Admittedly, I had the all-time favorite Disney song “Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?” in my mind when I wrote this title. Remember Fiddler Pig and Fifer Pig sang the song happily, arrogantly dismissing the idea that the Big…
President Donald Trump signed the Uyghur Human Rights Act, which will punish Chinese officials involved in the brutal treatment of Muslims in Xinjiang and elsewhere. Alas, the bill’s impact will be negligible: denying visas to communist apparatchiks won’t cause them…
In its quest for global power, the Chinese government has turned the relationship between the briber and bribee in corruption upside down. Traditionally, corruption has referred to individuals or organizations that bribe state officials to sell public goods for personal…
I In a dimly lit corner of Baltimore’s Walters Art Museum, amidst an impressive array of Buddhist art bequeathed to the institution by the tobacco heiress Doris Duke, there is one sculpture that stands out above all the rest: a…
I In a dimly lit corner of Baltimore’s Walters Art Museum, amidst an impressive array of Buddhist art bequeathed to the institution by the tobacco heiress Doris Duke, there is one sculpture that stands out above all the rest: a…
Reporters and columnists around the world are falling all over themselves to scour former national security adviser John Bolton’s White House memoir, The Room Where It Happened, for tidbits of criticism of President Trump. They don’t have to look hard…
America’s cities are aflame. The federal treasury is empty. The electorate is angry. The world is intractable. China is on the march. Can we finally agree that Uncle Sam should stop playing GloboCop? The role never made sense. The Constitution…
In order to “transform the international order to align with CCP interests and ideology,” the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has launched a well-coordinated campaign to achieve dominance in the world. Its measures include military buildup and expansion, bribing politicians from…
The birthday approaches of Xi Jinping, China’s president and general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party. Entering the world on June 15, 1953, he is the first Chinese leader born after the revolution. And he increasingly looks like the most…
