Every nation’s foreign policy is driven by self-interest and domestic politics, and the U.S. is no exception. That reality is reflected in the foreign policy actions the Biden administration announced on Thursday, April 15, 2021. Keep in mind that President Biden has been involved in domestic [...]
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April 15th, 2021 - 7:14 pm § in America, Biden, China, Donald Trump, Foreign Affairs, Politics, Russia
Biden’s foreign policy takes shape
Play the All-Star game in Taiwan!
Baseball’s poobahs missed a great opportunity when they (quite properly) fled the Undemocratic Republic of Georgiastan. A “great opportunity to seed new markets, build its brand, and address growing anti-Asian sentiment in the United States, … [and] help protect and defend global d[...]
April 12th, 2021 - 11:02 pm § in China, Foreign Affairs
China’s strategy to seize an ocean
The South China Sea is very valuable real estate. About a third of the world’s seaborne trade passes through there, and it’s rich in resources, including oil and fisheries. It’s also of great strategic importance; if China could control it, and keep other nations out, Southeast Asi[...]
Nobody likes Biden’s defense budget
Republicans think it’s not enough; Bernie Sanders thinks it’s too much. Read stories here and here. Photo: China has two combat-ready aircraft carriers, with a third under construction, and more planned (details here and here) Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
April 7th, 2021 - 7:14 pm § in China, Foreign Affairs
U.S. needs 6th generation fighter
“The Air Force must field its Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) fighter soon if it wants to compete with China,” Air Force Gen. Mark Kelly, the senior officer over America’s fighter fleets says. A prototype has already flown (see story here). But he wonders whether “our na[...]
8 years in prison for a door knock?
Yes. It’s possible, if you’re talking about Georgia, the defendant is black, and the door knock was a protest against a racist voter suppression law. Read story here. After all, that state’s racists just made it a crime to hand a water bottle to a black voter waiting hours in line [...]
China’s up to more no good in the South China Sea
China’s ongoing efforts to seize the South China Sea tend to fly under the radar because they’re piecemeal, incremental, and low-key. But their cumulative effect over time has major impact. The upshot is that China ignores international law and other nations’ rights, and asserts ra[...]
Is Biden too soft on China?
If you ask Republicans, they’ll say yes, but that doesn’t mean much. These days, they’re not right about much of anything. And because everything they do comes across as partisan sniping, when they claim “Biden is soft on China,” that immediately provokes skepticism. Ov[...]
Former Aussie PM: How the U.S. and China could avoid war
“Officials in Washington and Beijing don’t agree on much these days, but there is one thing on which they see eye to eye: the contest between their two countries will enter a decisive phase in the 2020s. This will be the decade of living dangerously. No matter what strategies the two sides p[...]
California cops perplexed by savage shoving attacks
This wasn’t a robbery. This 91-year-old man apparently was attacked because he’s Asian. Or maybe the attacker is just mad at the world. Moments later, he assaulted two other people. In a similar attack in San Francisco a few days earlier, an 84-year-old Thai man was killed. That assailan[...]