The China Committee must emphasize political warfare to defeat the CCP
The House Select Committee on Strategic Competition between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party led by Rep. Mike...
Bradley Thayer
Bradley A. Thayer received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. He is a widely published author in a broad range of U.S. national security concerns, including the causes and consequences of China’s rise and its adverse implications for the U.S., its allies, and the other states in international politics; U.S., European, and Chinese grand strategies; the history of Chinese and Western strategic thought; China’s use of force; the origin, development, and rule of the Chinese Communist Party; the history of Communist thought and its evolution from Marx and Engels, through Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Gramsci, the Frankfurt School and critical theory to today; United States national security policy; nuclear deterrence; cyber warfare and deterrence; nuclear proliferation; terrorism; Arctic security; and NATO and transatlantic relations. His most recent books are the coauthored Understanding the China Threat and the coauthored How China Sees the World: Han-Centrism and the Balance of Power in International Politics.
China’s military aid to Russia: Finally breaking decades of America’s engagement policy?
At the annual Munich Security Conference, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken warned his Chinese counterpart, Chinese Communist Party Central Foreign...
Rejecting China’s danse macabre
During the Cold War, the United States was serious about the defense of its airspace. The principal threat was penetration...
Biden’s State of the Union and the spy balloon: More missed opportunities
President Joe Biden’s State of the Union speech was notable for its glancing reference to the Chinese spy balloon that drifted over...
China’s Liu He at Davos: Every word was a lie
Chinese Vice Premier Liu He’s address at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, was striking for its dishonesty and prevarication. It recalls...
US General Mike Minihan provides the right call to action
The leaked memorandum from Air Force Gen. Mike Minihan, the commander of Air Mobility Command (AMC), to his command is...
The US needs quantity and quality for high intensity warfare
The Biden administration’s decision to provide M1 Abrams main battle tanks to Ukraine follows reports that U.S. support for Ukraine...
With China’s aggression on full display, Biden must respond
China’s display last month of coercive diplomacy against India, Japan and Taiwan were a stark reminder of the risks of...
Mike Gallagher’s China committee has its work cut out for it
The United States consistently has made bad decisions regarding the CCP threat owing to the fecklessness of the foreign policy...
Worse than 2020? China’s COVID decisions may ensure another wave
China’s dramatic change in its COVID policies could have deleterious consequences for the world’s population: We may face the prospect...
Ending the Chinese regime’s corruption of our politics
The Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) intelligence operations against the West are well known. Washington Times journalist Bill Gertz’s reporting on the...
Strategy, not economics, should govern high-tech trade with China
The Biden administration’s creation of a “China House,” the Office of China Coordination, in the Department of State could be a...
How will a hot war with China start?
The near collision over the South China Sea on Dec. 21, 2022, between a Chinese J-11 fighter aircraft and a...
America’s civil-military problem
In the bustle of the Christmas season, three events likely escaped attention. The first was the U.S. Military Academy’s (West...
The China threat is nonpartisan
The movement by state governors and legislators from South Dakota to New York to ban the TikTok app from state...
China’s uprisings present an opportunity to the West
A just and rich irony of the COVID-19 pandemic would be that the virus — which the Chinese government allowed...