Author Archives: Richard Fernandez

New at the Belmont Club. Seabed warfare vs the Great Underwater Wall of China. Robots beneath the waves.

When the large scale history of the 2020 pandemic is written the key factor for success will turn out to be how well individual societies mobilized their human capital, not how ruthlessly they shut it down.

New at the Belmont Club. The relationship between Washington’s desire for global leadership and the progressive project to reinterpret America.

A Harvard study shows that meeting the Covid-19 pandemic required more than following conventional wisdom.

The Russians are pushing Biden in Ukraine.

HONG KONG (BLOOMBERG) – Chinese lawmakers plan to put fewer than 10 people – all chosen by national security officials – on a committee to vet any candidates for top elected positions in Hong Kong, the South China Morning Post reported. The report said vetting committee members would be chosen by Beijing’s National Security Office …

Continue reading “China’s anschluss”

New at the Belmont Club. How does the progressive project advance against China?

Washington mandates and China supplies.

New at the Belmont Club. Frozen evil loosed upon a sensitive, Woke world. It looks funny but it has a power long forgotten.

Is climate change anxiety codespeak for ‘white fragility’ asks the Scientific American.

Stealth destroyer gets turned into a floating command node. Unmanned vehicle doctrine is being tested by the fleet. PACFLEET Preparing for 2021 Unmanned Fleet Battle Problem.

Progressive intellectuals explain how they could not see monsters in their own ranks because they were blinded by Donald Trump. The dazzle of Trump made them mistake Cuomo for a feminist hero.

Biden’s foreign and domestic policy appears to consist largely of virtue signaling. Whether about the border with Mexico, Covid, murders in Georgia, Putin, Uighurs, Burma the signal contains a large measure of Wokeness. The question is whether the policy is all virtue signaling or whether there is something solid behind the appearance.

New at the Belmont Club. Clutching at reality. How epistemology became a modern political crisis.

“Now it’s the Left’s turn.” The radical Democrats make a play for power. Inevitably Biden will be the next target. Can a nonentity who was once Obama’s creature resist?

Hell is a place where nothing exists that we cannot conceive. It is a totally sterile place with no surprises and in Shannon’s sense no additional information. Safety is where we know all the outcomes and nothing unexpected happens. And nothing unexpected happens.

The scales fell from his eyes while tormented in Iranian prison

File under “barn door” and “horse”. Better luck next time.

Beijing plans to press Washington to reverse many of the policies targeting China introduced during the Trump presidency in the first face-to-face meeting of senior U.S. and China officials since President Biden’s election, according to people with knowledge of the plans. WSJ

Denunciations don’t convey much status information about who’s in virtue but about who’s in and who’s out. New at the Belmont Club.