The PRC’s Internal Conversation

Beijing starts to frame a rationale and strategy for its New Thirty Years War with the United States.

The PRC’s first indigenously-built aircraft carrier, Type 001A, CV-17 Shandong, completed its second sea trial on September 1, 2018. And while physical preparations of such military assets are vital for Beijing, if it is to challenge US global strategic power, what is most critical is the creation of a rationale; a justification for its approach. And in this regard, the most important audience is within the Chinese population and the Communist Party of China

Has the Canada-US Strategic Split Become Irreversible?

And what does that mean for the next era of strategic alliances? A new NATO? A new period of diminished cooperation between the US and Mexico, the US and European NATO, and so on?

Has Türkiye Finally Been Forced Off the Fence? And for How Long?

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The Next Strategic Advantage: the Restoration of Literacy

Perhaps the “experiment” in universal, forced literacy, has been a failure, an historical blip. Literacy is in retreat because of technology and because inquiring minds challenge leadership patterns. Yet intellectual capacity— signified by literacy— determines strategic success. What is to be done?

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Has the Canada-US Strategic Split Become Irreversible?

Has Türkiye Finally Been Forced Off the Fence? And for How Long?

ESSENTIAL READING | The US at 250

The Next Strategic Advantage: the Restoration of Literacy