As the Communist Party of China prepares to mark its centennial on July 1, the poor longevity record of other dictatorial parties in modern times should give its leaders cause for worry. If the CPC is not on the right track with its neo-Maoist revival, its upcoming milestone maybe its last. Read More Here
The skyrocketing price of shipping goods across the globe may hit your pocketbook sooner than you think — from that cup of coffee you get each morning to the toys you were thinking of buying your kids. Transporting a 40-foot steel container of cargo by sea from Shanghai to Rotterdam now costs a record $10,522, […]
Can the two presidents find a pragmatic way to manage competition while avoiding past pitfalls? What signs should we look for at the summit that might provide clues about how this critical relationship between the world’s foremost nuclear powers might develop? Read More Here
The Biden administration is correct to emphasize the challenges facing democracy around the world, but the more immediate threat to the United States and other democracies lies within, not without. At present, the dangers of conceiving of U.S.-Chinese competition as a global contest between democratic and autocratic systems outweigh the benefits. Read More Here
Leaders of the world’s largest economies unveiled an infrastructure plan Saturday for the developing world to compete with China’s global initiatives, but they were searching for a consensus on how to forcefully to call out Beijing over human rights abuses. Read More Here
With the Taliban more powerful than ever and poised to reclaim power in Afghanistan, the only external victor will be Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence agency. But as the ISI knows, the problem with creating and sponsoring militant groups is that they do not always remain under your control. Read More Here
How can America cope with a rampant China when her own leaders do not believe that the country is worth defending? If they will not stand for a nation grounded in the universal principles of human dignity and individual freedom — and the one nation in history to offer a helping hand to all the […]
In his four years in office, President Donald Trump did tremendous damage to the United States’ image and reputation around the world. Yet a new survey from the Pew Research Center reveals that the United States’ global reputation has rebounded to a remarkable degree. Read More Here
Joe Biden arrived in Europe this week with a very different image than that of his preening predecessor, Donald Trump, but there’s one big issue on which — rhetoric aside — the two men are aligned: the China challenge. Over the coming week of summits, however, Biden will have a tough sell to get Europe […]
Thousands of people fleeing a military crackdown in Myanmar have crossed into India’s northeastern states, leading to worries among officials there that the region could become a staging post for pro-democracy activists and stoke instability. Read More Here
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