Some kinda scary news recently coming from the Asia-Pacific. Specifically, I am referring to this article from the New York Times which describes some significant saber rattling from China over Taiwan and a potential violent reunification. The first graph of the article describes China showing off some new military hardware in a provocative display: The […]
Why America’s Edge Will Probably Last This semester I taught Causes of War and Peace for the first time in over ten years. I can’t remember if this happened the last time I taught the class but this semester we seemed to talk a lot about potential hegemonic war between the U.S. and China. I […]
I am China skeptic in that I don’t think China will displace the U.S. as hegemon primarily because China has serious internal problems, America still has a lot of power, and China has no followership nor capacity to get it. However, one thing I wonder – is Trump damaging America’s reputation so much that multipolarity […]
I was going to write a post about how although American hegemony is not great for the world Chinese hegemony would be much worse and riffing off the recent imbroglio between the CCP and the NBA. However, I just finished reading Michael Beckley’s new book Unrivaled: Why America Will Remain the World’s Sole Superpower and it […]
Unbridled Enthusiasm 