To suggest that Chinese businesses and Chinese nationals should be allowed to buy farmland in the United States will intuitively send many conservatives reeling. “But…but…it’s a national security threat!” This is presented by both Republicans and Democrats as the core...
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Was ‘No NATO Expansion East’ More Than a Promise?
by Ted Snider | Jul 17, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
At the NATO summit in Bucharest in 2008, eventual membership in NATO was promised to Ukraine and Georgia with the statement that “NATO welcomes Ukraine’s and Georgia’s Euro-Atlantic aspirations for membership in NATO. We agree today that these countries will become...
Defending the Defensible: Free Trade and Economic Liberalism
by Joseph Solis-Mullen | Jul 13, 2023 | Economics, Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
In 1989, the economist John Williamson introduced the phrase “Washington Consensus” to the politico-economic lexicon. It was shorthand for a set of interrelated policies that, taken together, would free trade within states and between them while boosting overall...
Is the United States Pursuing a Permanent Cold War with Russia?
by Ted Galen Carpenter | Jul 11, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
There is growing speculation about how the Russia-Ukraine war might eventually end. Three competing scenarios are strong possibilities. The most likely outcome is a definitive Russian victory after a grinding, bloody struggle lasting several more years. As time drags...
Mearsheimer Predicts a Grim Future for Eastern Europe
by Zachary Yost | Jul 11, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The war in Ukraine has been going on for over a year and shows little signs of abating anytime soon. This is bad news for the people of Ukraine, who continue to suffer from Russian missile strikes and from their own government dragging men off the streets to send off...
As America’s Influence Wanes, China’s Grows
by Ted Snider | Jul 6, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
In recent weeks, the world has been vibrating with multipolarity in ways barely picked up by the mainstream news. Iran is a regional power that pursues a foreign policy that defies U.S. hegemony and refuses to get in line with the American vision of a unipolar world....
The Fake China Threat, Then and Now
by Joseph Solis-Mullen | Jul 5, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Republicans are terrible on China. Examples abound, but perhaps the most instructive illustration of this long-term handicap comes from the following quotation: “We must be prepared to go it alone in China if our allies desert us. We must not fool ourselves into...
TGIF: “America First” Need Not Be Antiwar
by Sheldon Richman | Jun 30, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Libertarianism, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
Today's Trump-inspired "America First" faction cannot be counted on to be consistently noninterventionist and antiwar. That it may lean that way because its chief rival faction is so enthusiastic about foreign adventurism is hardly a firm assurance that it will remain...