Eighty years later, World War II is fading from historical memory
With worries about inflation, the war in Ukraine, and tension over Taiwan, it’s easy for Americans to forget that we…
Welcome to the age of nuclear blackmail
Vladimir Putin’s recent announcement that he was not bluffing about using nuclear weapons against the West in his war on…
What has Pelosi’s Taiwan trip wrought?
In becoming the highest-ranking American politician to visit Taiwan in a quarter-century, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has become the dominant…
What Ukraine means for Asia
If Asia has entered the debate over the war in Ukraine, it is primarily through questions over the role China…
Why China has its eye on the Falklands
Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine has paradoxically heightened China’s global reputation, if only because it has not yet invaded a…
What does Ukraine really mean for Taiwan?
No one should think that Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine means that Xi Jinping will decide to use force against…
China and Russia are an alliance of disruptors
Four years ago, Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping made pancakes together in Vladivostok while thousands of their military forces conducted…
The growing bond between Moscow and Beijing
The growing bond between Moscow and Beijing
The China reckoning
Fifteen years ago, I remarked to an acquaintance over lunch that it looked like China might eat America’s lunch in…
Ending our corporate dependence on China
In the toxic world of American politics, the bipartisanship showed by the House of Representatives last week in overwhelmingly passing…
America needs more than ‘guardrails’ with China
As recently as a week ago, there was talk that Monday night’s virtual summit between President Joe Biden and Chinese…
Biden should embrace Britain’s new Indo-Pacific strategy
While final negotiations on the UK’s relationship with the EU continue to drag, No. 10 is moving rapidly to expand…
Taiwan, the WHO and the tactical struggle in US-China relations
Over the coming weeks, a battle between Washington and Beijing over the inclusion of Taiwan as an observer at the…
The world puts an * next to China
When Donald Trump publicly called into question China’s Covid-19 death rate claims at a recent White House press conference, the…
Geopolitical jockeying in a time of pandemic
You might think a global pandemic and the worst crisis since World War Two would lead to a welcome, if…
The West can only blame itself for failing to prepare for Huawei
With Boris Johnson’s government deciding to allow Huawei into Britain’s ‘non-core’ 5G networks, London is charting a new path for…
Britain’s Huawei gamble is sure to anger Donald Trump
Just hours after Donald Trump’s long-delayed state visit to Britain was finally confirmed, reports surfaced that Theresa May and her…
Making China great again
Most reporting on Jeremy Hunt’s visit to China this week went little further than his slip of the tongue in…
The war in the shadows
I once spent an evening, back in the mid-1980s, with William Colby, the legendary spy and director of the CIA.…
