Mohammed Al-Shaikh/AFP/Getty Images Jamal Khashoggi, pictured on Dec. 15, 2014, during a press conference in Manama, Bahrain. By Niall Ferguson October 15, 2018 There are autocrats. Look around. According to Freedom House, a quarter of the world’s states are “not free.” More than a third of the world’s population live in those states. “Undemocratic
READ MOREBy Victor Davis Hanson| October 11th, 2018 Nearly a half-century ago, President Richard Nixon’s secretary of state, Henry Kissinger, established a successful U.S. strategy for dealing with America’s two most dangerous rivals. He sought closer ties to both the Soviet Union, with its more than 7,000 nuclear weapons, and Communist China, with the world’s largest population. Kissinger’s
READ MOREby Russell A. Berman Thursday, October 11, 2018 Problems in China’s restive northwest province of Xinjiang have long been simmering, but recent developments point to growing troubles, as news reports and statements by international organizations have significantly raised public attention. Beijing is engaged in programmatic efforts to suppress the ethnic identity of the Uighur people, a
READ MOREby Charles Hill Tuesday, September 25, 2018 Is there anything more to be said about China? If the twentieth century was “The American Century,” then this twenty-first century, by general acclamation, has been assigned to The People’s Republic of China. What more needs to be said? The Beijing regime has stressed that China’s “peaceful rise” disavows
READ MOREby David C. Mulford Thursday, May 31, 2018 We are faced today with numerous global challenges, many extremely dangerous because they are set within the context of a changing world order. Evidence of evolution and uncertainty is all around us. After decades of leading and shaping the world which emerged from World War II, the US
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