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The Real Cost of America's "Made in China" Addiction
A stronger Chinese military? Peter NavarroThe National Interest Crouching Tiger Series: Buy Made In China, Weaken National Security? from Peter Navarro on Vimeo.At the next two presidential debates–...
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Could North Korea Be the Next Energy Superpower?
Pyongyang's advances in oil and natural gas could help fuel a still-ambitious military.Anthony FensomThe “hermit kingdom” of North Korea has struggled to feed its own people in recent years, let alone...
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The Global Middle Class Has Stalled. Has It Stopped for Good?
For the emerging world a China-led commodity supercycle was the simplest route to plenty, until it wasn't.Samuel RinesThe emerging world—lower and middle income countries alike—found China’s insatiable...
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2016's Top Five Foreign Policy Flash Points
It's already shaping up to be a tumultuous year.James M. LindsayOn Tuesday, CFR.org posted an interview I did previewing the year ahead. My take in a nutshell: 2016 is shaping up to be a tumultuous...
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Rousseff’s ‘Silver Lining’ Playbook
While weakened politically, Brazil’s president is not without options in the current crisis.Scott MacDonaldOver the past year most news on Brazil has been bad. The economy is in the worst shape since...
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China's Yuan Won't Topple the Dollar After All
Concerns that the dollar's days are numbered lack merit.Milton EzratiIt was always a ridiculous contention, and it seems even less reasonable now. Not even a year ago, consensus thinking saw China’s...
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Indonesia: The Reluctant Giant
Can Jakarta translate economic heft into global influence?Vikram NehruBy most measures, Indonesia is among the world’s largest countries. It's the largest archipelagic country, the third largest...
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After Carnival: 7 Uncertainties Ahead for Brazil
Where will Brazil stand a year from now?Matthew TaylorBrazil is getting back to business after an exuberant carnival that brought irrepressible Brazilian humor to bear on serious national travails,...
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Can China Revive the G20?
The question is whether China, in its first attempt at driving this kind of agenda, can successfully manage the diverse set of views.Tristram SainsburyShanghai will welcome finance ministers and...
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Listen Up, America: Don't Get Cuba Wrong Again
Ahead of Obama's visit, Cubans are hungry for capitalism.Cheryl BenardAs President Obama prepares for his historic trip to Cuba, I offer some impressions from my own visit, just completed. During a...
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Washington D.C.'s Minimum Wage Hike Nightmare
Why do policymakers think such a high minimum wage may be appropriate?James SherkAnil NiraulaLast summer the District of Columbia’s increased its minimum wage to $10.50 an hour, which is currently the...
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The Trump Doctrine: Peace Through Strength
America will be great again through a strong military and economy.Peter NavarroThose who insist Donald Trump has no foreign policy are simply not listening. The “Trump Doctrine” is a page right out of...
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The Two Faces of American Statecraft
Washington must balance its economic and military policies.James Jay CarafanoSquaring economic and security interests is the core of statecraft in the twenty-first century.Balancing the relationship...
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Exposed: Children Born in 2016 Hold $42,000 in Public Debt
A child born this year bears a $42,000 share of the publicly held federal debt. Before these children even take their first steps, Washington has made decisions that reduce their future economic...
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Trump Tears Down Free Trade Orthodoxy
When it comes to matters of trade, he speaks succinctly and with conviction.Emma ConnorsThe photos of Xi and Obama meeting in Washington last week reminded the world that, in nine months' time, there...
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This Is Why More States Are Requiring Work for Food Stamps
A good or bad change? This is what the evidence tells us. Elisabeth ZengerRachel SheffieldNewspaper headlines have been bemoaning that more states will now have to require adults on food stamps—who are...
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Hillary Clinton's China Problem
Bernie and Trump can hit her on trade with the PRC.Peter NavarroA rock and a hard place. Scylla and Charybdis. Sanders and Trump. These are just some of the metaphors and men Hillary Clinton finds...
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This Is China's Greatest Problem (A HINT: Its Not the South China Sea)
The problem for President Xi is that the remedy for China's ailing economy — the attempted imposition of decisive rule by a single individual — is one that produces factions in the first place. Thomas...
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Ukraine Just Got a New PM. What It Needs Is Reform.
A fresh face isn't enough to fix corruption.Matthew RojanskyThe resignation on Sunday of Arseniy Yatsenyuk, the man who became Ukraine’s “kamikaze” prime minister in the aftermath of the 2014 Maidan...
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A Debt Bomb Set to Explode: Is China's Economy Headed for a Meltdown?
Why Beijing's rosy economic numbers hide a much bigger problem...William T. WilsonOn Friday China announced its economy had expanded at a 6.7 percent rate in the first quarter of 2016. While this is...
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