CHINA'S AGING ANXIOUS AUTOCRATS
Aaron Friedberg is a professor of politics and international affairs at Princeton University, specializing in national security, East Asian geopolitics, and U.S. foreign policy. He contributed articles to The Weekly Standard in the late 1990s covering topics including China, Iraq policy, and American strategic leadership. He later served as a national security adviser to Vice President Dick Cheney.
IN RECENT MONTHS, THE CHINESE government has handed down harsh prison terms to political dissidents. It has made clear its intention to curtail civil liberties when it takes control of Hong Kong in July. It has redoubled its efforts to restrict the flow of information reaching Chinese citizens over…
THOUGH IT CHANGES LITTLE and solves nothing, the Clinton administration's decision to use force against Iraq last week was clearly the right one.
Anyone tempted to believe in the inevitability of historical progress should consider where things stood at the beginning of 1942. In Europe, having driven first to the English Channel, Hitler had turned on his erstwhile Soviet ally and advanced east all the way to the outskirts of Moscow. Only…