The Continuing Crisis in Sino-American Relations
The United States and China are running a “super-power marathon” that may last a century. However, both history...

The Chinese Threat Is Not Going Away
For the first time in decades, the United States is facing an existential threat to its way of life and national...

Closing the Technological Iron Curtain
China has used U.S. capital and intellectual property to transform itself into the 21st Century’s most serious...

America Responds to China’s Geopolitical Network
Every major geopolitical struggle has involved two opposing alliances of nations, as well as a set of nations that try...


The West Confronts China
published on: Jul 15, 2020
Much like World War II, the Sino-American Cold War has come upon us suddenly and unexpectedly. While China’s role in COVID19 resembles the 1941...

The CCP's Ultimate Dilemma
published on: May 15, 2020
To most people, it appears that today’s de facto Sino-American Cold War has emerged suddenly and unexpectedly. But as the Trends editors have...

The Era of Deglobalization
published on: May 15, 2020
From the end of the Cold War until at least 2015, globalization and its ideological counterpart, globalism, appeared to be unstoppable trends....

China Pays the Price for Its “Criminal...
published on: Apr 15, 2020
China’s mismanagement of the COVID-19 outbreak appears responsible for hundreds of thousands of unnecessary deaths around the world, as well as...

The Sino-American Decoupling Process
published on: Mar 15, 2020
Until the Trump Administration confronted China in 2017, multiple U.S. administrations had fundamentally misread the pathway the People’s Republic...

Cutting China’s Financial Lifeline
published on: Dec 15, 2019
As in the 60s and 70s, the West has been financing the rise of its worst enemy. What are the implications? What needs to be done? And what will...

Managing a Faltering China
published on: Nov 15, 2019
Conventional wisdom still believes that China is on its way to eclipsing the United States and becoming the dominant superpower of the 21st...

The New Reality of Sino-American Relations
published on: Sep 15, 2019
For the past 25 years, the United States has executed a strategy based on the idea that a combination of persistent engagement and prudent hedging...

China’s Narrow Path to 21st Century Dominance
published on: May 15, 2019
5G technology is just one of many battlefields on which the U.S. and China now struggle for supremacy. In every area from defense to technology to...

China Faces Tough Choices
published on: Feb 15, 2019
China and the United States are locked in a struggle for control of the 21st century. Trade is at the heart of this struggle, but the conflict goes...

Securing the Supply Chain of Strategic Minerals
published on: Dec 15, 2018
Recently, the U.S. Government classified 23 “mineral commodity groups” as critical based on the assessed likelihood of supply interruption and...

Out-Sourcing, In-Sourcing, and Globalization
published on: Dec 15, 2018
Politicians and managers often discuss outsourcing of American jobs by American firms, but seldom discuss the in-sourcing of jobs by foreign...

Eliminating the Tyranny of Eco-Imperialism
published on: Nov 15, 2018
Since at least the 90s, misguided ideology has kept nearly half of the world’s population unnecessarily trapped in poverty exacerbated by a lack of...

China in the Second American Century
published on: Sep 15, 2018
Until recently, the Chinese economic juggernaut seemed unstoppable. Once China joined the World Trade Organization in 2001, its GDP exploded....

The Tide of History Changes Everything
published on: Jul 15, 2018
The Cold War forces that defined the past 75 years have evaporated. A new era has dawned. What does this mean for the United States and its citizens?...

Big Brother is Alive and Well in China
published on: Jan 15, 2018
As growth has slowed, China has become obsessed with maintaining political and social stability. For the first time in history, the technology...