(A) China and the Far East

Ed Feulner Built Institutions in Support of American Values A

By Mike Pence - July 21, 2025

Principles of Government · February 6, 2024 ·

By Mike Pence – As the founder of the Heritage Foundation, Ed was a leading voice of conservatism for more than 50 years. Under his leadership, Heritage became both a center for scholarship and a powerhouse of strategic influence.

What concerned him, as always, was the long-term health of the American Republic, and the strength of the institutions that would defend it for generations to come.

Ed didn’t just build up institutions; he cultivated a movement that brought ivory tower ideas into the public square and never lost sight of the moral and spiritual foundations of liberty. Read More

Trump’s Big Opportunity in Japan A

By Mike Gallager - June 11, 2025

Principles of Government · June 14, 2025 ·

By Mike Gallager – Japan undergirds U.S. power in the Pacific. It has one of the world’s largest economies …It’s time to take a lesson from Mr. Ohtani and swing for the fences, moving beyond a narrow focus on sectoral trade deficits. America must build new institutions designed to defend both countries from the Chinese Communist Party’s economic aggression, the way our alliance already defends us from Chinese military aggression.

Economic aggression has generated China’s trillion-dollar—and growing—trade surplus, backed by suppressed domestic demand, subsidies for strategic industries and intellectual-property theft on a staggering scale. Joining forces with Japan against this aggression would move trade talks … to the more productive question of how to regain or preserve dominance in shipbuilding, semiconductors and software. Read More

Four Steps to Creating a National Defense Strategy Built on Strength A

By John G. Ferrari | Elaine McCusker | Todd Harrison - June 12, 2025

Principles of Government · June 22, 2025 ·

By John G. Ferrari | Elaine McCusker | Todd Harrison – The new Pentagon leadership has set itself up to potentially oversee fundamental changes that could dramatically improve military warfighting capabilities for decades to come. In addition to realigning the defense budget, organizational structures, and acquisition policies to support warfighters, key decisions are still pending on how and where America will defend its security and prosperity. Read More

‘Follow the Science’ Leads to Ruin A

By Bjorn Lomborg - March 13, 2024

Principles of Government · January 21, 2022 ·

Over the past two centuries, global life quality has dramatically improved, to a large extent because of an incredible increase in energy, mostly from the harnessing of fossil fuels. That has made agriculture, industry and transportation vastly more productive. Average life spans have more than doubled, hunger has dramatically declined, and real income has increased tenfold. We risk all that progress if we just stop using fossil fuels.
The world still gets four-fifths of its energy from fossil fuels, because renewable sources rarely provide good alternatives. Half the world’s population entirely depends on food grown with synthetic fertilizer produced almost entirely by natural gas. If we rapidly ceased using fossil fuels, four billion people would suddenly be without food. Read More

America’s Space War Vulnerability A

By The Editorial Board - Feb. 15, 2024

Principles of Government · April 16, 2024 ·

The Editorial Board – Feb. 15, 2024… the military threat in space is real and growing. Russia and China are working hard to develop space weapons. A Pentagon official told Congress last year that “Russia has fielded several ground-based lasers that can blind satellite sensors and has a wide range of ground-based electronic warfare systems that can counter the Global Positioning System,” satellite communications, radars, and space-enabled weapons guidance. China “has already fielded ground-based counterspace weapons, including electronic warfare systems, directed energy weapons, and direct-ascent (DA) anti-satellite (ASAT) missiles designed to disrupt, damage, and destroy U.S. satellites,” the same Pentagon official told Congress last year. Read More

Ed Feulner Built Institutions in Support of American Values A

Trump’s Big Opportunity in Japan A

Four Steps to Creating a National Defense Strategy Built on Strength A

‘Follow the Science’ Leads to Ruin A

America’s Space War Vulnerability A

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