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Post #529: China’s Economy: The Price of Success

If we read nothing other than the mainstream media, we are likely to be persuaded that China has the world’s…

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Post #528: Chairman Xi Goes to Washington

The New Reality China’s President Xi Jinping’s sixth visit to the US has come and gone. Expectations were low for…

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Post #527: The Crimes of the Trump Regime

(Note to the Reader: This is the fifth iteration of a blog originally posted after the first two weeks of…

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Post #89: China’s Insecurity

27 Aug 201527 Feb 2017
Several developments in China over the past few weeks have shown us a country quite different from the one often portrayed by outsiders—an emerging superpower, with global economic reach and…
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Post #88: Consorting with the Devil

19 Aug 201527 Feb 2017
Throughout the Cold War, and doubtless right down to the present, professional people with skills relevant to “national security” have been secretly recruited to work for the Central Intelligence Agency…
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Post #87: The Number One Global Security Issue? Climate Change

12 Aug 201527 Feb 2017
In my very first blog posted in February 2014, I noted that US leaders were finally categorizing climate change as a global threat on the order of weapons of mass…
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Post #86: With Friends Like These

6 Aug 201527 Feb 2017
The Pentagon Papers record a last-minute conversation between President Dwight Eisenhower and President-elect John F. Kennedy on Inauguration Day. The subject was the war in Indochina, which already was going…
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Post #85: We Apologize

23 Jul 201527 Feb 2017
The following article originally appeared in Global Asia, vol. 10, No. 2 (Summer 2015), pp. 112-117, under the title “'We Apologize': Two Words to Embrace to Right Injustices." Apologies are never easy—not between…
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Post #84: The Engagement Critics

15 Jul 201527 Feb 2017
One of the predictable outcomes of any US effort to reset relations with an adversary is that allies start whining about their vulnerability and demanding some sort of compensation for…
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Post #83: Saving the Iran Nuclear Deal

7 Jul 201527 Feb 2017
A US-Iran agreement on Iran’s nuclear program and US sanctions appears to be slowly nearing completion.  President Obama wants to add to his legacy of engaging adversaries with an agreement…
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Post #82—Man on the Run, and South Africa’s Failure to Detain Him

25 Jun 201527 Feb 2017
Margaret Thatcher once advised those delegates to the United Nations who criticize the organization for being weak to look in the mirror for the explanation.  International law is much the…
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Post #81 – A Human-Interest Agenda for US-China Relations

16 Jun 201527 Feb 2017
I have just published the following article in China-US Focus, June 16: www.chinausfocus.com/foreign-policy/creating-a-human-interest-agenda-for-u-s-china-relations/. For anyone interested in reading the longer version of Post #80 on the South China Sea dispute, please…
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Post #80: The Looming US-China Crisis in the South China Sea

10 Jun 201527 Feb 2017
The long-running, multi-party dispute over control of islets in the South China Sea (SCS) is worsening both in rhetoric and provocative activity.  (For background, see my posts #23 and 41.)…
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Post #79: The Pentagon Slush Fund

1 Jun 201527 Feb 2017
Back in 1959, President Eisenhower and Soviet Premier Khrushchev took a break from their summit and walked in the woods around Camp David.  Khrushchev, in his memoirs, relates a conversation…
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Post #78: The Middle East Quagmire: Give Peacemaking a Chance

23 May 201527 Feb 2017
The desperate state of US policy in the Middle East became apparent once again with the ISIS rout of the Iraqi army at Ramadi. It was another setback for US-supported…

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