AI (artificial intelligence) has created a race for dominance between America and China. If Chi8na wins,m freedom dies.
The Ohio Problem refers to the desperate resupply of Malta during WWII. Taiwan might be just as limited in resources in a war with China.
China is not ready to take Taiwan by force, and does not dare use its civilian ferry fleet even to attempt it.
China is quietly conquering the Arctic, through indirect instruments like merchant shipping and dual-use research ships.
China has expanded its use of fossil fuels, despite ostentatious renewable energy projects that still require a fossil fuel backup.
Communist China has sent warships to enforce its maritime laws in Taiwanese waters, and international law does not vindicate this action.
Communism, Soviet and Chinese style, has come back into favor among a large group of people, and will require 1950s methods to stop it.
AI company Anthropic fights President Trump on measures that would enhance its own security from intellectual property theft by China.
Cuba apparently will privatize large segments of its economy, because now the alternative is starvation and forever blackout.
Efforts to reduce the dependency of critical American industries on supplies from China have met resistance, but options remain.