Thomas Wright from Brookings has nailed it in this piece. President Trump is facing his first foreign policy crisis and it centers on Hong Kong. If President Xi Jinping uses force against the protesters, what will America do? How will it affect overall U.S.-China relations?…
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We need a new intellectual and policy framework to confront China–My Bloomberg Radio interview
I had a stimulating 10-minute interview with Bloomberg Radio yesterday. Listen here. It’s in podcast form. I argued that our debate about China has been polarized, as many other issues have been (and perhaps the majority of issues.) On the one hand, we have the Steve Bannons and Peter Navarros arguing that China is “the […]…
Can China’s Global Strategy Be Stopped?
AUG31 China’s Global Strategy : Can It Be Stopped? Public · Hosted by Keep Taiwan Free I clock Saturday, August 31, 2019 at 1 PM – 5 PM Next Week pin 230 W 41st St, New York, NY 10036-7203, United States I’ll be talking about “The New Art of War” at this gathering of Taiwanese, Hong […]…
The Code by Margaret O’Mara–An Important New Book
The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America, by Margaret O’Mara, is an extraordinarily important and highly readable book. It examines the relationship between the U.S. government and Silicon Valley at a time when that relationship seems under great stress. We see Washington gearing up to target Big Tech for its violation of personal privacy […]…
Cutting Off Foreign Aid Is Just Dumb
It appears that the Trump Administration is trying to restrict or eliminate some $2 to $4 billion in spending on foreign aid, judging from this article in the New York Times by one of my OPC Foundation winners, Edward Wong. The State Department and the U.S. Agency for International Development are the primary conduits for […]…
