How the GOP Stopped Loving China (Jared McKinney, The National Interest)

The New York Times editorial board has condemned the GOP’s new platform, just authorized at the Republican National Convention, as the “most extreme” in memory. This may well be the case, but the platform is also remarkable for something the Times does not comment on: belligerence and a new cynicism towards China. To show how this really is something new, this article reviews GOP platforms since Nixon’s rapprochement with China and traces the evolution thereafter of GOP disillusionment.

http://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-skeptics/how-the-gop-stopped-loving-china-17088

What Would China Do if America Sold Taiwan F-35s? (Nicholas Butts, Jared McKinney, The National Interest)

What would happen if the United States decides to sell its new F-35 Lightning II fighter to Taiwan? The fictionalized scenario below, based on a careful analysis of the Chinese leadership, attempts to answer that question.

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