America’s Superpower

China has targeted EU countries and other U.S. allies such as Israel for control of ports. And many of these ports under Chinese control, such as Antwerp, Trieste, Marseille, and Haifa, are located near clusters of scientific and industrial research facilities. By 2020, according to China’s Ministry of Transport, fifty-two ports in thirty-four coun

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Europe, as noted earlier, has in a short span of time gone from being the most predictable and stable region—one where history seemed to have truly ended (as suggested in an influential essay published in 1989 by the American political scientist Francis Fukuyama)—to something dramatically different. Democracy, prosperity, and peace all seemed firml

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Our country doesn’t need cowardice, it needs courage. Here’s the first part of the solution: our leaders need to get tough with the big players like China and OPEC that are ripping us off so we can recapture hundreds of billions of dollars to pay our bills, take care of our people, and get us on a path toward serious debt reduction. We must take ca... See more

I don’t think there’s an automatic rule that it’s seven years. When you look at the economy, you always look for the potholes. We did see potholes in 2007, in 2008, in leverage and mortgage. There are no real potholes there now. Fifteen million more people are working. Wages are going up. Stock prices are much higher than where they were. We need t

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“PLA to be world-class force by 2050,” read the front page of China Daily.1 Beneath the headline was a picture of President Xi Jinping and a row of People’s Liberation Army soldiers. The year leapt out: 2050. Distant, but not too distant. Thirty-three years away from that moment. I’ll probably still be alive then. A thought hit me. While China was

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