A New Era for the China-Russia-U.S. Triangle
Nearly a half-century ago, President Richard Nixon’s secretary of state, Henry Kissinger, established a successful U.S. strategy for dealing with America’s two most dangerous rivals. […]
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How Trump’s Tariffs Will Make Goods Cheaper
U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross told CNBC last week that President Trump’s tariffs wouldn’t hurt American consumers, noting that because the price increase would be […]
Trump’s Chinese Tariffs Are a Necessary ‘Evil’
President Trump announced this week he would levy 10 percent tariffs on some $200 billion worth of Chinese goods. The tariff is scheduled to take […]
Trump Should Withdraw U.S. Forces From South Korea
The election of Donald Trump was a seminal moment in modern American history, as one of the important things it signaled was a need for […]
America Must Learn From China If It Wants to Beat China
In Xinhua’s September 3 coverage of the Beijing Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC), Chinese President Xi Jinping sounded remarkably like a globalist. […]
Holding Turkey Accountable
The increasingly autocratic government of Turkey has lost its mind. Or, at least, it has returned to its historical form. Under Turkish strongman Recep Tayyip […]
Renegotiating America’s Role in the World: Avoiding the British Precedent
After the defeat of Napoleon in 1815, Great Britain pursued a grand strategy of primacy, based on the concept of what Robert Gilpin has called […]
America and the Risk of Pearl Harbor 2.0
In 1940, America launched an embargo against Japan. In 1941, Japan responded with a surprise attack on America’s Pacific fleet at Pearl Harbor. Fast forward […]
Protecting Taiwan From Chinese Aggression
The Chinese want to regain Taiwan as much as Abraham Lincoln desired to keep the southern states in the Union. Since the day that Taiwan […]
Confronting China: America Needs Japan, India, and Australia
When President Donald J. Trump was elected, one of his first decisions was to fulfill an early campaign promise: he abandoned the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement […]
Worried About ‘Foreign Meddling’? Look at China!
Every day for the past 18 months, we have had to endure legions of news reporters and liberal lawmakers appearing on our television screens, pretending […]
Reciprocity Is the Method to Trump’s Madness
Critics of Donald Trump claim there is no rhyme or reason to his foreign policy. But if there is a consistency, it might be called […]
Putin Needs a Deal With Trump
The Russian Federation controls one of the largest nuclear arsenals in the world. In fact, Russia’s nonstrategic nuclear weapons arsenal is likely larger and more […]
Trump’s ‘Deplorable’ Diplomacy
Liberals see Donald Trump as the embodiment of toxic masculinity. Trump’s voters see a real man. My husband jokes that in our family, if anything […]
The Establishment Hearts China
Communist China is one of the gravest threats this country has ever faced, in large part because many members of the American establishment see China […]
Trump’s Moves With N. Korea Are Nothing Like Obama’s With Iran
In the wake of the Singapore summit with North Korea, many commentators and publicists, Democrats as well as figures from the NeverTrump Right, have argued […]
What’s Really Happening With North Korea?
Most commentary on the Trump/Kim summit is evidence of partisan stampede thinking. Herewith are the insights of an old professor of international affairs, who does […]
How Twitter Diplomacy Works
President Trump this week will bust 68 years of diplomatic white paper inertia and meet the leader of a nation with which America has been […]
Trump is Right: G7 Needs a Wake-Up Call on Trade
The recent meeting of the G7 leaders in La Malbaie, Quebec ended dramatically, with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau harshly criticizing U.S. tariffs on steel […]
No, Tariffs Are Not ‘Domestic Sanctions’
The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea) is not democratic—it’s barely even a republic. The same goes for the Democratic Republic of the Congo, […]