The Chinese communists very much want to gain control of Taiwan, and the current intelligence assessment that China’s leadership is probably looking at is one that spells opportunity — a weak U.S. president, wary of foreign military entanglements, whose political fortunes are crashing, and in their analysis is the real…
I never liked that term, “war on terror.” Terrorism is a tactic; it is not the enemy we fought every day. The term has done more to confuse us than enlighten us. [O]ne can see why the phrase “war on terror” became the widely accepted nomenclature. It was neutral. Gone…
The Intelligence Community’s COVID Summary is dangerous; infinitely more dangerous than it appears. How can the IC seriously believe that China’s active stonewalling of the international community’s attempts to get to the bottom of what happened and thus learn better how to combat the virus can be reduced to its…
China is responsible for more than 600,000 U.S. deaths For nearly the past twenty years, Americans have kept vigilant against a horrific attack like the one that happened on September 11th, 2001. But is it possible we’ve actually experienced a much more devastating assault and not yet acknowledged it? In…
Just as the most optimistic among our leaders believed that Afghanistan had the potential to become a fledgling democracy, our leadership insisted that…. China would become a “stakeholder in the international order” and a trusted trading partner. Increased political freedom would follow economic growth, and a huge new marketplace would…
Taken together, the administration’s efforts paint a picture of an emerging, out-of-control police state. Those of us who disagree with the administration are no longer citizens, we have become “enemies of the state.” Just in the last few days, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said the administration was coordinating…
What does China want the narrative to be? The ideal outcome would be that the virus originated outside of China. Failing that, an acceptable outcome would be, as highlighted in a recent Wall Street Journal (WSJ) article, that the virus “that killed millions of people and shattered the global economy” would be…
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has much to lose, both domestically and internationally, if the truth comes out. A muddled debate about the origins of the virus serves China just fine. Evading accountability — and suffering no little negative fallout — for unleashing a pandemic on the world that killed…