{"id":12970,"date":"2021-03-15T13:00:48","date_gmt":"2021-03-15T20:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=12970"},"modified":"2021-03-15T10:21:51","modified_gmt":"2021-03-15T17:21:51","slug":"strategika-71-china-and-the-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/strategika-71-china-and-the-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"Strategika #71: China and the Pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Domestic Disorder and International Credibility<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Please read a new essay by my colleague, Mark Moyar in Strategika.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>George Floyd\u2019s death on May 25, 2020 at the hands of a Minneapolis police officer triggered allegations that his fate exposed a much broader problem of racism in American law enforcement and American society more generally. As this interpretation spread across old and new media, protests and riots erupted across the urban landscape, spearheaded by the movement Black Lives Matter.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoover.org\/research\/domestic-disorder-and-international-credibility\">Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Deterrence, Riots, and Education<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Please read a new essay by my colleague, Edward N Luttwak in Strategika.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Deterrence is a tricky business because it all occurs in the minds of adversaries, forming fears that inhibit action. In 1977, while working in South Korea in a last-minute attempt to find quick ways of improving the country\u2019s remarkably retrograde ground forces (President Jimmy Carter wanted to withdraw U.S. troops quickly, as Presidential Review Memorandum #13 prescribed), I kept wondering why North Korea had made no attempt to exploit the Fall of Saigon opportunity of April 30, 1975.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoover.org\/research\/deterrence-riots-and-education\">Read the full article here.<\/a><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>America\u2019s Protests and the CCP\u2019s Dogma of Inevitability<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Please read a new essay by my colleagues, Miles Maochun Yu in Strategika.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>America\u2019s violent protests in the summer of 2020 have impacted how the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) re-calculates the geopolitical power balance and strategic risk of a head-on confrontation between it and the presumably weakened United States, and enlivened the communist government\u2019s ideological impulses against the international capitalist system.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoover.org\/research\/americas-protests-and-ccps-dogma-inevitability\">Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Domestic Disorder and International Credibility Please read a new essay by my colleague, Mark Moyar in Strategika. George Floyd\u2019s death on May 25, 2020 at the hands of a Minneapolis police officer triggered allegations that his fate exposed a much broader problem of racism in American law enforcement and American society more generally. As this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-3nc","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12412,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/strategika-issue-64\/","url_meta":{"origin":12970,"position":0},"title":"Strategika Issue #64","author":"victorhanson","date":"June 4, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"The Coronacrisis Will Simply Exacerbate the Geo-strategic Competition between Beijing and Washington Please read a new essay by my colleague, Michael R. 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Chinese doctors and scientists encountered COVID-19 patients as early as November 2019, but Beijing\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":12282,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/strategika-issue-63-should-the-united-states-leave-the-middle-east\/","url_meta":{"origin":12970,"position":3},"title":"Strategika Issue #63: Should the United States Leave the Middle East?","author":"victorhanson","date":"April 2, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Learning From Failure: Formulating A New U.S. Middle East Foreign Policy Please read a new essay by my colleague, Edward N. Luttwak\u00a0in Strategika. A commentator recently complained that President Trump does not have a \u201cSyria strategy\u201d and therefore awful Assad is winning. Countless Op-Ed writers before him likewise commented that\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11742,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/strategika-issue-57-the-growth-of-chinese-power-and-influence\/","url_meta":{"origin":12970,"position":4},"title":"Strategika Issue 57: The Growth of Chinese Power and Influence","author":"victorhanson","date":"March 28, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"China Never Was A Superpower\u2014And It Won\u2019t Be One Anytime Soon Please read a new essay by my colleague, Gordon G. Chang\u00a0in Strategika. \u201cThe world by 2049 will be defined by the realization of Chinese power,\u201d\u00a0write\u00a0Bradley Thayer and John Friend, referring to the centenary of the founding of the People\u2019s\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11120,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/strategika-issue-49-the-value-of-economic-sanctions\/","url_meta":{"origin":12970,"position":5},"title":"Strategika Issue 49: The Value of Economic Sanctions","author":"victorhanson","date":"March 30, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Sanctions: The Record And The Rewards Please read a new essay by my colleague from the Military History Working Group, Josef Joffe in Strategika Why are sanctions so popular? 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