Cultural Revolution

December 1, 2021 | Clifford D. May |

Beijing’s strategy for Cold War II

Enlisting U.S. governors and mayors is a clever component

September 17, 2020 | Emily de La Bruyère, Nathan Picarsic

Trump can upend the status quo again by recognizing Taiwan in international organizations

The United Nations General Assembly, currently gathering virtually in New York, celebrates the 75th anniversary of the U.N. this year. The meeting comes amid an unprecedented global health emergency and...

May 8, 2017 | Michael Ledeen

War on Campus

Don’t look to college “leaders” to defend free speech and shut down the rioters. It doesn’t work that way. Universities almost always collapse in the face of student prote...

June 5, 2014 | Ali Alfoneh |

Khamenei’s Iran Is Not Mao’s China

“The lesson of history, is that there is no lesson,” Jacob Heilbrunn writes in The National Interest, quo...

June 15, 2011 | World Defense Review

Eritrea: The Horn of Africa’s Rogue Regime

Last week, exasperated with Eritrea's continued violations of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations and its increasing harassment of representatives at the American Embassy in Asmara...

June 14, 2011 | World Defense Review

Somalia Still Sinking as Eritrea Entertains Enemies

September has not been a good month in the sometime Somali capital of Mogadishu, even by the relative standards of a failed state that has not had an effective central government in the sixteen y...

April 6, 2011 |

The China Conundrum

How significant that the architect of the original U.S. overture to China now feels compelled to write a primer on averting war with his own creation. Henry Kissinger's essay, "Avoiding a U....

February 11, 2010 | Clifford D. May |

Iran’s Unhappy Anniversary

I was present at the creation - to borrow a phrase from Dean Acheson, Secretary of State to President Truman. Acheson, of course, was speaking of the origins of the Cold War. I am referring to th...

May 7, 2006 |

Why Wang Wenyi Was Shouting: Is Beijing committing atrocities against the Falun Gong movement?

Wang Wenyi, the woman whose shouts disrupted the welcoming ceremony for Chinese president Hu Jintao on the White House lawn on April 20, is a middle-aged pathologist and a follower of Falun Gong....

March 18, 2003 | Clifford D. May |

UNdone

Five things that grownups should no longer believe in: Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy, Tinker Bell, the United Nations and the "international community." Let&#0...