Author: LAJONG11

In the twilight months of his life in 1976, an ailing Mao Zedong handed a handwritten note to his designated

In defense policy circles and grand strategy discussions across Washington, Tokyo, New Delhi, and Brussels, an uncomfortable historical analogy has

On paper, Xi Jinping is China’s most powerful ruler since Mao Zedong. Holding the three apex titles—General Secretary of the

When the Manchu Qing dynasty collapsed in the Xinhai Revolution of 1911, the peripheral imperial domains found themselves at a

Speculations regarding an Axis victory in the Second World War frequently dwell in the realm of dystopian fiction, from Philip

When General Dwight D. Eisenhower delivered his farewell address from the Oval Office in January 1961, he issued an uncharacteristically

When discussing the destructive power of nuclear arms, public memory almost universally returns to August 1945. The images of flattened

For four decades, the unwritten social contract of Deng Xiaoping’s “Reform and Opening-up” propelled China from agrarian isolation into the

For decades, the choreography of global wealth followed predictable paths. Fortunes built in manufacturing, trading, or commodities naturally found their

On the surface of global geopolitics, Moscow and Beijing appear welded together in an unbreakable alliance. State-controlled media from both

Headlines around the world fixate on acute flashpoints: missile barrages in Eastern Europe, naval maneuvers across the Taiwan Strait, and

For over seven decades, the geopolitical architecture of South Asia rested on a straightforward Cold War equation: Washington leaned towards