Trump could do to China what Reagan did to Soviet Union, if he wins second term, economics professor tells Boom Bust

Beijing says it will not accept Washington’s “smash and grab” policy of trying to force the sale of Chinese social media app TikTok. It’s warned it will retaliate against what it calls “theft.”

RT’s Boom Bust talks to John Quelch, Dean of Miami Herbert Business School, about the two countries’ tussle over TikTok and the future of their relationship.

“The level of Chinese investment in the United States is only $5-$6 billion, but the level of US investment in China is about $120 billion. So, in terms of a potential retaliation by Beijing, there are a lot of US assets in China that could be potentially confiscated in a tit-for-tat escalation,” he says.

https://www.rt.com/business/497146-trump-china-reagan-soviet-union/

Three cranes collapse at major container port near Mumbai (PHOTOS, VIDEO)

Three cranes have collapsed at India's largest container port on the outskirts of Mumbai after torrential rain and powerful winds blasted the region for several days.

Officials are still assessing the damage sustained after the cranes collapsed at Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust but Police Commissioner Sanjay Kumar said that no one was injured.

#MumbaiMonsoon#MumbaiRainsLive#mumbai#monsoon2020 wrecking havoc in the city and surroundings3 gantry cranes crashed at #Nhava#JNPT@TOIIndiaNews@mataonline@LoksattaLive@zee24taasnews@zeemarathipic.twitter.com/tcGi043wyV

— Kamlesh Desai (@thereallyslimkd) August 5, 2020

Good to know all are safe. pic.twitter.com/dAWX9Ny4se

— dmarineranandkaushik (@anandmariner) August 5, 2020

https://www.rt.com/news/497159-mumbai-crane-collapse-photos/

Trump Launches Cancel Culture Ad: “I’m Afraid To Say This Out Loud”

The Trump campaign has released a TV ad that directly addresses what is commonly referred to as cancel culture, the silencing of people who fear retribution from liberals, like trying to get you fired.

Polling backs up the effect. Polling shows that a majority of Americans, but particularly conservatives, fear expressing their views. The only people who are comfortable speaking out are people who are strongly liberal.

https://legalinsurrection.com/2020/08/trump-launches-cancel-culture-ad-im-afraid-to-say-this-out-loud/

FBI raids offices of US companies belonging to Ukrainian tycoons

The FBI has raided the offices of U.S. companies belonging to a Ukrainian tycoon linked to President Volodymyr Zelenskiy.

The FBI searched offices in Cleveland and Miami on August 4 belonging to billionaire Ihor Kolomoyskiy, whose media company informally backed Zelenskiy’s successful presidential bid in 2019.

“I can confirm that we are at both locations,” FBI Special Agent Vicki Anderson-Gregg confirmed in an August 4 telephone interview with RFE/RL from Cleveland.

She said she could not discuss the details of the investigation as the case “is under seal right now.” Anderson-Gregg said that no one had been detained in the raid.

https://americanmilitarynews.com/2020/08/fbi-raids-offices-of-us-companies-belonging-to-ukrainian-tycoons/

Another man accused of igniting explosive, tossing it into federal courthouse in Portland, injuring U.S. marshal

An 18-year-old man is accused of tearing plywood off the front glass panes of the federal courthouse in downtown Portland and then lighting a fuse on an explosive before tossing it through the broken glass early on July 22, injuring a deputy U.S. marshal, according to federal prosecutors.

Isaiah Maza Jr. made his first appearance in the Mark O. Hatfield United States Courthouse Monday afternoon on allegations of assault on a federal officer using a dangerous weapon and depredation of federal government property.

He’s the second 18-year-old since Friday who is accused of federal charges stemming from a firework or other explosive ignited at the federal courthouse during recent demonstrations.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Gary Sussman described Maza as a “very dangerous man,” who was caught on video lighting the fuse, dropping the hand-sized explosive device inside the lobby of the courthouse “and then watching with his cellphone for the explosion.”

“This is a very vicious, very violent crime,” Sussman argued. “That conduct is exceedingly dangerous. He was out of control that night. There’s nothing to say he will continue to be out of control in the future.”

https://americanmilitarynews.com/2020/08/another-man-accused-of-igniting-explosive-tossing-it-into-federal-courthouse-in-portland-injuring-u-s-marshal/

NYC health commissioner resigns amid tensions with mayor

Aug. 4 (UPI) – New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio named Dr. Dave Chokshi as the city's new health commissioner Tuesday after Dr. Oxiris Barbot resigned the post.

The leadership change comes after months of discord between the New York City health department and de Blasio during the COVID-19 pandemic, the New York Daily News reported. The novel coronavirus has sickened more than 230,000 people and killed 23,000 in the city, according to a New York Times tracker.

Barbot announced her resignation in an email to health department staff

https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2020/08/04/NYC-health-commissioner-resigns-amid-tensions-with-mayor/1821596561462/

United States Plans to Relocate Factories from Asia to Latin America

This project could generate investments ranging from 30 to 50 billion dollars across the continent

The campaign slogan “Make America Great Again” could soon go beyond the borders of the United States. The Trump administration has announced that it is preparing a financial incentive plan to encourage U.S. companies with factories in Asia to return to the Americas, including Latin America and the Caribbean.

“We are essentially creating a ‘Back to the Americas’ initiative,” said Mauricio Claver-Carone, the White House national security advisor for Latin America and an aspiring president of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB).

This project could generate investments ranging from 30 to 50 billion USD across the continent. Although Claver-Carone did not name any particular company, he said that talks had already begun, but the pandemic helped convince them that it was time to get on board.

Infrastructure, energy, and transport could be the first potential focus areas for this initiative. In this way, the United States seeks to gain ground in Latin America, where China has been positioning itself since 2015 with large investments and loans of over 40 billion USD, according to the Inter-American Dialogue.

https://panampost.com/editor/2020/07/31/united-states-plans-to-relocate-factories-from-asia-to-latin-america/

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Not All Foreign-Influence Scandals Are Created Equal

By John Fund

July 16, 2017 10:35 PM

President Bill Clinton with Al Gore at the 1996 Democratic Convention in Chicago (Reuters photo: Win McNamee)

Two decades ago, the media weren’t obsessed with Chinese interference in a presidential election.

This summer we mark the 20th anniversary of a major investigation by Congress of attempts by a hostile foreign power to influence an American presidential election.

I’m glad the news media is pursuing the Trump–Russia scandal, but let’s not forget the differences between how they are covering Russia compared with how they reported a similar story — this one involving Communist China — that developed during Bill Clinton’s 1996 reelection campaign. The Washington Post reported in 1998 that “evidence gathered in federal surveillance intercepts has indicated that the Chinese government planned to increase China’s influence in the U.S. political process in 1996.”

https://www.nationalreview.com/2017/07/chinese-illegally-donated-bill-clinton-reelection-campaign-media-downplayed/

Trump campaign sues Nevada to block mail-in ballots, claiming fraud ‘inevitable’

Nevada is among eight states that plan to mail every voter a ballot. Election officials in most of the country have encouraged at-home voting

The lawsuit, filed in federal court, claims the Democratic-sponsored legislation will result in ‘inevitable’ voter fraud. Election experts disagree

US President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign and the national Republican Party have sued the state of Nevada to block a new law that will send a mail-in ballot to every registered voter ahead of November’s election.

The lawsuit, filed in federal court, claims the Democratic-sponsored legislation will result in “inevitable” voter fraud. Trump, a Republican, faces Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden in the November 3 contest.

https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3096203/trump-campaign-sues-nevada-block-mail-ballots

These professors have been 'canceled' for standing up to the Left

As we’ve reported extensively at Campus Reform, professors across America are facing mounting pressure to fall in line with the Left’s “Social Justice” movement. While it sounds nice, oftentimes, supporting “social justice” means supporting socialist, Marxist policies and organizations.

Increasingly, those within academia who fail to wholeheartedly support such movements are labeled “racists” and “white supremacists” and fired or suspended by their institutions.

Here’s a list breaking down some of the most egregious examples of professors being discriminated against because of their unwillingness to support the far-left social justice movement.

The Dean of Nursing at UMass-Lowell was fired by the school after saying “everyone’s life matters” in an email to students and faculty, following the protests and riots after the death of George Floyd.

In her email, Dean Leslie Neal-Boylan said, “I am writing to express my concern and condemnation of the recent (and past) acts of violence against people of color… I despair for our future as a nation if we do not stand up against violence against anyone. BLACK LIVES MATTER, but also, EVERYONE’S LIFE MATTERS.”

That email was deemed “racist” by students and community members, and days later, Neal-Boylan said she was fired “without trial.”

https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=15379

Democrats’ Worst Nightmare: Black Trump Supporters March in Los Angeles, Champion #BlackLivesMAGA

We’ve got some strange things going on with regard to race.

For months now, thousands of violent rioters — the vast, vast majority of them evidently Caucasian — have taken to the streets bearing the banner of “Black Lives Matter.”

While screaming at black people in uniforms.

And raging about things having nothing to do with race, like the right to own their own business (capitalism) and the ability to keep from getting dead (anti-anarchical law enforcement).

Meanwhile, the official organization Black Lives Matter™ — led by “trained Marxists” — lists among its objectives a rebellion against family.

https://www.redstate.com/alexparker/2020/08/04/black-trump-supporters-march-los-angeles-black-lives-maga/

Led Zeppelin When The Levee Breaks by Zepparella

AFRICOM: Another combatant command to leave Germany

Mark Esper, the U.S. Secretary of Defense, announced earlier last week that European Command EUCOM will relocate from Stuttgart, Germany to the NATO headquarters in Mons, Belgium. He also ordered Africa Command (AFRICOM) to draw up plans to relocate its headquarters. But unlike EUCOM, there is not a place for AFRICOM to go.

As part of the Trump administration’s drawdown in Germany, 11,900 personnel who are currently stationed in Germany, will be repositioned to other locations, Esper said. Of the troops leaving Germany 5,600 will remain in Europe at other locations and 6,400 will return to the United States. The move will reduce the number of U.S. military personnel in Germany from about 36,000 to 24,000. Germany will still be the NATO country hosting the most U.S. troops.

EUCOM and Special Operations Command Europe will move to NATO HQs in an effort to speed and clarify the decision-making process and have greater operational alignment with our allies. The hope is that the same thinking will apply to AFRICOM and Special Operations Command Africa (SOCAFRICA). Yet, this might not be as simple.

Africa is three times the size of the United States, and AFRICOM/SOCAFRICA engage with our partners in over half of the continent’s 54 countries. Yet, there has always been an issue on the continent with placing U.S. HQs there.

https://sofrep.com/news/africom-another-combatant-command-to-leave-germany/

Pilot Dead After Air Force Fighter Crashes in Central Argentina

An Argentine Air Force A4AR ground attack fighter has crashed during a training flight south of the city of Cordoba in central Argentina, the force stated via Twitter.

August 5, 2020

​According to the Air Force, the pilot was found dead in the vicinity of the town of Villa Valeria after he ejected himself from the aircraft.

https://sputniknews.com/latam/202008051080075469-pilot-dead-after-air-force-fighter-crashes-in-central-argentina/