Michael J. Green is what was once called a “China hand” who served in the George W. Bush administration as director for Asian affairs at the National Security Council. He is also the author of a very good book about…
As Francis Sempa reports in this publication, Robert Kaplan and Mike Pompeo take very different views on the future course of American grand strategy, with Pompeo advocating a more muscular approach and Kaplan favoring restraint. While I respect both, having…
The American foreign policy debate just shifted into high gear with an op-ed piece in the Washington Times by former Secretary of State and CIA Director Mike Pompeo and an essay in Foreign Affairs by Robert D. Kaplan, perhaps our nation’s…
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…
The passing of Queen Elizabeth II reminds us that “some achieve greatness,” as playwright William Shakespeare once wrote. Former President Donald J. Trump now faces the choice deciding whether he will achieve greatness. He can either go down in history…
I have been running into people lately. Last week, I had a chance breakfast encounter with “independent” Missouri Senate candidate John Wood, a meeting that I believe led to his withdrawal on Tuesday from the race. On Wednesday of this…
In a lengthy and compelling piece in the National Interest, former CIA Director and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo seeks to grasp Ronald Reagan’s geopolitical mantle in the lead-up to the 2024 presidential election. Pompeo calls for confronting China “across the…
The Pennsylvania Republican Senate primary will be remembered for its legal maneuvers and close margin. But not to be overlooked from the contest is the vast damage former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo did to his own reputation and to…
Last week, former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo made a historic four-day visit to Taiwan. He met President Tsai Ing-Wen, Foreign Minister Joseph Wu, and many other politicians and leading Taiwanese personalities. While giving a speech at a prominent Taiwanese…
So as thousands of conservative activists gathered in Orlando, Florida, for the Conservative Political Action Conference — CPAC — in the heart of the Swamp — Washington, D.C. — there was this news in the Hill: GOP critics of Trump…