September 1, 2018

China's Most Dangerous Geopolitical Weapon

The Obama years may have allowed China to infringe on American global power, but under Trump, the tide is turning. As governments around the world watch China’s expanding reach with a sense of resignation, the president has signed into law a bi...

February 24, 2018

Tariffs Won't Help Make America Great Again

Now that the Commerce Department has classified foreign steel and aluminum imports as a threat to national security under Section 232, the debate over tariffs is heating up.  Commerce's recommendations include duties of 24% on stee...

October 26, 2017

Nikki Haley's Africa Trip Is about Fixing Obama's Mistakes

This week Nikki Haley, our ambassador to the United Nations, visits two countries on the brink of becoming the world’s next failed states: South Sudan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Her trip comes as optimism for South Sudan has...

August 16, 2017

Will Trump Act Alone on North Korea?

As North Korea continues to push the world closer to the nuclear abyss, U.S. secretary of defense James Mattis and U.S. secretary of state Rex Tillerson recently defined the United States’ policy toward Pyongyang as “strategic accountabil...

June 17, 2017

The Tehran Attacks: Beginning of the End for Assad?

In the week since twin terrorist attacks in Tehran left 17 people dead, Iran has arrested almost 50 people and pledged to crush domestic terrorist cells. The Islamic State has claimed responsibility for the suicide bombings and gun attacks, the first...

May 17, 2017

Biometrics: A Different Kind of Border Wall

The liberal media rejoiced at the news that Donald Trump’s border wall received precious little money from the recent omnibus spending bill -- thanks to a combination of anti-wall Republicans, Democrats, and shady dealings -- but this is hardly...

May 6, 2017

Trump’s Good cop/bad cop Approach to Saudi Arabia

Staying true to his unpredictable approach to politics, Trump has been keeping us guessing on where he’ll go with his administration’s Saudi policy. During his campaign, he went where few politicians dare to tread when he said the Kingdom...

April 8, 2017

Going Overboard with #Russiagate

It’s a sad day for politics in America when Rep. Trey Gowdy has to plead with Democrats in Congress to be “constructive” and responsible in finding the truth, but Gowdy knows as well as anyone that his appeal is doomed to fall on de...

December 17, 2016

Trump’s Taiwan Move Exposes Weak Pacific Alliances

When president-elect Donald Trump broke with decades of foreign policy by asserting that the U.S. might abandon its acceptance of the “One China” policy and no longer regard Taiwan as a part of China, he provoked predictable outrage from ...

April 7, 2016

It’s Time for a Moratorium on Chinese Investment

The Shanghai Chinese Tower, in the center of the financial district in Lujiazui, stands 2000 feet above a city of 24 million people and counting. Fittingly, an American firm designed that tower, now the tallest building in China, and itself a symbol ...

October 20, 2015

Is Russia Outpacing the U.S. Military?

Barack Obama, who has spent much of the past two years explaining away the threat posed by Vladimir Putin instead of taking any steps to counter it, said last week that Russia’s military intervention in Syria proved “their strategy did no...

October 2, 2015

Once Again, Obama bows to China

As international observers and foreign policy pundits geared up for Xi Jinping’s visit to the White House, hoping to see a tougher President Obama take on the Chinese leader on China’s actions in the South China Sea and other hot spots, m...

July 21, 2015

How Obama abandoned allies for African dictators

Few moves taken by the Obama administration have been more consequential and less explored than his disastrous foreign policy. While ObamaCare, immigration reform, and his now famous ‘rule-by-decree’ have long been under media’s scr...