In August 2020, after U.S. Health Secretary Alex Azar visited Taiwan, Chinese fighter jets crossed the median line of the Taiwan Strait, which brought a response from Taiwan’s U.S.-supplied air force. In late September, China simultaneously held five military exercises…
On March 12 of this year, I wrote for these pages a piece entitled “China and the Coronavirus — A Reckoning.” While the origins of COVID-19 were at that time murky (and remain so), what has become increasingly clear is…
The South Korean K-pop group BTS rules the music world. It’s not my schtick, but that apparently means I am almost alone. Most of humankind understands it is not wise to challenge BTS’s followers, as angry Chinese social media mavens…
While the democratic countries all realize that they must do something to counter the expansion of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), there is little consensus on the best way to achieve it. In order to protect the democratic countries from…
In the height of the U.S.–China clash, the CCP’s new moves are worth noting. First, it has softened its aggressive stance and has again promoted the “mutual benefits of China–U.S. cooperation”; second, and simultaneously, it has begun to promote an inward shift for its…
A week after the U.S. placed sanctions on 11 Chinese and Hong Kong officials accused of facilitating the crackdown on Hong Kong, Beijing has retaliated with sanctions of its own against an equivalent number of Americans that it accuses of…
“China’s pattern of misconduct is well known. For decades, they have ripped off the United States like no one has ever done before,” claimed President Trump in a Rose Garden address in late May. U.S. Attorney General William Barr was similarly critical in a…
The popular social media app TikTok and its Chinese-owned parent company ByteDance Ltd. have become the object of the Trump administration’s suspicions. Recent incidents have led to privacy concerns surrounding TikTok. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced on July 6…
Admittedly, I had the all-time favorite Disney song “Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?” in my mind when I wrote this title. Remember Fiddler Pig and Fifer Pig sang the song happily, arrogantly dismissing the idea that the Big…
