China
Don’t Obsess Over 2027 on China
Numerology is a potent force in human affairs. So is a deadline—especially when it’s clear fateful consequences will come to pass once the cutoff date arrives. The wry English wit...
China’s Pursuit of Copper Is Changing Latin America
Copper is one of the world’s most useful industrial metals. If you tear open any mobile phone, laptop, solar panel, wind turbine, or electric vehicle (EV), you will find it....
China’s Dim Economic Prospects
China’s economy is in a grim place these days, far from the past when many journalists and politicians praised Beijing’s policies and spoke of that economy’s imminent dominance. Beijing just...
China in the Middle East: An Irresponsible Power?
China has been actively seeking economic, political, and strategic opportunities in the Middle East without acting as a responsible great power in the Middle East. China focuses on building economic...
How the U.S. Military Underestimates the Chinese Military Threat
The Defense Department’s latest annual China Military Power Report gets a lot right. It accurately identifies the scope of China’s global ambitions and many of the structural changes being implemented by Xi...
Leadership Changes Reveal China’s Grand Strategy for 2024
China entered 2023 emerging from one sea of troubles, only to find itself embroiled in another. The lifting of COVID-19-related restrictions in November 2022 as a result of widespread protests...
Has China’s Industrial Policy Helped or Hurt the World?
China’s industrial policy has drawn global attention, sparking different reactions from developed and developing nations. Developed countries tend to perceive China’s industrial policies as a threat to their firms’ competitive...
Tell China: We Will Defend Our Democracy
Chinese election interference is on track to become just another cost of doing democracy in the West. From New Zealand to Australia, Canada to the United States, the liberal democracies...
To Steal a CH-47 Helicopter, China Offered to Make a Taiwanese Pilot Rich
China offered a Taiwanese military pilot $16 million to defect with an American-sourced CH-47 Chinook heavy-lift helicopter earlier this year, with plans to land the rotorcraft aboard an amphibious assault...
China’s Sheen of Civility Masks a Dreadful Reality
The sheen of civility with which China opportunistically presents itself masks a dreadful reality. It is illogical to assume that a dystopian communist surveillance state with vast imperial ambitions and...
China’s Nuclear Weapons Buildup Is a Strategic Breakout
The October 2023 bipartisan Congressional Strategic Posture Commission’s report contained two important insights concerning the implications of China’s nuclear weapons buildup: 1) the United States will soon be threatened not...
Can China and America Resolve the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict?
The international tour of the Arab-Islamic Ministerial Committee, an initiative established by Islamic nations at the Arab-Islamic Summit in Saudi Arabia this month, marks a pivotal shift in the Middle...