Brazilian president’s lousy Beijing wager, Israel’s – Latest News
Latin beat: Lula’s Lousy Beijing Bet
“Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has intensified his confrontation with the US and his reliance on Communist China — a strategy that could seriously jeopardize Brazil’s economy, security, and sovereignty,” warns Arturo McFields at The Hill. The leftist chief’s embrace of “panda bonds” and “yuan as currency” will restrict Brazil’s “financial freedom to sell to countries other than the communist power.” Joint space-related ventures will allow Beijing to “improve military capabilities” in a US sphere of affect. Lula’s China ploy is high- risk: Tying Brazil’s “telecommunications, space security, trade and now bonds” to Beijing’s “economic fluctuations” will “leave Brazilian finances vulnerable.” Upshot: “Confrontation with the US is both futile and unnecessary, but dependency on Beijing puts Brazil’s economy at risk and endangers the security of the Americas.”
Mideast watch: Israel’s Not the Problem
Sam Harris received’t debate his help for Israel, the podcaster explains at his Substack, as a result of no Jewish state’s “failings” come close to altering the information that “the ethical difference between Israel and her enemies remains vast,” “militant Islam is 10 times worse than you think” and “the global preoccupation with the Jewish state” is “contemptible.” The world’s obsession with Israel, “and the double standards to which its people are held,” are core to the “shape-shifting moral affliction” of antsemitism. That issues, as a result of antisemites “bring censorship, political repression, conspiracy thinking,” dehumanization and scapegoating. Decrying antisemitism isn’t “special pleading” however “a defense of the moral and institutional architecture” that free societies require.
Culture critic: The Paradox of Colorblindness
They’re welcome however “incomplete”: “Two recent Supreme Court decisions — on affirmative action and on voting rights — have clarified something profound about American public life,” explains Glenn Loury at Unherd. Since its founding, the nation has tried “simultaneously to transcend race and to manage its consequences” — and each efforts should proceed. It’s “the paradox of colorblindness”: Our “endless racial accounting risks weakening common citizenship,” however a colorblind method obscures the “realities that shape unequal outcomes.” The actual problem “isn’t simply legal,” “it is civic and developmental” — as “indifference to the roots of racial inequality is actually inconsistent with achieving colorblindness in the conduct of our public affairs.”
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Fraud patrol: Corruption = Dems’ Gift to GOP
JD Vance’s “Fraud Czar” function may becomehis “biggest asset,” argues JT Young at RealClearPolitics, as a result of “defrauding the federal government is big business,” and must be “an even bigger political issue.” “Overpayments” fraud alone runs $186 billion at a minimal, and the main points are “alarming.” Minnesota’s “vast fraud network” stole “an estimated $9 billion,” with some money “funneled abroad and possibly to a terrorist group.” Republicans could be good to “run against corruption because Democrats have given them the issue,” which builds on “longstanding Republican themes” corresponding to “reducing spending,” “cutting the deficit and debt,” “enforcing the law” and “eliminating unnecessary programs.” Fighting fraud “gives Republicans a resonant message of getting government’s house in order.”
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Conservative: Judging Don’s NBC Walkout
Many information shops reported that President Trump “abruptly ended” an interview with “Meet the Press,” when in actuality he left after Kristen Welker “challenged his claims that the 2020 election . . . was ‘rigged,’” notes USAToday’s Nicole Russell. Trump fired back, “your elections are crooked and you’re crooked, and ‘Meet the Press’ is crooked,” leaving Democrats to deem him “hostile to accountability” — however the prez is hardly “alone in his skepticism.” A 2026 research discovered “57% of Americans have little confidence in journalists to act in the public’s best interests”; a 2025 one confirmed 92% of main information shops reported negatively on Trump’s first 100 days in workplace. He has given “unprecedented access” to legacy information shops, although most “approach Republicans with left-leaning bias.” To conservatives, Trump’s walkout says more about “the chasm between the press, partisan politics and the public,” than his mood.
— Compiled by The Post Editorial Board
