Taiwan sits barely 100 miles off China’s coast and is increasingly vulnerable to attack by Beijing. America’s ambiguous, uncertain promise to defend the island will become increasingly difficult to back with military force. Imagine China attempting to defend Cuba from…
“Xi Takes Kim for a Walk,” editorial cartoon by Shaomin Li for The American Spectator, Nov. 30, 2022.
The date was November 4, 1980. Ronald Reagan had just been elected president. Ironically, it was exactly one year to the day that over 50 Americans were taken hostage by Iranian zealots under Jimmy Carter. For the likes of Col….
The year has barely started and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea already has tested seven missiles, the latest on Sunday. None have been ICBMs capable of hitting America, so they don’t really count in Washington. But no one would…
I’ve been thinking a bit about mortality recently. I’m near the magical age that once was viewed as the normal moment to retire — and when I still must decide about signing up for Medicare. It just can’t be. Obviously,…
I adore repeat idiot offenders. I don’t know, it might just be because I am one of them, but the truth is that, all through the year, I see one of them and I just can’t wait for this special…
Xi Jinping (China): All Chinese chemical engineers are dangerous. More so if they are communist. And even more so they are president of the People’s Republic of China. Xi Jinping is one of those guys to whom, in a Mexican…
Perhaps the most striking visual presence in North Korea is of the Kims, founder Kim Il-sung, the “Great Leader” of Korean War fame, and his son and successor, “Dear Leader” Kim Jong-il. Although nominally a communist country, the North displays…
Dear Supreme Leader Kim, I hope that salutation is okay. I realize you also are the newly minted General Secretary of the Workers’ Party of Korea. And First Chairman of the National Defense Commission. In fact, when I visited your…