BLOG Post #396: Close Encounters Require US-China Military Talks 3 Nov 2023 Near Misses US officials have announced that the President will meet Xi Jinping in San Francisco later this month, the first such meeting in a year. No issue is more…
BLOG Post #391: Alarm over Kim Jong Un’s Russia Trip 3 Oct 2023 Weapons Deals and Heightening Tensions Alarm bells are ringing in Tokyo, Seoul, and Washington over Kim Jong Un’s transactions during his 6-day stay in Vladivostok. He visited a full…
BLOG Post #387: China’s Rise Hits a Wall 31 Aug 2023 Over the last decade or so, the tendency among China watchers has been to see China’s rise as an endless upward progression. Just as happened during the Cold War…
APB APB: China’s Faltering Economy and Its Implications 19 Jul 202319 Jul 2023 Growing Pains China’s economy is going through some of the same growing pains that Japan once experienced: lower consumer spending, overbuilding on homes and offices, local government debt that runs…
BLOG Post #381: Assessing Treasury Secretary Yellen’s Beijing Journey 12 Jul 202316 Jul 2023 Updated version now available on my podcast: https://www.podserve.fm/episodes/106476/87-assessing-treasury-secretary-yellens-china-trip.mp3 Rhetoric and Reality “I believe that my bilateral meetings — which totaled about 10 hours over two days — served as a…
BLOG Post #378: Modi’s Game, and Ours 25 Jun 202324 Jun 2023 China on Their Minds President Biden welcomed India’s prime minister Narendra Modi with much pomp and ceremony the other day. One senior US official said “there is no partner more…
BLOG Post #376: The Taiwan Imbroglio 4 Jun 2023 What’s Going On? In my previous blog (Post #375) I reported on the worrying signs of a large gap in communications between the US and China. But I also noted…
BLOG Post #375: Out of Touch: The US-China Communications Gap 21 May 202322 May 2023 Among the many troubling trends in US-China relations these days is the lack of high-level diplomatic engagement. Until a few weeks ago, only John Kerry, Biden’s special envoy on climate…
BLOG Post #374: China’s Aid to Russia Under the “No Limits” Partnership 10 May 20239 May 2023 "No Limits” Has Limits In the war in Ukraine, the China-Russia relationship is a wildcard. The notion persists, going back to the Putin-Xi meeting in Beijing just before Putin…
BLOG Post #372: TikTok and US National Insecurity 22 Apr 2023 High-tech spying is in the news because of the one-sided, hypocritical debate in Congress on whether the popular app TikTok is actually a tool for Chinese government data collection on…
BLOG Post #364: China and Europe: Profits versus Principles 22 Feb 202320 Feb 2023 With all the attention on US-China relations, Beijing’s on-again, off-again relations with the European Union (EU) don’t receive the attention they deserve. In the short space of a few decades,…
BLOG Post #363: More on the China Balloon Episode: Much Ado About Very Little 13 Feb 202322 Feb 2023 (The China Balloon Incident has three phases. We have just exited Phase 2. In Phase 1, “Discovery,” the Biden administration went into action mode on finding that a Chinese “spy”…
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