Think of it as a revived Silk Road, Chinese President Xi Jinping said in 2013 when he announced China would proudly sponsor a multi-decade international commercial and infrastructure development project — notionally running from China through Central Asia and connecting to points beyond. Yes, a benign Silk Road where all prosper. The project would have […]

Since early March of this year, when North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un told South Korea he would discuss denuclearizing his regime without pre-conditions, everyone familiar with Kim regime behavior has predicted Little Rocket Man and his Pyongyang gang would eventually wiggle, yelp and try to snarl any truly disarming deal. Here is a sketch […]

The Trump Administration deserves thanks and congratulations for terminating American participation in the toothless Joint Comprehensive Plan Of Action, the ostentatiously official name of the Obama Administration’s “nuclear weapons deal” with Iran’s clerical dictatorship. For numerous reasons, President Trump made the decision to exit the flimsy pact. “We’re out of the deal,” Trump National Security […]

The April 27 hug between South Korean President Moon Jae-in and North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un was a photo op with diplomatic promise but also great risk. Here’s the major risk: The North Korean Kim regime has a hideous record for murder, intimidation and crime, and it is a genuine threat to peace. But […]

By May 12 the Trump administration must once again review American participation in the deceitfully named Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, the Obama administration’s so-called “nuclear weapons deal” with Tehran’s terrorist regime. Indeed, the JCPOA is deceitfully named, so let’s address that problem before returning to President Donald Trump and the decision the JCPOA stipulates […]

The United States Geological Survey’s title for its February 2018 study on “nonfuel minerals” slightly undersells the situation: “China, the United States, and competition for resources that enable emerging technologies.” “Competition”? “Global alley fight” is more accurate. The study’s first paragraph is a punch in the face, not a jack slap on the back: “Future […]

U.S. Pacific Command still calls itself PACOM, but it appears INDO-PACOM — India-Pacific Command — might be the acronym of the future. Pentagon and State Department studies now routinely refer to the “Indo-Pacific region,” as do the defense and foreign policy papers authored by their counterparts in Japan and Australia. “INDO” obviously contracts Indian Ocean, […]

The Kremlin has what a psychological counselor might diagnose as a self-image problem. With the February 2014 Russian attack on Crimea and the March 2014 annexation of the Ukrainian peninsula, that self-image problem became a grave security threat to Europe and potentially the U.S. Events in the last year confirm that, with Russia’s creeping war […]