Know Thine Enemy
An insider’s naive and myopic account of China’s system and intentions.
A collection of 87 posts
An insider’s naive and myopic account of China’s system and intentions.
New mining frontiers are opening up in Greenland, Brazil, Tanzania, and Australia. In no time at all, historically speaking, Beijing’s advantage will disappear. That is a relief, but it is also a concern.
When dealing with the Chinese Communist Party, why does the West find it so difficult to learn the exhausting lessons of bitter experience?
The new European commitment to defence and Russia’s unshakeable wish to control Ukraine have revived an awareness that war is something with which comfortable and relatively wealthy states may still have to live.
Conflict is brewing between Hongkongers who have made the UK their home and a Communist Party that wants to make the UK its vassal.
From laissez-faire to lèse-majesté: an embarrassment in four fits.
There are no quick and easy solutions to America’s illegal fentanyl problem.
If they manage to stay on REDnote long enough, former TikTokers will surely begin to notice that all is not as it seems in modern China.
China is now turning its rage inward.
European leaders are struggling to cope with the multiple crises now facing the beleaguered continent.
In her new book, ‘Autocracy, Inc.,’ historian Anne Applebaum provides us with a distinctive and indispensable guide to one of the great challenges of our time.
Some leaders in Europe may resist a new alliance with Trump’s America, but in a world dominated by bullies, sharp elbows and unpredictability may be what the times demand.
The Communist Party bears responsibility for the outbursts of Chinese hatred against Japan and its citizens.
It is time for democratic countries to accept that the existing system is broken and that they must develop a new global security architecture.
Only robust deterrence from Washington can thwart China’s designs in the South China Sea.