China vs. USA

Competing with China in the 21st century requires more than just a sound foreign policy. It requires strengthening America from within. One area where much work is needed in the United States is education, including the education of our young women. This is an area to which the Clare Boothe Luce Center for Conservative Women have made tremendous contributions. We talk to Michelle Easton... Source

Secretary of State Antony Blinken recently declared that “China is the only country with both the intent to reshape the international order and, increasingly, the…power to do it.” By contrast, Blinken’s predecessor, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, said during the last year of the Trump administration, “Securing our freedoms from the Chinese Communist Party is the mission of our time.” Prof. Source

Chinese Kungfu looks great in the movies, but does it work for real fighting? A few years ago, a Chinese mixed martial artist fought a Chinese Tai-chi master and knocked him out in 20 seconds. Since then, many questions have been asked about the practicality and effectiveness of Chinese Kungfu. Can Kungfu masters withstand the pressure against MMA fighters, or street thugs for that matter? Source

China likes to point to America’s racial disparities and discontent to deflect criticisms of grave human rights abuses and political oppression under Chinese authoritarian rule. Lately, Beijing has even argued that U.S. domestic challenges, such as the Black Lives Matter movement, make Washington wholly unqualified to discuss other countries’ human rights records. “China vs. USA” spoke to Ward... Source

Conventional wisdom in foreign policy circles these days says that constructive engagement with China in decades past has been an unmitigated disaster, but just because lots of people in Washington say the same thing does not make it true. We speak with Doug Bandow, senior fellow at the Cato Institute, about what the United States got right about China, what lessons Washington still has not... Source

Since the beginning of the COVID pandemic, we’ve heard a lot about anti-Asian racism. From New York to San Francisco, there have been reports of slurs, taunts, and violence. Recently, several horrific attacks committed by young black men against the elderly have caught national attention. Numerous Asian American activists and political leaders have blamed former President Trump... Source

COVID-19 and the Black Lives Matter protests have turned race and racism into hot topics in both the United States and China. Throughout the pandemic, President Trump has been condemned as a racist for labeling the coronavirus “Kung Flu,” “China virus,” and “Wuhan virus.” Meanwhile, protestors and rioters throughout the country—from New York to Minneapolis to Portland—have been violently assailing... Source

Washington seems to be having conflicts with Beijing on almost every front. There’s everything from the trade war to China’s culpability in spreading the coronavirus to its repression of civil liberties in Hong Kong. News headlines regularly scream about a new Cold War between the United States and China. Are we in a new Cold War with China? China would be a much more formidable enemy than Iraq... Source