Posts Tagged: China Trump
The Dangerous Security Implications of the Iran-China Deal
The implications of the newly signed Sino-Iranian deal go beyond economics. The deal also covers security matters pertaining to intelligence and military cooperation that provide...
US-China Relations Are in Trouble
The world has changed a great deal since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic at the end of 2019. One aspect of this change is...
How Will the West Respond to China’s Nefarious Hong Kong Crackdown?
In 1997, after 156 years of British rule, the United Kingdom transferred responsibility for the city-state of Hong Kong to China. Twenty-three years later, in...
Staring Into the Abyss of US-China Decoupling
Israel knew the drill even before US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo boarded his flight to Tel Aviv in mid-May, shortly after the death of...
Pompeo’s Visit to Israel and the Chinese Connection
On May 13, 2020, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo landed in Israel for an eight-hour visit. His trip attracted a lot of attention, not...
How China Uses Russia to Counter America in the Middle East and Elsewhere
The interrelation of Russia, China, and the West (primarily the US) will largely dictate how Eurasia develops in the coming decades. Will the super-continent disintegrate...
Will Internal Differences Disrupt the Russia-China Alliance Against America?
Addressing last year’s Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore, then-US Secretary of Defense James Mattis dismissed fears first voiced in 1997 by Zbigniew Brzezinski, Jimmy Carter’s National...
We Must Stop China in the Persian Gulf
In July, President Trump boasted about Iranian harassment of United States warships in the Persian Gulf having come to a halt. Although no major flare-ups between Iranian...