Pittsburgh Tribune-Review scorches State’s public pension system over portfolio’s global bad actors’
Last Sunday's edition of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review ran a blockbuster expose of the Pennsylvania State Employees' Retirement System -- "one...
Homeland Security and Counterterrorism
Bloomberg Reports Beijing’s Obfuscation Strategy Concerning Intensifying Sinopec-Iran/ILSA Controversy
(Washington, D.C.): On 19 January, the Bloomberg wire ran a news item that should be of more than passing interest...
Sinopec-Iran Deal Facing Increased Scrutiny: Capital Markets Dimension Could Spell Trouble For Wall Street
(Washington, D.C.): Over the past several days, mounting anger is being expressed in the United States -- notably by the...
Insult to Injury: Sinopec’s Iranian Deal Constitutes Apparent I.L.S.A. Violation
(Washington, D.C.): Last week, Sinopec the Chinese state-owned energy company whose listing on the New York Stock Exchange last October...
WSJ Asia calls attention to Clinton’s rebuff of the US Religious Freedom Commission
In an important article in today's Asian edition, the Wall Street Journal reported on President Clinton's dismissive response to a...
Clinton’s Parting Shot at International Religious Freedom
(Washington, D.C.): On 19 December, President Clinton fired off a letter to U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) Chairman...
PetroChina Coalition Urges American Shareholders to Divest — and to Expand Political Risk’ Assessments
(Washington, D.C.): A large coalition of non-governmental groups (NGOs) from across the political spectrum chose Pearl Harbor Day to call...
Casey Chair Robinson Addresses Nation’s Women Legislators on Protecting State Public Portfolios from Fund-Raising Efforts by Global Bad Actors’
(Washington, D.C.): Following remarks by Congressmen Asa Hutchinson (R-AR) and David Vitter (R-LA) at a plenary breakfast in New Orleans...
Sobering up on China
(Washington, D.C.): An amazing thing happened in Wednesday's Washington Post: Readers were informed in a front-page article that Communist China...
U.S. Religious Freedom Commission Challenges President Clinton On Upcoming China Sovereign Bond Offering
(Washington, D.C.): The next major development in the escalating controversy over Chinese efforts to finance odious activities on the U.S....
Critical Mass: Financial Times Affirms Rise of Capital Markets as Foreign Policy Leverage
(Washington, D.C.): One of the most prestigious financial newspapers in the world reported today that, with passage last week by...
Time to Raise the General Knowledge Level’ on China
(Washington, D.C.): Hong Kong's still-independent press is having a field day with an unusual PDA (public display of aggressiveness) by...
Sinopec Case Again Points to Beijing’s Deception in U.S. Equity Market; Far Eastern Economic Review Scorches S.E.C and Wall Street
(Washington, D.C.): An extraordinary article by Murray Heibert appeared yesterday in the prestigious Far Eastern Economic Review (FEER) under the...
Sinopec Comes to Market as China Taps Unsuspecting U.S. Investors for Funds to Support Nefarious Activities
(Washington, D.C.): The listing and trading of a $3.4 billion Initial Public Offering by China Petroleum and Chemical Corporation (Sinopec)...
Senate’s Approval of P.N.T.R. Sets the Stage for China to Renew its Penetration of the U.S. Bond Market
(Washington, D.C.): According to a September 16 Reuters report, the government of China intends to reenter the U.S. bond market...
Breaking Faith
(Washington, D.C.): Last week, the U.S. ambassador to Israel, morphed from a man who presents his well-established pro-Israeli Labor Party...