Environment
America-China Economic Competition in Latin America is Not a Zero-Sum Game
Despite the dog-eat-dog mentality of international politics, the America-China competition in Latin America is not a game where there can be only one winner. In his first official international trip...
Cascading Effects: Will China’s New Dam Create A Himalayan Rift?
Chinese hydroelectric power plans in Tibet threaten to destabilize the Himalayan region’s ecology and politics. In mid-December, China marked the thirtieth anniversary of the official inauguration of the Three Gorges...
Rising Tariffs Pose Long-Term Threat to U.S. LNG Growth
Rising tariffs pose a threat in the long-term towards the domestic growth of the LNG sector. For the most part, the strong growth which has taken place in global trade...
The Lone Star Paradigm: A Texan Blueprint for U.S. Energy Leadership in the Twenty-First Century
The blueprint for U.S. energy leadership is that it must establish a resilient domestic energy strategy to remain globally competitive. Texas already provides a compelling model of success. The Trump...
The Collapse of Offshore Wind Power is Only the Beginning
The collapse of offshore wind power is only the first step in showing why the green energy transition is not competitive in a free market. The “clean energy transition” —...
Decarbonization in the Crossfire: Europe Between Trump and Beijing
As President Donald Trump continues to enact his “America First” policies, Europe finds itself caught between Trump and Beijing. The return of Donald Trump to the White House has surprised...
The Geopolitics of Lithium in 2025
As China and Russia expand their lithium influence, the United States must rethink its policies to remain competitive in 2025. The new U.S. administration must rethink its entire lithium policy...
Trump’s Fossil Fuel Agenda Hands the Future of Energy—and U.S. Competitiveness—to Beijing
China’s nuclear breakthroughs could cement its dominance while the United States clings to fossil fuels. On the same day President Donald Trump pledged to “drill, baby, drill” in his inaugural address, China’s...
Nuclear Power and the Future of American Digital Dominance
The path forward for American digital dominance requires recognizing nuclear power for what it is: a strategic asset that combines technological, diplomatic, and environmental advantages. America’s digital supremacy rests on...
Pumping Up America’s Nuclear Power Politics
As America’s nuclear power politics falls by the wayside, China and Russia could soon dominate the global nuclear power market. President Trump dove into his new duties by declaring a...
National Energy Emergency and Climate Change
Despite President Trump’s national energy emergency, the grand experiment of global climate change will proceed apace with the human race, not looking in from the outside, but with itself inside...
Why the Paris Agreement Failed
“After realizing why the Paris Agreement failed, a climate hawk promise to simply try for a third time to participate in the Paris Agreement without any new gains for the...