The Buffalo Chronicle
Foreign Policy
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Misunderstanding US-China economic comparisons
BY DEREK SCISSORS Two weeks ago, the World Bank published new estimates putting China slightly ahead of the US in 2017 gross domestic product (GDP) adjusted for purchasing power parity (PPP). This is badly…
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Trading a Jones Act waiver for improved access to UK markets
BY VINCENT H. SMITH Britain is poised to leave the European Union in January of 2021 and is now negotiating separate trade deals with both the US and the EU. As a member of the EU and…
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Is Pakistan nothing more than a colony of China?
BY MICHAEL RUBIN Pakistanis may soon die en masse for China’s interests, and the Pakistani government may allow it to happen. At issue is the nature of how Pakistan’s leaders have shifted…
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Replacing phase 1: Options for dealing with China
BY DEREK SCISSORS President Trump should stop talking about China and act. First-quarter trade numbers show his “phase one” deal is a non-starter for 2020, not to mention dwarfed by COVID. The…
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Trump is being urged to nominate Carl Paladino as Acting Ambassador to Canada
Supporters of President Donald Trump are prodding him to nominate Buffalo businessman Carl Paladino as acting United States Ambassador to Canada. The President is allowed to make interim appointments while Congress is…
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The collapse of Venezuela’s health system could be worse than COVID-19 pandemic
BY RYAN C. BERG A slow-motion catastrophe is playing out in the Western Hemisphere. No, it’s not the coronavirus pandemic or the alarming collapse of Venezuela’s healthcare system, which will be overrun…
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Soros-tied group run by top Democrat operatives promotes global agenda
Another influential group aiming to spread leftist billionaire George Soros’ radical global agenda has popped up in the United States. It’s called the Transatlantic Democracy Working Group (TDWG) and it is an offshoot of…
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Another tragedy unfolds in Syria
BY DANIELLE PLETKA On February 2, a little known anniversary passed with barely a remark. On that day in 1982, Syrian forces entered the town of Hama and massacred thousands, as many…
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Illegal immigrants buy, rent kids for easier U.S. entry, Guatemalan with fake son jailed
A federal case out of south Florida illustrates the perils of a U.S. policy that facilitates the entry of illegal immigrants with children over those traveling alone. The matter involves a Guatemalan…
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U.S. funding of Islamist “charity” groups triples under Trump
The amount of American taxpayer dollars that go to Islamist organizations has drastically increased under the Trump administration, which has doled out millions to radical nonprofits, including a recent allocation to a…
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Honduras arrests U.S.-bound Iranians as new caravan heads north from central American nation
As hundreds join a new U.S.-bound caravan in Honduras, authorities in the crime-infested Central American nation reveal that four Iranians were recently arrested there. Like thousands of illegal immigrants from around the world, the…
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U.S. to spend $700,000 on Eswatini’s ‘National Condom Strategy’
The U.S. government will spend more than half a million dollars to provide residents of a tiny, poverty-stricken African nation with condoms. The money, $700,000, will help fund a National Condom Strategy launched by…
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Is the Army the richest service? Navy? Or Air Force?
BY MACKENZIE EAGLEN This year’s battle of the budget between the services has been much more public than any in recent memory, as Breaking D readers know. Mackenzie Eaglen, who writes for…
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Coercing China on climate change?
BY DEREK SCISSORS The atmosphere does not respond to greenhouse gas emissions per capita or scaled by economic size or to “fairness,” only to the quantity of emissions. The latest data on those quantities…
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Two new lawsuits filed against State Department on Biden-Burisma scandal and alleged whistleblower contacts on Ukraine
WASHINGTON, DC – Judicial Watch announced today it filed two Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuits against the United States Department of State relating to Burisma Holdings. The first lawsuit seeks records…
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Libya explains why Turkey has no friends
BY KORI N. SCHAKE It is hard to credit now, but there was a time, only a decade ago, when Turkey described its foreign policy doctrine as one of “zero problems with our…
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Mexican police chief unfazed by U.S. alert, arrival of middle easterners going north is ‘normal’
A recent U.S. alert warning Mexico of armed Iranians planning to enter the country through the southern border didn’t faze a busy Mexican border city’s police chief, who confirms the region is…
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Gerstman says Russia and Europe are ‘Guilty of Hypocrisy’ on Libya
Brad Gerstman of Gotham Government Relations Denounces Russian and European Leaders, Claiming Hypocrisy A representative for Libya’s Government of National Accord (GNA) is denouncing Russian and European leaders for preaching ceasefires and…
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Iraq at the crossroads
BY LINDA ROBINSON The protests gripping Iraq pose an extraordinary challenge to Baghdad’s political leadership, which must move the country ahead or step aside. The mostly youthful protesters are tired of politics…
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KAGAN: Afghanistan is not Vietnam
BY FREDERICK W. KAGAN Afghanistan isn’t Vietnam. It isn’t even Iraq. George W. Bush did not lie America into this war. He, Barack Obama, Donald Trump, and their generals and diplomats didn’t…
