Right now, most China observers focus their attention on the upcoming 20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, which will be held in mid-October. Their focus is on whether Xi Jinping, who is finishing up full two terms (10…
A month before China’s 20th Party Congress is scheduled to meet in Beijing, China’s President Xi Jinping will meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) in Uzbekistan on September 15-16. The summit comes on the…
Earlier this year, Ian Easton, a former China analyst with the Center for Naval Analyses and currently senior director at the Project 2049 Institute, a think tank that focuses on U.S. security interests in the Indo-Pacific region, wrote a book…
In an important article in the American Conservative, researcher John Mac Ghlionn provides further evidence that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is aiming at no less than geopolitical primacy on what Sir Halford Mackinder called the Eurasian-African “World-Island.” Mac Ghlionn’s…
Semiconductor manufacturing has become a tale of Americans’ sleepwalking into a crisis. The U.S. currently manufactures 12 percent of the world’s chips, down from 37 percent in 1990. Its leading companies, like Apple, are fantastic at creating cutting-edge chip designs…
Professor Graham Allison of Harvard University has written a sobering article in the National Interest titled “Taiwan, Thucydides, and U.S.-China War,” in which he warns that China and the United States are headed toward a “catastrophic war” over Taiwan. Unless…
The National Interest just published an essay by Pakistani Sen. Mushahid Hussain urging U.S. policymakers to accommodate China’s achievement of Indo-Pacific hegemony. The senator, who studied at Georgetown’s School of Foreign Service and chairs the Pakistani Senate’s Defence Committee, doesn’t…
The Rise of China, Inc.: How the Chinese Communist Party Transformed China into a Giant Corporation By Shaomin Li (Cambridge University Press, 346 pages, $30) The symbiotic relationship between China’s government and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) enables China to…
In the midst of the Cuban Missile Crisis when Soviet ships heading for Cuba stopped short of the U.S. blockade line, Secretary of State Dean Rusk remarked, “We’re eyeball to eyeball and I think the other fellow just blinked.” The…
