The Godfather’ in Gaza: What a mafia movie tells us about Hamas war
Hamas's control of Gaza should be seen through the lens of a mafia controlling Gaza. The Hamas control of Gaza has many elements of a cartel.
Shanghai
The JoongAng-CSIS Forum 2024: Keynote Address by Matt Pottinger
Prime Minister Han [Duck-Soo]; Chairman Hong [Seok-Hyun]; President Hamre—thank you for your stimulating remarks this morning. And thank you for inviting me to be here today. We have a distinguished...
Remarks
Viktor Orbán Is No Friend of America
Since his arrival in power in 2010, he has been openly laying the groundwork for the end of the American-led unipolar world.
Op-eds
Tehran predicts Russia-China-Iran triangle of power – analysis
Iran hopes to ally with Eastern powers to gain economic and political power in the Middle East.
Op-eds
Remarks by Matt Pottinger at Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation’s China Forum 2023
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Remarks
The US national innovation base has critical weaknesses. Just look at Starlink.
Defense intellectuals and proponents of defense innovation have been busy for over a decade selling dreams about Third, Fourth, perhaps Fifth Offsets; about the promise of bringing “dynamism” back...
Op-eds
America’s Power Competition Goes Awry in Lula’s Brazil
When the dust settles, the consequences of Lula’s approach will serve neither American interests nor Brazil’s.
Op-eds
Hungary’s Orban Is Hardly a Model for American Conservatives
We are no progressives or mushy liberals offended by Mr. Orbán’s attacks on the left’s sacred cows. We are aware of the dangers posed by his brand of nationalism.
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
Surging COVID-19 Cases Undermine Xi’s Governance Narrative
The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases has skyrocketed in Hong Kong, Shanghai, and a dozen other Chinese provinces in recent weeks, leading to mass lockdowns and record-high hospitalizations. The current...
Policy Briefs
The Chinese Communist Party’s Human Hack of Western Companies
There may be a frightening number of potential CCP loyalists in Western companies and consulates around the globe.
Op-eds
How China Tries to Intimidate Its Dissidents Living Overseas
Explaining the CCP’s “Fox Hunt” program.
Op-eds
Treasury Sanctions China-based Logistics Company Supporting Mahan Air
The U.S. Department of the Treasury last week sanctioned Shanghai-based Saint Logistics Company, a Chinese general sales agent for the U.S.-sanctioned Iranian airline Mahan Air. The move marks a warning...
Policy Briefs
EU should sanction Iranian airlines exporting coronavirus and terror
Amid a global coronavirus pandemic, two Iranian airlines sanctioned by the United States for “secretly ferrying operatives, weapons, and funds” to Syria have flown dozens of times between China,...
Op-eds
The Wings of War
When Mahan Air, Iran’s largest private airline, bought nine used Airbus aircraft last May, Iranians celebrated the opportunity to upgrade their country’s aging, sanctions-hit commerci...
Op-eds
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...
Op-eds
Iran Is *Really* Good at Evading Sanctions
Ever since Iran’s clandestine nuclear weapons program was first exposed in 2002, efforts to convince Tehran to abandon the program have focused on two strategies. One is diplomacy and dialo...
Op-eds
The Tiananmen Reckoning
It’s 24 years since China’s government crushed the mass uprising we remember by the name of Tiananmen Square. I was there, reporting then for the Wall Street Journal’s...
Op-eds
Iran’s Arc Of Injustice
When huge protests broke out in Iran over last year's rigged reelection of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, U.S. President Barack Obama had some cool, calm answers. The brutality of Iran'...
Op-eds
Remembering Tiananmen Square
Next week brings the 20th anniversary of China's Tiananmen Square uprising--or rather, of its suppression, on June 4, when China's government sent in troops to crush the democracy movem...