AMERICA’S INDO-PACIFIC STRATEGY STILL OBSCURE
The outgoing and incoming presidential national security advisors are in agreement on the broad outline of a bipartisan China policy. Addressing an on-line audience on January 29, Biden’s nationa…
CHINA SEEKS TO TAKE THE WIND FROM BIDEN’S SAILS
Xi Jinping declared on January 11 that China will realize its historical ambition of becoming a modern socialist state within the next 30 years. He made the pledge while addressing the opening of…
BIDEN ADMINISTRATION MAY RUN RISK OF BEING TAKEN IN BY BEIJING
By the time the reader reads this column, Joe Biden will have been inaugurated as America’s 46th President, with the new Democratic administration announcing a rapid succession of policies. Meanw…
WASHINGTON’S NEW TAIWAN POLICY WILL DECISIVELY TRANSFORM US-CHINA RELATIONS
Eleven days before his tenure ends, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo adeptly set things right as regards America’s relations with Taiwan going forward. Washington, aware that the Chinese governm…
THWARTING CHINA’S “HIDDEN HAND” VERY MUCH JAPAN’S BUSINESS
It has become customary for US presidents to write memoirs not long after leaving the White House. Royalties are incredibly high by the Japanese standards, but they may be justifiable in that th…
