Indo-Pacific

There is no peacetime in the Maoist worldview. The Chinese spy balloon was one more means for Beijing to turn the strategic environment to its advantage.

Understanding the Chinese idea of Just War is essential to understanding Chinese military doctrine.

The new criminal code of Indonesia has been criticized by journalists and the State Department for its banning of illicit sex, blasphemy, and partial news.

Whether in days, months, years or decades, the regimes in China, Russia and Iran will tumble.

“China has been a principal economic and military partner of the various Myanmar and Burma regimes since the beginning.”

A Critical Review of The Strategy of Denial: American Defense in an Age of Great Power Conflict by Elbridge Colby, Yale University Press, 2021. 

From the Archives of Christianity & Crisis Magazine: October 13, 1947.

“If I suffer for the right cause, it only define[s] the person I am becoming. It can only be good for me to become a better person if I believe in the Lord.”

The Uighurs would be in a very different situation if we could get Middle Eastern governments to restrict the flow of oil to China or if South Asian governments would say no to China’s tempting low-interest infrastructure projects.