I don’t know how to have a war against China. Yes, I know about China’s militarization of the South China Sea and the sword-rattling against Taiwan. We can have naval battles over enhanced sandbars. And attacking a heavily militarized, mountainous island is not trivial. But...
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Military vehicles carry DF-5B intercontinental ballistic missiles during a parade commemorating the 70th anniversary of Japan's surrender during World War II held in front of Tiananmen Gate in Beijing, Sept..
This photo provided by the North Korean government shows what it says is a ballistic missile in North Pyongan Province, North Korea, on March 19, 2023. North Korea says that.
Over the weekend, President Joe Biden once again said that the United States is prepared to defend Taiwan from a Chinese attack. He chose his words very carefully. In a "60 Minutes" interview that aired Sunday night, Mr. Biden was asked by CBS News correspondent Scott Pelley...
Source: The White House from Washington, DC [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons At least, that's the conclusion of an interesting piece in Bloomberg News. The deficit did fall year-on-year in.
Peter Fitzgerald, amendments by Globe-trotter / CC BY (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0) We haven't blogged much about Hong Kong recently. The news, as readers probably now, has been pretty grim. On June 30,.
You might ask "How could it get any worse?" To that query, I reply "Mr. James Kirchick."First things first, in accusing Eric Alterman and Matt Yglesias of nihilism for the crime of linking to my denunciation of Christopher Hitchens China column, Mr. Kirchick handily demonstrates...
...or, "Is there anything that Bill Kristol says that won't eventually find its way into Christopher Hitchens Mouth?"China also maintains territorial claims against India and Vietnam (and, of course, Taiwan).
Tibet's existence as an independent state is shrouded in controversy. Various empires controlled parts of the Tibetan plateau from the sixth century onward, around the time that Buddhism spread to.
There's a good article in the NYT today about Japan's increasingly aggressive defense posture. In addition to slight increases in defense spending, the deployment of assets farther away from Japan, and the purchase of new weapon systems, the Japanese Self-Defense Force is carrying out more...
The Financial Times is reporting that Chinese-made weapons are being supplied, through Iran, to insurgents in Afghanistan and Iraq. A senior US official recently told the FT that Iran appeared.
Matt writes, in respone to David Axe's suggestion that F-22s ought to be unleashed against Indian or British aggressor squadrons:Uh huh. But think about that. Why would the US Air.