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Michael Auslin: No one has a clue what to do about North Korea

Michael Auslin — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 16:31:11 +0000

The Brain Trust’s Michael Auslin says in a National Review piece that all the sanctions and sanctimony about North Korea and its nuclear missile program have amounted to jack squat. He says it’s time to admit we haven’t got a clue what to do about it and them.

Whatever happened to foreign policy for Asia?

Michael Auslin — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 18:46:45 +0000

Michael Auslin asks how Asia — powerful, ascendant, troublesome Asia — got lost in the shuffle of the presidential campaign. Just calling China a “cheater” hardly seems like an adequate expression from those vying for the most powerful job on Earth. Click here for Michael’s Wall Street Journal op-ed.

Auslin: Too Much “Jaw Jaw” with China Hurts Rather Than Helps U.S. Position

Michael Auslin — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 17:07:35 +0000

Michael Auslin writes in the Wall Street Journal that too much diplomatic engagement with China can be counter-productive to the U.S.’s national interests. It beats war, but illusions that it’s going to change the fundamentally antagonistic dynamic between the two nations is folly, says Brain Truster Auslin.

Michael Auslin: China is the U.S.’s Stalker

Michael Auslin — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 21:01:54 +0000

Michael Auslin writes for The Diplomat that China has become America’s creepy stalker guy: Almost everything it does on the international stage is filtered through a prism of how it will affect them vis-a-vis the U.S. Is there a secret workshop where Hu Jintao has plastered several hundred pictures and night vision snaps of Uncle Sam? Only figuratively so far as we know.

Michael Auslin: China’s Success Growing Rickety

Michael Auslin — Sat, 30 Jun 2012 18:14:56 +0000

Michael Auslin writes in the Wall Street Journal that China’s two decades of unbroken economic success seem to be drawing to a close. Problems on the political, demographic, and international monetary fronts are all pounding on China’s door, making its next decade look much less robust than its last two.

Michael Auslin: Learning from Byzantium, or The Empire Fell But It Didn’t Have To

Michael Auslin — Tue, 01 May 2012 16:10:29 +0000

Michael Auslin’s piece in the National Review Online gives a short lesson in Byzantine history and finds a people constantly striving to overcome bad political leadership.

Michael Auslin: China’s Military Moves From Sun-Tzu to Rahm Emmanuel

Michael Auslin — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 18:30:39 +0000

Michael Auslin writes in the Wall Street Journal that the Chinese government is using America’s financial crisis and budget deficit as an opportunity to bolster its world military standing. Worth reading if you want to know what the superpower lineup will look like ten years out…

Meeting China’s Eventual New Leader

Michael Auslin — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 07:40:34 +0000

Xi Jinping, the Vice President of China being groomed as its future leader, made a visit to the United States on February 14 to meet with Obama and other American leaders. Michael Auslin writes about the relationship between the two nations, and what their leaders will most likely talk about and quietly assess. ”Yet his meetings with America’s top leaders, from President Obama on down,” says Auslin, ”will be just as much a chance for Xi to size up the administration’s new policies toward Asia as they are an opportunity for U.S. officials to get a sense of whom they will be dealing with starting this fall.”

Michael Auslin on the Lessons of the Conquest of Singapore

Michael Auslin — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 08:50:48 +0000

The Brain Trust’s Michael Auslin with a pungent piece in the Asia-focused The-Diplomat.com on how Singapore’s fall to the Japanese Imperial Army in World War II offers lessons to America now as it ponders the future with an ominously aggressive and troublemaking China.

The growing effects of American culture on Chinese politics

Michael Auslin — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 07:31:17 +0000

In The Corner, Michael Auslin explores the effects of American culture, notably Lady Gaga, on the Chinese populace. He speaks of the growing Chinese middle class, and how their demands for a culture offering more than “socialist realism” will effect China’s eventual political landscape.