HISTORY
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
China: What if Xi Jinping Survives?
GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
EARLY WARNING | Farewell, China Dream. Hello, Cold Dawn
DIPLOMACY, ALLIANCES & TREATIES
One BRIC at a Time
The Africa-Middle East space and the implications of the BRICS expansion and rising instability: it’s all about perception, and perception counts.
ECONOMICS & BUSINESS
The New Total War Economy
How can Xi Jinping, without a strategy or an economic philosophy, promise a war without a war economy?
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
ESSENTIAL READING | More Taiwan Gaming
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
The New Total War: The PLA Case for a Coup Against Xi?
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
STRATEGIC TRAJECTORIES | Xi Readies His Remaining Strategic Weapon, AI, for Use Soon
Xi and his team have been considering for some years how they could use weaponized cyber and artificial intelligence to create a global strategic victory without the use of formal military confrontation.
CULTURE, PSYCHOLOGY & MEDIA
Xi Jinping and the Galtieri Syndrome: Indicators of an Irrational War?
How do strategic planners prepare for what seem to be irrational decisions by a leader such as Xi Jinping, who is isolated from advice and is prepared to define the national interest in his own terms, regardless of the possible outcome?
CULTURE, PSYCHOLOGY & MEDIA
The Beijing “Talks”: On the Psychology of Strategic Incompetence
Regardless of the tactical milestones, is the outcome of the PRC-US conflict largely foretold?
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
Global Architecture: When Will There Be a New Global Order?
The “Rules-Based World Order” is in hospice care. Are we already in the inter-pax years?
DIPLOMACY, ALLIANCES & TREATIES
Nixon in the PRC
History has largely disregarded the unintended consequences of US Pres. Richard Nixon’s 1972 visit to the People’s Republic of China, and how the USSR retaliated, cutting short the President’s strategic agenda for dealing with both Beijing and Moscow.