Doug Bandow
Trump Administration’s Foolish Educational Autarky: United States Should Welcome Chinese Students
Hosting foreign students builds our economic and scientific edge, but exposing young people to our liberty and opportunity makes the whole world better off.
Uncle Sam, Addicted to Debt, Faces Future Military Bills
"When the inevitable crisis hits, it will be even more difficult to reach a rational solution. Better to start now with the misnamed Defense Department." ~Doug Bandow
China is Scaring Away Investors
"Xi expects business as well as people to serve the CCP. As authoritarian controls metastasize throughout the economy, everyone suffers." ~Doug Bandow
How Will America’s Borrow and Spend Politicians Pay for an Imperial Foreign Policy?
"Serious efforts to control deficits and debt will require a series of politically painful decisions. The only way to make such unpalatable fiscal sacrifices possible is to kill all the…
Apres Biden, Le Deluge: When the Republican Party Gives Up Entitlement Reform
"Even the Biden Treasury Department labels the present financial path as 'unsustainable.' Refusing to look at so-called entitlements, most importantly Medicare and Social Security, ensures growing outlays, deficits, and debt."…
When Federal Interest Payments Come to Exceed the Military Budget: Time to Stop Defending the Rest of the World
"The US economy no longer can sustain a policy of endless war. Rising interest rates highlight the dismal state of Uncle Sam’s finances. Fiscal reality, as well as good sense,…
A Secret War in the Making: Americans Should Not Die to Defend Taiwan
"The better strategy would be aid short of war. Today the US and democratic states should be making conflict less likely by arming Taiwan, insisting that it take its own…
The Greatest Threat to World Peace: North Korea’s Kim Jong-un?
"The best way to enhance America’s security is for its defense-dependents to graduate and take care of themselves and their own regions. With the US off the peninsula, Pyongyang wouldn’t…
America’s Allies Should Fear Abandonment
"America’s major allies, in the main, are worthy friends: liberal, democratic societies and valuable economic partners with deep cultural and historical connections to the US. That doesn’t entitle them to…
The Wages of Washington’s Economic War on China Are Not Cheap
"To make up lost revenue, the US industry may become more dependent on government largesse and ultimately less vibrant and dominating. Ultimately, making policy more like China risks turning US…
