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The Way We Counter China, Ten Approaches

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Art generated by Ideogram in response to author's prompt (Not about Enfield) The way we counter China: 1. Destroy our R&D basic research capability. Check. 2. Scare off foreign students. Check. 3. Discourage investment by putting economy at risk of recession. Check. 4. Let China and EU lead in EV and alternative energy development. Check. 5. Prompt our allies to rebuild supply chains away from America. Check. 6. Undermine the global standing of our leading research universities. Check. 7. Implement mass deportations without a plan to counter our low population replacement rate. Check. 8. Impose an incoherent tariff policy. Check. 9. Prompt China and the EU to spend more on R&D and education in response to trade restrictions. Check. 10. Get into a trade war with China without alternative sources, or a stockpile, of rare earth minerals. Check. 
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The rough and unfair criticism of the Enfield March for our Lives protest

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After the March for our Lives posted this on the Enfield Open Forum on Facebook . There was a lot of negative comments about student activism in Enfield. But Facebook forums are Facebook forums. They don't reflect the broader community. Here's what I wrote: Why are so many people on this Enfield forum so interested in tearing down the town's kids? Belittling their advocacy? There were a fair number of adults and families at today's Enfield event. It was very touching. There were several student speakers, whose names I don't know, who delivered articulate, passionate assessments of the problem. I was very impressed by them. Enfield has always had a little bit of an off-center streak to it. When I was growing up here, I knew a fellow who was involved with the John Birch Society. They had an office in Thompsonville. Early 1970s. There's always been a conservative streak to the town, and a strong liberal one, rooted in the New England, Catholic tradition. ...
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