Special to WorldTribune.com Commentary by Stephen Moore, May 14, 2026 The new consumer prices report showing a 3.8% price rise in April confirms what Americans have been complaining about for months: Inflation is continuing to squeeze family budgets. It’s indisputable that oil and fertilizer supply disruptions in the Middle East are driving up prices here […]

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To my sheer dismay, I opened a letter the other day informing me of yet another speeding ticket. How? I saw no cops. I stay just slightly above the speed limit like every other functioning adult in this country. No flashing lights, no sirens, no officer pulling me over to exercise any semblance of human judgment.

No need. The District of Columbia has taken a page straight out of the Chinese Communist playbook, embedding surveillance cameras on every major road in the city, lying in wait to snare Washington, D.C. residents in a money trap. The same residents, by the way, who already pay some of the highest taxes in the nation.

$400. I was as thrilled to see that bill as Pete Hegseth was shaking President Xi’s hand this week. Granted, I was going too fast, and I’ll pay it like a law-abiding citizen, but I shouldn’t have to feel like I’m dodging the Ministry of Public Security just to get to work.

Because that’s exactly what this is. China operates one of the world’s largest surveillance states, with an estimated 700 million CCTV cameras tracking its residents’ every move. The Fox News crew found that out the hard way during Trump’s Beijing trip, getting slapped with a $40 ticket for parking illegally for two whole minutes! It’s authoritarian. It’s Orwellian. And it’s a reminder: keep CCP-style surveillance and Chinese influence out of America.

Speed cameras are annoying and invasive, but they’re the least of what’s crushing the Chinese people. China is a disaster area. As President Donald Trump sits across from Xi Jinping this week, it’s worth remembering exactly who the enemy is and exactly how weak they really are.

You wouldn’t know it from their propaganda show. As Trump stepped off Air Force One in Beijing, he was greeted by perfectly choreographed children, waving flowers and American flags with rehearsed smiles, robotically jumping to the music. It looked like a scene out of The Interview. Abnormal. Creepy. Stop it.

Beneath that polished, stage-managed surface is a nation rotting from the inside.

China’s nominal GDP per capita is under $15,000 a year. Ours is $95,000. They’re facing a huge demographic problem after their one-child policy prevented 400 million births, gutting their workforce and leaving no one to pay the bills — bills that now sit at a 336% debt-to-GDP ratio, propped up by trillions in bad loans that will never be repaid. Beijing long ago crushed free enterprise in favor of a top-down mercantilist system where the Party picks winners and losers, and the result is a country that can’t innovate or build, which is why America is running away with the AI race and the global hegemonic title.

So instead, they steal — up to $600 billion in American IP every year — and mass-produce what they can, because they have no regard for human life or child labor laws. That same apathy toward their own people shows up in how they govern them: heavy taxation just to keep the nation afloat, a military that’s large but technologically limited, with no real deep-water capability or meaningful power projection. Their one-party autocracy doesn’t produce innovation; it produces loyalty oaths. China is not an ascending power threatening to displace us. It’s a declining one, desperately trying to stop the bleeding.

The CCP is not just our adversary. They are our enemy. And they’re losing. Some of it is self-inflicted, some of it is courtesy of our sanctions, investment restrictions, and the compounding advantage of being a free market that keeps innovating while they stagnate. But the Iran situation? That’s the cherry on top.

Fifty-four percent of China’s total oil imports come from the Middle East. Another 3–5% was coming from Venezuela before that dried up. They are almost entirely dependent on a region currently on fire, and they have no leverage to do anything about it. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said it plainly this week: Chinese ships are stuck in the Persian Gulf, Chinese cargo got hit over the weekend, and their export market is in limbo. An Iran war hurts China far more than it hurts us.

That desperation is precisely why this week’s White House meeting produced real concessions. China agreed to greater U.S. access to Chinese markets, an end to fentanyl precursor exports, a halt to purchasing American farmland, and — most significantly — that Iran cannot ever have a nuclear weapon. The Strait of Hormuz stays open. China even wants to buy American oil, because when your energy supply chain runs through a war zone, you get pragmatic fast.

Our little enemy has been backed into its rightful corner. We need more of this, because China has been running a full-spectrum assault on the United States for years: espionage, economic theft on a historic scale, and subversion right here at home.

In California, Arcadia Mayor Eileen Wang just pleaded guilty to spying for the PRC. A sitting mayor. A Bronx man named Lu Jianwang was just convicted for operating a secret Chinese “police station” in Manhattan’s Chinatown, monitoring dissidents and harassing fugitives on direct orders from Beijing. Eric Swalwell, the disgraced former congressman, got honey-potted by a Chinese spy named Fang Fang while sitting on the House Intelligence Committee — and it barely made a ripple. Chinese “students” embedded in our research universities go home upon graduation and take whatever they’ve collected with them. TikTok is a CCP propaganda pipeline running on 170 million American phones. The Confucius Institutes spent years pumping Beijing-approved curriculum into U.S. campuses, scrubbing any mention of Taiwan, Tiananmen, or the Uyghurs — the same Uyghurs sitting in Chinese concentration camps right now — millions of them.

So when Xi this week claims he wants “strategic stability” between China and the United States — great. Close the spy stations. Stop the fentanyl. Stop the stealing. Then we’ll take you seriously.

The fake news will tell you China holds the cards this week. They don’t. They never did. Trump is in Beijing, Xi is making concessions, and China is desperate for oil, stability, and a lifeline. That’s not strength. That’s a country running out of options.

America, don’t be like China. Don’t let their surveillance creep into our cities. Don’t fall for the communist propaganda, whether it comes from Bernie Sanders, AOC, honeypotters, or Xi himself.

And D.C.? Take those stupid cameras down.

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A Republican gubernatorial candidate in Connecticut, Erin Stewart, suspended her campaign after a report alleged that her personal use of a city credit card as mayor of New Britain was fraudulent.

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Efforts to unseat British Prime Minister Keir Starmer from within his own party broke into open rebellion Thursday, with one potential rival resigning from the Cabinet and two others positioning themselves for a future leadership challenge.

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By Lionel Mandrake @  Worldlyturnings

Of all the things done by the New World Order, when their legacy MSM came up with this back in the 1970s, , it was the beginning of the end.  And, it carried downstream to Academia, Government Schools and the Church.   We can still turn it around if we regain our sanity and not worry about upsetting the minority, rather than the majority.

Sic Semper Tyrannis

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Report Highlights: There are approximately 102 million gun owners in America. Of those, 0.5% to 2.5% report using firearms for self-defense every year.

• Studies and surveys from 1987 to 2025 suggest instances of defensive gun use range from 65,000 to 2.5 million each year.

• The most conservative defensive gun use estimate from the NCVS is 65,000 per year.

• According to recent surveys, 56% of gun owners state they carry firearms for self-defense.

Methodology

“Defensive gun use” (DGU) has no single definition. Some researchers define DGU according to the shooter’s assessment of the situation. Others only apply it to shootings performed during the commission of violent crime.

This report covers a variety of sources and methodologies. DGUs were combined into two categories based on methodology.

Sources were categorized by definitions and defensive use factors as follows:

• Broad DGU – Surveys based on self-reports of brandishing a firearm, verbally warning an attacker, stopping a confrontation, or defensive display with no shots fired. These incidents may not be reported to the police, as there are no accompanying injuries or property damage.

• Narrow Crime-Based DGU – Officially reported incidents, in which a defender threatened an offender with the use of a firearm during a documented crime (e.g. robbery, assault, burglary with confrontation).

Federal databases, such as the FBI Crime Data Explorer and CDC WONDER, were referenced to analyze crime and firearm-related deaths. The National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) was referenced to analyze defensive use cases based on reported crimes.

Per capita rates are calculated using U.S. population estimates ranging from 319 to 339 million.

How Often Are Guns Used in Self-Defense?

DGU estimates vary depending on source and methodology. Studies and surveys between 1990 and 2023 consistently suggest there are between 60,000 and 2.5 million DGUs annually (18-750 uses per 100,000 people).7

A survey-based study published in JAMA Network Open in March, 2025 estimated 489,000 annual DGUs in which a firearm was discharged. These incidents included a defender firing at and/or in the vicinity of a perceived threat.1

Self-reported survey data suggest that an average of 750 people per 100,000 deter or stop a criminal with a firearm annually.

Crime-based reporting studies suggest that between 18 to 30 people per 100,000 stop a threat and report it to the police annually. These data do not include all DGUs because they are based on reported crimes, and a DGU indicates that a crime was thwarted.

Polls and self-reporting surveys over the past thirty years range from 1.4 million to 4.3 million DGUs annually. These polls and surveys include respondents’ grabbing a firearm due to a perceived threat. These sources include incidents of brandishing, displaying, verbally warning with a gun in hand, or firing a weapon at a potential threat.18

The Gun Violence Archive (GVA) reported 18,414 DGUs (1,534.5 on average per year) between 2014 and 2025. This database uses more than 7,000 publications to identify incidents in which a shot was fired defensively and reported to the police and news outlets.

Justifiable Homicides in the U.S.

Justifiable homicides in the U.S. are defined as the lawful killing of another person. The FBI tracked 4,712 cases of justifiable homicide between 2015 and 2024. Of those, 59% of cases involved a civilian stopping a threat, and 41% involved a law enforcement officer stopping a threat.

Note: The FBI’s justifiable homicide data capture only a small subset of self-defense homicides. These incidents are classified and reported by law enforcement agencies nationwide. They do not represent the total number of defensive homicides in the U.S.

Justifiable Homicide by Region

Of the 4,712 justifiable homicides reported by the FBI between 2015 and 2024, 54% (2,552) occurred in the South. The Midwest reported 22.2% of the nation’s justifiable homicides, followed by the West with 17.5% (824), and the Northeast with 6% (289).

Read the full report here: https://ammo.com/research/defensive-gun-use-statistics

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