2020

Strategika Issue #65

Taiwan: “The Struggle Continues” Please read a new essay by my colleague, Gordon G. Chang in Strategika. “Reunification is a historical inevitability of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation,” declared Beijing’s Taiwan Affairs Office in May, promoting the idea that Taiwan will be absorbed into the People’s Republic of China. Read the full article here. Recognize Taiwan Please read […]

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Strategika Issue #64

The Coronacrisis Will Simply Exacerbate the Geo-strategic Competition between Beijing and Washington Please read a new essay by my colleague, Michael R. Austin in Strategika. Even before the outbreak of the novel coronavirus in Wuhan, China late last year, the Sino-U.S. relationship had been in a period of flux. Since coming to office in 2017, President

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Biden as Paradox

Victor Davis Hanson // National Review It is now conventional punditry that should Joe Biden win in November, his vice president, in 1944-style, will sooner rather than later become president. Biden, to reboot and secure the identity-politics base, thought he had to discriminate by sex and race in advance by selecting his vice president. But given

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Victor Davis Hanson: The spreading debt virus — 5 potential cures for $30 trillion problem

Victor Davis Hanson // Fox News The current U.S. budget deficit could soon exceed a record $4 trillion. The massive borrowing is being driven both by prior budget profligacy and a hurried effort by the Donald Trump administration to pump liquidity into a quarantined America. The shutdown has left the country on the cusp of a self-inflicted economic collapse not seen

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The Doctrine of Media Untruth

Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness As a general rule, when the New York Times, the Washington Post, National Public Radio, Public Broadcasting Service, NBC, CBS, ABC, MSNBC, and CNN begin to parrot a narrative, the truth often is found in simply believing just the opposite. Put another way, the media’s “truth” is a good guide to

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Across the Wide, Growing American Divide

Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Red- and blue-state America was already divided before the coronavirus epidemic hit. Globalization had enriched the East Coast and West Coast corridors but hollowed out much in between. The traditional values of small towns and rural counties were increasingly at odds with postmodern lifestyles in the cities. There were, of

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