Commentary In the wake of the announcement of the new Australia-U.S.-UK (AUSUK) security pact in the Indo-Pacific region, many commentators have lamented that it will provoke Beijing to adopt more aggressive policies and that Southeast Asian countries like Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, and Vietnam will resent being forced to choose sides between China and the United…
AUKUS Makes Good Sense
Commentary In the wake of the announcement of the new Australia-U.S.-UK (AUKUS) security pact in the Indo-Pacific region, many commentators have lamented that it will provoke Beijing to adopt more aggressive policies and that Southeast Asian countries like Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, and Vietnam will resent being forced to choose sides between China and the United…
How Stakeholder Capitalism Helps China and Harms the US
Commentary If there’s one thing progressives love doing, it’s apologizing. They apologize for being racist, for white privilege, for polluting the planet; in short, they apologize for anything and everything. The word sorry, like the U.S. dollar, continues to lose its purchasing power. If everyone is sorry, then no one is sorry. Vivek Ramaswamy, the author of…
Nuclear Arms Are Now Musts for Taiwan and Japan
Commentary To counter Beijing’s growing belligerence in the South China Sea, Australia last week changed course: It canceled an order with France for conventional submarines that it feared were no longer adequate to protect its national interests, and entered into an alliance with the United States and the UK that involves acquiring a fleet of…
Communist Road Kill
Commentary From the time that Xi Jinping took office in late 2012, it has been clear that he was a hardcore communist. Sounding like every other communist from Karl Marx on, he predicted in an early speech “the eventual demise of capitalism and the ultimate victory of socialism.” Xi maintains that he doesn’t object to…
European Union Undergoing a Comprehensive Transformation of China Policy
Commentary The European Union (EU) has made substantial changes in China policy, and the European Parliament further outlined a new EU strategy on China on September 16. This new EU strategy on China aims at continuing talks with the Chinese regime about global challenges like climate change and health crises while raising concerns over the…
France Angry Over Exclusion From US-China Containment Policies
September 21, 2021
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Analysis France has recalled its ambassadors from the United States and Australia in protest over America’s new national security partnership with the United Kingdom and Australia, as well as a U.S. nuclear-propulsion submarine deal with Australia. France was angered because Australia had abandoned their $65 billion dollar defense deal, which provided the latter with diesel powered…
The Evergrande Tangle: Danger in Every Direction and a Harbinger of More to Come
Commentary Evergrande’s troubles cannot help but bring up memories of the global financial crises of 2008-09. Thirteen years ago, first in the United States and then in the western world generally, company failures led to fears of more failures, fears that eventually interrupted normal financial dealing, threatened economies, and forced governments and central banks to…
Beijing Manipulates Hong Kong’s ‘Democracy’
September 21, 2021
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Analysis News of a sham election in Hong Kong indicates the deterioration of democracy in the world’s fragrant harbor, and China’s dumping of pro-tycoon candidates that it no longer needs. Beijing used to use the tycoons as a counterbalance against pro-democracy candidates, but now that it rejiggered “elections” in its favor, all but one of…
Gen. Milley’s Secret Calls to China: Smart or Dangerous?
Commentary The recent revelation that U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman General Mark Milley telephoned and reassured his Chinese counterpart of no U.S. attack during and after the 2020 U.S. presidential election has raised critical questions about how both countries consider execute security policies. For example, how and why would China’s leaders come to have…
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