In 2021, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Assembly Bill 1276, popularly known as “Skip the Stuff,” restricting plastic straws, utensils, and condiment packs in restaurants. This year, Newsom and Attorney General Rob Bonta are skipping “stuff” much more dangerous than…
China’s purchases of United States farmland have increased 456 percent since 2011, with 384,000 acres purchased in 2021, said Rep. Mike Gallagher at a roundtable on Agriculture Technology Theft in Iowa, led by the House Select Committee on the Chinese…
“Biden’s Weak China Policy,” editorial cartoon by Shaomin Li for The American Spectator, May 10, 2023.
Two articles on the front page of the Washington Times reveal the dichotomy at work in the geopolitics of the western Pacific. Tom Howell Jr. and Jeff Mordock write about Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s seeking concrete security pledges from…
The statesmen of Singapore in the tradition of Lee Kuan Yew are known for their foreign-policy realism, and they know Asia much better than do Westerners. We should assess their geopolitical advice with that perspective in mind. Bilahari Kausikan, a…
Even as China announced that it is increasing its defense budget by more than 7 percent, renewed its threats against Taiwan, and warned that conflict with the United States is inevitable unless Washington’s policy accommodates China’s demands, the mirage of…
Ever since Chiang Kai-shek and the Nationalist Party of China, or Kuomintang (KMT), declared their control of Taiwan in 1949 after losing the Chinese civil war, the United States has pledged to defend Taiwan against Communist aggression from the mainland….
President Richard Nixon’s rule for handling other countries was: “Do unto others as they would do unto you.” Then–Secretary of State Henry Kissinger corrected him, saying, “Plus 10 percent.” The legendary Jimmy Hoffa gave this notion sharper elbows: “I do…
The spy balloon event could not have come at a worse time for the Chinese Communist Party. The U.S.–China relationship has fallen to a low point, and many in the U.S. government and private sector demand economic delinking from China….
