Chinese strategy can be hard to grasp, with wildly different views from politicians and analysts, lots of scary headlines — lots of letters and numbers like the J20, THAAD or the F35 — as well as a certain mysterious quality...
US Secretary of defense Mark Esper recently announced that the navy will seek a future fleet of 500 ships. While this includes an increase of many smaller ships ranging from destroyers to frigates and littoral combat vessels – and perhaps...
Two recent articles about China published on the same day are a good example of the difference between facts and analysis, as well as the importance of doing your own critical active reading. Is China Old News or the Next...
International lawmakers recently nominated President Donald Trump for the Nobel Prize. This has inspired a great deal of ridicule and mocking from elites around the world. But when a person takes out their emotions and perceptions, and instead considers Trump’s...
China has historically maintained an air of mystery and the nation is a potential competitor to Western power in our day, resulting in many fearful speculations about Beijing’s strategies and capabilities. But a careful analysis of Chinese strategy and US...
The leader of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko is undergoing a lengthy series of protests by the people against what they see as a rigged election. Massive amounts of people gathered last week and at the time of this writing there appears...
The United States has shifted its position in the South China Sea. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said that “the world will not allow Beijing to treat the South China Sea as its maritime empire …America stands with our Southeast...
US President Donald Trump’s troop reduction in Germany is being criticized for its abruptness and lack of specifics. German officials are upset that Trump announced this without advanced notification and analysts claim this weakens NATO or makes allies unsure of...
The US made news recently by sending the Arleigh Burke Class Destroyer, the USS Russell, through the Taiwan Straits. The destroyer went through the strait right around the 31st anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre; for its part, China called...
The USS Roosevelt nuclear-powered aircraft carrier came out of quarantine to make a stop recently in Vietnam. This is the second time in recent memory that a ship has visited Hanoi and it signals important changes in the region. Most...
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