December 2023

Every nation has its neighbors. Even an island country in the middle of the ocean has neighbors within easy reach of today’s rapid vehicles in the air or over the ocean. Large land-based countries tend to have more land neighbors simply because its long land borders. The largest six countries in the world are Russia, Canada, China, the United States, Brazil, and Australia. Russia and China each has...

Every nation has its neighbors. Even an island country in the middle of the ocean has neighbors within easy reach of today’s rapid vehicles in the air or over the ocean. Large land-based countries tend to have more land neighbors simply because its long land borders. The largest six countries in the world are Russia, Canada, China, the United States, Brazil, and Australia. Russia and China each has...

 American political system has been relatively stable since the American Civil war (April 12, 1861 – April 9, 1865) for roughly158 years. As a capitalist nation, the U.S. political system is essentially controlled by the capitalists through the financial system (U.S. dollar-dominated capital market) and its domestic economy. The presidential election, a highly financed activity involving...

 American political system has been relatively stable since the American Civil war (April 12, 1861 – April 9, 1865) for roughly158 years. As a capitalist nation, the U.S. political system is essentially controlled by the capitalists through the financial system (U.S. dollar-dominated capital market) and its domestic economy. The presidential election, a highly financed activity involving...

A recent article by Yao Kun published in the China Review Press in Hong Kong, “De-risking” is a precise “decoupling”, which does not work and is not popular,” explains how tightly the U.S.-China economy is integrated and how complete and efficient is China’s manufacturing chain thus making de-risking, a new name for precision decoupling, unworkable and unpopular. Yao’s...

A recent article by Yao Kun published in the China Review Press in Hong Kong, “De-risking” is a precise “decoupling”, which does not work and is not popular,” explains how tightly the U.S.-China economy is integrated and how complete and efficient is China’s manufacturing chain thus making de-risking, a new name for precision decoupling, unworkable and unpopular. Yao’s...

 The reason why Taiwan has become an international security concern is because the issue of its sovereignty has not been completely rectified internationally. Historically, Taiwan belonged to China at least from the 14th century. Japan surrendered at the end of WW II and returned Taiwan to China in 1945 after occupying it for 50 years. Chinese people’s revolution against a corrupt Qing Dynasty...

​This topic has never registered in most Americans’ minds except in recent years when US-China relations became tense triggering a hostile confrontation. The Taiwan issue to most American international relations scholars has been a fuzzy one since the U.S. openly admits its practicing of an ambiguous foreign policy regarding the status of Taiwan and its significance to China and U.S.-China Relations....