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China, America, and Thucydides’ Trap
While Destined for War (2017), a study of Sino-America rivalry through the lens of Athenian-Spartan competition by Graham Allison, professor at Harvard Kennedy School, is particularly about how to...
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Soft Soap Diplomacy: Chinese Televisual Propaganda in Africa
A new TV medical soap opera has just wrapped up filming, intended for broadcast right across sub-Saharan Africa sometime soon. Across 32 heartwarming episodes, Welcome to Milele Village tells the...
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China’s Quiet War in the South China Sea
While the eyes of the world remain fixed on the crisis in the Red Sea, another threat to global stability continues to stir in the South China Sea. In early December, the Chinese Coast Guard rammed...
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China Faces Consequences of the One-Child Policy
China’s one-child policy, enacted from 1980 to 2016, sought to reduce the population growth rate by limiting citizens to one child per family, often resorting to forced abortions, sterilizations, and...
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The CCP vs. Filipino Catholic Bishops
In recent days five Filipino Catholic bishops, led by Archbishop Socrates “Soc” Villegas, OP of the Lingayen-Dagupan Archdiocese, exercised strong and courageous leadership by issuing a statement...
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The Weakness is the Point in American Foreign Policy
Discussion of President Biden’s age-related infirmity has only accelerated as the 2024 election draws nearer. But this is not the only ailment afflicting the Biden Administration that has grown in...
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A Return to Ideological Competition: Western Liberal Values or Totalitarianism
President Biden’s 2024 State of the Union speech addressed one of the great flashpoints of our times regarding Russia and its neighbors. But the speech fell short in articulating the war of ideas...
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Japan’s New Culture Warriors: Cute Cartoon Characters As Soldiers of Soft...
Japan has just suffered some bad news: its economy has slipped down the world economic league tables from third to fourth place, overtaken by Germany. Yet there is a rival index upon which the news is...
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The China Nexus: Thirty Years In and Around the Chinese Communist Party’s...
Benedict Rogers’s book, The China Nexus: Thirty Years In and Around the Chinese Communist Party’s Tyranny (Optimum Publishing, 2022), traces different aspects of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP)...
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Escalating Christian Repression: Beijing’s Crackdown in Mainland China and...
Each year, the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), a congressional body, compiles a report on religious freedom around the world. Once again, USCIRF has recommended...
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