December 2021

#437 12/25  Dr. Wordman  Real American Statesmen Are Needed
 From the survey of Pew Research, there is no doubt that the image of the U.S. has been tainted downward since the Obama Administration. The current Biden Administration is well aware of that and efforts are being made to restore the reputation of the U.S. However, this process may take a while or may not even possible as the U.S. puts so much energy in battling with China on the world stage in...
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Real American Statesmen Are Needed
 From the survey of Pew Research, there is no doubt that the image of the U.S. has been tainted downward since the Obama Administration. The current Biden Administration is well aware of that and efforts are being made to restore the reputation of the U.S. However, this process may take a while or may not even possible as the U.S. puts so much energy in battling with China on the world stage in...
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#436 12/18  Dr. Wordman  Taiwan – Most Dangerous Place on Earth: True or False
​Editor’s Note: This piece is part of the Taiwan-U.S. Quarterly Analysis series, which features the original writings of experts from the United States and Taiwan, with the goal of providing a range of perspectives on developments relating to Taiwan . The Economist recently published an article claiming Taiwan as the most dangerous place on Earth. The great attention The Economist...
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Taiwan – Most Dangerous Place on Earth: True or False
​Editor’s Note: This piece is part of the Taiwan-U.S. Quarterly Analysis series, which features the original writings of experts from the United States and Taiwan, with the goal of providing a range of perspectives on developments relating to Taiwan . The Economist recently published an article claiming Taiwan as the most dangerous place on Earth. The great attention The Economist...
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#435 12/11   Dr. Wordman  Competition between the U.S. and China Can Save the World
 Andrew S. Erickson (Professor of Strategy at the U.S. Naval War College’s China Maritime Studies Institute and a Visiting Scholar at Harvard University’s Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies) and Gabriel Collins (Baker Botts Fellow in Energy and Environmental Regulatory Affairs at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy and a Senior Visiting Research Fellow at the Oxford Institute...
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Competition between the U.S. and China Can Save the World
 Andrew S. Erickson (Professor of Strategy at the U.S. Naval War College’s China Maritime Studies Institute and a Visiting Scholar at Harvard University’s Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies) and Gabriel Collins (Baker Botts Fellow in Energy and Environmental Regulatory Affairs at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy and a Senior Visiting Research Fellow at the Oxford Institute...
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#434 12/4   Dr. Wordman  What Is the Real Threat to the U.S.?
 Michael Beckley, an Associate Professor of Political Science at Tufts University, a Jeane Kirkpatrick Visiting Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, and the author of Unrivaled: Why America Will Remain the World’s Sole Superpower, recently published an article, entitled, America Is Not Ready for a War with China – How to Get the Pentagon to Focus on the Real Threats, in Foreign...
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