For the fourth time in less than 10 days, U.S. fighters have shot down a balloon, at least one of which was a Chinese spy balloon. One traversed the entire country before being shot down. Another entered Alaskan air space…

The United States, writes Max Boot in the Washington Post, has “exaggerated fears about Chinese power.” Boot compares U.S. Air Force Gen. Michael A. Minihan — whose memo revealed Chinese President Xi Jinping’s October 2022 “war council” and who has…

On January 1, 1982, William P. Clark became Ronald Reagan’s new national security adviser, replacing Richard V. Allen. Clark the year before had been Reagan’s outstanding deputy secretary of state, whose service had been all the more impressive given its…

Even as the United States and its NATO allies pledged to supply more weapons systems to Ukraine, Asian geopolitics was eclipsing European geopolitics with reports of Xi Jinping’s October “war council,” the shooting down of what was believed to be…

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….

The commie Chinese spy balloon provided Americans with a week of intrigue and amusement, not to mention frustration and bewilderment over how our China-friendly president might respond. By last Friday, the damned thing was floating somewhere over the Midwest, cruising…

As the Chinese spy balloon crisis deflates, a key question remains: Why did the PRC do it? The answer might be as simple as this: Because they could. Maybe no one in Beijing believed that the Red Zeppelin would be…