South Korea is in the midst of a defining moment in its 75-year history. As President Yoon Suk-yeol pointed out in early January, North Korea’s increasing nuclear stockpile is a threat to South Korea’s national sovereignty. If Pyongyang continues this…
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…
America’s extended nuclear deterrent has always rested on credibility. Credibility is one of those intangible factors in international relations that can mean the difference between peace and war and victory or defeat. Credibility is sort of like obscenity — it…
“Xi Takes Kim for a Walk,” editorial cartoon by Shaomin Li for The American Spectator, Nov. 30, 2022.
Seventy years ago, author James Michener, who served as a U.S. Navy lieutenant commander during the Second World War, was embedded on the attack carrier USS Valley Forge commanded by Rear Admiral John Perry. Its mission was to launch warplanes…
We are approaching one of the horrible milestones in human history — the birth of the Gulag a century ago. Sometime during the autumn of 1922, Soviet officials decided to establish a system of forced labor camps for both political…
Few freedoms are more feared by authoritarian regimes than religious freedom. After all, belief in God presumes a greater being and a higher standard to which human rulers are accountable. That poses a threat to even democratic rulers. However, political…
South Korean and other media are speculating that South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol intentionally shunned an in-person meeting with U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in deference to China, South Korea’s biggest trading partner, whose leaders are furious over Pelosi’s recent…
Few publicly displayed artistic masterpieces languish in more profound obscurity than “Rakuchū rakugai-zu,” or “Scenes in and around the Capital,” a 17th-century pair of painted sixfold screens hidden away in Osaka’s seldom-visited Nanban Bunkakan Museum. Situated well off the downtown…
Shinzo Abe, who served as Japan’s prime minister from 2006 to 2007 and again from 2012 to 2020, was assassinated on Friday by a gunman. Abe was giving a speech in support of a political candidate in the city of…