China is in talks with Cuba about establishing a joint military training facility on the Caribbean island. Soon after Secretary of State Antony Blinken returned from China, reports from the Wall Street Journal came out about the communist superpower possibly…
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…
The name of China in Chinese is “Zhong Guo,” which should be translated into “the central empire.” However, the commonly used translation by the so-called China experts is “the middle kingdom,” which conveys a romantic mystical feeling about China. But…
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,…
Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft and one of the world’s richest men, recently met with China’s President Xi Jinping at Beijing’s Diaoyutai state guesthouse. Xi greeted Gates as “an old friend of ours” and said that he welcomed Microsoft…
It’s a good time to be a coot, especially an old one. Old coots rule the roost (or more accurately, the nest) in the world’s most powerful and populous countries. The leaders of the nine most populous countries in the…
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…
“Xi Jinping: The ‘Neutral’ Mediator,” editorial cartoon by Shaomin Li for The American Spectator, May 15, 2023.
Where to begin? Communist regimes in their struggles with the West have benefited at various times from Western intellectuals that Lenin called “useful idiots.” Paul Hollander cataloged their naive political statements and harmful (to the West) activities in his book…
