On Aug. 10, when President Joe Biden labeled the Chinese economy a ticking time bomb, he predicted that bad folks can do bad things when they face problems. A month later, after meeting with Chinese Premier Li Qiang at the…
On Labor Day, Tokyo’s highest court ordered Okinawan leaders to approve land reclamation needed to move an American airstrip to a new site on the strategically located island. Despite Chinese expansion in the Pacific looming in the background, local Okinawan…
Vivek Ramaswamy is a billionaire and a candidate for president of the United States with a nice smile. He made a big splash at the 23 August primary debate. Former president Trump has said that Ramaswamy would be a very…
With annual inflation at only 3 percent in June, and second quarter GDP growing at 2.4 percent, it looks like a return to normalcy. With the S&P Index up over 19 percent year to date, and the NASDAQ Composite Index…
Friday’s announcement that the United States would send $345 million in military equipment to Taiwan from existing US stockpiles under President Biden’s “presidential drawdown authority” was pretty much ignored by the media. It shouldn’t have been. It should have gained…
Proponents of the ongoing push for national industrial policy, whether they come from the left or the right, frequently argue that we need to promote certain sectors or technologies to create a manufacturing boom. This boom, we’re told, is necessary…
On Monday, Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with multiple high-level officials in China — including President Xi Jinping. The Beijing meeting comes during a time of collapsing relations between the U.S. and China. Earlier this year, a Chinese spy balloon…
Antony Blinken has gone to China to be scolded by Xi Jinping. And the Chinese have figured that he is so submissive that they have decided to punish him without dessert. The Democrats reserve their bad temper for the Republicans,…
The prolific historian and Hoover Institution Fellow Niall Ferguson gave a tutorial about our new cold war with China on the Hoover Institution’s web series Uncommon Knowledge, which is hosted by Peter Robinson. Ferguson compared Cold War II with Cold…