Thinking About China

Commentary In a summer marked by the war ravaging Ukraine, rampant inflation, heat waves, and other global disruptions, one additional dismal human milestone must be acknowledged in all its horrific ...

Commentary Baseball may seem as American as apple pie, but many of its most popular bats and gloves ...

Commentary China’s economy is in desperate straits. So desperate that officials in one county in Guangdong Province offered ...

Commentary In June 2022, Madrid-based Safeguard Defenders revealed the existence of secret Chinese police stations in various countries ...

Commentary There’s talk, and there’s productive talk. You would sometimes think U.S. officials are paid by the word ...

Commentary After decades as China’s closest ally in the European Union, Germany finally appears to be having second ...

Commentary Can mass indoctrination save Xi Jinping? Times of turmoil and transition are always unstable and unpredictable; the ...

Commentary China’s consumer prices are flat, while producers are hit with rising costs, and workers are facing lower ...

Commentary I finished writing "China Coup: The Great Leap to Freedom" in December 2019, except for a COVID-19 ...

Commentary America’s climate guy, John Kerry, is on his way to China. His battered reputation is again on ...

Commentary Hot wars frequently happen where they are least expected, or while attention is diverted elsewhere. The North ...

Commentary Former Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating has launched another extraordinary spray at the federal government’s foreign policies. ...

Commentary Elon Musk, the wunderkind CEO and co-founder of Tesla and SpaceX, is playing in dangerous sandboxes. On ...

Commentary The following is a condensed version of “The Emperor’s Tutor” by Ralph L. DeFalco III, published at Law & ...

Commentary Rep. Michelle Steel, a California Republican whose parents fled communist North Korea and raised her in Japan, ...

Commentary Beijing and Washington seem to have entered a tit-for-tat competition on trade. Late last year, the Biden ...

Commentary What is the impact on the global strategic balance of plans by the BRICS nations to create ...

Commentary Major separate transformations are emerging in the domestic political landscapes of Egypt, Israel, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey, Cyprus, and ...

Commentary U.S. Treasury Secretary Yellen’s goal in Beijing is to explain President Joe Biden’s China policy, which has ...

Commentary In the latest break between China and the United States, Beijing imposed export controls on gallium and ...

Commentary What motivates Xi Jinping? What could drive the actions of the leader of communist China is the ...

Commentary Under the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) new anti-spying law, normal business activities may be considered spying, resulting ...

Commentary The revelation that Hong Kong police have placed a bounty on eight people, including two Australians, is ...

Commentary With growing evidence of communist China’s expanding intelligence operations against the United States, this may be a ...

Commentary Rhetoric—whether from corporate executives or government officials—seldom comports with reality. And seldom is the gap as wide ...

Commentary The declining prestige and influence of Western powers have been occurring in direct proportion to the abandonment ...

Commentary The U.S. Select Committee on the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) sent a letter on June 27 to Secretary of ...