Tag: U.S.-China Relations

The coming of a New Year is an appropriate time for retrospection. I’ve been thinking about December 2001. Like many Americans, I was traumatized by the horrific images of the Sept. 11 attacks. And like many...

"A fool is someone who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing,” Oscar Wilde famously quipped. In Milwaukee last week, the Republican candidates for president—minus one Donald J. Trump—quarreled over both the price...

May I remind you what a hellhole North Korea is? The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea—that’s it’s official and fraudulent name—is a dynastic totalitarian dictatorship in which, according to Freedom House, “arbitrary arrests and detention are...

In 1982, President Ronald Reagan addressed the British Parliament, expressing optimism about the “global campaign for democracy now gathering force.” Less than a decade later, the Soviet Union collapsed. After that, it was widely believed that...

As he begins his second year in office this week, President Joe Biden looks toward the horizon and sees multiple challenges and threats. Three of the most worrisome: Russia’s strongman, President Vladimir Putin, having taken...

During his Senate confirmation hearing, Defense Secretary General Lloyd Austin gave an ominous description of how he viewed the Pentagon’s mission. He began his statement blandly enough. “The job of the Defense Department is to...

Washington, D.C., is built on a swamp at the convergence of the Potomac and Anacostia rivers. Like all swamps, it is subject to periodic flooding. The D.C. foreign policy swamp has well and truly returned....

During their meeting in Jerusalem on Monday, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo pressed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to further decrease relations with China, including limiting Chinese investments in Israel, reported Axios on Wednesday, citing U.S....