Tag: China
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Echoes of 1914: Why the Cold War Analogy Fails to Explain China
Washington’s fixation on the Cold War is obscuring a far more dangerous historical parallel in the escalating rivalry between the United States and China. In a recent interview with Foreign Affairs, historian Odd Arne Westad argued that the current geopolitical landscape resembles the brittle, interconnected world of the early 20th century more than the bipolar…
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Palmer Luckey: China, Not Ethics, Drove Silicon Valley from the Pentagon
Palmer Luckey has a theory about why Silicon Valley turned its back on the Pentagon. It isn’t about pacifist engineers. It’s about market access in Beijing. In an interview with investor Joe Lonsdale, the Anduril Industries founder argued that the schism between American technology companies and the US military is a historical anomaly caused by…
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Beijing’s Patience Wears Thin: ‘Blockade’ Drills Signal Dangerous Shift in Taiwan Strategy
China has concluded 2025 with one of its largest displays of military might to date, encircling Taiwan in a move described by Beijing as a “stern warning” against separatist forces. The escalation comes amidst record US arms sales to the self-ruled island and growing speculation regarding President Xi Jinping’s timeline for unification. In a recent…
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The End of Top Gun: Sixth-Gen Jets Will Be ‘Flying Data Centers’
The era of the “Top Gun” dogfighter is ending. In its place: flying data centers the size of tennis courts, piloted by tactical managers commanding swarms of autonomous drones. The United States, China, and a UK-led coalition are racing to develop sixth-generation combat aircraft—and the winner won’t be decided by aerobatics, but by information dominance.…
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Germany Faces Painful Withdrawal as Economic ‘Triad’ Collapses
For decades, the German economic miracle was powered by a triad of external dependencies that are now crumbling, leaving Europe’s largest economy facing a painful period of withdrawal and structural reinvention. According to a recent in-depth analysis by DW News on their “Berlin Briefing” podcast, Germany is currently grappling with the consequences of an economic model that…
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Beyond Alibaba: Hangzhou’s ‘Six Little Dragons’ Power China’s AI Push
Long synonymous with e-commerce titan Alibaba, the city of Hangzhou is rapidly reinventing itself as the cradle of China’s artificial intelligence and robotics future. According to a new report by CNBC, the city is now the breeding ground for a cluster of fast-moving startups dubbed the “Six Little Dragons,” which are reshaping the global tech…
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FT Investigation: Chinese Syndicates Fuel $15tn Cybercrime Boom
The global landscape of organized crime has undergone a radical transformation, evolving into a sophisticated, transnational industry dominated by Chinese syndicates that have turned fraud into a commodity. A sweeping new investigative documentary by the Financial Times reveals that the cost of cybercrime now exceeds an estimated $15 trillion annually—a figure that rivals the GDP of China…
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Beijing Scholar Dismisses Notion of ‘Grand Bargain’ With Trump Over Taiwan
A leading Chinese foreign policy scholar has dismissed the notion that Beijing views a Donald Trump presidency as an opportunity to strike a transactional “grand bargain” over Taiwan, asserting that the island’s sovereignty cannot be traded like a commodity. In a recent interview with The Economist’s geopolitics editor David Rennie, Da Wei, a professor and…
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China’s Himalayan Gamble: A $167 Billion Super-Dam Risks Earthquakes and Water Wars
Deep within the Himalayas, where the Yarlung Tsangpo River makes a dramatic horseshoe turn known as the “Great Bend,” China has embarked on an infrastructure gamble that redefines the limits of modern engineering. Known as the Lower Yarlung Hydropower Project, or Yaxia, the initiative promises to generate three times the electricity of the Three Gorges…
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The Era of ‘Peak China’: Why Beijing’s Decline Could Trigger Global Conflict
Challenging the prevailing narrative of an inevitable “Asian Century,” Tufts University Professor Michael Beckley delivered a stark prognosis at the World Knowledge Forum: China’s era of meteoric ascent is not merely stalling, but has begun to reverse. In a presentation titled “The End of China’s Rise and the Future of World Order,” Beckley argued that…