Undercurrents of Liberty in China
By Doug Bandow, Senior Fellow Cato Institute @DougBandow | 9/29/2014 China is a complicated civilization with a venerable heritage in rapid transition to somewhere, but no one is quite sure where....
View ArticleWith Visit by India’s Narendra Modi, Washington should Recognize an Emerging...
By Doug Bandow, Senior Fellow Cato Institute @DougBandow | 10/2/2014 India appears ready to follow the People’s Republic of China to international superstar status. Democracy and unleashing its global...
View ArticleCruz Fights Obamacare Subsidies – GOP Leaders Attack Him
By CHQ Staff | 12/9/2014 Cruz is right to oppose H. R. 4414, not only on the general policy that revisions to Obamacare should apply to all consumers, but because hidden in the bill is a precedent...
View ArticleAddress North Korea by Listening to China
By Doug Bandow, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute [@Doug_Bandow] | 1/21/2014 Successive U.S. Presidents have sought China’s aid to restrain North Korea, but have failed to listen to Beijing while lobbying...
View ArticleJapan Needs a Real Defense in a Changing World
Doug Bandow, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute [@Doug_Bandow] | 2/08/2015 The historical experience of World War II and hostility of Japan’s neighbors were important factors in Tokyo’s long aversion to...
View ArticleBandow: Chinese Repression Threatens Economic Dynamism and Political Stability
While Chinese from all walks of life are comfortable telling foreigners what they think about their lives, leaders, and nation, sharing those beliefs with other Chinese is problematic. Unofficial...
View ArticleIs Trumpism the New Nationalism?
Pat Buchanan, CNS News While his foreign policy positions seem unformed, his natural reflex appears nonideological and almost wholly results-oriented. He looks on foreign trade much as did...
View ArticleA Proposal for Tough U.S. - China Cooperation On North Korea
Doug Bandow, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute [@Doug_Bandow] | 8/26/2015 Official Beijing’s unhappiness with the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is evident, though China continues to bankroll the...
View ArticleBandow: Pyongyang Remembers Libya
Doug Bandow, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute [@Doug_Bandow] It never was likely that North Korea would yield up its nuclear weapons. But the Obama administration’s Libyan misadventure makes that...
View ArticleU.S.-South Korea Alliance Treats Pentagon as Department of Foreign Welfare
Doug Bandow, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute [@Doug_Bandow] The reason Washington accounts for more than 40 percent of the globe’s military spending is that Americans must pay an exorbitant price to...
View ArticleChina: Historic Empire Transformed, Fragile Leader In The Making?
Doug Bandow,Senior Fellow, Cato Institute The People's Republic of China is now freer, despite the recent crackdown on dissent. Religion is spreading despite attempts to reduce its visibility....
View ArticlePropaganda Posters Document the Madness of Chinese Communism
Doug Bandow, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute [@Doug_Bandow] American politics has been ugly of late. But political attacks in the U.S. cannot compare with those in modern China. This tumultuous process...
View ArticleU.S. Should Retire Outdated Alliance With South Korea
Doug Bandow, Senior Fellow Cato Institute [@Doug_Bandow} If there was no cost to strewing U.S. personnel around the world and threatening war against potentially hostile powers, there would be little...
View ArticleDonald Trump’s Record of Profiting by Duping and Bullying the Little Guys
George Rasley, CHQ Editor | 2/18/2016 J. Christian Adams has documented in a must-read article for PJ Media “Donald Trump's Record of Business Failures and Bluster,” how Trump’s “legacy of business...
View ArticleTrump Is Right: U.S. Should Discuss Ending The Nuclear Umbrella Over Japan...
Doug Bandow, Senior Fellow Cato Institute [@Doug_Bandow] The way Washington won agreement from some nuclear-capable powers to abstain from going nuclear is to provide a “nuclear umbrella,” that is,...
View ArticlePhilippine President Duterte Goes Native in Beijing: Has China Really Won?
Doug Bandow, Senior Fellow Cato Institute Washington doesn’t need to “win” in the Philippines. Better that the American people win by dropping an expensive and risky commitment to go to war on behalf...
View ArticleNo Government Foreign Aid for North Korea
Doug Bandow | 11/8/16 Almost every “natural” crisis in North Korea is exacerbated by the ruling regime’s totalitarian economic and political policies. Equally harmful is the diversion of scarce...
View ArticleConservatives Demand Action Against Foreign-Funded Anti-Trump Violence
CHQ Staff | 12/6/16 A group of conservative leaders is urging both houses of Congress to “establish and fund permanent standing committees to conduct hearings and investigations, take testimony, and...
View ArticleIs Trump Calling Out Xi Jinping?
Patrick J. Buchanan, The American Conservative China can choke North Korea to death. But China can also step back and let Pyongyang become a nuclear-weapons state, though that could mean Seoul and...
View ArticleTrump Needs to Drain the Swamp at the Obama Pentagon
George Rasley, CHQ Editor | 12/22/16 The neo-con counter to Trump’s “Make America Great Again” seems to be shaping up to be “Make Russia Evil Again.” If President-elect Trump wants to drain the swamp...
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