China’s Strategy in the Pacific
It is my belief that China’s desire for access to islands around the world is to harvest nuclear warheads in secret away from their mainland. This way, when China is done biding their time, they will be ready to show their strength to the “enemy troops…. outside the walls.”
What is Realpolitik?
I always looked up to Bismarck as the greatest statesman ever—a foreign policy genius who knew exactly what political moves to make, how to calculate each move, and how each move would play out. A part of me read the books in hopes that I would understand the “secret sauce” that made him such a foreign policy genius, and I found it.
Why the Marshall Islands Made the Right Vote on Gaza at the United Nations
In last two editions of the Marshall Islands Journal, many contributors have expressed their disappointment at the RMI government in voting against a UN Resolution for a ceasefire in the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas. Here, I make the case that the RMI made the right vote.
Why the Marshall Islands Should Start Thinking About World War III
My newspaper article from the November 11, 2022 edition of the Marshall Islands Journal. Could Vladimir Putin trigger the next Great War in the Pacific? Or is Putin simply testing the West in his latest invasion?