Xi and Putin Miscalculate

Nathan Gardels at Noema: Sometimes your best friend can be your worst enemy. This is the case today with the “no limits” relationship of Russian President Vladimir Putin and China’s paramount leader Xi Jinping.   Not only has Putin’s invasion of Ukraine...

Wolf Warrior

A POLITICO article by Terril Yue Jones of the Claremont McKenna College Department of Government: Yntil recently, Qin Gang was one of China’s most prominent American experts and influential policymakers. But after a mysterious, month-long disappearance from public...

Ukraine and Taiwan

Josh Ro=gin at WP: “Ukraine’s survival is Taiwan’s survival. Ukraine’s success is Taiwan’s success,” Taiwan’s representative in Washington, Bi-khim Hsiao, told the McCain Institute’s Sedona Forum last weekend. “Our futures are closely linked.” …  Hsiao said...

Ten Years Ago: China and TPP

Ten years ago today, David Dreier wrote in The Wall Street Journal: The last quarter-century brought the fastest and most profound geopolitical change and economic growth the world has seen. It’s time to go even bigger. Just five years after the 2008 global...