Efforts by the Trump administration, and the president personally, to work with China on the issue of North Korea’s increasingly unpredictable behavior, seems to have failed. With the recent launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile by the North Koreans, President Trump tore into the Chinese. The president hammered growing trade between the two countries, despite […]
Is Swiss Innovation a Perfect Fit for China?
The leaders of Switzerland and China have been spending a lot of time together. And the countries have a history of warm relations. In fact hardly a month passes without a Chinese delegation visiting Switzerland reports swissinfo.ch. Switzerland is one of the freest countries in the world, and a hub of innovation. In many ways […]
Taiwan’s Phone Call to Trump Had Been Planned for Weeks
Pat Buchanan, writing in The American Conservative, tells readers that the fat is in the fire now. Buchanan writes: According to the Washington Post, the phone call from Taiwan to Trump was no chance happening. It had been planned for weeks. And people in Trump’s inner circle are looking to closer ties to Taiwan and […]
China’s “Permanent Conflict” Strategy
J. Michael, writing at The National Interest: The Chinese leadership is well aware that waging war on two fronts can be disastrous for even the most battle-hardened militaries. But war isn’t what it has in mind, and it will likely go to great lengths to avoid such an outcome: permanent conflict, is instead the current […]
U.S. China Policy: Hic Sunt Dracones
To the chagrin of foreign policy wonks, U.S. presidential elections are almost never about foreign policy. This one is no exception. The American people, quite reasonably, care more intensely about things that impact them more directly than U.S. foreign policy. America’s size, power, and remoteness insulate voters from grave danger. The think-tankers churn out reams […]
The United States and China: Who’s Balancing Whom?
American defense officials, in their less guarded moments, will concede that the central object of U.S. defense posture in East Asia–and indeed Asia as a whole–is to “balance” China. What they don’t realize is what this statement reveals about their own thinking. The balance of power is a hoary concept in international politics. From Macchiavelli […]
Better an Embargo of Chinese Goods
Pat Buchanan explains to readers that Hanoi’s and Manila’s quarrels with China are not America’s quarrels: What vital interest of ours is imperiled by who owns, or occupies, or militarizes Scarborough Shoal? If U.S. rights of passage in the South China Sea are not impeded by Chinese planes or ships, why make Hanoi’s quarrels and […]
Cato’s Dan Mitchell and Reagan’s Chinese Echo
The Cato Institute’s Dan Mitchell offers promise for the Chinese economy and explains Reagan’s Chinese echo. China’s economy has hit a speed bump. The stock market’s recent performance has been less than impressive and economic growth has faltered. Is this the beginning of the end of the Chinese miracle? If you asked me about six […]
Thousands Dead, Tens of Thousands Wounded
Pat Buchanan writes, “It was the elites of both parties who failed to secure our borders and brokered the trade deals that have de-industrialized America and eviscerated our middle class. It was the elites of both parties who got us into these idiotic wars that have blown up the Middle East, cost us trillions of dollars, […]
Buchanan’s Take on China
Is China our business? Pat Buchanan puts forth some hard-hitting questions here: First, why is this our quarrel? We have no claim to any of the Spratly or Paracel Islands in the South China Sea. Yet, each of the claimants — Beijing, Taipei, Manila, Hanoi — seems to have maps going back decades and even […]
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