Geopolitics

It used to be that July 1 was a day of celebration in Hong Kong. It marked the day in 1997 that Great Britain handed over control of Hong Kong to China. But almost immediately there were signs that a city renowned for economic freedom was coming under the control of Chinese Communist Party leaders in Beijing. Read More.

The State Visit of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Washington illustrated both style and substance of the evolving relationship between the world’s two largest democracies. Read More.

As with many tenets of the previous administration’s foreign policy, the Biden administration has shown little interest in maintaining the Abraham Accords — until now. Read More.

The Pacific island nations of Palau, Marshall Islands, and Micronesia, known as the Freely Associated States (FAS), have long granted the United States extensive defense and security access, including the right to base at and deny entry to the FAS by someone else’s military. Read More.

As chaos and conflict seem to be the tragic trend in many parts of the world, a sad parallel follows: Large numbers of people are fleeing and being displaced by the violence. Read More.

When it comes to the Chinese Communist Party's relationship with "the people," the CCP is non-discriminatory. It persecutes all people who fail to conform to totalitarian Marxist ideology and diktats. Read More.

Russia appears to have finally won secure access to the warm waters of the Indian Ocean, the goal it has pursued vigorously since the 17th Century: the old Great Game may be over, and the new begun. Read More.

Cuba in 1960 was the first Latin American country to recognize the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) rule in China. Now all of Latin America, with the exception of Belize, Guatemala, and Paraguay, recognize the CCP. Read More.

The world seems to have forgotten about Syria. You could excuse this after a dozen years of bloody conflict, humanitarian catastrophes and a jarring earthquake in February. Equally there’s a global crisis overload from the Middle East to Eastern Europe and looming in East Asia. Read More.

The communist regime in Beijing is involved in the trafficking of illegal drugs, protected wildlife, and humans. It launders cash and participates in ransomware attacks. It steals intellectual property. As a matter of state policy, it murders people for their organs. Read More.

The growing nuclear threat posed by China is “potentially catastrophic” and the United States needs to bolster its deterrence to deal with it, a group of senior specialists have warned. Read More.

For 40 years, the two isolated states have been cooperating on missile technology. Every step of the way, they have defied international sanctions while building two of the most threatening missile programs on the planet. Read More.

It’s hardly a surprise, but an affirmation of the obvious. Burma’s military regime is being backed, supported and protected by both Russia and China. Read More.

Chinese "compatriots" in the United States are being called on to "serve the motherland." Read More.

Another earthquake has jolted Turkey. But contrary to the seismic calamity which devastated large parts of eastern Turkey in February killing more than 50,000 people this was an electoral jolt whose political shockwaves and aftershocks continue to rattle the entire country from Istanbul, through the Anatolian plain to far off Mt. Ararat on the Armenian frontier. Read More.