Commentary There have arisen lately two rather interesting and contending schools of thought concerning China’s future as a great power. One says that China has reached its peak and is already settling into a slow process of possibly irrevocable decline. The other school takes the opposite stance, arguing that China’s rise is continuing and has…
Taiwan Today Is Eerily Similar to the Sudetenland in 1938
Commentary Over the past several years, the People’s Liberation Army Navy has been saber-rattling in the Taiwan Strait, East China Sea, and South China Sea. Chinese warships were conducting “intensive combat exercises,” as noted by Newsweek, and, more recently, practicing what long-time China watchers James Fanell and Bradley Thayer referred to in The Washington Times on…
China’s Xi Is Not Getting What He Wants
Commentary China featured large in a recent article carried by the prestigious The Atlantic magazine. In those pages, China experts from the American Enterprise Institute, Dan Blumenthal and Derek Scissors, dissected the change Xi Jinping has wrought in the country’s economic objectives since he took office in 2013. All his predecessors, from Deng Xiaoping to…
US and China Wage Diplomatic War in the Central and South Pacific
Commentary Eighty-one years separate 1942 and 2023. In that human lifetime, the technologies of war have changed, as have some of the regional and global actors. Great Power rivalry definitely isn’t ancient history in the Pacific and East Asia. However, communist China is now the expansionist power, not imperial Japan. The United States is still…
Chinese Ambassador Tries to Give Australia a Tax Lesson
May 31, 2023
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Commentary It is consoling to learn that the Chinese ambassador to Australia is concerned about how we spend our taxes. What, I wondered, could he impart to us about the expenditure of taxes by the Chinese authorities? Perhaps we could be building dozens of coal-fired power stations, as the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is doing?…
When Will There Be a New Global Order?
Commentary The U.S.-dominated “rules-based world order” is, for the moment, dead, or at least moving into abeyance after its three-quarters of a century lifespan. The current global strategic architecture—the framework of states and their political alignments—along with all the accepted norms that sustain the balance of power, has already transformed to the point where all…
By Supporting China, Saudi Arabia Risks Secondary Sanctions
Commentary Saudi Arabia was China’s biggest oil supplier in April, according to the latest data released on May 20. China’s oil imports from the kingdom rose 2.9 percent year-to-date. Saudi oil imported into China in April totaled 8.46 million tons (2.06 million barrels per day). This exceeded the 7.12 million tons imported from Russia and 4.72 million…
US Venture Capital Firms, Financial Firms Should Stop Backing Red China
May 30, 2023
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Commentary China’s tech startup and venture capital boom over the last decade has produced some household names while stoking concerns that it would one day surpass innovation out of Silicon Valley. But that momentum has waned recently. Various reasons have dampened international funding into Chinese tech startups, including pandemic restrictions, the communist authority’s crackdown on…
When Zunzi Is Honored
Commentary Since last October, six departments of the Hong Kong government have criticized the cartoons of Zunzi, Hong Kong’s veteran political cartoonist, for being “factually untrue” and “unethical.” The message is clear: Ming Pao, the newspaper where the cartoons were published, had to stop publishing Zunzi, who had produced pro-democratic cartoons for four decades. Finally,…
The G-7 Is a Burr in Xi Jinping’s Saddle
Commentary The communist Chinese pour cold water on the actions and pronouncements of any international body that excludes China from participation. This is particularly true of intergovernmental organizations that can greatly affect the world economy, as the so-called Group of Seven is meant to do under the leadership of the United States. Since Xi Jinping…
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