Outside the Beltway

A massive investment falls just short. This time.

Fear of Chinese spies led to a bizarre and illegal operation within the Commerce Department.

An exceptional choice that breaks the recent tradition of politicos in the post.

The job losses and hit to the service sector is well documented. But trade has radically shifted, too.

The regime’s crackdown on their Muslim minority is worse than imagined.

Should public employee pensions be an asset in the administration’s foreign policy?

China and the U.S. have reached an initial trade deal that averts billions of dollars of new, inadvisable, tariffs, but the devil is in the details.

Trump takes credit for stopping his “friend” Xi from attacking Hong Kong protesters.

Hong Kong voters send a strong message to Beijing, and the world.

After months of anti-government protests, Hong Kong headed to the polls in record number.

The National Basketball Association’s kowtowing to China hits American shores.

South Park mocked Chinese censorship so, of course, they were censored in China.

President Trump has reportedly pledged to Chinese President Xi Jinping that the United States would not speak out against Chinese actions in Hong Kong.

A star NBA general manager may lose his job for expressing American values.

Donald Trump is now committing his crimes in public.

President Trump’s hand-picked Federal Reserve Chairman is stating the blindingly obvious about the ongoing trade war, so of course the President labeled him an enemy.

Protests in Hong Kong have been going on for nine weeks now, but they are reaching a point where the patience of the leaders in Beijing is being tested.

Under the Trump Administration, the American commitment to human rights around the world is basically dead.

Beijing is warning protesters in Hong Kong that it’s restraint in the face of protests is not without limit. However, it has few realistic options when it comes to how far it can go.

The new round of tariffs on Chinese made goods that the President announced late last week will have a particularly severe impact on consumers and retailers.

President Trump announced a new round of tariffs on Chinese goods set to take effect on September 1st Another stupid move in a very dumb trade war.

Joe Biden delivered his first major foreign policy address of the campaign. It’s not perfect, but it’s better than what we have right now.

The government in Hong Kong keeps conceding ground to the protests that have taken hold in the city, but the protesters have more fundamental objections.

The ongoing protests in Hong Kong over controversial extradition legislation have taken a violent turn.

President Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping have agreed to resume trade talks, but Trump’s ill-advised trade war will continue.

If Hong Kong’s leaders thought protesters would be satisfied with relatively minor concessions, they have significantly miscalculated the situation.

A new report suggests that the Chinese movie-going market will surpass the American market in 2020.

In the wake of massive protests, Hong Kong’s government begins to back away from support for a controversial extradition bill.

President Trump says in a new interview that he would be willing to break the law to get “oppo research” on an opponent.

Protests in Hong Kong as police unleashed tear gas on protesters and authorities delayed a vote on a controversial extradition law.

Protesters flooded the streets of Hong Kong on Sunday over proposed change to the city’s extradition laws.

While the American media was paying attention to President travels and travails in Europe, there was another meeting taking place.

As he had threatened, President Trump has imposed new tariffs on Chinese goods, making a bad situation even worse.

As the Friday deadline for trade talks with China approaches, President Trump is threatening even more tariffs.

Matt Bernius and I collaborated on an essay for Defense One.

The Trump Administration continues to drive a wedge between the United States and Europe, can it ever be repaired?

As threatened late last year, the Trump Administration has withdrawn from the Intermediate=Range Nuclear Forces Treaty. This is a mistake.

China has landed a probe on the far side of the Moon, the latest step forward in an aggressive Chinese push into space.

Presidents Trump and Xi have agree to a “90 day cease fire” on new tariffs. This means that Trump will not raise tariffs on Chinese imports that were scheduled to take effect on January 1st of next year. The tariffs will go into effect if the two countries cannot reach an agreement within that 90 day time frame.

President Trump’s trade war with China is leading car manufacturers to shift production from the U.S. to China.

President Trump’s private phone calls are apparently a major source of intelligence for foreign nations.

After two and a half decades, the images of June 4, 1989 resonate with many, unless you happen to live in China.