Category: The National Interest

For strange reasons of its own, the Chinese government is willing to sell you a cheap TV that sort of works. The question is: do you want to buy it?

Netware is even stickier than hardware or software, because once all your contacts are on the same network, it’s very difficult for you to hop off.

Alliances are a holdover from nineteenth-century European geopolitics, kept alive by political pundits’ juvenile obsessions with strategy games.

America’s aircraft carriers are no longer intended for use in naval warfare. They’re designed to give the President the power to take control of a substantial chunk of the surface of the Earth and put it to use in the national interest of the United States.

China’s rise and rearmament has introduced a security schizophrenia into Australian politics. This is what lawmakers can do to address their fears of a Beijing invasion.

If 1989 was the historical moment to squeeze the Soviet Union, then 2019 is the historical moment to squeeze China.