Category: Analysis

US-China Strategic Rivalry Plays Out in Pakistan

News Analysis U.S. interests in Pakistan include maintaining stability in South Asia, preventing war between India and Pakistan, containing international terrorism launched from Afghanistan, as well as countering the Chinese regime’s expanding influence and alliance building. Once the primary U.S. ally in the region, as Pakistan sinks deeper into China’s orbit, U.S.-Pakistan relations become more…


Apple Gives $275 Billion to China

News Analysis Apple’s CEO Tim Cook, according to secret documents reportedly seen by The Information, inked a $275 billion giveaway in 2016 that explains the tech company’s success in China. The Chinese market is no small part of Apple’s current approximately $3 trillion market capitalization. This makes it the world’s biggest company. So the Apple…


Alliances Shifting in South Asia: India-US Versus China-Pakistan

News Analysis India is preparing to fight a war on two fronts, while Pakistan is discovering that the cost of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) includes crippling debt, loss of U.S. alliance, and potential conflict with India. In 2018, the World Bank warned countries participating in China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) that the project…


Pax Americana Unravels at the Feet of China

News Analysis The news is coming fast and hard of peace and stability eroding globally in a manner that benefits Beijing’s attempts at global destabilization to make a path for its increasing control. As the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) seeks to break apart the American-led order, including that of the United Nations that Washington developed…


China Makes Basic Business Data National Security Risks

News Analysis The world’s understanding of China increasingly resembles the old Soviet Union joke: the authorities pretend they are paying wages, workers pretend they are working. China blocking basic business data threatens to shut them off from the world even more. For years, as China printed unreliable economic data, changed it whimsically, or censored it…


Will China’s ‘String of Pearls’ Stretch From the South China Sea to the Atlantic?

News Analysis Fifteen years ago, it was fashionable to speak of China’s emerging “string of pearls”: a chain of bases, ports, and other maritime facilities stretching from the South China Sea, through the Singapore-Malacca Straits, across the Indian Ocean, and on to the Red Sea. If not directly owned or controlled by China, this network-of-access…


A Global China Tax Is Needed to Defend Democracy and Freedom of the Seas

News Analysis Beijing is so powerful that we cannot expect any one country to accept the sole economic burden of defending the world from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Over the last few years, there has been a sea change in public understanding of the increasing threat from China. Nothing has demonstrated the China threat…


Right Here, Right Now: Necessary Measures to Deter China

Commentary The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has a long history of aggression. Since coming to power in 1949, the People’s Republic of China (PRC) has invaded Tibet and South Korea in 1950, aggressed against India in 1962, clashed with the Soviet Union in 1969, seized the Paracel Islands in 1974 from South Vietnam, invaded Vietnam…


US and EU Reject China Trade

News Analysis China’s trade patterns seem set to shift in the next few years. The United States and the Europe Union have made agreements that will surely advance their decoupling from China. Meanwhile, agreements in Asia seem ready to increase trade flows between South Korea, Japan, and China and do so substantively, if not immediately….


Federal Reserve: Use Care to Rein In Inflation

Commentary Rate hikes tend to shock the financial markets, both faster and more decisively, than they affect the wider economy. That effect on markets, in turn, can slow the consumer economy—usually the biggest part of GDP—because it negatively affects the wealth effect, the propensity of people to spend more because their assets are worth more….