George Hahn

Trump recently disclosed 3,700 stock trades from the first quarter of this year, valued somewhere between $220 million and $750 million.

We need investigations and prosecutions.

However...

The Supreme Court immunized the president, and he promised to grant preemptive pardons to everyone within 200 feet of the Oval Office.

Besides, there isn't anyone to bring the case, as Trump has gutted the DOJ, SEC, IRS, and other agencies responsible for rooting out financial corruption.

China doesn't need to fire a shot to repatriate Taiwan.

According to a Bloomberg analysis, a conflict over Taiwan would cost the world economy an estimated $10.6 trillion, roughly 10% of global GDP in the first year alone.

By comparison, the OECD predicts the Iran war will slow global GDP growth from 2.9% to 2.6% in 2026 and from 3.0% to 2.5% in 2027.

Taiwan is the digital economy's carotid artery, but more important if you're Xi, it has deep economic ties to China.

an estimated 80% of Taiwan's businesses are linked to China.

Despite Taiwan's recent efforts to disconnect from the mainland, China remains its second-largest trading partner, behind only the U.S., with exports accounting for 20% to 25% of GDP.

Meanwhile, China has a history of deploying economic coercion.

Between 2010 and 2022, the Mercator Institute for China Studies documented 123 instances of economic coercion from the PRC.

It has also executed a multi-decade campaign to isolate Taiwan in diplomatic terms, reducing the number of countries that officially recognize the island nation to 12.

add-on cyber attacks, espionage, and disinformation, and Xi doesn't need a D-Day-style assault.

China's soft invasion has already made inroads and will continue to advance until Taiwan capitulates.

Taiwan's most valuable company, TSMC, controls 72% of the global foundry market, producing chips for AMD, Apple, Nvidia, and Qualcomm.

The company also produces 90% of the world's most advanced chips.

Taiwan's dominance isn't an accident, but the result of a state policy to leverage chipmaking for national security purposes.

In 2001, journalist Craig Addison coined the term Silicon Shield to describe how Taiwan's chip-making monopoly resulted in a de facto U.S.