With so much attention being paid to China’s increasing threat to Taiwan in the South China Sea, under the radar the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is deepening ties to Cuba’s communist regime. On Nov. 25, 2022, President Xi Jinping hosted…
Minxin Pei is a China expert who teaches at Claremont McKenna College, and who has written a piece in Foreign Affairs arguing that Chinese President Xi Jinping’s “total victory” at the recent 20th Party Congress was actually a long-term defeat due…
“Xi’s TikTok Fishing Expedition,” editorial cartoon by Shaomin Li for The American Spectator, Nov. 18, 2022.
Stephen Kotkin, Princeton professor, historian, and author of two magnificent volumes on Stalin (with a third planned), appeared recently on the Hoover Institution program GoodFellows with British historian Niall Ferguson, former Trump national security adviser H.R. McMaster, economist John Cochrane,…
Basking in the results of last week’s elections, President Biden has flown across the world to exercise his diplomatic expertise again. It could have been worse. Arriving in Sharm-el-Sheik, Egypt, to attend the latest UN conference on global warming, Biden…
El horror del progreso sólo puede medirlo el que ha conocido un paisaje antes y después que el progreso lo transforme. The horror of progress can only be measured by someone who has known a landscape before and after progress…
Former Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has again taken to the pages of Foreign Affairs to warn the West that President Xi Jinping has brought back Marxism to China. Rudd’s article, “The Return of Red China,” contends that Xi at…
The timing couldn’t have been better. Democratic Party foreign-policy “expert” Joseph Nye, who served in the Carter, Clinton, and Obama administrations and who teaches at Harvard University, wrote an article in Project Syndicate extolling the virtues of post–Cold War engagement…
Now that the 20th Chinese Communist Party congress is over and Xi Jinping has been “reelected” general secretary, the world can continue to focus on him again. But this focus is actually based on misunderstandings about the CCP and Xi…
