Thinking About China

Beijing’s campaign to marginalize Taiwan is a layered way of changing the status quo through language, procedure, and coerced compliance.

The Trump White House has initiated three novel initiatives to neuter Beijing’s present stranglehold on rare-earth elements.

Marxist-Leninist economics are an oxymoron.

The United States moves to secure rare-earth supplies and cut China out of the supply chain.

If Iran sinks a U.S. aircraft carrier with a Chinese missile, it is war.

Washington, focusing on trade, has encouraged Beijing to do what it wants to do for other reasons.

The U.S.–Taiwan trade deal supports democracy.

What does that say about the state of China’s economy?

China has reached a point in its development at which the old ways—methods that, for decades, produced high growth rates—no longer work.

Many Iranians welcome the prospect of U.S. military action to remove the regime.

Questions keep surfacing after reports of China-linked labs discovered in U.S. cities and growing concern over Beijing’s strategic ambitions.

Why Xi Jinping’s purges make the Chinese military brittle.

Beijing has chosen a centralized approach to the creation of technological advances, raising many questions about the ultimate success of the effort.

Beijing’s campaign to marginalize Taiwan is a layered way of changing the status quo through language, procedure, and coerced compliance.

The Trump White House has initiated three novel initiatives to neuter Beijing’s present stranglehold on rare-earth elements.

Marxist-Leninist economics are an oxymoron.

The United States moves to secure rare-earth supplies and cut China out of the supply chain.

If Iran sinks a U.S. aircraft carrier with a Chinese missile, it is war.

Washington, focusing on trade, has encouraged Beijing to do what it wants to do for other reasons.

The U.S.–Taiwan trade deal supports democracy.

What does that say about the state of China’s economy?

China has reached a point in its development at which the old ways—methods that, for decades, produced high growth rates—no longer work.

Many Iranians welcome the prospect of U.S. military action to remove the regime.

Questions keep surfacing after reports of China-linked labs discovered in U.S. cities and growing concern over Beijing’s strategic ambitions.

Why Xi Jinping’s purges make the Chinese military brittle.

Beijing has chosen a centralized approach to the creation of technological advances, raising many questions about the ultimate success of the effort.