Communist party

April 24, 2025 | Jack Burnham |

Bolstering Defense Ties, Vietnam Reportedly Agrees to Purchase American F-16s

Almost exactly 50 years after the evacuation of Saigon, American air power has returned to Vietnam. On April 22, 19FortyFive, a defense news outlet, reported that Vietnam had reached an agreement with...

April 10, 2025 | Elaine K. Dezenski |

Trump understands China is on its way to global domination and must be stopped

President Trump is launching a tariff blitz on the world for one reason: China. China’s economy is built on a system that distorts free trade. Determined to grow at any cost, China has...

March 12, 2025 | Clifford D. May |

The clean energy revolution that didn’t happen

Cast your mind back to September 6, 2019, when presidential candidate Joe Biden, campaigning in New Hampshire, took the hand of a 24-year-old activist. “Kiddo,” he said, “look in my eyes. I...

February 25, 2025 | Craig Singleton |

Missed Milestones

Evaluating The Last Four Years in the EAP Region and Unseized Opportunities Under President Trump

May 3, 2024 | Ben Cohen |

From Colombia to Columbia, an unceasing war on Israel

The world’s authoritarians are delighting in the opportunity to wield the language of human rights in the faces of gullible Westerners.

April 17, 2024 | Behnam Ben Taleblu |

The Despotic Duo

Russo-Iranian Cooperation and Threats to U.S. Interests

August 22, 2023 | Clifford D. May |

The problem with Republican isolationism

Abandoning Ukraine is no way to make America great again

July 19, 2023 | Clifford D. May |

Renewing NATO

Peace requires deterrence which requires military might

April 19, 2023 | Clifford D. May |

Losing Latin America

The U.S. retreats while China’s Communist rulers advance

December 29, 2022 | Cleo Paskal |

The Case for an India-First South Asia Strategy

Against the backdrop of deepening strategic com-petition with Beijing, Washington’s attention is steadily turning to the need for a comprehensive strategy by which to engage South Asia. Less well...

November 30, 2022 | Clifford D. May |

Americans are climate criminals and must pay

That’s the indictment handed up by COP27

November 24, 2021 | Clifford D. May

Biden’s left banker

A nominee with a colorful story and ‘radical’ beliefs

September 1, 2020 | Alireza Nader, Benjamin Weinthal

Iranian Laborers Need Our Help

With the celebration of American employees on Labor Day in early September, U.S. workers enjoy what their counterparts in the highly repressive Islamic Republic of Iran cannot: the right to form and join...

May 27, 2020 | Clifford D. May |

Communist China’s imperialist dreams

The Belt and Road Initiative is about more than infrastructure

May 7, 2020 | Thomas Joscelyn |

Explaining the Intense Diplomatic Battle Between the U.S. and China

The Chinese Communist Party’s ‘Wolf Warriors’ have Secretary Pompeo in their crosshairs right now, but their agenda will outlast the Trump administration.

February 27, 2020 | David Maxwell |

China’s political warfare strategy takes hit from coronavirus

The Wuhan coronavirus, or SARS-CoV-2 as the World Health Organization has named it and the Chinese would prefer it to be called, may be on the verge of becoming a pandemic. If it continues to spread,...

June 26, 2019 | Clifford D. May |

The freedom fighters of Hong Kong

They deserve more support than they’ve been getting.

February 21, 2019 | Ray Takeyh, Reuel Marc Gerecht

Be Careful What You Revolt For

Forty years after Khomeini took power, Iranians are still suffering for their revolution.

May 24, 2017 | Clifford D. May |

Iran’s latest unfree and unfair election

News must be new but it needn’t be surprising. The decidedly unsurprising news out of Iran last week: There was an election (of sorts) and the winner was Hassan Rouhani, the...

June 8, 2015 |

Tiananmen and China’s Long March

In the 66 years since Mao Tse-tung founded the People’s Republic of China, there has been just one brief spell in which the people of China escaped the chains of their rulers, enough to spe...