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Issues involving the People’s Republic of China
NOTE: This post was updated on April 16, 2020. The explosion of the COVID-19 coronavirus on the international scene emphasizes yet again that China has no intention of merely coexisting … Read More
Trade war with China has created great corporate uncertainties about the international supply chains of U.S. companies. These uncertainties have caused American companies to pull back from investments to produce … Read More
The much feared trade war with China is the least of the problems we have with that great nation. The People’s Republic of China appears to be hardwired to seek … Read More
President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump pose for a photo with Chinese President Xi Jingping and his wife, Mrs. Peng Liyuan, Thursday, April 6, 2017, at the entrance … Read More
Bethlehem Steel (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania facility pictured) was one of the world’s largest manufacturers of steel before its closure in 2003. Wikimedia Commons / Jschnalzer By now, you have almost certainly … Read More
Vladimir Putin, President (for life?) of the Russian Federation DailyPnut.com While Democrats continue to obsess over imaginary connections between Donald Trump and the Russian Federation, they seem to pay little … Read More
Launch of a North Korean Taepodong 2 ICBM MissileThreat.csis.org Just this Tuesday, China’s minion North Korea claimed to have made its first fully successful test launch of an Intercontinental Ballistic … Read More
Revolutionary Images: Lessons to be avoided like the plague! Left: A barricade erected by revolutionaries in Moscow, 1905. Wikimedia Commons / Imperial War Museum Right: People’s Liberation Army entering Beijing, … Read More
Aspects of U.S. Foreign Relations Top (Left to Right): U.S. Army soldiers in Ramadi, August 2006 Wikimedia Commons / Air Force Tech Sgt. Jeremy T. Lock Container ship from … Read More
United Nations Headquarters in New York City Wikimedia Commons / Neptuul Very little divides American citizens more than questions about how the U.S. should interact with other nations. This has always … Read More
Naval vessel of the the People’s Liberation Army Navy. Center for Security Policy In the United States over the past eight years, China has found its perfect enemy, more concerned … Read More
The flags of bitter enemies: Iran left, Saudi Arabia right Wikimedia Commons Sometime in the middle of this last November, someone, almost certainly the Islamic Republic of Iran, conducted destructive … Read More
People’s Liberation Army Navy sailors at the Qingdao, North Sea Fleet headquarters parading in 2000 for a visiting U.S. Navy delegation. Wikimedia Commons/Jiang The probability of war with the People’s … Read More
U.S. Army soldiers in Ramadi, August 2006 Wikimedia Commons/Air Force Tech Sgt. Jeremy T. Lock One of the major reasons for the weakening of U.S. alliances has been the decay … Read More
People’s Liberation Army contingent at 2015 Moscow Victory Day Parade Wikimedia Commons/Kremlin.ru Probing of the U.S. alliance periphery is being done by more than just Russia and ISIS. In my … Read More
States with U.S. military relationships: Dark Blue are the NATO members, Purple are major non-NATO allies, and Pale Blue are signatories of Partnership for Peace with NATO Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons/Sesmith … Read More
YAL-1A airborne laser in flight with the mirror unstowed Photo Credit:Wikimedia Commons/U.S. Missile Defense Agency This is the third post in a series on the threat of Chinese and Russian … Read More
Hypersonic reentry of an HGV Image Credit: Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) In my last post I wrote about the unique threat against U.S. national security posed by the … Read More
Deployment of U.S. Falcon Hypersonic Technology Vehicle (HTV2) AFP Photo/Defense Advance Research Projects Agency (DARPA) While Obama’s administration is cutting back on defense spending and futuristic defense development programs, both … Read More
Views that fuel Donald Trump’s Campaign Image Credit: Flickr.com/Mike Licht, NotionsCapital.com The political reactions working in favor of Donald Trump, or for that matter, Bernie Sanders have been a long time … Read More
Trump speaking at 2015 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons/Gage Skidmore Marco Rubio’s call at last night’s Republican debate to fact check the differences between Donald Trump’s … Read More
Total Retail Sales and its percent change from a year ago Image Credit: St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank/FRED Earlier this year, many had high hopes that the precipitous drop in … Read More
US Treasury Department Building, Washington, DC Photo Credit: Flickr.com/romanboed A nightmare seems to be stalking the executive and legislative branches of the U.S. government. Is it possible they soon may … Read More
Achilles with Paris’ arrow in his heel. Photo Credit: Flickr.com/texmex5 The national security outlooks of the United States and Western Europe are beginning to look grim. … Read More
Russian TU-95 bomber intercepted over North Sea/Atlantic Ocean, 29 October 2014 Photo Credit: NATO/RAF The Obama administration has made the world more dangerous for the West by more than just … Read More
With Russia, China, and Iran possibly forming an axis to oppose the United States, and with two of them possessing nuclear weapons and ICBMs, and the third seeking them, it … Read More
Is China a threat to the United States? In two recent posts, The Growing Threat of Russia and The Purposes of Iran, we have noted how China is in a … Read More
Al Qaeda and ISIS are not the only islamic jihadist organizations to worry about; there is Iran as well. The Washington Times has cited a release from the Iranian Fars … Read More
