 2026 5:24pm ET

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President Donald Trump on Wednesday revealed he plans to speak directly with Taiwanese leader Lai Ching-te, marking a departure from decades of U.S. precedent.

Such talks promise to antagonize China, where Trump recently traveled to meet with President Xi Jinping and discuss Taiwan. Beijing has long sought to assert communist control over the strategically placed island, which lies just off of China’s coast, after it broke away from the mainland in 1949 and attempted to assert itself as a sovereign democratic nation.

When pressed on whether he planned to speak with Lai about possibly selling the tiny island weapons, Trump said: “I’ll speak to him. I speak to everybody … we’ll work on that, the Taiwan problem.”

Beijing protested the move, while Taiwan’s foreign ministry said Thursday that it would be “happy to discuss these matters with President Trump.”

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US_ Bill Aims to Keep US Investors Away From Blacklisted CCP Officials (Eva Fu & Dorothy Li - THE EPOCH TIMES)

THE EPOCH TIMES

Bill Aims to Keep US Investors Away From Blacklisted CCP Officials

‘Communist China is our enemy and we need to wake up and start acting like it,’ Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) says.

Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) participates in the The Operating System for Institutions: Money, Workflows, and AI panel during The Hill & Valley Forum 2026 at Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium in Washington on March 24, 2026. Paul Morigi/Getty Images for The Hill & Valley Forum

Eva Fu
Reporter
&
Dorothy Li
5/21/2026|Updated: 5/21/2026


WASHINGTON—U.S. lawmakers are introducing legislation that would prohibit American investors from funding companies controlled by Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials on the U.S. blacklist.

The legislation, shared with The Epoch Times ahead of its release, would direct the Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to add blacklisted Chinese individuals to his department’s Non-SDN Chinese Military-Industrial Complex Companies List (NS-CMIC) within one year of their identification.

“No one working on behalf of the CCP’s military interests should be doing business in this country,” Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) said in a statement to The Epoch Times on May 21.

The NS-CMIC list, managed by the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control, aims to identify companies linked to the Chinese regime’s military sector.

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OPINION_ The Real Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Victor Davis Hanson - THE EPOCH TIMES)

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The Real Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

President Donald Trump waves from the stairs of Air Force One as he boards upon his arrival at Joint Base Andrews, Md., on May 12, 2026, for a trip to China to meet Chinese leader Xi Jinping. Luis M. Alvarez/AP Photo

Victor Davis Hanson
5/21/2026|Updated: 5/21/2026

Commentary

One American view of China—now increasingly popular on the Left and the Right alike, especially among the hate-Trump crowd—is that the communist colossus will be forever ascendant, with continued astonishing levels of food production, ship construction, and industrial output. In this pessimistic view, China will soon replace America as the world’s predominant power. We are, supposedly, like an exhausted British Empire circa 1945, and China is the new version of the postwar American powerhouse.

Yet even Beijing’s miraculous 30-year leap out of poverty into first-world affluence and Westernized power is hardly the same as parity with the United States. In truth, Trump held almost all the cards at the current summit and will do so again when Xi Jinping visits the U.S. this autumn. According to nearly every historical measure of power, the U.S. leads China by sizable margins—in wealth, economic output, fuel, food, and military strength.

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US_ Chang to Newsmax: China, Russia 'Trying to Find Comfort in Each Other's Arms' (Nicole Weatherholtz - NEWSMAX)

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Chang to Newsmax: China, Russia 'Trying to Find Comfort in Each Other's Arms'

VIDEO

By Nicole Weatherholtz | Thursday, 21 May 2026 12:45 PM EDT


China and Russia are no longer operating from positions of strength and are increasingly leaning on one another as President Donald Trump reasserts American power on the world stage, China expert Gordon Chang said Thursday on Newsmax.

Chang told "National Report" that despite the high-profile meeting between Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Beijing, the reality behind the scenes points to a strained relationship between the two U.S. adversaries.

"On the surface, it looks like things are fine," he said after noting the two nations signed 40 agreements during Putin's visit. "But Putin did not get what he came for — and that was to go forward on the Power of Siberia 2 gas pipeline."

That failure, Chang said, reveals growing weakness and friction between Moscow and Beijing.

"So we know that relations between China and Russia right now are not as good as they once were," he said.

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POLITICS_ Rubio: Hormuz Tolling System Would Make Iran Diplomatic Deal Unfeasible (NEWSMAX)

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Rubio: Hormuz Tolling System Would Make Iran Diplomatic Deal Unfeasible

Secretary of State Marco Rubio (AP)

Thursday, 21 May 2026 12:12 PM EDT

A diplomatic deal between the United States and Iran would be unfeasible if Tehran implemented a tolling system in the Strait of Hormuz, Secretary of State Marco Rubio told reporters on ⁠Thursday.

"No one in the world is in favor of the tolling system. ⁠It can't happen. It would be unacceptable. It would make a diplomatic deal unfeasible if they were to continue to pursue that," he said.

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OPINION_ Xi Warned US Not to Fall Into ‘Thucydides Trap.’ What’s That Mean? (Victor Davis Hanson - THE EPOCH TIMES)

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Xi Warned US Not to Fall Into ‘Thucydides Trap.’ What’s That Mean?

A statue of the ancient Greek historian Thucydides outside the Austrian parliament in Vienna. sianstock/Shutterstock

Victor Davis Hanson
5/20/2026|Updated: 5/20/2026


This is a lightly edited transcript of a May 18 segment of the Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words podcast.

Recently, at the U.S.-China summit in Beijing, Premier Xi [Jinping] mentioned that he hoped that both parties, the United States and China, could avoid the Thucydides Trap.

What did that mean? It refers to a book and an article by the well-known political scientist Graham Allison.

In it, he presented a paradigm of international relations. Briefly, it was this: If you have an established power, like ancient Sparta, and it gets worried that there is an ascending power, a rising new neighborhood bully or something, the older power, the established power, will attack it, and there will be a war.

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US_ Rubio to Cuba's Communist Thugs: Stop Blaming America for the Misery You Created (Ben Smith - REDSTATE)

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Rubio to Cuba's Communist Thugs: Stop Blaming America for the Misery You Created

By Ben Smith | 11:20 AM on May 20, 2026

The opinions expressed by contributors are their own and do not necessarily represent the views of RedState.com

AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein


The son of Cuban exiles now runs American foreign policy, and on Cuban Independence Day, Marco Rubio delivered a gut-punch to the regime that drove his family from the island. No hedging or doublespeak — just the truth about who is really starving the Cuban people.

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"VOA"_ Voice of America went from exposing the failures of communism to glorifying its dictators (Ted Lipien - Published December 25, 2021 12:00am ET - WASHINGTON EXAMINER)

WASHINGTON EXAMINER

Voice of America went from exposing the failures of communism to glorifying its dictators

By Ted Lipien
Published December 25, 2021 12:00am ET


In less than 40 years, the taxpayer-funded Voice of America went from exposing the crimes and economic failures of communism to in some cases glorifying communists, including Fidel Castro and Che Guevara.

VOA is part of the federal government’s $800 million (average annual budget) U.S. Agency for Global Media.

I am an Eastern European refugee from communism. Judging from what one can see online in various languages, I’ve concluded that recent and current VOA and USAGM officials either do not know or have forgotten what life was like for tens of millions of people living under communism and in state-run socialist economies in the former Soviet bloc.

My observations are shared by many dissident journalists in China, Cuba, Iran, Russia, and Ethiopia, as well as political refugees and immigrants from these countries living in the United States, who have been criticizing the management of the VOA programs for damaging the cause of human rights. That was absolutely not the case 40 years ago when I was in charge of the VOA Polish Service, broadcasting to Poland under the martial law imposed by pro-Soviet communists on Dec. 13, 1981.

Today, USAGM and VOA press releases are full of laudatory and often misleading claims from government bureaucrats. It is true that not all of today’s VOA language services are bad, and many outstanding journalists still work there. But the kind of criticism one hears now from citizens of captive nations about strategically important VOA programs would not have been ignored by any U.S. administration during the Cold War or by the commercial U.S. media.

After the VOA’s management was reformed under President Ronald Reagan, to the great discomfort of many former longtime executives and some central English newsroom reporters, VOA’s weekly audience in Poland increased fivefold in less than 10 years — to more than 50% of the adult population. In the 1980s, VOA was finally able to contribute significantly to the fall of communism in East-Central Europe, almost as much as Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. In contrast, VOA’s recent broadcasting in Afghanistan ended in a disaster. VOA’s impact in Russia, China, and Iran is now minuscule. Independent experts question USAGM’s inflated and often meaningless audience claims.

The amnesia of recent and current VOA officials about history and their failure to provide leadership are particularly dangerous at a time when Russian President Vladimir Putin may be getting ready to invade Ukraine and uses Belarus in a hybrid war against the neighboring nations in the European Union.

Chinese, Cuban, Ethiopian, and Iranian government propagandists have also been given an advantage by VOA and USAGM management’s failures. During the Cold War, VOA did not abandon any journalists behind the Iron Curtain. The VOA/USAGM management left behind in Afghanistan about 500 Afghan employees and family members. Senior agency executives could not see what was coming and did not order a prompt evacuation.

There are not enough VOA and USAGM managers with good judgment informed by a solid grasp of history.

A few years ago, a top VOA official seemed to question whether disinformation outlets such as Russia’s RT should be made to register in the U.S. as foreign agents. “When the U.S. government compels RT to register as a foreign agent, then other governments consider requiring U.S. media to register as foreign agents and then…,” the VOA executive wrote in a 2017 Facebook post, which was later deleted. It happened at about the same time VOA’s management carelessly hired several former Russian state media employees.

Foreign propaganda had found its way into VOA programs at various times. The VOA chief news writer and editor in 1943 was American novelist Howard Fast, who was later a Communist Party activist and the recipient of the 1953 Stalin International Peace Prize.

Censorship in favor of Soviet Russia has also been part of VOA history. In the early 1950s, before President Harry Truman carried out reforms, VOA censored a Polish writer and artist, Jozef Czapski, who had been a witness of Stalin’s genocidal crimes. In the 1970s, VOA even censored Russian dissident writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.

Such censorship ended under Reagan but has returned in recent years. Under Obama administration appointees, VOA English programs lauded American communist winner of the Lenin Peace Prize Angela Davis as a fighter for human rights, without any attempt to provide balance with information about her pro-Soviet past. Solzhenitsyn had once spoken bitterly about Davis in describing the methods of Soviet propaganda and how figures such as her were used to justify oppression.

The VOA Russian Service used recently as an on-air personality a former Russian TV anchor who, before his employment with VOA, produced anti-U.S. propaganda films with antisemitic overtones. One of his older videos on YouTube promoted conspiracy theories spread in Russia and in the West by Putin’s state media. The film put the blame on the U.S. government, American capitalists, and “Jewish bankers” for exploiting the economies of other countries around the world.

In March 2019, top USAGM and VOA officials received an email with information about this provided by opposition journalists from Belarus. A Belorussian refugee media outlet had expressed a profound shock that a person with a Russian propaganda work record could be hired by the U.S. government-funded broadcaster to host VOA programs. But nothing happened for many months, during which this journalist continued to be employed by VOA. The VOA management has since hired a few other journalists who had previously worked for Putin’s state media and seem particularly proud of their work in Russia.

During the same time, under the watch of recent and current VOA and USAGM executives, employees and contractors produced news reports and graphics that glorified repressive communist leaders. They did not mention the crimes of Marxist dictators and the failures of socialist state economies.

That is a far cry from how the VOA responded to propaganda from the Soviet Union and other communist states in the 1980s.

In mid-December 2021, the VOA English news website ignored the 40th anniversary of the imposition of martial law in Poland by the pro-Soviet regime of General Wojciech Jaruzelski. The event could have provided a useful history lesson, given that Soviet threats at that time against the Polish Solidarity movement were very similar to today’s Russian threats against Ukraine.

There was something else VOA’s foreign and U.S. audiences could have learned from history. During martial law in Poland, we received thousands of letters from listeners with requests for humanitarian assistance. In one such letter, sent to the VOA in November 1982, a mother of three girls, ages 7, 11, and 12, asked if VOA could help her. She wanted to find an American family willing to send used clothing and shoes for her young children. All three girls signed their names. The letter came to us from central Poland.

The mother wrote that the helplessness of her situation had forced her to suppress her shame and to ask VOA for help. She wanted her girls to have something warm to wear going to school in the approaching winter months. “We already have frost,” she wrote. “I’m afraid that my children will not have anything to wear to go to school. They have outgrown what we had bought two years ago. I can’t count on any humanitarian aid; I had already tried. You have to have connections.” Women wrote the majority of letters sent from Poland to VOA during the Cold War with requests for humanitarian assistance.

Unfortunately, this letter did not reach VOA before Christmas. A U.S. Postal Service stamp on the envelope shows that it was received in Washington, D.C., on Dec. 27, 1982. We used to forward such letters to charitable organizations in the U.S. If any packages from America with aid had arrived at their home in Poland, it would have been long after Christmas.

In her letter to VOA, the Polish woman did not make any direct references to the political situation in her country, but she made it abundantly clear that the communist regime in power was responsible for many years of economic deprivation for her young family. The system that produced such economic misery and killed millions of people should not be promoted by VOA to the rest of the world at the expense of U.S. taxpayers and in violation of the VOA Charter.

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WORLD_ Poland offering US ‘firsthand experience’ to help transition Cuba from communism (Timothy Nerozzi - WASHINGTON EXAMINER)

WASHINGTON EXAMINER

Poland offering US ‘firsthand experience’ to help transition Cuba from communism

By Timothy Nerozzi
Published May 20, 2026 5:00am ET | Updated May 20, 2026 8:04am ET

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Warsaw, Poland — The United States wants nothing more than to transition Cuba away from its decades of failed communist economics, and Poland is reminding the White House that it knows a thing or two about the process.

Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski, speaking with reporters at the ministry building in Warsaw on Tuesday, said his country is perfectly equipped to help transform centralized states into free markets — a task they accomplished themselves just a generation ago.

“Poland can leverage its firsthand experience from the 1989 transition and the Solidarity movement to advise Cuba through a peaceful, democratic transition and market reform,” Sikorski told the Washington Examiner.

Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski speaks to reporters at the Ministry of Foreign of Affairs in Warsaw, Poland. (Photo courtesy of the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs)

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