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TikTok Is a Chinese Data Collection Platform, Not a Harmless Video App <[link removed]> - Ahead of TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew's appearance before the House Energy and Commerce Committee this week, Kara Frederick answers the question: What does TikTok’s ties to the Chinese
Communist Party mean for the everyday American? Heritage Expert: Jake Denton <[link removed]>
This Ugly Dispute Over Amphibious Warships Didn’t Have to Happen <[link removed]> - While this is about a warship, the impasse arises from a major problem: the Pentagon’s political leaders have thus far
failed to articulate a workable long-term vision for naval shipbuilding. The Defense Department needs to spell out what naval resources are needed to deter China from aggression, not just tell us what they were able to fit under an arbitrary budget cap. In the absence of such a statement, Congress must execute its constitutional duty to “provide and maintain a Navy.” It must substitute its judgment for the missing Pentagon advice. Heritage Expert: Brent Sadler <[link removed]>
New Jersey’s $8,000-per-resident Wind Energy Scheme Won’t Reduce Climate Change <[link removed]> - Offshore wind is unpopular with locals, and opponents made their voices heard at a public forum last week in Ocean City. As the governor learns just how unpopular and expensive his net-zero vision is, he should drop his arbitrary offshore wind goals and walk away. Heritage Expert: Kevin Dayaratna <[link removed]> and Travis Fisher <[link removed]>
The U.S. Must Challenge China’s Status as a Developing Country in International Organizations and Treaties <[link removed]> - China has a well-established record of manipulating the international system to its benefit and continues to use its historical status as a developing country to its benefit—even though it is an economic
power rivaling the U.S. While China is the main concern, other relatively wealthy nations similarly benefit from measures intended to assist poor nations. The concept of “common but differentiated responsibilities” needs reconsideration and limitation to ensure that it targets nations that truly need special consideration. It is incumbent on the U.S. and like-minded countries to push back and ensure that wealthy, economically competitive nations, such as China, do not profit from benefits and different standards intended to assist poor nations. Heritage Expert: Brett Schaefer <[link removed]>
Joe Biden’s budget is out of the Viking playbook <[link removed]> - Farmers know a thing or two about stewardship. If they don’t take care of their land, eventually it will cost them their livelihoods. Unlike farmers, who work to steadily build a better future, Vikings would plunder villages, taking all they could carry away before moving on to their next target. President Joe Biden’s budgets take the latter approach, going after more and more of the American people’s hard-earned treasure every year. Heritage Expert: Preston Brashers <[link removed]>
Cut US funding over UNRWA’s antisemitism <[link removed]> - The latest example <[link removed]> comes from U.N. Watch, a Geneva-based non-governmental organization. The report documents numerous examples of "UNRWA’s gross and systematic violations of neutrality and other U.N. rules in their hiring of teachers and in their use of curricula inside UNRWA schools that constitute incitement to hatred, antisemitism and terrorism." Heritage Expert: Jason Bedrick <[link removed]> & Brett Schaefer <[link removed]>
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