Why the Pentagon Budget Never Goes Down
A new cold war atmosphere will allow the Pentagon to horde resources that would otherwise go to our greater public health and safety needs.
A new cold war atmosphere will allow the Pentagon to horde resources that would otherwise go to our greater public health and safety needs.
The Strategic Competition Act purports to oppose anti-Asian racism but its provisions would actually contribute to it.
Beijing downplays the US-led initiative but reacts sharply to its possible expansion.
But it shouldn’t be. Not all alliances should be treated the same, but China threat inflation drives the conversation that way anyway.
Their objections to budget cuts have nothing really to do with who is best positioned to fight, but losing out on the spoils.
The Strategic Competition Act making its way through the senate falsely paints the BRI as a nefarious economic tool meant to bludgeon American primacy.
It’s a craze sweeping the nation’s capital and beyond: We need to do x, y, or z or succumb to the threat.
The Senate bill would turn all the positive things about Washington-Beijing competition, and cooperation, on its head.
Tucked into this 400-page document is a recipe for keeping ‘maximum pressure’ on Kim Jong Un and a 70-year war going.
The second installment in our series exploring Senate measures that could set the US on a course of cold war with China.
The first in a series about a Senate bill enshrining a zero-sum approach to Beijing that will surely set us on a course of escalation.
The 60 Minutes anchor repeatedly tried to bait the secretary of state into taking a more militaristic approach.
Beltway policymakers are routinely threatening war with Beijing without seriously considering the possibility of losing.
America’s most urgent infrastructure vulnerability is largely invisible and unlikely to be fixed by Biden’s $2 trillion American Jobs Plan.
The once vaunted ‘responsibility to protect’ doctrine faded away after the Libyan intervention. There’s a reason for that.
The president invoked inflated fears of China to make the case for his ambitious domestic goals.
Conditions that drove competitive fears that defined the post-World War II and Cold War eras don’t exist today.
On China, Afghanistan, defense budget, climate crisis and the Middle East — a bit of a mixed bag, say Quincy experts.
China has already either surpassed the United States or is running neck-and-neck with it in certain specific sectors.
This isn’t about seizing islands on the other side of the globe, but keeping territory in the Pentagon bureaucracy.
The chance to present Beijing as a leader in combating climate change seemed to play a role in Xi Jinping’s decision.