In the lead-up to President Trump’s summit with Chinese leader Xi Jinping (習近平) this week, Taiwan’s fate appeared to hang in the balance. China,
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The ‘Thucydides Trap’ is Not About Athens and Sparta, It’s About Taiwan
This morning at the crack of dawn Beijing time, Trump was awake and Truthing. He evidently had read the news coverage about Chinese leader Xi
Trump-Xi Summit: What to Watch For
Anticipation is high this week as President Donald Trump prepares to travel to Beijing to meet with China’s leader, Xi Jinping (習近平), for the first
Quaaludes, Fentanyl and the Battle for China’s Help on Drugs
One morning in August 1980, Gene Haislip drove to the airport in Bogota and boarded an old twin-engine DC-3 destined for Barranquilla, a port city on
As Global Pressure Mounts, Xi Should Free Jimmy Lai
Ahead of his summit with Xi Jinping (習近平) in Beijing later this month, Donald Trump is once again facing calls to push for the release of Jimmy Lai
House China Select Committee Accuses Heartland Nonprofit of United Front Work
Last week, the U.S. House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party sent a letter to the United States Heartland China Association, accusing the
Beijing’s Diplomats Tied to Philadelphia’s Raising of China’s Five-Starred Flag
When Philadelphia’s government hosted a ceremony in which community organizations hoisted the flag of the People’s Republic of China at City Hall last
Advanced Packaging Is the Latest AI Bottleneck
Nvidia announced last fall that the first wafers for its Blackwell chips, which are designed for artificial intelligence workloads, had been
Taipei Is ‘Fiddling While Rome Burns’
A retired admiral from the U.S. Navy made an extraordinary intervention in Taiwan’s political and military debate today, excoriating delays to
A War With China Would Look Very Different From One With Iran
Whatever the strategic outcome of the war in Iran, U.S. weapons have performed well. American and partner forces have suffered extremely low
How to Strengthen Deterrence for Taiwan Without Abandoning Ambiguity
For all the chatter of think tank experts, a policy article alone is unlikely to change the United States’ long-held practice of strategic ambiguity
Patriot Missile Demand Tests Washington’s Taiwan Priorities
In the first 16 days of the war in Iran, the U.S. and its partners in the region used 1804 Patriot air defense missiles, according to a report by the










