I write about China, the Indo-Pacific, and strategic competition for audiences who take the threat seriously and distrust easy answers.
Washington's equity stakes in Intel and other national champions copy the state-owned-enterprise structure that produced COMAC — not the manufactured competition among BYD, Xiaomi, and Leapmotor that actually built China's EV industry.
Gaddafi, Saddam, Ukraine. The liberal order's failure to make nuclear weapons unnecessary has made them indispensable — and Pyongyang noticed first.
Parallel military and intelligence purges in Washington and Beijing reveal structural similarities the political-systems frame is built to obscure.
America's long-standing posture of strategic ambiguity on Taiwan has become outdated and counterproductive given shifting power dynamics.
President Lai Ching-te initiates a counteroffensive against Beijing's espionage network with a 17-point national security strategy.