What is it with small countries egging large countries on toward war? Israel in the Middle East Ukraine between the…
China
Time to Solve the China-Taiwan Crisis
Suppose the Confederacy Had Fled to Cuba I know that’s a stretch of the imagination, but it’s very close to…
My Bone to Pick with Biden’s Secretary of Defense
Actually, I have several, but first a few words to set the confrontation on level ground. It was called Secretary…
Stock Market Selloff—Not Coronavirus, But the Manufacturing Complex
Coronavirus looks to me like a trigger rather than a cause. Why would that be? For one, a market…
Stock-Market Optimism
Breathtaking news, Wall Street investors are breathless with optimism. The world is going to hell in a breathlessly accelerated…
Tariffs Are Not Advanced by Breaking All the China
Don’t confuse the headline with breaking the Chinese nation, I’m using the more common reference to bulls in china…
A Return to Tariffs in the United States Makes Sense
Tariffs are essentially a tax on imports or exports between nations. Their goal is to protect manufacturing and that’s more…
Time for another Nixon-Kissinger style trip to Beijing—this time to Moscow
In 1972, exactly 43 years and four months ago, newly elected President Richard Nixon and his National Security Advisor, Henry…
Defusing a Bar-Fight by Handing One Guy a Broken Bottle
Taiwanese Leader Hails Weapons Deal With U.S. By Jane Rickards Special to The Washington Post Sunday, October 5, 2008; A21…
Blame It All on China
China’s Cars, Accelerating A Global Demand for Fuel By Ariana Eunjung Cha Washington Post Foreign Service Monday, July 28, 2008;…