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Osama Bin Laden’s Ghost and the Multi-Trilion-Dollar Cost of Endless War
Twenty years of military quagmire of the Middle East has contributed to the fraying of the U.S. economy even as China...
The three revolutions of the Chinese Communist Party
The 100th year anniversary of the Communist Party of China The Communist Party of China led three revolutions of...
Coronavirus and the Death of ‘Connectivity’
Originally posted on Foreign Policy in Focus The Great Recession could have killed globalization, but China emerged as...
China’s Global Expansion: A Balance Sheet
Presentation at “China in Cambodia Dialogue,” Phnom Penh, Dec 18 and 19, 2019 I would, first of all, like to thank...
China: An Imperial Power in the Image of the West?
On the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China, Focus is releasing a...
Paper Dragons: China and the Next Crash
Emerging relatively unscathed from the banking crisis of 2008, China has been viewed as a model of both rampant...
Counterrevolution: The Global Rise of the Far Right
The far right is on the rise. The rhetoric of anger and resentment is emanating from personalities like Donald Trump,...
When we defied China
originally published by Rappler.com On July 19, 2011, three of my colleagues in Congress and I landed on Pag-asa...
On the United Airlines Incident…
Yes, this behavior from stupid corporations is increasingly common. This was the appropriate response to overweening...
Boy Samples Toys
The boy tries out his toys, and he decides he likes them. Press this button and that delivers an airstrike 10,000...
Revenge of History
Francis Fukuyama, who famously said in the 1990's that the "end of history" had arrived, with countries having no...