by Matthew Bransgrove | Dec 20, 2015 | Foreign Policy
Industrial espionage is just as damaging to a country’s long-term national interests as military espionage. The essence of the problem is theft. Countries like China, which sponsor industrial espionage, are stealing the fruits of other nations’ efforts, leaving their...
by Matthew Bransgrove | Dec 20, 2015 | Foreign Policy
There is nothing sets the character of a nation in a higher or lower light with others, than the faithfully fulfilling, or perfidiously breaking of treaties. —Thomas Paine. The American Crisis, May 31, 1782. Defense treaties It is not a case of the encirclement of...
by Matthew Bransgrove | Dec 20, 2015 | Foreign Policy
Every man’s business must be done according to his own mind: and if this be true in particular persons, it is more plainly so in whole nations. —Algernon Sidney. Discourses Concerning Government, 1689. A country’s motivation is its own concern, but the righteousness...
by Matthew Bransgrove | Dec 20, 2015 | Foreign Policy
Every individual is entitled to rule himself, and from this right is derived the right of self-government of groups of people through democratic political compacts. However, when one people rule another people, regardless of the nature of their own government—it is...
by Matthew Bransgrove | Dec 20, 2015 | Foreign Policy
The economic success of the Western world is a product of its moral philosophy and practice. The economic results are better because the moral philosophy is superior. It is superior because it starts with the individual, with his uniqueness, his responsibility, and...
