November 2019

Is it so hard for American foreign policy scholars to give credits to China for her foreign policy success? The case in point is about China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). This column piece appears here because it will never be accepted by Foreign Policy (FP, A prominent journal on foreign policy) where only papers defaming or making criticism on China appear. Recently, on the FP website, a paper...

Is it so hard for American foreign policy scholars to give credits to China for her foreign policy success? The case in point is about China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). This column piece appears here because it will never be accepted by Foreign Policy (FP, A prominent journal on foreign policy) where only papers defaming or making criticism on China appear. Recently, on the FP website, a paper...

The book, China’s Vision of Victory, authored by Jonathan D.T. Ward, 316pp, Atlas Publishing, March 2019 was reviewed by Tanner Greer in a review article, Can American Values Survive in a Chinese World?, published in Foreign Policy, pp 68-70, Fall 2019 (foreignpolicy.com, 10/12/2019). Dr. Jonathan D.T. Ward is a multi-lingual China-India relations specialist with a doctorate from the University of...

The book, China’s Vision of Victory, authored by Jonathan D.T. Ward, 316pp, Atlas Publishing, March 2019 was reviewed by Tanner Greer in a review article, Can American Values Survive in a Chinese World?, published in Foreign Policy, pp 68-70, Fall 2019 (foreignpolicy.com, 10/12/2019). Dr. Jonathan D.T. Ward is a multi-lingual China-India relations specialist with a doctorate from the University of...

The U.S. – China relation is like a hotpot under fire, the broth is gradually boiling. If you were ever experienced with a hotpot dinner, you would know that your food was what you put into the hotpot. The taste of your food gets the benefit of the broth as well as from what your dinner partner put into the hotpot to cook. So the important thing for sharing a good hotpot dinner is to first agree...

The U.S. – China relation is like a hotpot under fire, the broth is gradually boiling. If you were ever experienced with a hotpot dinner, you would know that your food was what you put into the hotpot. The taste of your food gets the benefit of the broth as well as from what your dinner partner put into the hotpot to cook. So the important thing for sharing a good hotpot dinner is to first agree...

The protests in Hong Kong (HK) against the extradition bill started on March 31st, 2019 and evolved into a massive movement in June involving as many as half million people walking on the streets demonstrating. Up to now, the unrest in HK has been over 200 days changing from a growing peaceful mass movement to a shrinking but violent protest more like riots than demonstration....

The above title is a string of confusing words making little sense, but an appropriate title will emerge if we can find answers to the following questions which are the main focus of this article. The questions are:​1. Should President Trump be impeached as the Democrat controlled Congress initiating an impeachment investigation? Or is the Congress performing a witch-hunt?2. Was President Trump, in...