As Donald Trump prepares to take office as the 47th President of the United States, among the most important policies he will formulate and implement will involve our Cold War conflict with Communist China. His incoming national security team consists…
It’s hard to believe, but Joe Biden is still president of the United States. It’s a long fifty-six days until Donald Trump becomes president again and Biden is taking steps almost every day to Trump-proof the country and the world….
George Washington Professor of International Affairs Robert Sutter writes in The Diplomat that the Biden administration has successfully checked China in Asia and will be a tough act to follow for the incoming Trump administration. Sutter claims that the Biden…
Solving the Mystery of Europe’s Rise In October 2024, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm announced that the Nobel Prize in Economics was awarded to three economists who studied why some countries are rich while others remain poor….
Nov. 25, 1950. Morning has come, the sun has risen well above the rim of the world, and Secretary Liu is still sound asleep. Serving as a Russian translator and aide-de-camp to General Peng Dehuai of the Chinese People’s Volunteer…
The Hoover Institution’s Elizabeth Economy, one of our country’s best Sinologists, has written an important essay in the Diplomat about the continuities in the domestic and foreign policies of Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping, and Xi Jinping. It is titled “The 75-Year…
Nestled among the three thousand or so engraved slabs and columns that make up the city of Xi’an’s sprawling Stele Forest, in the second of the seven galleries devoted to Confucian, calligraphic, poetic, and all other manner of ancient stelae,…
It was during the reign of Emperor Zhenzong of Song, so the story goes, that a maiden from Hangzhou, a certain Lady Li, elegant and lithesome with her dark eyebrows lightly curved like the leaves of a weeping willow, ventured…
Countering China’s Great Game: A Strategy for American Dominance By Michael Sobolik (Naval Institute Press, 161 pages, $22) Sometimes small books can have big impacts — one thinks of Machiavelli’s The Prince, Halford Mackinder’s Democratic Ideals and Reality, Norman Podhoretz’s…
