A Sanctuary No More
The strange afterlife of the Hong Kong democracy movement.
Aaron Sarin
· 11 min read
China
A collection of 107 posts
China’s Weapons of Mass Destruction
The Communist Party is leaving behind mere nuclear deterrence, and accelerating towards a “first-strike” capability.
Aaron Sarin
· 8 min read
Unrealistic Realism on Ukraine
Moral relativism, and its equally dubious corollary of moral equivalence, too often mars contemporary Realists’ conceptions of political realities.
Borys M. Kowalsky
· 13 min read
China’s Female Revolt
How sexist violence killed the Chinese Dream.
Aaron Sarin
· 13 min read
China’s Manufactured Fukushima Panic
The CCP has not missed an opportunity to inflame fears about its Japanese neighbor.
Aaron Sarin
· 10 min read
The Chinese Exodus
Fears of a CCP sponsored invasion at the Mexican border are misplaced. People are fleeing China because its economy is in dire straits.
Aaron Sarin
· 11 min read
The Lab-Leak Illusion
The laboratory accident hypothesis of COVID-19’s origins is a bust, but the popular consensus is unwilling to accept it.
Jamie Palmer
· 53 min read
The Reverse Opium War
Beijing looks the other way, and the deadly medicine sails West just as its natural ancestor once sailed East.
Aaron Sarin
· 14 min read
Beijing’s Campus Offensive
Chinese-supported student groups in the West are being used to control discussion about China, censor critics, and lead protests against invited speakers
Joshua Kurlantzick
· 5 min read
Why AUKUS Matters
The deal is a belated response to the Chinese Communist Party’s mushrooming belligerence.
Aaron Sarin
· 12 min read
The Nature of the Beast
Too many Western politicians continue to delude themselves about the character of Beijing’s regime.
Aaron Sarin
· 11 min read
Beijing in Retreat
A plunging birthrate, deepening socioeconomic divisions, and the chaos produced by China’s failed Zero-COVID policy prove that Xi Jinping and the Party do not have the measure of the nation.
Aaron Sarin
· 12 min read
The White Paper Revolution
China’s population has learned that its voice has real power.
Aaron Sarin
· 14 min read
The Loneliness of the ‘Bridge Man’ Generation
China’s dissenters are isolated. But they are not as isolated as they once were.
Aaron Sarin
· 9 min read
A Single Spark
In the age of the Internet, can the Sitong Bridge Warrior’s protest make a difference?
Aaron Sarin
· 6 min read