Not satisfied with its illegal claims to ownership of the South China Sea, China is moving to establish naval domination of the Indian Ocean as well. This has not gone unnoticed by the Trump administration, which has rebranded the Obama Administration’s damp squib “turn toward Asia” into a possibly more substantial Indo-Pacific alliance joining India […]

One thing we can all be thankful for today is that we’re not China, where dictator Xi Jinping controls all the information you get, monitors all your activity online, captures your comings and goings by tens of thousands of cameras with facial recognition, and uses its enormous data stores of information to rate your loyalty […]

The Wall Street Journal famously reprints every year the day before Thanksgiving an extract from the year 1620 record of the Plymouth Colony upon leaving the Netherlands for the New World. There would be “no inns to entertain or refresh them, no houses, or much less towns, to repair unto to seek for succour…it was […]

German Chancellor Merkel seems now to be a spent force after twelve years rule. She even looks like another spent force, Hillary Clinton, in her baggy, ill-fitting pants suits. Her legacy: Brexit, the collapse of centrist parties throughout Europe, the rise of anti-immigration parties of the right,  the highest energy prices in Europe, the shutdown […]

An op-ed in today’s Wall Street Journal by Christopher DeMuth, former head of the American Enterprise Institute, suggests to us that President Trump’s deregulation reforms may be second only in importance to his outstanding judicial picks. DeMuth writes: With some exceptions (such as business as usual on ethanol)…President Trump has proved to be a full-spectrum […]