The way to deal with China, and thus North Korea, its naughty but wholly dependent vassal, is not by a failing and provocative attempt to weaken it, but by attending to America’s diminishing strengths. Unlike the short-focused U.S., China plays the long game, in which the chief objective is...
National Security
Washington’s ‘Emergency’ Hypocrisy
Washington’s response to President Trump’s declaration of a national emergency over immigration has been hypocrisy as usual—and a lot of what you’ve heard about the matter is wrong. For many years Congress has been handing over power to the president and the agencies of the administrative state. Lawmakers are...