As the trade fight between China and the United States continues, David Mulford, former U.S. ambassador to India took a longer-term view of in a recent brief to the Hoover Institution Journal Defining Ideas. Mulford pins the current situation on a recent decline in U.S global leadership that has given China the opportunity to step […]
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An International Race Toward Hypersonic Missiles
Another arms race is shaping up, and this time around, the race is to develop hypersonic missiles. A discussion of this was the centerpiece of a panel at a Carnegie Endowment for International Peace panel on July 9. According to R. Jeffrey Smith, managing editor for National Security at the Center for Public Integrity, China, […]
EU in Middle of Trade War Between U.S. and China
The director general of trade for the European Commission emphasized shared concerns with the United States related to China’s growing threat to the economic market in a discussion July 22 at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. In her first official trip to the United States as director, Sabine Weyand also touched on the […]
BeiDou Rivaling GPS and Prompting Security Concerns
When China launched Long March 3B on June 24, it was China’s ninth successful launch in 2019 and the country’s latest move to develop their own advanced positioning, navigation, and timing system—the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS). It also was the latest show of power from China’s National Space Administration. In early January 2019, China […]
China Forcing Taiwan to Rethink Defense, Economic Strategies
WASHINGTON—China’s continued rise as a superpower has forced Taiwan to rethink its defense and economic strategies to respond to growing threats from the mainland. Taiwanese and American scholars discussed these developments and evaluated the current state of U.S.- Taiwan relations at the Heritage Foundation on June 12. I-Chung Lai, president of the Prospect Foundation, a […]