With so much attention being paid to China’s increasing threat to Taiwan in the South China Sea, under the radar the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is deepening ties to Cuba’s communist regime. On Nov. 25, 2022, President Xi Jinping hosted…
The Heritage Foundation’s James Jay Carafano and Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu (Romania) professor Silviu Nate, writing in the National Interest, propose the formation of a geo-economic “Middle Corridor” as a Western alternative to energy and supply chains dependent on…
What drives and motivates America’s most dangerous adversary, Chinese President Xi Jinping? As war clouds gather over the western Pacific, it would be helpful to know what makes Xi tick. Two of the world’s most interesting and provocative strategic analysts…
Three times in the past year, President Joe Biden has said we would defend Taiwan with military force, which would be a major shift in U.S. defense policy. Every time he has said that, his Cabinet and White House advisers…
Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro just released “Climate Action 2030,” a 32-page report which identifies climate change as an “existential threat” to the U.S. Navy and the nation. In the report’s Foreword, Del Toro writes that climate is “the focal…
Robert D. Kaplan sees the world whole. Geography is his lodestar. Geopolitics informs his understanding of history and current international relations. For more than a decade, he has used his keen analytical skills to explain the world’s power relationships. He…
While the world’s attention has been focused on the Russia-Ukraine war and China’s threatening behavior and rhetoric toward Taiwan, China has signed a security agreement with the Solomon Islands that Georgetown University professor Patricia O’Brien, writing in The Diplomat, claims…
China is both a land and sea power, which makes containing it harder than it was to contain the largely landlocked Soviet Union. China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) stretches across the Eurasian landmass into Central Asia and Europe, while…
What can you say about a country that trashed the planet Earth with a deadly virus? That it knew what it was doing? China has gotten away with it: businesses and industries destroyed or damaged; massive recession and unemployment; medical systems…
