“The Day of Infamy: Remembering the Tiananmen Square Massacre,” editorial cartoon by Shaomin Li for The American Spectator, May 31, 2023.
Where to begin? Communist regimes in their struggles with the West have benefited at various times from Western intellectuals that Lenin called “useful idiots.” Paul Hollander cataloged their naive political statements and harmful (to the West) activities in his book…
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China has hit a rough patch. As it widened its COVID lockdown catchment areas in 2022, the economic ramifications caught up with it, resulting in its second-worst economic growth rate since the 1970s. Late in the year, just as President…
President Richard Nixon’s rule for handling other countries was: “Do unto others as they would do unto you.” Then–Secretary of State Henry Kissinger corrected him, saying, “Plus 10 percent.” The legendary Jimmy Hoffa gave this notion sharper elbows: “I do…
The spy balloon event could not have come at a worse time for the Chinese Communist Party. The U.S.–China relationship has fallen to a low point, and many in the U.S. government and private sector demand economic delinking from China….
On Jan. 11, the United States and Japan unveiled plans to strengthen their alliance to counter threats from China. In a joint statement, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, Japan Minister of Foreign Affairs Yoshimasa Hayashi, and…
A coming crisis over Taiwan is now popularly treated as a foregone conclusion. China is increasing its military budget, expanding its fleet, and securing regional allies, all the while saber-rattling over its small democratic neighbor. But uncertainty still underpins the…
Steven Mosher, author of Bully of Asia — a book that contends that the Chinese Communist Party under President Xi Jinping seeks to “continuously expand its power to achieve [global] hegemony” — recently reached out to four of his friends…