America’s Choice: Between Rejuvenation and Rot?

America’s Choice: Between Rejuvenation and Rot?

Both parties regard the upcoming elections as a fateful choice between rejuvenation and rot, with each promising to restore American greatness in their own way while warning that their opponent will only accelerate the country’s internal collapse, but the US’ sharp partisan differences and the ongoing systemic transitions across the world strongly suggest that the…

Can You Smell What the Chinese Are Cooking?

Can You Smell What the Chinese Are Cooking?

Less than a week before the game-changing U.S. presidential election, the real heart of the geopolitical and geoeconomic action is virtually invisible to the outside world. We’re talking about the fifth plenum of the 19th Chinese Communist Party (CPC) Central Committee, which started this past Monday in Beijing. The plenum congregates the 200 members –…

Trump’s Middle East Triumphs will Soon Turn to Disaster

Trump’s Middle East Triumphs will Soon Turn to Disaster

Every US president leaves his mark on the Middle East, whether he intends to or not.  The Camp David accord between Egypt and Israel, the Iranian revolution, and the Iran-Iraq war, launched in September 1980, all started under Jimmy Carter. His successor, Ronald Reagan, supported then Iraqi ruler Saddam Hussein, and went on to witness…

How Enduring is the American-style Asian Version of NATO?

How Enduring is the American-style Asian Version of NATO?

The United States, committed to fanning the flames of wars in various regions around the world, and to entangling the whole world in military blocs and armed coalitions that are subordinate to it alone, in recent years has begun to purposefully approach how to create military alliances against countries that refuse to obey Washington’s dictates….

America Faces a ‘Gettysburg Moment’ – But Trumpism will Not Vanish

America Faces a ‘Gettysburg Moment’ – But Trumpism will Not Vanish

Pundits and polls are at one in predicting a victory for Joe Biden over Donald Trump in the presidential election, portraying the vote as a non-military rerun of the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863, when the north defeated the south in what is regarded as a turning point in the civil war. The violence will…