The “Red Scare” of today is not coming out of Moscow. It’s coming out of Beijing.
Markos Kounalakis
Kounalakis, the Monthly's publisher and president emeritus, is California’s Second Gentleman and a Hoover Institution visiting fellow researching democracy and geopolitics. Follow him on Instagram, @markoskounalakis.
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