Biden’s China policy is confused, lacks effectiveness on the ground
Editor's Note: This piece by Venus Upadhayaya features many long-form quotes from CSP Senior Fellow, Grant Newsham. It took the...
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Gorbachev’s legacy: Not ending the Cold War but helping China start a new one
The Greeks and the Romans advised us not to speak ill of the dead, de mortuis nil nisi bonum dicendum est—of...
The Mar-a-Lago search could lessen America’s global position — and embolden China
A fundamental aspect of politics is that domestic events impact international ones and the reverse. This month we have witnessed...
Disregarded no more: China, its military aspirations, & its nuclear arms
Editor's Note: Center Senior Fellow Grant Newsham is quoted extensively in this piece by J.M. Phelps Navy Adm. John Aquilino,...
The Financial Times on the road to Damascus
The greatest strategic mistake made by the United States was to fund the rise of its enemy. For decades, the...
China and Taiwan: The Chinese python
A U.S. government friend involved in Indo-Pacific defense matters asked me the question a lot of people are wondering about....
Guam is the front line of American sovereign territory in the showdown with China
Just after Taiwan lies the second island chain in the construct of Pacific geography. Running roughly north to south are...
China caused this crisis – The US must win it
U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s Taiwan visit came and went, but the crisis created by China in the Taiwan Strait...
The good, the bad, and the ugly of Pelosi’s trip
The first visit by a U.S. House speaker to Taiwan in 25 years is an important occasion and in its...
China’s American political mercenaries
The startlingly different views of the future direction of the U.S. and China could not be starker. The direction boils down to...
The failure of our expert class on China cost us dearly
Henry Kissinger, the doyen of the foreign policy elite and the China engagement school, made the latest of his entreaties...
Stop investing in the Chinese Communist Party
A fundamental principle of strategy is do not help your enemy defeat you. Funding your adversary clearly is out of...
One thing every state must do to protect America
Over the past several years America has discovered that China has been carrying out various forms of espionage and intellectual...
CCP infiltration of the Federal Reserve shows America is unprepared
More and more Americans are waking up to the fact that the People’s Republic of China, which is ruled by...
The Wuhan ‘disinformation’
"My sources," read the incoming email on January 24, 2020, "received reliable information according to which the situation related to...
The newest Chinese Naval base is in … the Bahamas
My first memory of the Bahamas was a wonderful family trip there in 1980. I remember beautiful beaches, conch shells,...