My latest column at WPR focuses on transparency and "red lines" between US and Chinese interests: There is no ready solution to this problem, because it lies at the heart of all diplomatic activity. Absent exceptional intelligence work, the motivation and resolve of diplomatic partners...
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I have a piece up at Right Web on how the GOP Presidential field approaches relations with China, with a focus on Mitt Romney. Long story short, while confrontation is.
When Steve Jobs met with President Obama in 2010, Jobs told the president that he would only get one term: You’re headed for a one-term presidency,” he told Obama at.
Hey now, it's not as if knowing whether China has nuclear weapons is at all relevant to the practice of American foreign policy: I do view China as a potential military threat to the United States... we already have superiority in terms of our military...
Is Caligula misunderstood? Scott Mclemee reviews Aloys Winterling's efforts in this regard: But what if all of these claims about Caligula were wrong, or at least overblown? What if he.
My latest at WPR takes a look at the Russia-China arms trade: By the middle of the last decade, however, the factors that made the relationship so strong had begun.
Now this is some fascinating stuff: In a defensive cooperation agreement signed in 1957, USSR agreed to increase cooperation in aerospace tactics training and theater level exercises. By that year, PLAAF had developed its first flight training manual based on the Soviet training manual plus...
I think Matt misses the truly insidious follow through of this: I’ve been struck over the past three or four years by how many different Chinese people have expressed to.
I have thoughts on arms control and aircraft carriers: China, India and Japan do not appear to be on the verge of breaking the bank in an effort to match.
In my latest WPR column, I discuss the old Red Dawn, the new Red Dawn, and the reluctance of the current crop of GOP presidential aspirants to focus on the security aspect of US relations with China: For the most part, candidates for the GOP...
You don't say. "Some nations have strategic oil reserves. Some keep grain reserves. China has both, and something others have somehow overlooked: a national pork reserve." China is releasing a portion.
On perverse incentives in the Great Leap Forward: Here is what Kung and Chen argue happened in China. In the hierarchy of the CCP, the three highest levels are politburo.