Japan’s Self-Defence Forces and the US Army have bilaterally drafted a joint operation plan that will enable setting up an ‘attack base’ in southwest Nansei or Ryukyu island chain in Tokyo. In the event of a Taiwan contingency, Japan and the United States military troops will be able to launch […]
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U.S.-China Relations Hit a Nadir in 2021
Here are five Foreign Policy stories from 2021 that help explain how—and why—U.S.-China relations degraded over the course of the year. If China hoped for a reset from the Biden administration, it hasn’t been forthcoming. Although President Joe Biden’s language is more tempered than former President Donald Trump’s was, the […]
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Biden Doesn’t Know What He Thinks About Sanctions
Instead, reports emerged that senior administration officials were actively lobbying lawmakers on Capitol Hill to abandon a longstanding bipartisan sanctions push to stop the Kremlin-backed Nord Stream 2 pipeline. The move is reminiscent of another decision made by the administration earlier this year. At the time, the administration waived congressionally-mandated […]
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United States’ Boycott Of Beijing Olympics Over Uyghur Abuses Garners Worldwide Support
The United States’ decision to boycott the Beijing Olympics in February 2022 in response to genocide and inhumane treatment of Muslims in China’s Xinjiang province is a fair response in all respects, according to Pakistan Vernacular media. According to the media, the ‘boycott’ was appropriate because the humiliation, torture, and […]
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Nathan Law’s Lesson for Democracies
Freedom: How We Lose It and How We Fight Back, published with co-author Evan Fowler, is not a memoir. Law has instead produced a treatise on democracy interspersed with his autobiography. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) aggressively seeks to rewrite Hong Kong’s history, painting the 2019 and 2020 protests that […]
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Autocrats Are Exploiting COVID-19 to Weaken Central Bank Independence
Over the last several decades, central bank independence became the sacred cow of monetary policy. Dissenting murmurs emerged during the 2007 to 2009 recession, when some suggested the U.S. Federal Reserve should focus on jobs, not inflation. Since COVID-19, these murmurs have become prominent points of contention, permitting backtracking on […]