In an important and timely essay in Foreign Affairs, the Naval War College’s Andrew Erickson, Gabriel Collins of Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy, and Matt Pottinger, who served as President Trump’s Deputy National Security Adviser, invoke General Douglas…
Russia recently placed Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas on a “wanted” list, accusing her of “crimes” that include the destruction of Soviet-era monuments in memory of Soviet soldiers in Estonia — a significant escalation in Putin’s pressure campaign in Eastern…
Editor’s Note: This is the third installment of Scott McKay’s new novel, King of the Jungle, which is being released exclusively at The American Spectator in 10 episodes each weekend in February, March, and early April, before its full publication on Amazon later this…
Beijing has spent the last several decades pressuring and threatening Taiwan, the island roughly 100 miles off the coast of mainland China, so no one was surprised when, during his New Year’s address, Chinese President Xi Jinping asserted that Taiwan’s…
The United States Naval Institute’s (USNI) web page reports that China has for the first time appointed an admiral as its defense minister. Adm. Dong Jun, who previously served as commander and deputy commander of the PLA Navy (PLAN), replaces…
Niall Ferguson is one of the Western world’s most prolific historians, and his recent opinion piece in Bloomberg marries history with current geopolitical insight. He describes the recent meeting in California between Presidents Joe Biden and Xi Jinping as a…
The featured article on the Foreign Affairs website on Thanksgiving Day was by Wang Jisi, identified as “Founding President of the Institute of International Studies at Peking University.” The article is entitled “America and China Are Not Yet in a…
“Warm.” That’s the word China used to describe what was supposed to be a landmark meeting between President Joe Biden and President Xi Jinping, according to the Guardian. The U.S. media is no less eager to inform the public of…
When Richard Nixon entered the White House in January 1969, he inherited a war in Southeast Asia, multiple foreign crises, and domestic political turmoil in the form of race riots and antiwar protests. China was in the midst of the…
