*Note: This essay was published in the Colorado Springs Gazette print edition on May 13, 2019. It can also be found online here, an image of the column is included below, as well as the text of the essay. “DONE!” Telegraph operators around the United States spread the word across the continent a little after noon on…
*Note: This essay was published at War on the Rocks on April 20, 2016. It can also be found online here. In a smartphone world it’s easy to see China rise, but have we forgotten our other senses? This exercise in think tank voyeurism has become a distracting mirage, from CSIS’s aerial photos of the Great Wall…
Edward Luttwak, March 6, 2013 on “Conversations with History” – always quotable – below are some particularly good selections (accuracy is only as good as the speed I was able to copy down what he said): On Chinese strategic culture ~ “The Chinese culture has no strategic logic at all, but it owns a strategic…
I’ve taken to reading Henry Kissinger’s On China to prepare to write a 10,000 word paper on the strategic relationship between the United States and China. In doing so, one is forced to summarize a 500+ word book into several thoughts that might support argumentation. What follows are ten ideas that I’d like to hold…
It’s clear that the Chinese economic rise is fundamentally affecting the world, as I (and many others) have written about before. But what does this mean? The average citizen takes home roughly $7,500 USD (at Puchasing Power Parity) per year. Amazingly, that salary has increased roughly 8-10% per year for quite a long while. It’s…