Jordan Chandler Hirsch is a writer and foreign policy analyst who contributed to The Weekly Standard in 2016 and 2017. His articles for the magazine addressed strategic and geopolitical topics. He has also written for publications including Foreign Affairs and The Wall Street Journal.
In April 2012, a Philippine surveillance vessel interdicted eight Chinese fishing ships sailing toward Scarborough Reef, an outcropping in the South China Sea claimed by both China and the Philippines (as well as Taiwan). Incensed, China dispatched its own surveillance vessels to block the…
In the first pages of his account of the Obama administration's foreign policy, Derek Chollet likens Barack Obama to Warren Buffett. Just as the renowned businessman is a "proudly pragmatic value investor" who pays little mind to "the whims of the moment" and focuses on "solid investments," Obama…