In 2000 Chalmers Johnson, a professor of history at UC San Diego, famously co-opted the CIA term “blowback” in order to explain the...

The story of China’s growth has been the story of its workers. Long discussed in regards to China’s meteoric rise, the millions of...

Last week, I wrote of the various problems that plague several of the BRIC nations, which include troubling and skewed demographics in...

“Families are always rising and falling in America,” Nathaniel Hawthorne observed, and the same is true of nations.  Their economies...

As the sixteenth round of negotiations over the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) closed in Singapore last week, it is time to examine the...

This week, I originally planned to write of a new and recent phenomenon, the assumption of China as the globe’s leading importer of oil,...

In his recent column on the Senkaku/Diaoyu islands dispute between China and Japan, Carter Johnson raises several interesting points. I...