Author: Marcus Breen

Container ships in the Port of Los Angeles. Photo: Russ Allison Loar/ Flickr

China Tariffs – is this war by any other name?

April 16, 2025 Marcus Breen

by Marcus Breen There is an unfortunate tendency to believe that warfare involves violence, guns, bloodshed and nationalism generated by stupid leaders intent on domination. Thankfully, in non-violent warfare, only the last criterion applies to the tariff war imposed in the second week of March […]

President Trump and Premier Xi Jinping at the G20 Summit, Osaka, 2019. Photo: National Archives and Records Administration

US-China Relations under Trump

February 23, 2025 Marcus Breen

by Marcus Breen What will the relationship between the US and China be in this new Trump administration? The Trump Administration is engaged in policy experimentation aimed at long term transformations of liberal US policy, including Chinese containment. Still, anyone making definitive claims about China […]

Orchestrated NATO Discords against China

July 17, 2024 Marcus Breen

By Marcus Breen As with music, there are many movements of action and counteraction experienced by the peace community. One of the most pressing for followers of China is the pressure from the United States to stop China’s rise. This is a matter of U.S. […]

The Language of Peace with China

May 23, 2023 Marcus Breen

By Marcus Breen In the sixth paragraph of the May 4, 2023 Boston Globe obituary for Major General Vincent Stewart, he was remembered as someone who said that China, Russia, Iran and North Korea are “long-term existential threats” to the United States. As Director of […]

Anti-Chinese Media and the US Government: an unhealthy alliance

August 17, 2021 Marcus Breen

By Marcus Breen Anti-Chinese views dominate public opinion in the United States. This is hardly surprising given that the media and information services generally, act like magnets for prejudice. Rather than being sites of rational debate, the current state of things continues the great American […]