As in the Cold War with the Soviet Union and in 2014 with Cuba, Washington and the Vatican can play complementary diplomatic roles vis-à-vis China to relieve the persecution faced by Chinese Catholics.

Will Japan revise its constitution by expanding the role of its military to counter China? Joshua Walker, President of the Japan Society, joins Editor Diddams to discuss the uniquely important U.S-Japan relationship since 1853

The recent gathering of Western Hemisphere leaders in Doral, Florida, signaled the emergence of an American-led strategy focused on countering fentanyl, stopping illegal Chinese fishing fleets, and investing in Latin America’s emerging 5G networks

Japanese PM Sanae Takaichi looks set to fundamentally reorient Japan’s strategic posture, but can she forge a new partnership with South Korea despite historical differences?

The sentencing of Jimmy Lai of Hong Kong to 20 years in prison exemplifies the CCP’s repression and the moral failure of the Vatican’s attempts to accommodate China’s dictatorial regime

While China’s military buildup demands a forceful Western response, its lack of combat experience and tendency toward paranoid purges make it less threatening than it appears

Trump’s 2025 National Security Strategy both predicts American decline and then works to accelerate it by walking away from the network of allies the US needs to sustain its hegemony

The CCP increasingly markets itself to the Global South as a defender of civilizational pluralism against Western notions of Human Rights, masking its own Marxist ideological commitments

President Trump’s successful efforts to bring home the Israeli hostages taken on 10/7 should be replicated to free Pastor Ezra Jin, who has been unjustly detained by the CCP for weeks