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Trump's Asian Triumph and the Collapse of China’s Grand Strategy

The President's one-year trade truce with China got most of the attention. But deals with Japan and South Korea help illustrate the enormous reversal…

Oct 31, 2025 • Rod D. Martin and Guest Author

Making Gold Money Again

Your money should be a store of value. Yet the dollar has lost 87% of its value since 1971 with no relief in sight. Now, five states are doing something…

Aug 2, 2025 • Rod D. Martin and Guest Author

Rod's Interview on "The China Desk"

A wide-ranging discussion on the China threat - and opportunity - from the Chinese Civil War to Trump's trade war today, how to avoid war, and how to…

Jul 24, 2025 • Rod D. Martin and Guest Author

36:20

Trade, Security & Innovation: My Interview on "YourVoice America with Bill Mitchell"

A world tour of the trade negotiations, the path to peace with Russia, the India-Pakistan conflict, NATO as partners not dependents, containing China…

Jun 3, 2025 • Rod D. Martin

29:10

China's Great Leap Backward: So Much For the Next Dominant Superpower

The Chinese century is over. Facing upside-down demographic and economic trends, China is heading off the cliff. Trump's tariffs make that much, much…

May 22, 2025 • Guest Author

John Mauldin: Xi’s Big Mistake

Didi's IPO disaster is the tip of a very large iceberg.

Jul 16, 2021 • John Mauldin

Xi Jinping’s Totalitarian Regime Cannot Coexist With the Democratic World

China is no longer on the trajectory of previous Asia tigers and its economy will shrink if the Communist Party remains in power.

Jul 7, 2021 • Guest Author

Solving the Crisis of Big Tech, Privacy, and Censorship

The issue is an existential, albeit solvable, threat to liberty. We must take it very seriously.

May 8, 2021 • Rod D. Martin

The America to Come: An Interview With Rod Martin, Glenn Sunshine, and Doug Wilson.

Is it too late for America?

Oct 20, 2020 • Rhett Burns, Rod D. Martin, Glenn Sunshine, and Douglas Wilson

China’s Disturbing Vision

And once you see it, you cannot unsee it.

Oct 26, 2019 • Rod D. Martin

China's Vision for the World

China’s grand strategic vision is primacy: China believes it ought to be the dominant force in international politics. And it wants to create a very…

Oct 10, 2018 • Guest Author

A Universal Basic Income Would Engorge the Paternal State

A UBI would quickly become the mechanism of central control. It would also create legions of human house cats.

Jun 14, 2018 • Guest Author

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