ASEAN Bracing For US-China Rivalry To Explode
Strategic region on edge as China points to ‘stormy seas’ ahead and US fires more punitive economic measures at Beijing. Read More Here
Why The US Kept Making Enemies Who Wanted To Be Friends: Castro, Ho Chi Minh And Putin
Through myopia, paranoia and arrogance, America has consistently created its own enemies and harmed other peoples in the interest of empire. Yet again, China is becoming an enemy, a role it doesn’t want but can’t refuse. Read More Here
The Global Leadership India Needs
For decades, Indian governments have focused on domestic issues like economic growth. But with China encroaching on its territory, Pakistan allying with the Chinese, and its eastern neighbors struggling with economic and political crises, India must take a leading role in ensuring regional stability. Read More Here
What Nixon’s Endgame Reveals About Putin’s
Like chess, war has three phases: an opening, a middle, and an endgame. In the first, the parties engage one another and deploy their forces. In the second, they fight it out. And in the third, they settle the details of the outcome. Read More Here
Where Is Xi’s China Heading?
Regardless of which top Chinese officials appear on stage alongside Xi Jinping at this month’s Party Congress, certain fundamental issues will remain at the center of debates about China’s place in the world. Any changes in leadership will reflect differences in style, not substance. Read More Here
Who Are Xi’s Enemies?
Telling friend from foe is the first order of business for any revolution, or so Mao Zedong once said. Read More Here
How To Avoid Nuclear War Over Ukraine
Military force without diplomacy cannot deliver lasting results and can lead to an unparalleled catastrophe with consequences beyond comprehension. Read More Here
The 20th Communist Party Congress Set To Redefine China, World
At some point later this month a parade in Beijing of men in dark suits would indicate the direction China and the world are headed to when at the end of its 20th Congress the Communist Party will showcase the key members of its powerful standing committee who will lead the world’s second-biggest economy for […]
New Atlantis, The Greater Middle Kingdom, And Cold War II
Two realms, New Atlantis and the Greater Middle Kingdom, are relatively evenly matched, in a geopolitical duel that has stayed mostly peaceful, albeit hostile. Read More Here
West Should Accept Russian Occupation Of Some Parts Of Ukraine
It is now increasingly clear that both Russia and the United States are playing a high stakes game into which Europe has allowed itself to get drawn due to the myopia of its unimpressive political leadership. Read More Here
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