| CINCINNATI ENQUIRER SUNDAY FORUM Sledgehammer Approach to Tariffs is Unwise, Dangerous. Your Turn Charleston C. K. Wang Guest Columnist April 20, 2025 On February 24, 2022, Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine declaring a “special military operation.” Putin was counting on his spetsnaz troops to be in control of Kiev in 10 days. More than 3 years later, this strange war in the bowels of Europe drags on with guns, bombs, and drones, fortified with threats from Putin to use Russia’s nuclear arsenal. Carl von Clausewitz, in his classic treatise On War wrote that “war is a continuation of politics by other means.” In his day, the destruction was limited by the weaponry of the eighteenth century. Clausewitz next wrote that war is the “act where one nation imposes its will on that of the opponent.” He was thinking of the use of military force, but today, wars are fought with other means as we shall see. World War II (1939-1945) witnessed “total war”, a phrase which the Oxford Reference defines as “a war that is unrestricted in terms of the weapons used, the territory or combatants involved, or the objectives pursued, especially one in which the laws of war are disregarded." Towards the end of this war, two atomic bombs were detonated, this being the epitome of “total war” as we now know it. Since the founding of the United States, our Constitution has vested the duty to conduct war in the President. The grant of such ultimate power is consistent with the plenary power doctrine, which encompasses foreign relations, national security, and immigration. However, because the Constitution envisioned a more perfect union based on check and balances and the sharing of power between three branches, the plenary power of the President is never absolute. Take for example, the plenary power to wage war is not absolute. The War Powers Act requires the President to notify Congress when the military are deployed normally in "a national emergency created by attack upon the United States, its territories or possessions, or its armed force,” and limits such deployment to 60 days without approval from Congress. Another example concerns the plenary power to conduct foreign relations. The Constitution empowers the President to make treaties, but only with the "advice and consent" of the Senate a two-thirds vote for ratification. A treaty is an agreement negotiated by the President and it essentially is a mutual covenant between the United States and a foreign state. Treaties which are not ratified are usually withdrawn. Perhaps the mos poignant case is the refusal of the Senate to ratify the entry oof the United States into League of Nations as negotiated by President Woodrow Wilson after World War I (1914-1918). The isolationist foreign policy of the United States during the crucial two decades is another reason for the total war. Mercifully, war today is waged with means other than guns and bombs. Now, the application of economic sanctions is another continuation of politics by a means other than the use of military force. The precise imposition of economic pressure over enough time is proven effective in preventing the escalation of on-going wars, and the eventual cessation of combat. Economic sanctions are powerful because all nations today are trade interdependent. Finally, this essay will close with a discussion of the current use of the tariff by the United States in foreign relations. The tariff is really a tax imposed on imported goods. While paid to the government by the importer company, some or all of this cost will be passed onto the consumer through an increase of the final retail price. Consumption will decrease and the risk of an economic slowdown or recession is increased. Furthermore, historians and economists generally agree that the protectionist policies and the aggressive use of tariffs was a cause of World War II. After the total defeat of the Fascism, the United States led the world towards the reduction of tariffs and the promoted free trade across the globe. In my opinion , this flourishing of international trade has prevented another World War to this day. We cannot forget that old cliché – nations who trade do not go to war. Today, the sledgehammer application of tariffs against our trading partners is an unwise and dangerous policy for the United States. It has the potential to turn long-time allies into neutral powers and neutral trading partners into military adversaries. Today, every sovereign nation has a well developed will of its own, economic and military, and the heavy handed imposition of tariffs will lead to escalating trade wars with one or more of our big trading partners. Warlike nations will take comfort to see the United State weakened by a self-inflicted trade war. Inflexible over-application of tariffs is a dangerous reset to 1930s which prolonged the Great Depression and led to a World War in 1939. Arguably, the use of tariffs falls under the plenary power possessed by the President to conduct foreign relations. However, this power like the power to make treaties should be shared according to “the advice and consent” of the Senate. While the Senate has been content to entrust much of the power and discretion to impose tariffs to the President, this does not mean that Congress has totally yielded its Constitutional authority to the Executive, especially when a protracted, unmitigated global trade war threatens world economic stability and American national security. Charleston "C. K." Wang is a resident of Silverton and Cincinnati attorney. |
| WHAT IS DEMOCRACY? Many people today may be asking "What is Democracy?" Yes, to some, Democracy is a idea that has outlived its purpose. Really, Democracy is an ancient concept that over the millennia has become unwieldy to many and inconvenient to some. Has Democracy become to some so convoluted or complex that one is hard pressed to come up with a pithy definition? So, rather than to try to say here what Democarcy is, I will give you a sexy definition of what Democracy is NOT! Here we go: Posted April 1, 2026. |
| A CONVERSATION WITH GEORGE ORWELL (ORWELL SPEAKS IN ITALICS) Now, it is noon hour. I look out the picture window of that old farmhouse called Barnhill nestled in windswept Jura, an island in the Scottish Inner Hebrides. It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. Quite puzzled, I muse to myself - must be spring forward time, or something. I say aloud in an uncertain voice, “I say, George, is it time to cancel daylight saving time? We really do not need this fiction anymore, in America that is!” In the end the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it. Irritated, I rebut with the words of that English bard William, “Truth is truth until the end of reckoning!” In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. I muse - did George say 'revolution?' I reply, "George, did you say something about revolution?" Every joke is a Tiny Revolution. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship. Uh, uh we are stuck in a rut of politics. I try to steer our conversation away from hard boiled politics for which Orwell is famous onto a more pleasant pastoral plane, “How are the animals on the farm getting along today, George?” All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others. I muse - George is stuck on politics this morning all right. I sigh and say aloud, “George, please explain, I am confused.” Four legs good, two legs bad. I cut in, “Ah, Animal Farm! Indeed, in American politics we speak of elephants and donkeys too.” Four legs good, two legs better. George just contradicted himself. Exasperated, I move on back to a more serious theme , “How can this War end?” The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it. I muse – for once George seems to be making some sense or is he? I say aloud , “Really?" The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous. I muse incredulous – is George out of his mind? I repeat a little louder, “Really, George?” War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. I muse – what’s this? I say aloud, “George are you telling me self-defense is invasion, invasion is self-defense?” Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac. I muse – George actually agrees with me! Or does he? Intrigued, I say aloud, “George, tell me more!” Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. I repeat even louder, “Oh. Really?” And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth. Now I am at a loss for words ….. The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history. I am now able to ask, “George, are you serious?” There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them. Unsettled, I am compelled to demand, “George, are you out of your @!&!! mind? Do you really mean it? What are you saying?” Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. Happily, it is now half past twelve and time for sandwiches, scones and a nice cup of tea at farmhouse Barnhill. After all is said and done, tea is one of the mainstays of civilisation in this country and causes violent disputes over how it should be made! George Orwell, born Eric Arthur Blair on June 25, 1903 in Motihari, India, is one of the greatest English language writers of the twentieth century. He obtained an elite education culminating with a King's scholarship at Eton. He skipped university and instead became an Imperial police officer in Burma which at that time was a part of the British Raj. After six years, he resigned to become a journalist. Down and Out in Paris and London (1933) was his first full length work recalling his early years as a writer, and the essay Shooting An Elephant (1936) was the most memorable of the essays on life in Burma. He volunteered to fight in the Spanish civil war against the totalitarian forces (Fascist and Stalinist). He was shot in the throat, only to survive the ordeal. In 1939, Orwell published Homage to Catalonia which focused on the fragility of truth during war and objective reporting in the face of political propaganda and manipulation of news, and ultimately, of truth. Throughout these years Orwell struggled with chronic lung illness. During World War II, he continued to write critical political works against totalitarianism. After the War, Orwell published his masterpieces, the dystopian novels Animal Farm in 1946 and 1984 in 1949. He succumbed to tuberculosis on January 31, 1950 at the age of 46. The word Orwellian has passed into the English vocabulary. An Opinion March 25, 2025. Charleston C K Wang is a lawyer in Cincinnati. He grew up in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and studied at the secondary school Victoria Institution where he was a Nugent Walsh scholar. There, Animal Farm was required reading. He first read 1984 while a freshman at the University of Delaware and has read it many times over and then again. |
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had suffered persecution by reason of his Russian ethnicity at the hands of the security and regular police of Uzbekistan. The
Court vacated the decision of the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) in Washington, D.C. which had denied Mr. Nifadev asylum,
and the Court remanded the case with additional instructions to the United States Attorney General, including that the BIA should
determine whether the BIA should also reconsider its denial of Nifadev’s application for withholding of removal and protection
under Convention Against Torture (abbreviated CAT for Convention Against Torture And Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading
Treatment or Punishment of the United Nations) in light of the opinion of the Court. The Sixth Circuit opinion essentially and
explicitly held that "[b]ecause the IJ [Immigration Judge] appears to have erred in her determination that Nifadev did not suffer
past persecution and because the IJ clearly misinterpreted Nifadev’s credible testimony regarding the ethnic animus of the
Uzbekistan security officials, we find that Nifadev has made out a credible case of being a refugee under the definitions of
8 U.S.C. § 1158(b)(1)(A)." [Emphasis added]. The United States Immigration Court in Cleveland, Ohio, had initially
found Mr. Nifadev and his witnesses to be credible but declined to grant asylum because it erroneously determined that
Mr. Nifadev had NOT suffered persecution. Shown in photograph on the right is Mr. Mikheil B. Nifadev with Charleston
C. K. Wang, Esq. who represented Mr. Nifadev during trial and both appeals. To read complete opinion, please click here.
6th Cir. 2014), the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit held that Mikheil B. Nifadev has proven his claim that he
had suffered persecution by reason of his Russian ethnicity at the hands of the security and regular police of Uzbekistan. The
Court vacated the decision of the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) in Washington, D.C. which had denied Mr. Nifadev asylum,
and the Court remanded the case with additional instructions to the United States Attorney General, including that the BIA should
determine whether the BIA should also reconsider its denial of Nifadev’s application for withholding of removal and protection
under Convention Against Torture (abbreviated CAT for Convention Against Torture And Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading
Treatment or Punishment of the United Nations) in light of the opinion of the Court. The Sixth Circuit opinion essentially and
explicitly held that "[b]ecause the IJ [Immigration Judge] appears to have erred in her determination that Nifadev did not suffer
past persecution and because the IJ clearly misinterpreted Nifadev’s credible testimony regarding the ethnic animus of the
Uzbekistan security officials, we find that Nifadev has made out a credible case of being a refugee under the definitions of
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found Mr. Nifadev and his witnesses to be credible but declined to grant asylum because it erroneously determined that
Mr. Nifadev had NOT suffered persecution. Shown in photograph on the right is Mr. Mikheil B. Nifadev with Charleston
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| THE CONDITION FOR UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER In 1968, the year of the Tet Offensive, Kenny Rogers and The First Edition released “Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)” which reached #5 on the Billboard charts. This was also a time of psychedelic discovery and experimentation with hallucinogens. Today, I am dropping in to see what condition we are in for unconditional surrender from Iran. After commencing hostilities against Iran on February 28, 2026, President Donald Trump on behalf of the United State of American in early March demanded unconditional surrender from the Islamic Republic of Iran. No such thing has happened. The concept of unconditional surrender can be reliably traced to Ulysses S. “Unconditional Surrender” Grant. History records that the union general first demanded “unconditional and immediate surrender” of the small confederate garrison at Fort Donelson, Tennessee on February 16, 1862. Grant became general in chief, but the Civil War continued. Confederate States of America fought on even after General Tecumseh Sherman burned Atlanta and cut a swath of devastation reaching the sea. Grant finally was able to get General Robert E. Lee to unconditionally surrender at Appomattox Court House, but only after federal troops entered Richmond, Virginia, the capital of the South. Such were the conditions of unconditional surrender on April 9, 1865. The second example of unconditional surrender occurred on May 8, 1945 when Nazi Germany signed a document of unconditional surrender to the Allied Forces in Europe. The conditions for this surrender was that Adolf Hitler had committed suicide inside his underground bunker in Berlin and the Soviet Red Army occupied the center of that city. Such were the conditions of the Allied victory in Europe. The third example of unconditional surrender occurred on September 2, 1945 when Imperial Japan surrendered to the Allied Forces in Asia and the Pacific aboard the U. S. battleship Missouri anchored in Tokyo Bay. On August 6, the United States had destroyed the city of Hiroshima with an atomic bomb but Japan refused unconditional surrender. On August 8, the city of Nagasaki was attacked with another atomic bomb and President Truman promised more. Faced with the unimaginable horror of atomic war, only then did Emperor Hirohito consent to unconditional surrender and formally end the Second World War. The urgent question now is how far the United States and Israel are prepared to go to compel Iran to unconditionally surrender. The three examples above took 4 years and millions of lives from all sides. Under the War Powers Act of 1973, the President has sole power to deploy military force for up to 60 days without a declaration of war or other authorization from Congress. How far will the United States go to make real on the current incredible demand for unconditional surrender from Iran? An Opinion from Charleston C. K. Wang, Cincinnati, USA April 1, 2026, Update: This morning, high level directt peace talks through Vice President J. D. Vance and representatives from Tehran broke down and all parties are contemplating next steps and the escalation of hostilities cannot be ruled out. April 12, 2026. |
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| BOOK REVIEW Rush Doshi, THE LONG GAME: CHINA’S GRAND STRATEGY TO DISPLACE AMERICAN ORDER Oxford University Press June 11, 2021 THE LONG GAME, despite its name, is an examination of U.S.-China relations in the twenty first century. Any current reader will have the benefit of four years added to the time when the book went to the press. We can take comfort to note nothing drastic has come to pass between the two superpowers. This is a good thing given the return of the second Trump administration after a hiatus of four years after openly starting a new Cold War. THE LONG GAME offers a scholarly discernment from a myriad of diverse sources, the grand strategy of the People’s Republic of China vis-à-vis the USA. Rush Doshi argues that as a result of its Leninist structure (call it a dictatorship of the proletariat (actually of the CCP, the Chinese Communist Party), that government indeed has a long term central plan to ascend to Number One. A plan that is certainly longer than the vacillating four year political cycles of the USA. Rush Doshi studies documents in a language that has limited etymological connection to English. He has made a valiant effort to explain CCP documents steeped in Marxist jargon with words such as blunting, building, and expanding. Any attempt to explain further must give way to those interested to read THE LONG GAME themselves. However, I will offer some extraneous perspective on THE LONG GAME. I am surprised that a book on vital international relations, does not mention George F. Kennan and his “Long Telegram” sent on February 22, 1946, from his station in Moscow to the U. S. State Department. The 8,200 word working report gave timely on the ground warning to the emerging threat of the post World War II Soviet Union, The telegram was followed by a full article in Foreign Affairs in 1947 explaining the strategy of “containment” to counter the expansion of the Russians. “Containment” called for the patient, but firm and vigilant application of multi-faceted diplomatic, economic and other counter-measures. While NATO was a vital military tool of the Cold War, Kennan predicted the end of the USSR without a major war between the then nuclear superpowers. To the surprise of the free world, the USSR dissolved itself peacefully on December 26, 1991. We can imagine how Kennan must have felt. But Kennan opposed the further expansion of NATO into the former Soviet countries. On this, many disagreed and the question is being fought out between the Russian Federation and Uraine, once a founding member of the USSR. Rush Doshi noted that the three events had great impact in China’s central planners: one is the demise of the USSR (and the other two are Tian An Men in 1989 and the Gulf War in 1990-1991). Doshi aslo identifies the Great Recession of 2007-2009 as encouraging China to escalate the Long Game. In my opinion, the omission of George F. Kennan in THE LONG RUN justifies comment because the principles of “containment” remains as vital and relevant vis-à-vis China today. The keen genius of George Kennan is he saw the inherent error of Karl Marx’s criticism of capitalism and V. I. Lenin’s political implementation of dictatorship of the communist party in the Soviet Union. Keenan saw no need for NATO to fight a big war with USSR because that country will in the long run disintegrate by itself from economic inefficiency. Further, once gone there was no need to diminish Russia further. Indeed, the better solution would have been for Russia to integrate into the world economy In my opinion, China now has the largest economy in the word (but still lags the USA per capita because of a much large population) the power only after the normalization of relations with the USA followed by international trade. Because of NATO “containment” and the subsequent inability to compete with China in the global marketplace, Russia is now reduced to invading and fighting a protracted war in Ukraine quite alone. We finally get to my end game. THE LONG GAME suggests to me that the CCP actually is itself applying Kennan's observations in Long Telegram and the use of “containment” against the USA. Indeed, by way of George Kennan, outright military confrontation can be avoided even today between China and the USA because of the strong trade relationship and economic interdependence since normalization. Today, China is showing great restraint in getting involved in Ukraine. Respecting the current Iran conflict, China is more interested in opening the Strait of Hormuz to international shipping than in actively supporting Iran. President Donald Trump visited China last month and President Xi Jinping will visit the USA this autumn. From the U. S. vantage point, the current playing of the long game is a good as well and time is inevitably in our favor. Prescience or paradox, the sometimes forgotten colleague of Marx, Friedrich Engels, saw the future withering of the socialist state in this fashion: The society which organizes production anew on the basis of free and equal association of the producers will put the whole state machinery where it will then belong—into the museum of antiquities, next to the spinning wheel and the bronze axe. An Opinion by Charleston C. K. Wang, June 21, 2026. |