A Chinese Su-27 Flanker fighter makes a fly by while the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Marine Gen. Peter Pace, visits with members of the Chinese Air Force at Anshan Airfield, China Mar. 24, 2007. DoD photo by Staff Sgt. D. Myles Cullen...
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My forthcoming edited volume, which is relevant to, but not directly discussed in, this post. Sometimes the best way to compete is... not to bother. As Alex Cooley and I.
Source: The White House from Washington, DC [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons At least, that's the conclusion of an interesting piece in Bloomberg News. The deficit did fall year-on-year in.
This is a somewhat interesting film about children in the early years of the Cultural Revolution. One can say it is propaganda; it probably actually isn't since it's not a Chinese government production, though it certainly had approval from the government. But even if you...
Gage Skidmore CC BY-SA 2.0 Jeffery Stacey and I have a new piece in Foreign Affairs called "Fear of Trump’s Populism Might Save American Alliances." Our basic argument is that:.
Gage Skidmore CC BY-SA 2.0 Yes, I'm still alive. Alex and I are speaking at noon (ET) today, "at" the Hertie School "in" Berlin. It's open to the public. It's.
Sadly, with all the problems in the U.S., the horrors of the globalized factory system are not getting any attention these days, not that they received enough attention before Trump. But the lives of people producing material for your daily consumption is still hard and...
This 1928 travelogue by Isaac Upham doesn't feel like a journey into 92 years ago. It feels like 200 years ago. Obviously the 20th century has reached China--the European style.
The documentary photographer of the Cultural Revolution, Li Zhenshang, died recently. It's worth revisiting just how amazing his photographs are. I put one to head this post, but check out.
Source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/original-1980s-soviet-anti-american-propaganda-po-200-c-61b495894d You may remember the luminaries of the self-proclaimed "anti-imperialist left" from such greatest hits as 'The CCP is putting Uyghurs in concentration camps for their own good' and 'The Hong Kong democracy activists are CIA-backed thugs.' But what are these principled leftists doing...
Image © Yann Forget / Wikimedia Commons Scott already posted about Trump's decision to suspend funding to the World Health Organization (WHO). Not long after Trump announced his decision, Beijing offered its.
There are a variety of forces pushing the United States toward the exit for global hegemony, but none is quite so frustrating as the Trump administration's simple abdication from exercising.