How can a government with this kind of exquisite control over rare earths, claim with a straight face that it has difficulty controling the flow of drug precursors to Mexico and the United States? China is limiting the flow of critical minerals to Western defense manufacturers,

"It's possible that Beijing could decide to subtly reduce their monthly imports of Russian oil, but I wouldn't expect them to completely cut them off or to publicly announce any change if they do," Wilder said. The US Wants To Squeeze Putin. Are Oil Sales To China The Answer?

Senior Fellow Dennis Wilder said that Taiwan does not have as many allies within the current administration as it has in the past. “In the first Trump administration, for example, Taipei could rely on staunch support and advocacy with the president from then-deputy national

Is Tesla becoming the new Motorola in China? As Tesla falls behind the local competitors it helped create, Elon Musk’s rupture with Trump is limiting his value to Beijing wsj.com/business/autos… via The Wall Street Journal

This impressive new study by Sheena Chestnut Greitens demonstrates that China's GSI outreach is as important, and maybe more so, than BRI. A New World Cop on the Beat? China’s Internal Security Outreach Under the Global Security Initiative - Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

“Everything is now revolving around the president’s decision he wants big beautiful summit [in Asia in the fall] and big beautiful trade deal,” says Dennis Wilder, senior fellow at Georgetown University’s Initiative for U.S.-China Dialogue on Global Issues. In Latest Tariff

Beijing is wasting no time chortling over the Modi decision to visit China.

Where does this leave the entire "Sullivan Tech Doctrine?" Is this a one-off or the beginnng of a reassessment of the entire policy?

At the CIA we refer to women like Stella as "trailblazers." There is no question she blazed a bright trail for Five Eyes women.

Most shipping analysts assume that the Chinese government has reached an understanding with Iran or the Houthis not to harm car-carrier ships from China. It seems that “China has found a way to deal with the Iran-backed Houthi rebels, and they have been told that their ships will

Mr Trump appears eager for a high-profile visit to China, probably with the signing of a “big, beautiful trade deal”, said Mr Dennis Wilder, a former National Security Council director who teaches courses on Chinese governance at The Bush School of Government and Public Service

This is pretty rich considering China's bullying behavior in the trade routes of the South China Sea or should I say the West Philippine Sea? China accuses US of ‘lies as pretext for seeking control’ of Panama Canal sc.mp/tdgob?utm_sour… via @scmpnews

So much for the vaunted Huawei and the myth that China can easily replace NVIDIA chips. DeepSeek’s next AI model delayed by attempt to use Chinese chips ft.com/content/eb9846… via Financial Times

China is incapable of telling the truth when it comes to the South China Sea. Navy Denies China Chased off U.S. Warship from Scarborough Shoal news.usni.org/2025/08/13/nav… via withemes