China

Hal Brands urges us to look on the bright side of decades of destructive international rivalry: But on balance, the Cold War was a force for equality because the reality of race relations in the U.S. was incompatible with America’s…

After nearly 30 years without nuclear test explosions by the United States, the Trump administration is flirting, in 2020, with resuming explosive tests. This follows on the heels of China’s new security bill on Hong Kong and the flurry of …

China is being presented as the new existential enemy, just as Islam was 20 years ago

Just as the Trump administration disastrously mishandled testing for COVID-19, so too are administration officials botching their response internationally. Last week Secretary of State Mike Pompeo managed to simultaneously discourage…

Diplomats, state media and officials in China encourage idea that Covid-19 came from the US

If your country is friendly toward Russia, China, or Iran, then today’s American Government is probably applying subversion, economic sanctions, or maybe even planning a coup, or (if none of those will succeed) probably is…

Back in the days when the Deep State’s diktats commanded a modicum of credibility, its stated goal was worldwide military “full spectrum dominance”. Twenty years of grossly humiliating failure in its murderously ineffectual floundering has…

Former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger made prudent remarks recently when he said the United States is no longer a uni-power and that it must recognize the reality of China as an equal rival. The furor over a new law passed by the…

Whether the technology is effective or not, it will appear to shrink the costs of conflict, enabling even more of our interventions.

I first met Jason Lee when he was promoting jazz concerts in his hometown of Hong Kong. More recently, he has been sending me Facebook messages about the Hong Kong protests. You would think that a relatively prosperous, 43-year-old Hong…