The case for a 21st-century battleship
Originally published at: http://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/the-case-21st-cent ...What makes a battleship a battleship isn’t the big guns. It’s the thick armor. And armor may soon be more important than ever. READ MORE
China could be the world’s first all electric vehicle ecosystem
Originally published at: https://www.forbes.com/sites/salvatorebabones/2018/03/06/chi ...With nearly one in every 50 autos sold in China last year an electric car, and nearly one in 20 trucks and busses, China is well on its way to an all-electric future. READ MORE
The world cries wolf on US tariffs
Originally published at: http://nationalinterest.org/feature/the-world-cries-wolf-us- ...Trump’s planned tariffs on steel and aluminum imports are a logical and long-overdue response to decades of trade cheating by friends and foes alike. READ MORE
Why Geely may be Tesla’s main China challenger in the near future
Originally published at: https://www.forbes.com/sites/salvatorebabones/2018/02/28/chi ...Long accustomed to double-digit growth, China’s auto industry now faces a maturing market with flat unit sales but more premium products, a market that Geely is well-positioned to succeed in. READ MORE
Zhongguo and tianxia: The central state and the Chinese world
Originally published at: https://blog.oup.com/2018/02/zhongguo-tianxia-chinese-intern ...Over three millennia, China has developed a distinct vocabulary that is well-adapted to its own place at the center of the East Asian world-system. READ MORE
Leader for life: Xi Jinping strengthens hold on power as China Communist Party ends term limits
Originally published at: https://www.forbes.com/sites/salvatorebabones/2018/02/25/lea ...Reform era China has long been held up as a model of an authoritarian country that has avoided the succession trap. Its plan to eliminate presidential term limits shows that it hasn’t. READ MORE
Why India’s ‘Act East’ needs China — And China’s ‘Go West’ needs India
Originally published at: https://www.forbes.com/sites/salvatorebabones/2018/02/21/why ...Narendra Modi wants to develop India’s northeast with foreign investment, but India’s neighbors are too poor. Meanwhile Xi Jinping wants to develop China’s southwest with trade, but China’s neighbors are too small. READ MORE
It’s time for the mother of all trade deals: A China-US Economic Agreement
Originally published at: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/its-time-mother-all-trade-dea ...The ultimate goal of the ChUSEA should be to ensure that when you want to develop an app to do something useful, the only barrier to rolling it out simultaneously in the US and China is setting the interface language. READ MORE
- Only India has the scale to be worth the while of potential Chinese investors. - my latest @forbes https://t.co/VB1FBvCGo0
- Read my thoughts on the future of NATO @WPReview ... https://t.co/xJW7MEftVr
