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The Emperor’s Tutor July 07, 2023
The following is a condensed version of "The Emperor's Tutor" by Ralph L. DeFalco III, published at Law & Liberty. In 1988, Wang Huning was a well-known political scientist and Professor of International Affairs at China’s Fudan University. That same...
We Love You, Uncle Xi! October 24, 2022
n 2015, I had lunch with an old chum of Xi Jinping. He described how China’s most powerful leader since Chairman Mao was born into the Communist Party’s “red aristocracy” but had to toughen up fast when his father was jailed in the Cultural Revolutio...
Chinese President Xi’s “Secret Philosopher” November 05, 2021
China’s rise presents the US with a rival that is harder to understand than any who came before. China, with its challenging language, thousands of years of civilization, and bespoke mixture of Marxism with local innovations, is far more alien than B...
How to Ride a Wild Dragon May 17, 2021
A National Security Council memo to President Trump, drafted in late 2016, laid out the facts very clearly: “China’s aspiration is manifestly not to settle for a balance of power with the United States, [it is] to achieve hegemony over its neighbors ...
The Coming Global Backlash against China January 04, 2021
The Chinese Communist Party’s leader, Xi Jinping, is the most powerful leader in Communist China since Chairman Mao. Yet, Xi’s outward strongman image is a veneer over his inner insecurity. When he came into power in late 2012, China’s economy had sl...
How We Entered the Age of the Strongman June 08, 2018
That the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) is now the principal opposition party in the most powerful country of the European Union has produced remarkably little reaction in Britain. In September of last year the then German foreign minister a...
From Mao's Little Red Book to Xi's Big White One May 16, 2018
Looking back to the 2009 Frankfurt Book Fair, when China was controversially selected to be the “guest of honour” nation, I find that the back and forth over dissent and freedom of expression (which fascinated me then) seems less interesting than som...
