NATO and the Return of Trump
If the United States abandons Europe, Beijing will be more emboldened than ever.
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If the United States abandons Europe, Beijing will be more emboldened than ever.
As Moscow’s dependence on Beijing grows, the CCP has set its sights on the Russian Far East.
For the Taiwanese, independence is not just a matter of national pride, it is a requisite for their dignity and their right to choose their own civilisational path.
It has long been a cliché that China is inscrutable to foreigners, but it is also becoming inscrutable to itself.
The British establishment’s China policy resembles a man periodically waking only to fall asleep again.
The student activist discusses the risks that Iran, China, and Russia, and their Western sympathisers, pose to liberal democracies.
As CCP corruption and waste has run rampant, the gulf between rich and poor has widened.
Wary of the Abrahamic faiths and increasingly contemptuous of Karl Marx’s alternative, young Chinese are drawn instead to tarot, divination, healers, and mediums.
The themes of Liu Cixin’s trilogy undermine his protestations of loyalty to the People’s Republic.
The Chinese Communist Party lives, breathes, and hallucinates espionage.
The strange afterlife of the Hong Kong democracy movement.
The Communist Party is leaving behind mere nuclear deterrence, and accelerating towards a “first-strike” capability.
Moral relativism, and its equally dubious corollary of moral equivalence, too often mars contemporary Realists’ conceptions of political realities.
How sexist violence killed the Chinese Dream.
The CCP has not missed an opportunity to inflame fears about its Japanese neighbor.