Kremlin Claims Monkeypox Could Be a Secret U.S. Bioweapon
Washington needs to stop being a pushover in the global info war.
COVID-19
Right to vote being snatched from Solomon Islanders by PRC-backed PM
Sogavare has introduced a Bill to postpone elections. Reaction on the ground is seething. Likely Sogavare and his backers in Beijing don’t mind violence so they can activate the China security deal.
Op-eds
The rodeo that was the Pacific Islands Forum meeting
Fiji’s capital Suva is turning into Vienna in the 1930s, when ‘diplomats’ from around the world spied on each other and sent cables home about who was sleeping with whom. Meanwhile, across the border, the war machine was roaring into life.
Op-eds
China’s Multilateral March Continues
China scored several diplomatic victories last week at the World Health Organization (WHO) and the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC), amplifying concerns about the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP’s) efforts...
Policy Briefs
Is Chinese pressure making Solomon Islands stall Indian envoy’s visit?
Alexandria, VA: India makes China nervous in ways none of the other Quad countries do. So it’s not surprising that, according to sources, the Solomon Islands government is stalling the entry of the Indian...
Op-eds
So Much for Reforming the World Health Organization
The Biden administration vowed it would change the body from within, but its proposals play into the hands of China.
Op-eds
President Biden’s Missed Opportunities at U.S.-ASEAN Summit
President Joe Biden hosted an in-person summit last week with leaders from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), a bloc of 10 countries with a total annual GDP of approximately $3 trillion....
Policy Briefs
Recommendations For Yoon-Biden Summit – Must Build On The Strong Alliance Foundation
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol began his five-year term on May 10 with a midnight security briefing from the ROK Joint Chiefs of Staff. This meeting, which precedes a May 21 summit between Yoon...
Op-eds
Bill Gates’s Pandemic Prevention Plan Has a China-Sized Blind Spot
In his new book, the billionaire philanthropist focuses on technical solutions but ignores politics.
Op-eds
China’s COVID-19 Crisis Threatens to Derail Xi’s Ambitious Economic Agenda
The fallout from Chinese Communist Party (CCP) General Secretary Xi Jinping’s failed zero-COVID-19 policies threatens to undermine public trust in CCP governance in ways not seen since the Tiananmen era....
Policy Briefs
Ukraine war shows America could be outgunned without investing in energetics
Energetic materials — critical chemicals that help determine the range, size, and explosive power of missiles and rockets — are in dangerously short supply for American interests, write Nadia Schadlow and Brady Helwig of the Hudson Institute.
Op-eds
Putin’s war perverts a personal geography
Bucha? That was the leafy Kyiv suburb where we spent a Saturday afternoon, eating ice cream cones and exploring a city park defined by neatly clipped hedges, classical sculptures and fathers teaching their...
Op-eds
Saving the Ayatollahs
Biden’s unwise Iran policy
Op-eds
China hid the COVID pandemic and could do it again
The World Health Organization declared that COVID-19 had become a pandemic on March 11, 2020. The announcement arrived when there were already 118,000 confirmed cases in 114 countries and more...
Op-eds
How To Respond To North Korea’s ICBM Test
On March 24, North Korea possibly tested its new Hwasong-17 Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM). Kim Jong-un broke part of his self-imposed moratorium on ICBM (and nuclear) tests that he promised...
Op-eds
How To Prepare: North Korea Could Soon Test An ICBM Or Nuclear Weapon
On March 10, 2022, the U.S. released a South Korea and Japan coordinated assessment of the last two North Korean missiles launches in February and March revealing that these were tests of components...
Op-eds
Why China’s Threat to Punish Outspoken Olympians Rings Hollow
It would create a diplomatic crisis, which should be the last thing the Xi regime wants.
Op-eds
What Will Stop the Islamic Republic of Iran
Can the Islamic Republic of Iran — the radical theocratic regime, that is, as opposed to the nation it tyrannizes — fall by the year 2030? That would be a moonshot for the Jewish people, though...
Op-eds
Biden vowed to reform WHO from within — instead, it’s taking advantage of America
The World Health Organization chief last week presented a proposal to raise mandatory dues on member states, expand his autonomy to spend a larger budget and make it more difficult for large donors like...
Op-eds
How To Get North Korea To Negotiate Over Its Nuclear Weapons And Missiles
On 30 January Kim Jong-un conducted another test launch of what is suspected to be an intermediate-range ballistic missile. This is the seventh event of 2022. With his recent statements implying he...