Immediately after Japan’s newly elected prime minister, Shinzo Abe, met with President Barack Obama in February 2013, he delivered a major policy address at an event hosted by the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). In his talk, which he entitled, “Japan is Back,” Abe laid out his thinking on why he decided to…
Author: Joseph Bosco, opinion contributor
The RNC and DNC have time to prevent an electoral disaster in 2024
The 2016 and 2020 presidential elections and their aftermath should have been warning shots to the Republican and Democratic parties on the fragility of our electoral system and the need for significant reforms. In both elections, the parties put up deeply flawed candidates who, once again, presented Americans with a choice of “the lesser of…
G-7 nations must reject China’s Taiwan Strait claim
History will record that the United States and NATO, after repeatedly encouraging Ukraine’s membership, failed abysmally to deter or defeat Russia’s ongoing aggression and the consequent death, destruction and loss of Ukrainian sovereignty. China has learned important lessons in pursuing its own ambitions against Taiwan, including the critical role of maritime domain control. Russia’s domination…
Biden should return to ‘maximum pressure’ on North Korea
As Russia’s war in Ukraine grinds on, and China continues to escalate its aggressive rhetoric and actions against Taiwan, North Korea has reemerged to join the anti-Western pressure and diversion campaign. Iran likely is preparing for more trouble-making. U.S. and international observers are raising the likelihood that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un will carry…
Is Biden following Kissinger’s cut-and-run advice on Ukraine?
Vladimir Putin declared in 2005 that “the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the 20th century” was not World War I, or World War II, or Mao Zedong’s takeover of China, or the Cold War — all cataclysmic global events that, collectively, killed hundreds of millions of people and enslaved more than a billion. No, in Putin’s…
Biden and NATO must help Ukraine get its wheat to the world
Last week, Russia reversed, at least temporarily, a months-long series of military failures in Vladimir Putin’s brutal invasion of Ukraine. The fall of Mariupol, after a monumentally heroic holdout defense by Ukrainian forces, represents a much-needed victory for Putin on several levels. When the history of what transpired there is written, it also may be…
Putin has defeated Biden’s economic deterrence — Xi Jinping is next
Excessive Western caution invites greater risk-taking by Putin, who always expects Biden and the West to pull back.
The US and NATO failed Ukraine and enabled Putin’s aggression
By the time Biden took office, Putin clearly was on a course of conduct deeply inimical to Western interests.
China and Russia declare Cold War II against the West
The China danger is a product of misguided Western engagement policies, which an aggressive Russia is happy to applaud.
I voted for Trump in 2020 — he proved to be the ultimate RINO in 2021
Trump’s obsession with retaining personal power and avoiding a loser image has squandered a critical opportunity for his party.