Trump Says China Will Have to Play by Rules Under New Ambassador

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump vowed that China would soon have to “play by the rules,” as Chinese state media issued its clearest warning yet about its bottom line on Taiwan.

The real secret to Asian American success was not education

For those who doubt that racial resentment lingers in this nation, Asian Americans are a favorite talking point. The argument goes something like this: If “white privilege” is so oppressive — if the United States is so hostile toward its minorities — why do census figures show that Asian Americans out-earn everyone?

The Crisis for Liberalism

THE 2016 campaign was a crisis for conservatism; its aftermath is a crisis for liberalism. The right, delivered unexpectedly to power, is taking a breather from introspection as it waits to see what Trumpism means in practice. The left, delivered unexpectedly to impotence, has no choice but to start arguing about how it lost its way.

Trump’s ‘Unpredictable Starting Now’ Foreign Policy Is Here

More than six weeks before his inauguration, President-elect Donald Trump is already carrying out his promise to make U.S. foreign policy less predictable with a series of moves that are keeping America’s adversaries, as well as its friends, off-balance.

Chapter 4 : TENSION AND RIVALRY IN INDOCHINA

On the afternoon of 17 September 1951, an immaculate and revered French general, Jean de Lattre de Tassigny, stepped off a passenger ship, the Île de France, and onto the quayside at New York. The 61-year-old ‘King Jean’ had arrived to win round American opinion and rally it behind the French cause in Indochina. He wanted the leaders and people of the United States to give it their whole-hearted support and to view the conflict there as indistinguishable from the war in Korea, where American forces, under the command of General Douglas MacArthur, were locked in a bloody and protracted combat with Chinese troops.

How Stable Are Democracies? ‘Warning Signs Are Flashing Red’

Yascha Mounk is used to being the most pessimistic person in the room. Mr. Mounk, a lecturer in government at Harvard, has spent the past few years challenging one of the bedrock assumptions of Western politics: that once a country becomes a liberal democracy, it will stay that way.

How Trump Is Good for China

Perhaps no country has taken more hits from Donald J. Trump than China. During the presidential campaign, Mr. Trump made it sound as if making America “great again” meant defeating China.

Trump thắng cách nào? How Trump Won

Trump thắng cách nào? How Trump Won (Jacobin 11-11-16) -- Bài rất hay (tức là hợp ý THD!) của Jedediah Purdy. Ba nhà bình luận Mỹ trẻ (dưới 40 tuổi) mà tôi khâm phục nhất hiện nay là Ross Douthat (bình luận gia cho New York Times), Adam Kirsch (phê bình văn chương), và Jedediah Purdy (phê bình chính trị và xã hội). Purdy có một quá khứ khác thường: Ông là một thần đồng nhưng không đến trường suốt tiểu học và trung học, mà được cha mẹ dạy ở nhà. Năm 18 tuổi ông đã có những bài phê bình về chính trị vô cùng sâu sắc trên các báo uy tín nhất nước Mỹ, thiên hạ tưởng đâu là của một tác giả 40, 50 tuổi! (Tôi sẽ nói về Douthat và Kirsch khi có dịp)

Diversity can distract us from economic inequality

According to the socialist academic Walter Benn Michaels, the reason that rich western liberals talk so much about racism and sexism is so they don’t have to talk so much about economic inequality. He published The Trouble with Diversity exactly a decade ago, but it feels like a tract for our times, perfectly suited as a provocation to thought as we approach the summing up of liberalism’s great annus horribilis.

Donald Trump Vladimir Putin and the art of a deal with Russia

It is even possible that Kissinger, now 93, could play a role as adviser or intermediary