Category Archives: Foreign Affairs

A Review of “The Clash of Civilizations”

In 1996 scholar Samuel P. Huntington wrote a famous book titled “The Clash of Civilizations.” Huntington postulated that after the Cold War Continue reading

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How Taiwan Is Different From America

There’s one thing which America generally does better than Taiwan, she said. America is much cleaner than Taiwan. Environmental degradation is worse in Taiwan. The air is cleaner in America; the water is clearer. Continue reading

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It’s Not Five Minutes to Midnight

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists is a magazine dedicated towards ending nuclear proliferation. It’s most famous for the “Doomsday Clock.” Continue reading

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A Very Interesting Story About Cheap Chinese Goods

We don’t normally think about Chinese goods being cheaper than those from a country poorer than China. And yet it happens. Continue reading

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A Revealing Story About Russia’s Mind-Set

Russia launched a spacecraft to explore Mars, which unfortunately failed. Then Russian officials did something very curious: they blamed the failure on an American weapon. America, in this view, purposely used a weapon to destroy Russia’s probe. Continue reading

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