The release of Pastor Ezra Jin, founder of Zion Church in Beijing, is a success story for American negotiations with China, and one that can be replicated by following the same playbook

In an ever-more globalized economy, a few chokepoints in international trade have become the keys to influencing global politics

For the CCP, the Century of Humiliation from 1839-1949 represents not just a shared memory, but a perpetual justification for aggressive, revisionist foreign policy

Free World Defense calls for a both more restrained and sustained engagement with threats to the US-led international order

Despite the seeming neutrality of Beijing’s rhetoric around diplomacy and dialogue, the CCP weaponizes America’s desire for international stability to escalate its provocations while avoiding meaningful consequences

While the influence of religion on Chinese and Taiwanese politics is little understood in the West, a recent “red rope incident” at a Taiwanese Buddhist temple reveals how deeply intertwined spirituality and politics remain on both sides of the Taiwan Strait

The idea of a civilization can be used to bind disparate peoples into a shared political project. But in Iran, Turkey, India, and China, civilizational rhetoric increasingly serves to marginalize religious minorities.

David Bentley Hart’s new translation of the Tao Te Ching, an ancient Chinese text dating to the fourth century BC, reveals an vision of wisdom, virtue, and the Way that resonates with Christianity

Vietnam Human Rights Day reminds Americans that Vietnam’s communist government continues to deny its people the basic freedoms we too often take for granted