“Since its founding, the United States has consistently pursued a grand strategy focused on acquiring and maintaining preeminent power over various rivals, first on the…
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In the years immediately following the global financial crisis of 2008, the claim was frequently advanced that, while the major capitalist economies were severely impacted,…
Yves here. Earlier this week, we features a post from TomDispatch, The Geopolitics of American Global Decline: Washington Versus China in the Twenty-First Century, which elicited…
“We will have a very strong (military) presence, very strong continued posture throughout the region to back our commitments to our allies, to protect and…
US Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter is willing to risk a war with China in order to defend “freedom of navigation” in the South China…
If only Mad Men in real life were like Don Draper – channeling his true inner self, after many a rocky season, to finally click…
Tensions between China and United States continue to rise over the South China Sea as a Chinese government newspaper warns that war may be 'inevitable'…
When I was in Beijing during the protests in 1989, a middle-aged man came up to me and asked, “Couldn’t America send some B-52s here…
China tried to electronically jam US drone flights over the disputed South China Sea in order to prevent surveillance on man-made islands Beijing is constructing…
Following weeks of scaremongering by American officials over China’s activities in the South China Sea, US Secretary of State John Kerry used his visit to…
From a perspective of continually searching for knowledge and relationships, for synthesizing information into a larger paradigm I have reached a point where the world…
History may signal it all started with this week’s trip to Sochi, led by their paperboy, Secretary of State John Kerry, who met with Foreign…