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Richard D. Fisher, Jr. On Taiwan: Building a global response to CCP aggression Where is the world’s disposition today vis-a-vis the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)? Is it similar to that in Munich, September 1938 when Europe’s powers appeased Adolf Hitler over the “Sudetenland,” despite existing treaty commitments? In other words, analogous to the failure to recognize the PRC’s aggressive intent and to mobilize in response to serial CCP outrages, e.g., Tiananmen and South China Sea; suppression of Hong Kong in violation of a treaty agreement; the internment and genocide of the Uighurs...

15 march 2021 Yesterday The opinion that the USSR was actively involved in the smuggling of industrial diamonds after World War II is quite widespread in the literature of the subject. For example, “Industrial diamonds were spirited from Zaire and Sierra-Leone to Beirut, thence by diplomatic pouch to Moscow” 1. Or there were reports that old traders in Beirut - where many illicit dealers in Africa shipped rough diamonds to - recalled that there were often industrial diamonds in the diplomatic pouches sent to Moscow by the Soviet embassy in Beirut. 2 Such information is in almost all can...

Think twice before bringing back the COCOM export control regime Scott Jones 15 hours ago The container ship Maersk Emerald is unloaded at the Port of Oakland, Calif., on July 12, 2018. (Ben Margot/AP) This week, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee drafted the Strategic Competition Act of 2021, the goal of which is to counter China’s expanding global influence. In particular, the draft measure mandates diplomatic and strategic initiatives to offset China’s technological development and associated military modernization efforts. Consistent with earlier initiatives and ongoing ...

Increasing repression in Hong Kong will make it easier for President Biden to recruit wavering Western democracies to challenge China.

The Year of the Ox has begun darkly for Hong Kongers. On Feb. 16, nine pro-democracy advocates, including 82-year-old Martin Lee (李柱銘), the revered long-time leader of the territory’s Democratic Party, went on trial charged with illegal assembly. A week later, the Hong Kong government announced that it would enact a law allowing only “patriots” to serve on district councils, the lowest level of the territory’s administrative apparatus, with responsibilities ranging from sanitation to traffic. This is likely to result in the expulsion of democratically elected council members and ...