Short reviews of 'How the United States Would Fight China' by Franz-Stefan Gady, and 'Drop Dead' by Richard E. Farley.
Tag: China
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Hopeful Eagle, Crouching Dragon
The US must view China’s actions through a realist lens if the eagle hopes to tame the dragon and avert a costly war.
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Agents Double-O-PRC
A California mayor is discovered to be an agent of the People’s Republic of China. But voters there are justified in wondering how that distinguishes her from many other California
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Red Diaper Tourism
Faulty 14th Amendment jurisprudence has beget the massive, nightmarish Chinese birth-tourism industry in California.
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What Americans Can Learn From China’s Dating Hellscape
China’s dystopia stems from its culture of crude utilitarianism and materialism.
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The People’s Republic of Termite World
In Breakneck, Dan Wang explains how the 'engineer mind' moves quickly in building the dystopian hellscape that is China.
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Woke Iran
Much of Iran’s hatred for the West is driven by the same woke ideology that motivates the woke left in our own country.
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When Birthright Citizenship Goes Wrong
Birthright citizenship, as liberals understand it—and as they hope the Supreme Court will uphold it—leads to absurdities, and worse.
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Make Sports Rowdy Again
The instinct to take the rowdiness out of rowdy sports deserves mockery.
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Shaping a Post-War Iran
A plan for de-escalation that secures the administration’s early wins is in the best interest of all parties—including the saner elements in Iran.
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How Turkey Will Use the War With Iran for Its Own Ends
Erdoğan has exploited chaos in the Middle East to increase Turkey’s geopolitical power. He hopes to step in to fill the power vacuum after the U.S. war with Iran.
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Canada’s Mark Carney: A Second-String PM … or Governor?
Mark Carney’s bluster can’t change the fact that his nation is reaching an inflection point from which no miracle seems likely to help it recover.
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America Should Embrace the Idea of a Rearmed Germany
A Berlin-Washington duopoly remains the only stable balancing coalition in Europe, and only Germany can help the U.S. in burden-shifting.
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The U.S. Can’t Outpace China in the Developing World
When it comes to competing with China for influence in the developing world, the U.S. is bound by considerations that don’t trouble Beijing.
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A Japanese Lesson for Troubled Britain
Whereas Japan's Sanae Takachi has an overwhelming mandate for her agenda, the UK's Keir Starmer is hugely unpopular and is afraid to call an election.
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We Aren’t Europeans, and They Aren’t Americans
As we engage in the Greenland debate, it is helpful to recognize the fundamental differences and interests between the United States and Europe.
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Canada Should Warm to Trump’s Arctic Plans
Canada cannot expect Americans to be complacent about waters it claims but cannot secure when Russia and China are eager to step in.
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Canada’s China Syndrome
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney is infected with Sino-sycophancy; the U.S. has its own super-spreader in California’s Gavin Newsom.
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Trump’s Successes All Point to Avoiding Entanglements
The Trump administration is strongest when it focuses on economics and immigration at home. When it is protecting our interests abroad, it should be wary of entangling us in the internal problems of other nations.
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Trump’s Biggest Challenge With Venezuela Is Domestic
As the Trump administration takes on the challenges presented by its operation in Venezuela, the most formidable one may be getting Republicans to understand it.
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Andrzej Duda’s Decade of Collapsing Polish Sovereignty
In his 10 years in office, Duda’s leadership has left Poland a frontline state that can’t play its own game.
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Trump’s Trade Focus Muddles His Immigration Agenda
Trump’s reputation as a dealmaker means that, for him, immigration questions are on the table in trade negotiations—even if MAGA doesn’t approve.
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The Computing Arms Race of Cold War 2.0
As nations compete over access to advanced AI technology, they will need the cool-headed restraint that prevented the first Cold War from ending in tragedy.
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How the Cayman Islands Are Propping Up U.S. Debt
The entire federal government appears to be dependent on a group of shadowy hedge funds in the Cayman Islands buying treasuries and propping up U.S. debt.
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Culture Is a Formidable Force
Like Mao before them, today’s progressive left understands that overturning a political system requires a revolution in culture, first.
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MAGA Makes Allies Great Again
There's no contradiction in nationalists from different nations working in parallel to make their own countries stronger individually and more secure collectively.
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Modi’s India Is Not the Ally America Needs
The Indian prime minister’s actions betray the Beltway’s wishful thinking.
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Brazen Theft of the French Crown Jewels Is Nothing Next to Macron’s Heist
The French president is bleeding support as he’s crushed French citizens under public debt, galloping inflation, and the threat of wealth confiscation.
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Yesterday’s Totalitarian
Stephen King’s The Long Walk is a fantastical exploration of an old moral universe where totalitarianism presents itself without complications or nuance and thus leaves us unprepared to confront evil as it actually exists.
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Books In Brief: October 2025
Short reviews of 'Seven Things You Can’t Say About China,' by Tom Cotton, and 'Antisemitism in America' by Chuck Schumer.
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Trump’s Trade Lesson for Economists (and the World)
Trump and America are winning this trade war and demonstrating the shortcomings of the economists in the Ivory Tower.
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Missouri Senator Eric Schmitt Takes the Left to Court
In his new book, Senator Eric Schmitt shows that with determination and intelligent legal arguments, the right can mount an effective legal offense against the left.
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Is the U.S. Vulnerable to a Drone Sneak Attack?
After Israel’s surprise drone attack on Iranian nuclear targets, many are concerned that China could be preparing for something similar in the United States.
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War Is With Us Forever
Richard Overy argues in 'Why War?' that war is an inevitable effect of causes deeply embedded within human nature.
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China’s Power Is a Virus
The moral indictments against the Chinese Communist Party were overwhelming long before COVID and they should pay.
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Pausing Tariffs on China Is a Big Mistake
If President Trump is serious about reindustrializing America, he needs to commit to high and stable tariffs.
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Tariffs Are a Bitter, But Necessary, Pill to Swallow
The Trump tariffs aim to take America off the addictive, but toxic, globalized economic system that enriches Wall Street while decimating Main Street.
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Electric Vehicles—The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
A new documentary by Larry Elder explores the true costs of electric vehicles.
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‘Liberation Day’ Illustrated the Peril of Plans
By sticking too rigidly to his plans for implementing tariffs, Trump failed to develop the leverage he needed for those plans to work.
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Tariffs Are Essential to a Free People
Tariffs are about much more than just securing the interests of the working class. They’re essential to national security and defense.
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Taking on the Globalization Gods Requires Courage
Trump has always been clear that the path to sovereignty, self-reliance, and national purpose would require some amount of sacrifice and uncertainty.
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Trump’s Life’s Work Culminates in Confronting Communist China
Trump has not just been outspoken on the issue of trade with China—he has been proven correct.
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Trump Wins Big on Tariffs
Trump continues to score big wins for America and confound his critics on the many uses of tariffs in negotiations with foreign powers.
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Tariffs Are a Reason to Cut Taxes and Red Tape
Orthodox free marketers and national conservatives should agree that rolling back taxes and regulations is essential to making American business great again.
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Harvard: Made in America or Made in China?
It is well past time for the U.S. to put an end to the unfettered foreign financing of American universities.
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The Dismal Science and the Trumpian Tariff Hullabaloo
Americans don’t elect economists to pursue the most “efficient” policies but leaders to pursue the common good.
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The Grey Lady Admits It Was ‘Misled’ on COVID’s Origins
The Times’s own willingness to be misled, and to mislead the public, calls into question whether the paper can be trusted to “follow the science.”
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Steve Bannon Wants America to Ditch China—That Won’t Happen
The U.S. is not in a position to do what Bannon asks, but we can negotiate better terms and regain control of our trade and manufacturing policy.