China’s communist government claims an ancestral right to Taiwan, but the island’s indigenous people have no connection to the mainland government. Margaret Simons explains in Foreign Policy: Taiwan’s Indigenous tribes have lived on the island for at least 6,000 years. They are possibly the most frequently colonized people in the world. First came the Spanish […]
Should Taiwan Adopt a Porcupine Defense?
At the Cato Institute, Eric Gomez suggests that Taiwan should adopt an asymmetric porcupine defense against the possibility of invasion by China, rather than building up its conventional forces. He writes: Taiwan must prevail in two military operations that will occur in the early stages of a potential conflict: surviving China’s conventional bombardment and denying the […]
Can Xi and Biden Put Taiwan Behind Them?
Can a coming meeting between Xi Jinping and Joe Biden decrease the threat of WWIII posed by the question of Taiwan’s sovereignty? Donald Kirk discusses the coming meeting in The New York Sun, writing: While wars rage thousands of miles away in Gaza and Ukraine, Washington focuses this week on keeping the peace in Asia, […]
Chinese Universities Are Overtaking Their Woke-Focused American Competitors
While American universities are busy protesting in support of Hamas and expanding DEI initiatives, Chinese research universities are rapidly overtaking them. M.J. Koch reports in The New York Sun: As the global standing of American universities grows precarious, Chinese universities are edging to take the lead. Public investment in higher education is one indicator of […]
Taiwan Invasion Not Most Pressing Challenge
Jude Blanchette and Bonnie Glaser of War on the Rocks write the most pressing challenge for Tawan is not invasion, but strangulation. What is the greatest threat to peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait? For a growing number of analysts and officials in capitals around the world, the answer is straightforward: An invasion or […]
U.S.-Philippine Alliance is Actually Working on China
Derek Grossman of the War on The Rocks reports China is likely to roll out new and creative gray-zone tactics to get the point across that it maintains sovereignty over Second Thomas Shoal. If this happens, then it will only reconfirm the fact that deterrence through the strengthening U.S.-Philippine alliance is actually working. He writes: For […]
CHINA REAL ESTATE: “The Danger of Contagion Is Never Far Away”
At The Spectator, George Magnus discusses the Chinese real estate market, and the difficulties faced by large property developers there, including Evergrande and Country Garden. Magnus explains the heavy reliance in China’s debt markets on real estate as collateral, and emphasizes that “The danger of contagion is never far away.” He writes: Once, not that […]
How Important Is America’s Relationship with Japan and the Philippines?
Ryan Ashley of War on The Rocks tells his readers the U.S., Japanese, and Philippine trilateral relationship is off balance and is a pivotal deterrent to Indo-Pacific tensions. He writes: As geopolitical tensions rise in the Indo-Pacific, the U.S.-Japanese-Philippine security trilateral is rapidly emerging as a potentially pivotal defense arrangement. It has already garnered widespread […]
Biden Loses Colombia to China
Joe Biden has been nothing if not ineffective as a foreign policy leader. After insulting Saudi Arabia almost as soon as he made it to the White House, allowing the Taliban to scoop up billions in American military hardware by bungling the Afghanistan withdrawal, and projecting enough weakness that Russia decided it could invade Ukraine, […]
Is Joe Biden Looking for World War III?
At the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity, former congressman and presidential candidate, Dr. Ron Paul, calls out Joe Biden for leading America toward World War III. He writes: After a brutal attack on Israel by Hamas earlier this month, Israel declared war not just on the terrorists who attacked its territory, but on […]
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