Beijing’s Post-Election Plan for Taiwan
Expect China to double down on political warfare.
New Year
To Successfully Denuclearize North Korea, Washington Should Make it Think Like South Africa
If Mr. Trump opts to augment the pressure on North Korea, he will need to patiently wait out attempts by Kim to scare the international community into concessions. He shouldn’t be shaken. The United States should instead keep tightening the rope that led South Africa to abandon nuclear weapons.
Op-eds
Treasury Sanctions Increase Pressure on North Korea’s Global Shipping Network
Today, the Treasury Department issued its “largest North Korea-related sanctions tranche to date” against 27 entitie...
Policy Briefs
How Olympic ‘diplomacy’ normalizes North Korea
Instead of generating goodwill, North Korea’s participation in the Winter Olympics has demonstrated how rapidly diplomatic engagement can degenerate into a propaganda exercise that benefits...
Op-eds
More than a Nuclear Threat: North Korea’s Chemical, Biological, and Conventional Weapons
Download the full testimony here. Chairman Poe, Chairman Yoh...
Congressional Testimonies
The world according to Trump
A National Security Strategy is less a plan of action than an attempt to prioritize. Who, in the president’s judgment, most threatens America? What means do we have and what capabilities mu...
Op-eds
We’ll always have Paris
Europeans seem to have an increasingly bizarre and perhaps self-destructive view of the world and their place in it. Last week’s most creative illustration: The Irish postal service issued...
Op-eds
The threat to America’s national existence
President Obama judged the Islamic State the “JV team,” boasted that he’d set al Qaeda “on its heels” and implemented successful counterterrorism policies in Yemen....
Op-eds
A Resurgent Terrorist Threat in Turkey
Turkey has long fought Kurdish insurgents within its borders, and the country now faces a severe jihadist threat in part due to Ankara’s reckless policy of allowing jihadists to exploit its...
Op-eds
Boko Haram Continues to Slaughter Nigerians
Since the New Year began, Boko Haram has continued its offensive against Nigerians and its perceived enemies. Setting off what turned into a horrendous chain of events, the...
Op-eds
W King Abdullah in hospital, ‘nervous’ Saudis fret over leadership transition amid oil price turmoil
... King Abdullah Bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud was admitted to hospital on New Year’s Eve suffering from pneumonia, while Saudi Arabia wages a battle for oil market share, flexes its fina...
Op-eds
Joe Lieberman’s Legacy: The Battle Against Hezbollah
European officials can and must do more to root out the terrorist group.
Op-eds
US Warns of Terror Threat in Thailand
The US Embassy in Bangkok issued an "Emergency Message to US Citizens" that warned of "Possible Terrorist Threat." The statement was...
Op-eds
Syria Wages War Against Dissidents in Europe
While Bashar al-Assad’s regime continues to suppress and slaughter pro-reform Syrians at home, his security forces have intensified a campaign to intimidate and decimate any Syrian oppositi...
Op-eds
Iran and Al-Qaeda
Late last week, the State Department announced a $10 million reward for information leading to the capture of Ezedin Abdel Aziz Khalil, A.K.A. Yasin al-Suri – Yasin the Syrian. Serious stud...
Op-eds
Havel Was Friend of Israel and Jews
Czech Playwright-Turned-President Led Region to Right Path
Op-eds
An Ill Season
Screaming “With our blood and soul, we will defend you, Islam,” jihadists stormed the Virgin Mary Church in northwest Cairo last weekend. They torched the Coptic Christian house...
Op-eds
The Ossification of Egypt
After decades of looking to Egypt to provide stability in the Middle East, Washington finds Cairo contending with an increasingly dangerous combination of ossified leadership, Islamist violence,...
Op-eds
Symposium: Iraq – The Challenge Ahead
FP: Bill Cowan, Carlton Sherwood, Jim Woolsey, Ralph Peters and Andy McCarthy, welcome to Frontpage Symposium. I want to get your views on Saddam’s execution,...