China’s foreign policy approach can appear transactional. But it’s actually deeply rooted in serving an ideology. One of securing total dominance for the Han race and culture, and the Chinese communi… (View Post)

Ugh batcaves. I’ve been unwittingly taken to remote batcaves in Laos and Bolivia. At the time I was more concerned about rabies than respiratory disease. I remember the one in Bolivia, the guide lobb… (View Post)

You are right but this just underlines what a transactional view the European powers take to foreign policy. It’s a real pickle that the core EU countries so readily undermine Western democracy’s str… (View Post)

I have been pulling my hair out for years because Western policy makers refused to acknowledge they were an unwilling protagonist in a new Cold War. So relieved they’ve woken up to it. (View Post)

Yes. The optimist in me says the fight back starts here. But it’s just the first step. (View Post)