What US should do next on national security
The US Congress just passed — and Biden signed — a major national security bill. The bill has four main provisions:
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America ain’t all bad: five good reasons to be optimistic
Recently I’ve been writing some fairly gloomy stuff, mostly related to war and international affairs. But even though I’ve been focusing on scary happenings overseas, I’m still very optimistic about the domestic situation here in the United States. So I thought I’d make a little list of trends that we should be happy about.
Sizing up the China-Russia ‘New Axis’
In a recent post, I tried to warn people about the substantial and growing chance of World War 3. My post was focused on the risk that a war will occur, but it didn’t really focus on the risk that the US and its allies will be defeated in that war.
Americans should worry more about world war
Being the guy who’s always shouting about impending disaster is frustrating, thankless work. If nobody listens to you, and the disaster happens, you’re a useless Cassandra.
US would be insane to go it alone on trade and industry
The paradigm shift in US economic policy began during the 2016 presidential election campaign. It was in that campaign that the candidates of both parties agreed on scrapping the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).
Chinasplaining backfires in ‘China’s World View’
I can clearly remember a moment after Barack Obama was reelected in 2012, where a Republican politician declared that his party just had to get better at explaining their message to the voters.
Did China squander its moment in the sun?
When you look at modern China, you are witnessing something stupendous – a great civilization at the peak of its relative power and effectiveness. Along a few dimensions, modern China is the most impressive civilization humanity has ever built. It has the highest total GDP of any country in history, measured at purchasing power parity.
Japan, not quite ‘back’, has a new fighting chance
There was some reason for cheer among Japanese commentators on February 22. The Nikkei 225, Japan’s flagship stock index, finally reattained its previous peak from 1989:
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